2007 B. Iden Payne Awards

More than 60 shows scored nominations for ACoT's annual theatre honors

"...to Second Youth Family Theatre's The Page and the Caterpillar (Production of a Play for Youth, Leslie Hollingsworth's direction,..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heavy Metal

Even in blazing summer, Austin's welders and forgers fire it up and make like rock & rollers

"...Saint Louis Designs, says a bad weld is "a caterpillar; it sits on top with no penetration." Also bad..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

From Owners Bench to Park Bench

Backhoe dealer gets to run Texas Parks and Wildlife.

"...chief executive officer of Holt Cat, the biggest U.S. Caterpillar dealership. That means he makes his money selling earthmoving..."

July 5, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

"...with several major corporations – including Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, GE, Lehman..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature

Meeting Grace Slick

"...Leary as the Mad Hatter, Ram Das as the Caterpillar, John & Paul as Tweedle-Dee & Dum.) I mentioned..."

Jan. 30, 2007 Postmarks

EAST, at Ease

The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet

"...form. Perhaps it's a gryphon made of airplanes, cars, caterpillar-robot hybrids, and an Intel-like building shell. It feels alive,..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Debo Adejobi

Record review

"...sounds like Ali Farke Toure under "Adenike." Likewise, "The Caterpillar and Other Wild Animals" makes the liner notes but..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Review by David Lynch

Organic: Recent Artworks by Todd Campbell and Jennifer Chenoweth

'Organic' shows new work by husband and wife artists Jennifer Chenoweth and Todd Campbell that is opulent and expansive

"...welds one big form. The final effect is a caterpillar or perhaps some kind of coarse hair with a..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Naked City

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

"...ed, and paves the way for school privatization. The caterpillar-mustachioed chair often spoke vaguely of the importance of technology,..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Buggin' out at IMAX

Celebratory habits of the Austin arthropodophile: a Saturday at the Bullock

"...mild personification of the lead bugs: a butterfly (née caterpillar) and a praying mantis (not too cloying, this gambit,..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Never the Same Again'

Jesse Sublett's 'Rock 'n' Roll Gothic': an excerpt

"...my head in position. Maybe this is what a caterpillar feels like inside its cocoon...."

May 7, 2004 Books Feature

With a Bullet

Cross your fingers, Monte Warden and Bruce Robison may be headed for No. 1 with George Strait

"...Warden. Brooks is better known to the family as "Caterpillar," which sounds like nothing so much as the name..."

April 2, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The B-Boys of Beaumont

First place, the 12th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...hard for every move except maybe backspinning and the caterpillar, but they're so old school and simple nobody can..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Books Feature by Linden Dalecki

Young, Strong, and Getting Stronger

The Austin Film Festival Turns 10

"...typically worn by blackmailing drug pushers. For this retail caterpillar to turn into an Ecstasy butterfly, he needs Emily's..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Looking Over His Shoulder

‘Alex Katz: Small Paintings’ brings you unexpectedly close to the artist

"...all over again -- he seems kin to a caterpillar, about to morph into a different being...."

March 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Caesar's Caesar

Karl Rove had a brief but interesting stint as a UT politics instructor.

"...when you see President Bush reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to black schoolchildren, it's not because The Man from..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"..."What the caterpillar saw as the end of the world, the master..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

Day Trips

"...company would creep across the state like a giant caterpillar...."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Hightower Report

Who decided that the WTO rules the U.S.?; who decided that the U.S. rules Iraq?

"...of major U.S. corporations, with Boeing, GE, Motorola, Honeywell, Caterpillar, and Cisco being the big beneficiaries...."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...University's Summer Stage Repertory Theatre serves up Lewis Carroll's Caterpillar, Humpty Dumpty, and all the rest via an adaptation..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Tuna Helpers

Texas Platters

"...Sunday-go-to-meeting waltz that barely conceals the underlying prurience, and "Caterpillar" exudes the discombobulated playfulness of Shimmy-Disc's heyday. If that..."

June 7, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

Day Trips

"...the river valley like a giant yellow and black caterpillar puffing dark smoke out of its head. The beauty..."

April 12, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...this miniature stadium, beneath the giant, red 'n' black caterpillar etched on one of the corner nook's tall glass..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Coach's Corner

Golf Wars: Coach barely survives a brutal midsummer struggle against Lions Muni Golf Course.

"...So our group inched along the course like a caterpillar, each segment always in close contact with the others...."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Goldie (a fish story)

Goldie (a fish story), an original musical from the kidsActing troupe that pokes extremely corny fun at the Hollywood mythos in an undersea milieu, is a happy spectacle of acting and directing and singing and costuming.

"...And there's the uplifting chestnut about the comparatively lame caterpillar -- can't fly, wormlike -- that after much tribulation..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

GE Foods: Most Commonly Altered Crops

"...the primary food source for monarchs in their larval (caterpillar) stage. Most of the larva died. Monsanto spokesmen were..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Food Feature

Exhibitionism

"...our debutante stumbles into a nearby dive, where the Caterpillar (Colin Hughey), an eccentric, self-absorbed drag queen, is just..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Arts Review

Live Shots

"...nervously looked at her watch just before the grand feed-the-overgrown-caterpillar finale, Doodle Bug drove her message home loud and..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Music Feature

Bad Medicine?

If Austin's Public Clinics Go Private, the Poor Could Suffer

"...the city and the county stay accountable. "As the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland said to Alice: What's important..."

Nov. 22, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Record reviews Reissues

"...special that featured Fred and Barney as a two-headed caterpillar! Volume Four, "Hanna-Barbera, the Greatest Sound FX Ever," is..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

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