The AggreGAYtor: January 25
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Jan. 25, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson
Fun Fun Fun Fest Full Lineup
Dub innovators, emo legends and local favorites join the roster
"...Against Me!, Baroness, Between The Buried and Me, Braid, Burning Love, Converge, Deafheaven, Devin, The Dwarves, Earth, Flesh..."
July 12, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker
Viper Moon
Jazz guitarist Slim Richey recovers
"...of his long, whisping beard, twisted loosely into a braid, Richey greets the arrivals to the April 1 benefit..."
April 20, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
The Luv Doc: TechNERDphilia
"...named Scott who “know[s] black hair and can both braid and cornrow” co-opts a Kenny Rogers song title for..."
March 9, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc
SXSW Lists
SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else
"...Between raffish indie jangle and a braid-fellating music video, these young Clevelanders distill the sugary wooze..."
March 18, 2011 Music Feature
The Laziest Girl in Town
Asleep at the Wheel's feminine ideal is pregnant with possibility
"...mine," says McQueen, coyly toying with the heavy chestnut braid resting on her shoulder. "We started hanging out and..."
Jan. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
On the Download
New in downloadable games: DeathSpank and Limbo
"...in the above-mentioned divide. Previous straight-to-hard-drive releases such as Braid and World of Goo engaged the noob with eye-catching..."
Aug. 6, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day: Fast and Easy Recipes for World-Class Breads
This book is an excellent introduction to the world of baking
"...making a natural dough starter, and demonstrates how to braid challah. For the novice, Reinhart's book is an excellent..."
Dec. 4, 2009 Food Feature by Rachel Feit
High Texas Rider
Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite
"...on a stool in his home office, his trademark braid dangling all the way down his back as he..."
Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Give 'Em a Hand
The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...Chika Aluka, "An Oval Braid," Second Wind..."
May 15, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Letters From the Women of SAFPF
A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited
"...young teen who had inadvertently forgotten to remove the braid from her hair on the second shutdown day, which..."
Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature
Down on the Bayou
Mobile Loaves & Fishes set up shop Monday in Bayou Vista, TX, just north of Galveston Island.
"...La Marque, and Loop 197 from Texas City all braid together into I-45 as it heads to the causeway..."
Sept. 16, 2008 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer
Queen for a Day
Mingling with royalty has gone to your humble Gay Place's head.
"...Bluestein. Sara and I picked out a thick brunette braid headband and a crazy item called the Party Dome,..."
Aug. 13, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer
Look Cookie: Mutatis mutandis
New and rough-edged as the improv troupe Look Cookie is, it's still worthwhile watching them do their thing
"...into viable sketches and for those sketches to then braid into a coherent (more or less) narrative tapestry. At..."
Aug. 10, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
love conjure/blues
Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us
"...tradition and West African spirituality together and saturates this braid with queer characters. We meet "the mens and the..."
June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Abe Louise Young
2007 Texas Biennial, Butridge Gallery
The Chronicle's visual-arts writers review the second Texas Biennial in dialogue and find the work at the Dougherty Arts Center to be diverse but presented awkwardly
"...showed a fairly diverse range of work. Frances Bagley's Braided Rug was uncanny: a 644-foot braid of human hair..."
March 30, 2007 Arts Review
R. Kelly
Gift guide
"...question comes to mind: Is he out of his braid-ridden skull? No doubt Kelly's had a rough couple of..."
Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder
Chuck It
We're so hungry we could eat just about everything served up at and around the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo
"...is a huge factor. Flipping back a waist-length brown braid, seasoned competitor Shirley Creacy of Wild Cow Ranch (near..."
March 11, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack
TCB
Young Heart Attack and the Austin City Council's 'Mouthful of Love'
"...returning to the States (and Emo's July 22) with Braid... Finally, local sales of inexpensive domestic beer were expected..."
April 30, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray
Geeks Get Paid
What's cool about gaming? Apparently, everything.
"...role-play enthusiasts. With his silver jewelry and long, thin braid, Garriott still seems to hold his D&D days dear...."
March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald
We Talked About Murder
Texas Platter
"...Talked About Murder also brings to mind emo-rock idols Braid for the way they wring every ounce of feeling..."
April 11, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy
After a Fashion
This week in Fashion: What kind of advice would Amy Fisher give Lizzie Grubman? And who has the hottest Underoos?
"...ordering kosher meals and asking a fellow inmate to braid her hair, "since a hairbrush is a foreign object..."
Dec. 13, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Exhibitionism
The thrill that comes from the bright, full, flashy, splashy sound of a brass band is the feeling you get from Austin Musical Theatre's production of Sweet Charity and to coin a phrase, how sweet it is.
"...the wind, with statuesque Elizabeth Mills, boasting a long braid of hair that she snaps like a whip, leading..."
May 17, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Postscripts
The 24th Annual O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships and other upcoming literary events.
"...so tall the follicle you! They would climb my braid, and if they weren't that handsome, I would give..."
May 18, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith
Kids in Black
That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.
"...are below holding the ladder in place. One is braiding a rope and then taking the braid out again,..."
Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun
Someday Still Wants More
Austin singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa is back with a shorter, spunkier 'do after a four-year absence.
"...peasant skirts, the cowboy boots, the long hair and braid? Gone. She cut her wavy mane to a short,..."
Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta
Toying With Tradition
Lots has changed of late at the Empanada Parlour, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes, but the restaurant's festive little pockets stuffed with spirited meat, vegetable, and fruit blends are as delicious as ever, and continue to enjoy a dedicated local following.
"...pies]," she informed me emphatically one recent evening, her braid-covered head nodding in affirmation. "You see, in England we..."
June 16, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery
Puns of Steel
There's a science to interpreting puns; just ask audience members at the 23rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships.
"...so tall the FOLLICLE you! They would climb my braid, and if they weren't that handsome, I would give..."
May 12, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Miss Montana's Wedding Day
Third Place
"...belongings. The man was Native American, and a long braid hung over his Mailboxes Etc. gingham smock...."
Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward
Food-O-File
Bocaditos Calientes (Hot Little Bites) for the Week
"...from home to make the dough for his elegant, five-braid Challah. It would be wonderful if an accomplished baker..."
