Letters at 3AM

We are a community, we and the creatures. There are only a few tenths of a percent of difference between the chimpanzees' DNA and ours, yours, mine.

"...gentle, private smiles of intimates. And then ... she bent her head and kissed his shoulder...."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Almost Grown

Ana Egge and Adam Carroll reflect over their songwriting adolescence

"...honey and smoke, and lyrics thick with a poetic bent. It's obvious that she's acquired a bit of confidence..."

June 10, 2005 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Keel's Firestorm

A bill that critics charged would have increased the pace of Texas executions dies and takes a judicial pay raise bill down with it

"...hostage," Ellis said. Keel counters that he and Hinojosa bent over backwards trying to find a way to appease..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Brothers

This psychological drama from Denmark is interesting and well-performed, but it's no Cain and Abel.

"...Bier. Starring: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Bent Mejding and Solbjørg Højfeldt. Like her previous film, Open..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Whut It Dew

They don't call DJ Rapid Ric the Mixtape Mechanic for nuthin'

"...For more than two decades, rap music has bent over backward in adapting itself to the pop album..."

May 20, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Full Campaign Disclosure: Here Comes Late Money

Charges, countercharges, and lawsuits in City Council campaigns

"...Benedict has maintained a steady drumbeat of accusations against incumbent Betty Dunkerley, charging that her campaign filings have been..."

May 6, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Man on Fire

Mike Henry and the 'Slam Planet' recovery benefit

"...goes), he accidentally trod upon the foot of a bent and withered crone who promptly leveled a gnarled digit..."

April 15, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Did you know an educated Chinaman knows 2,000 symbols and can draw them?

"...major education entity in the state – the committee bent over backward to congratulate Perot and his support of..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Pray Tell

'The Education of Shelby Knox'

"...a budding politician, a show-off, and a sincere Christian hell-bent on questioning authority in Lubbock, a land were questioners..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

School Finance Bill Heads for the Floor

Republicans pass HB 2 out of committee over educator objections

"...everyone expects to read. Those evil, dastardly, heartless Republicans, hell-bent on world domination and knowing they could crush any..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Misty's Pulley

Honorable mention, the 13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...with his palms turned back and his wrists slightly bent as if he were paddling upright through the field...."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Gerry Cullen

News/Print

You ain't getting in to see Don DeLillo, so you might as well read about Seymour Hersh, Laura Bush, and Eli Wallach rolling around in the green, green grass together. Get your mind out the gutter! It's the Claiborne K.H. Smith connection.

"...far as the festival having any kind of Republican bent, I want to correct that right now. I have..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

The Ugly Beats

Texas platters

"...set, the Beats' hooks are time-tested, and their lyrical bent never strays from the gotta-get-some/can't-get-none cycle that often defines..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

Page Two

The old political labels don't quite fit, but new ones have not yet evolved

"...be done for freedom and having an unrealistically compassionate bent, will turn on the war once they actually see..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Cookbook Reviews

Gift guide

"...whole approach is that of a patient drill instructor, bent on convincing the reader that they have the pluck..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

LCRA Gets Its Pipe On

A near-unanimous vote to bring surface water to Hamilton Pool Road

"...asked but never answered is why LCRA is so hell-bent on plunging into environmentally sensitive territory to the west,..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Insulting Willie ... and the Rest of Us

"...our fair "red" state. Complete ignorance of Willie's political bent or gloating over W.'s four-day-old "victory" – God only..."

Dec. 2, 2004 Postmarks

In Person

BookPeople, Thursday, Nov. 11

"...and more dangerous – embracing all sexual outsiders, and bent and beautiful outlaws. As queers we grow up in..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...with an inept editor and a staff of writers hell-bent on questionably clever quips as opposed to critical analysis,..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

Water Flows Downhill

Regional water plan nears completion while LCRA looks to move water westward

"...Edwards Aquifer. To accomplish this requires reining in developers bent on building residential subdivisions and retail centers in the..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Stop Hernandez

"...with an inept editor and a staff of writers hell-bent on questionably clever quips as opposed to critical analysis,..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Postmarks

Two Lives Lost

Danielle Martin and Jackson Ngai shared a close friendship, a passionate love for music, and mental illness. They cared for each other as best they could. And then he killed her.

"...instruments. Jansky told him to stand still, but he bent to pick up a cleaver and she fired her..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Food Sites

"...some of the local Web sites). If you are sushi-bent, this is the site for you...."

Nov. 5, 2004 Food Feature

Out of the Shadow

Which new scary-programming cable channel will longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?

"...horror shows and beyond, an ill-received – through a bent and rabbit-eared console TV on casters – television program..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Master of the Improbable

When someone says something can't be done, trust Turk Pipkin to say 'Wanna bet?'

"...(where, incidentally, he grew up), Pipkin has a natural bent for the unusual...."

Oct. 29, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

The great days of the United States of America are over: Our country is now important economically only because of its citizens' consumption

"...as well as the right are an immature people hell-bent on remaining immature. The mass media market immaturity so..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Cali Comm Emo's, Oct. 24

"...Mikah 9, and Abstract Rude launched into lyrical excursions hell-bent on innovative zeal. Backed by DJ Drez, the Project..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Contemptible

Tom DeLay setting new 'salacious' standards in congressional ethics

"...and ranking minority member Alan Mollohan, D-West Virginia, had bent over backward to avoid too heavy a sanction against..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Cinematic Convergence

The 11th Annual Austin Film Festival

"...drama by imbuing Robbing Peter with a slightly surrealistic bent (viz. a talking bunny named Fluffy) and breaks from..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Omnium Gatherum

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

"...streak, and Julia, the African-American author with a spiritual bent. Meanwhile, Terence, the arch British journalist – a Christopher..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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