Rollergirl

A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star! You are a muse on eight wheels! You are roller skating!

"...feel like you're running, the way you pump your arms and sort of crouch over, like you're so serious..."

May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

Naked City

Austin and the surrounding cities and counties still have a long way to go before they reach an agreement on reducing ozone emissions that everyone can live with.

"...required for Harris County. East Texans are up in arms that they'll have to cramp their styles to clean..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Coach's Corner

Opening day for major league baseball. A fresh start for last year's losers. Enjoy it while you can -- by June, the big-market teams will be back in control.

"...even more crucial, the massive local cable and superstation deals for a few fortunate clubs. Before year-round, day-by-day media..."

April 6, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Dancing About Architecture

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...that classic Austin "cow-punk" band decided to lay down arms and agree to an appearance at the first new..."

April 6, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dot-bombers

Despite the clouds of layoffs, a virtual silver lining shines for some caught in Austin's online bust.

"...than 4,000 people have lost their jobs. A great deal of those people worked for high tech companies. Add..."

March 2, 2001 Features Feature by Carol Brorsen

Master of the Crossroads

"...(emotionally and physically), just as he spent a good deal of All Souls' Rising looking for his sister. While..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...couldn't figure out why people make such a big deal about Austin music. I said it didn't seem like..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Naked City

Against all odds, the design for the new City Hall does everything its architects promised it would do, from providing public spaces, to integrating natural elements, to simply looking good.

"...Negrete and Reed were trying to get the CSC deal revamped to free up design possibilities. Today, "I think..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...them!" One of the Teen Challenge women wraps her arms around herself in the pew and rocks forward and..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Bride From Hell

The Austin Chronicle's style avatar wants your wedding to be the peachiest. Here, he offers helpful hints to make your wedding panning that much less disastrous.

"...passed from the hands of your parents into the arms of the man you love...."

Nov. 24, 2000 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Doubting Thomas

Newly elected Council Member Danny Thomas is in a position to end the fighting over the Place 6 council seat.

"...pews as if they were broad transepts, waving their arms and talking in tongues...."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...Austin Film Society, not to mention hammering out a deal with an international aeronautics company that ......"

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...a better, more sustainable Austin first. Then we can deal with this "horrible" situation of all our property values..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

Liquid Sunshine

Park Kerr Makes Tequila the Old-Fashioned Way, by Agonizing Over It

"...of Jalisco. He bolts forward again, grabs both my arms, and starts rubbing them up and down. His voice..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Postmarks

Last week's Summer Smut Issue gets a whuppin' from some prudent readers.

"...do it, but it wasn't fair. We have to deal every day with the absolutism of a designed town..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Column

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.

"...There is not a great deal of new information within Ever After, but it is..."

July 14, 2000 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...character in the shape of Africa with pipelines for arms, an oil drum spilling blood over its shoulder. A..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

Crossing Swords

This is the second time that the National Fencing Tournament has slashed it's way through Austin. Wayne Alan Brenner is en garde.

"...five years ago, and eventually they put this whole deal together to get us the National Championships in '98,"..."

July 7, 2000 Sports Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Boss Cupid

"...When talking about poetry, a great deal of confusion arises from the two senses of the..."

June 16, 2000 Books Review by Craig Arnold

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...skulls around her waist and scimitars in her many arms, she is worshiped as the Divine Mother. That's what..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crossing That Bridge

Council approves a separate bike and pedestrian bridge over Town Lake near the existing Lamar Street Bridge, and hears neighborhood concerns about moving central booking to the new criminal justice center downtown.

"...it was difficult for Public Works to get their arms around something different. I'm pretty sure they just wanted..."

April 21, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Party Girl, Interrupted

Sandra Bullock's 28 Days

"..."And girlfriend has more hair under her arms than Julia Roberts," says Steve while I wonder vaguely..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Profiles

Friday Night

"...sides. Pro- and anti-gay forces alike were up in arms, because neither could be quite sure at whom the..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...copy of the band's new With Loving and Open Arms (on Alternative Tentacles) at the schwag table. (Atomic Cafe,..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Buy It Now Foundation

"...mean anyway? The glossary is endless and endlessly confusing: ARMS and Balloons and CAPS and conventional ... and tigers..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bernadette Noll

Coach's Corner

Always pick the team with the most to play for.

"...Creek Saloon. Doug Sahm's dead? The hair on my arms and neck is standing on end. I shiver as..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Groover's Paradise

Former Rolling Stone scribe Ed Ward describes trying to track Doug Sahm.

"..."Yeah, man," he said waving his arms around, "it's totally for aout: The growers are tryin'..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Ed Ward

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...are surfing on a sea of hands and outstretched arms, Mexicanos are moshing, and audience members from just about..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Tales of Error: It Came From Junior High

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...just flew in from Transylvania and boy are my arms tired" routine. Yes, the Mummy eventually has to "wrap..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Whenever We're Opened

Mortician-for-a-night, Wayne Alan Brenner ponders life as he faces death.

"...fluid: in the neck, in the legs, in the arms. He finished one load, then refilled the syringe's chamber..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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