Day Trips

The Nasher Sculpture Garden and the Crow Collection of Asian Art are just two excellent reasons to make a short trip to Dallas to enjoy some world-renowned art

"...and Southeast Asia. Dating from 3500BC to the early 20th century, the artwork in the exhibit includes precious jade..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Playboy of the Western World

As the weather cools, Different Stages brings the warmth of rural Ireland to town in its staging of J.M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’

"...with the trend of industrialization. Locals during the early 20th century practiced an amalgamation of Catholic and Celtic customs..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Food-o-File

More food on TV, openings across Austin, and wine flowing in the streets

"...on TV As of last week's episode, all three women and five of the men are still competing on..."

June 3, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• The League of Women Voters of the Austin Area, in honor of its..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In the early decades of the 20th century, an enthusiastic advocacy of collectivist philosophy could have..."

July 2, 2004 Column

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...I also remember that my biology teacher insisted that women couldn't feel themselves ovulate. In fact, that's all I..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

'Chronicle' Misses the Most Important Part of the Story

"...mark entirely concerning the Planned Parenthood vs. Danze debate ["Women Dig In," News, Dec. 5]. This withstanding, some noteworthy..."

Dec. 16, 2003 Postmarks

In Print

As Chaplin historian David Robinson is happy to report in the introduction to Charlie Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, "the raison d'etre of this book is not so much the text as the photographs."

"...Charlie Chaplin died Christmas morning 1977, an irony the 20th century's king of comedy would have rued. The Dickensian..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Obscene Calling

Law enforcement crosses capitol politics, and the Rangers get burned

"...In the last half of the 20th century there was a governor of Texas who had..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Getting Their Due

The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...made her the most famous poster girl of the 20th century. The Corpus Christi native and UT graduate charmed..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

What Lies Beneath

John Cusack talks about putting a human face on Hitler in Max.

"...forever skewed the romantic expectations of a generation of women. But Lloyd Dobler was more than a new kind..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Latest in Paper

Kathy Acker's "work cut a swath of influence through literary and pop culture so wide that she might have entered the strange, paradoxical state to which all cultural goliaths are prey: waning visibility by virtue of social penetration," writes Cindy Widner. "Two new publications could help keep that from happening."

"...Nothing that strange, really, and nothing the 20th century hadn't seen before. Except: Acker put a body,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Some Unspeakable Beauty

Don't call it magic realism: Josephine Sacabo's photography and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo make a powerful pair.

"...Ah, Juan Rulfo, Mexico's greatest 20th-century writer according to many. His one and only novel,..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3am

Learning about "manhood" from the movies.

"...years later what I found hardest to take about "women's lib," as it was then called, was its vision..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Our Town, Our Time

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of The Laramie Project retells the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in a compelling, heartfelt way, but it also tells a town's story and gives us the opportunity to see our town in its reflection.

"...to die simply because he loves men rather than women...."

March 15, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cubicle Consciousness

A symbiotic relationship between socially conscious high tech professionals and community causes is becoming increasingly common, and a few Austin social entrepreneurs are leading the charge.

"...help inspire girls to grow into confident, strong, healthy women," says board member Ileana Abounader...."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

Pages as Presents

2001's crop of coffeetable books

"...have become part of our visual memory of the 20th century, one that deepens all the hyperbolic rhetoric about..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"...the Beats in perspective of the greater context of midcentury cultural history. It also counters in some ways the..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...Sex and the City, the kind of guy TV women date and then throw over for a trucker or..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Hi-De-Ho and The Duke Is Tops

Available on video as a double bill, these two all-black features -- one from 1938, the other from 1947 -- make a brilliant pairing.

"...and rotoscoped, are among the cultural highlights of the 20th century. Even in this down-home effort, Calloway shines (though..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Review by Louis Black

Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David

"...many of the British and American shining stars of 20th-century food and wine writing -- Richard Olney, Gerald Asher,..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Food Review by MM Pack

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"...Ariel, became the bestselling book of poetry of the 20th century. The Bell Jar, her only novel, has become..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Review by Stacy Bush

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...guise of a prominent public figure of the late 20th century, one whose pronounced persona was his calling card,..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Unhappily Ever After

Three of the newest books about the Princess of Wales, Margaret Moser writes, are by people who played roles of varying degrees of intimacy in her life; they paint a more accurate, more vibrant picture of her life than the spate of cockeyed conspiracy theories, endless photo collections, and soggy coattail remembrances that traditionally make their appearance around the summer anniversary of her death.

"...fair and balanced update of one of the great 20th-century icons. Ever After neither fawns nor damns, nor does..."

July 14, 2000 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Profiles

Jody Denberg talks to Patti Smith

"...recording that I was going to do in the 20th century and I wanted Fred represented one more time...."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Ideas Through Movement

Political and philosophical issues aren't just topics for writers and dramatists. Several Austin choreographers are using themas subjects for dances. Toni Bravo, Jeffery Bullock, Lisa Fehrman, and Andrew Long explain how they see ideas through movement.

"...concerned, in some of the politically repressive regimes of 20th-century Latin America. In STILLPOINT Dance's Shadowing Profound Doubt, choreographer..."

March 3, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Climbing the Family Tree

Virginia Wood finds that with the help of U.S. census records, finding the roots of her family is possible.

"...listed by name? The numbers and approximate ages of women and children in each home were also listed, but..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Waiting: A Novel

"...by law. Under the army's laws, unmarried men and women cannot be alone together outside of the hospital grounds...."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Review by Lissa Richardson

Public Notice

This week's "Public Notice" goes to Hyde Park, buys some homeless art, and cruises some gay bars.

"...of one of Austin's hottest issues in the late 20th century. Hyde Park just wants to maintain its neighborhood's..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Don't Shelve Smart Growth

"...your Studebaker and drive your frightened self into the 20th century, where everything new isn't necessarily a threat to..."

July 2, 1999 Column

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