Welcomes Nonpartisan Critical Thinking in HIV Discussion

"...and growing children who test HIV positive and who desperately want alternatives. They are not afraid of letting some..."

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Page Two

A new car sparks a meditation on years in motion, with the radio on

"...bathed in a sickly yellow light, turning the dial, desperately looking for a station playing anything vaguely interesting. That's..."

June 17, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Dumping on Del Valle

Residents wary of waste processing site

"...was not the advocate they had hoped for. "We desperately needed her support, and we did not receive it,"..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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"...ahem – patronize the clubs they were trying so desperately to save by protesting the smoking ban in protest..."

June 3, 2005 Column

Ban Discussion of Ban

"...ahem – patronize the clubs they were trying so desperately to save by protesting the smoking ban in protest..."

May 20, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

Keeping school children safe ... from TV reporters

"...barrier to the kind of community involvement AISD so desperately wants...."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Hightower Report

Making America dependent on domestic oil instead of focusing on conservation and renewable fuels is an ass-backward energy policy; and the ridiculous notion that we should treat corporations like living beings

"...Bush is looking backward, when America desperately needs leadership to move us forward to the bright..."

May 13, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

After a Fashion

Making the fashion scene with Your Style Avatar, Mr. Stephen McMillan Moser, it's hard to imagine when he has time to worship at the altar of Trinity Broadcasting Network... but he does. Hallelujah!

"...the new Evolution by Margarita bra; it provides a desperately needed public service by making you look like you..."

May 6, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Insomniac Reader

There is an impulse in all of us that is solicited by the night: to look in a stranger's window; to walk, alone, into a seedy bar; to dare to make that pathetic 3am call to an ex

"...an ex. To see someone doing something desperate or desperately human. The authors in The Insomniac Reader have entertained..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

The Council We Deserve?

In the races for City Council, it's a search for competence amidst the chaff

"...the end of the evening, any sane listener was desperately hoping a candidate would rattle the rafters by coming..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

The Prevailing Wage Guessing Game

Trustees worry that doing the right thing might cause bond dollars to come up short

"...good employers. That's a statement several trustees said they desperately want to make; but given the uncertainty surrounding nonlabor..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Theatre Thievery, Part 4

The Santa Cruz Center for Culture is the fourth Eastside theatre to be hit by thieves in the last five months

"...items but also can't afford to replace them. They desperately need the help of anyone who supports what they..."

March 25, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Stephen gears up for the celebrity onslaught by skewering more ... celebrities!

"...Personally, I have not seen this film yet. I'm desperately afraid I'll come off as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray..."

March 11, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Point Austin: High Tuition

As the centex toll plan moves forward, Austin becomes a reluctant stepchild

"...forced local taxpayers through property taxes to pay for desperately ill children in emergency rooms. They deregulate university tuition..."

March 11, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Are You Decent?

Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture

"...for indecency and promised to toe the imaginary line, desperately hoping to stave off the anti-smut zealots.Full Nipple Alert..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Detour

Ariel Dance Theatre's new work Detour' blends dance and drama, humor and gravity, to tell of brushes with death that bring people back to life

"...comfortable and that has meaning for them, and they're desperately seeking a way back...."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

This may very well be the only time you will see Barney, Tinky-Winky, Winnie the Pooh, and Cher appear in the same 'After a Fashion.' What are you waiting for?

"...merchandise… During the recent presidential elections, George Bush tried desperately to vilify the notion of considering someone else's point..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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"...out of their employees and customers. Austin is trying desperately to become so damn upscale and PC, but for..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

Elektra

In Austin Lyric Opera's production of 'Elektra,' conductor Richard Buckley succeeds in conveying the complexity, richness, cruelty, and humanity of this work

"...as one possessed, a wide-eyed soul in torment, grasping desperately for relief. In her terror, we grasp the brutality..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Has Lost Something

"...out of their employees and customers. Austin is trying desperately to become so damn upscale and PC, but for..."

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"...a great benefit 'cause you say what needs so desperately to be said to me, and the rest of..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column

Top 10 Media Stories

The year in print and broadcasting

"...alternative to the right wing in a state that desperately needs it, and – despite the very public disagreements..."

Jan. 7, 2005 News Feature

The Hightower Report

The Pentagon bills an injured soldier, and Home Depot gets a tax break

"...frantically hurling huge sackfulls of taxpayers' money at them, desperately hoping that our sacks are fuller than those being..."

Jan. 7, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Bring Us Back Closer Together

"...a great benefit ’cause you say what needs so desperately to be said to me, and the rest of..."

Jan. 4, 2005 Postmarks

Dancing on Main Street

Lorenzo Thomas of Houston is a thinking-man's writer. His critical studies of folklore, modernism, and music are substantial works, and in both prose and poetry he always addresses the difficult issues.

"...he was ... a prodigal://The kind of man who desperately/Needs the vise of suffering/And hurt and desolation/Some eccentricity to..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Books Review by Dave Oliphant

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...who just received a platinum album for his song "Desperately" on George Strait's Honkytonkville, got his first stage exposure..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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"...Appreciatively, and increasingly desperately,..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

After a Fashion

Stephen shaves his head and goes Southern ... or at least South Austin. And this time, it's not even SoCo!!!

"...minutes. The hairdresser was crying drunkenly; the manager was desperately afraid Id go over her head with my complaints..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...does not have many of the essential services veterans desperately need. "I don't know how many people are going..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...of the Big Three are tinkering with their formats, desperately trying to find the right combination of music and..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

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