Naked City

"...the U.S. beat the 25%-renewable-energy-by-2025 goal being entertained in Washington while pursing the urgent need for foreign energy independence...."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

Asia Cafe

The best and most authentic Chinese in town?

"...(Sichuan peppercorns), a tingly, mouth-numbing relative of our prickly ash tree...."

Dec. 1, 2006 Food Review by Mick Vann

Love in the Time of 'Green Darkness'

Don't judge Anya Seton's reissued biographical novels by their romance and bad covers

"...Maurier's Rebecca, and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber rang up cash registers at the theatres as well as bookshops. Those..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

The Road

No one has ever accused Cormac McCarthy of portraying the black-hearted underbelly of human nature through rose-colored glasses

"...son who make their way precariously through an obliterated, ash-covered, sunless countryside staying one step ahead of starvation, the..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

ACL Music Fest Preview

"...with this grand Texas tradition. – Jay TrachtenbergGhandaia 12:45pm, Washington Mutual stage..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

From Stuff, Art

The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects

"...a large number of pieces that incorporate found objects. Sasha Dela strapped gallon jugs of Crystal Geyser to a..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Jon Dee Graham

Record review

"...it's Full's warmest ballad, but pretty it ain't: "Cigarette ash everywhere/I'm already gone, even when I'm there." There are..."

April 21, 2006 Music Review by Andy Langer

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...50 Government Innovators for 2006. Organized by Harvard University's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the annual awards,..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature

Tree Flakes?

Recent Austin tree spats are symptoms of our need for a coordinated plan to manage the urban forest

"...big sound as it takes out a power line, squashes, and/or electrocutes something, as well as leaves nearby neighbors..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Got to Give It Up (wish list)

"..."Toughest Street in Town," Ash..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature

Bauhaus

Gift guide

"...drang thrum of David J.'s writhing basslines, and Daniel Ash's imperious, maniacal guitar work. Consider your gothling's stocking stuffed...."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

CDFuse, the Wannabes, Last Waltz, and MySpace make for a very happy (and busy) Thanksgiving.

"...which issued ex-Bauhaus and Love and Rockets wraith Daniel Ash's live album Come Alive last month, to focus on..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Ngai Found Insane – What Now?

Without reform, Texas' mental health system might fail killer of piano teacher again

"...to the Austin State Hospital for two weeks. At ASH, doctors diagnosed Ngai with bipolar disorder and gave him..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Buying the Administration's Bill of Goods Whole; Why Doesn't Sheehan Do Same?

"...to a fractioned shell of a country in the ash heap of history. Cindy has allowed those who yearn..."

Aug. 29, 2005 Postmarks

Food and Wine With Altitude

The Colorado scene capitalizes on climate.

"...apple juice to their Chardonnay. The wine is called Ash Mesa ($12), and if you put it in a..."

July 15, 2005 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Mars Volta

"...Mute, cremated at the glue factory – more digital ash in a digital urn. (The Mars Volta seizes control..."

April 22, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Our Ecstatic Days' is that rarest of creatures: a great novel. The first great American novel of the 21st century. Steve Erickson has discovered the secret of creating a novel that is not a book but an organism. Proust did it. Joyce almost did it. Faulkner sometimes did it. Marquez did it. Yes, that's the company Steve's keeping in Our Ecstatic Days.'

"...sentence such as "She smells the dreams like wet ash upon the mattress" is set in a context that..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Austin @ Large: Hate Males, Not Rails

Please don't make me write this column again in four years.

"...a generation; it will join single-member districts on the ash heap of local political history. To argue, as some..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Will Alcoa Clear the Air?

The aluminum giant's power-plant replacement plan hasn't convinced enviros

"...to explain in layman's terms, but basically it recirculates ash back into the boiler, burning coal more efficiently. This..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Omnium Gatherum

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of 'Omnium Gatherum' starts as captivating, then rounds a hairpin turn to become compelling

"...a city was swallowed in clouds of smoke and ash. That was a moment of such devastation and horror..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Madvillain

Record Review

"...sinister, otherworldly, "known to smoke a whole mountain of hash to the ash," Madvillainy is a gutbucket jazz quintet's..."

April 16, 2004 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

The Mercy Seat

With Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, the dirigo group takes us back to 9 / 11 and shows a couple laying bare their relationship against that day's monstrous tragedy

"...of rubble and twisted metal, the streets choked with ash, the dazed civilians with makeshift masks, the overwhelmed emergency..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...last year's Situationist Comedy. Punk as fuck with a dash of pop and a hint of the dark side,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Naked City

North Austin neighbors protest the utility's tree-cutting plans

"...15, work crews will begin uprooting some 30 hackberry, ash, and cottonwood trees and trimming oak trees to create..."

March 12, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Touch, The Feel

Three books that take on evil

"...events at a great distance. Images of anguished people, ash, and drifting paper. Watch TV anchors sit dumbly at..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Scott Blackwood

Born on the Fourth of July

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

"...storm if there ever was one. This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow The CD insert of Those Who Tell the..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Lansdale Unraveled

How a cult director translated a cult author to craft a surefire cult favor

"...Arts Festival in Aspen, and star Campbell (Evil Dead's Ash) walked away with the Best Actor statuette...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'Natural Capitalism' in the Hills

The Crossings' earth- and economy-friendly integration into the Hill Country really is something to feel good about.

"...everywhere. That long, long driveway is made of (recycled fly-ash) concrete to reflect heat, winds around to avoid taking..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...monitoring for both wastewater and runoff from the coal ash Alcoa plans to use for road base. The TCEQ..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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