Shirley Valentine

Only one woman in Austin could play Shirley Valentine with the charismatic hold of a storyteller, and that would be Bernadette Nason, who stars in Onstage Theatre Company's production

"...feet and onto his boat and whom she dubs Christopher Columbus for rediscovering her orgasm. By the end of..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Fortunate Son

Bass player to the stars, past and present, Mark Andes

"...falling into the arena of supernova commercial wonders like Christopher Cross. Others are forever worshipped by collectors and guitar..."

May 19, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Ted ChristopherBecause We're Not Californians?Editor,..."

May 5, 2006 Column

Domino

Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.

"...Rizwan Abbasi, Delroy Lindo, Mo’Nique, Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari, Christopher Walken, Jacqueline Bisset, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering, Dabney..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

FronteraFest Schedule

"..."Regarding Belated Birthday Greetings," by Julia M. Smith and Christopher Wild. Dance/theatre piece exploring the communication and distance of..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature

So You Want to Cook Some Game?

"...recipes for venison, wild boar, and pheasant. Venisonby Rebecca Gray..."

June 7, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Developers for Sonleitner, Parents for Heckler

"...Sen. Chet Brooks, Texas Bicycle Coalition director Gayle Cummins, Gray Panthers activist Charlotte Flynn, and UT professor Standish Meacham,..."

March 8, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...of pre-colonial American species, including fearsome grizzly bears, cunning gray wolves, daring whitewater harlequin ducks, bugling elk, and ghostly..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Walking the Straight Edge

Texas Documentary Tour brings Jem Cohen's documentary on Fugazi, Instrument, to the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...my situation, all of my work is in a gray area between definable genres, so it's never a straight..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Writes of Spring

"...it. The prototype is undoubtedly Rebecca West's Black Lamb, Gray Falcon, the encyclopedic journey she took through Dalmatia in..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

Book Reviews

"...also the clean, oil-smelling color of gunmetal and the gray-purple patina of freight train engines and railroad slag."..."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

Scanlines

Last Man Standing

"...D: Walter Hill (1996) with Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, Christopher Walken, William Sanderson, David Patrick Kelly, Karina Lombard, Leslie..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Live Shots

"...stick around and return for the next one. -- Christopher Hess..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...weightlessness experienced by Apollo's cosmic sailors. On a recent, silvery-gray Monday installment of KOOP's Chillin', one of the community..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...4 Stars --Christopher Hess..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Review

Exhibitionism

One Night Only!: in Uncharted Waters with an Über-diva

"...The ensemble supports the leads well, ably executing Acia Gray and Deirdre Strand's simple, sometimes raucous choreography...."

July 31, 1998 Arts Review

Lawn Dogs

"...John Duigan. Starring: Mischa Barton, Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Christopher McDonald, Bruce McGill, Eric Mabius and David Barry Gray...."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

Annie: Light and More Light

"...Charles Strouse, and lyricist Martin Charnin, working from Harold Gray's classic comic "Little Orphan Annie," history isn't the point;..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Review

SXSW Record Reviews

"...as Whiskeytown's Ryan Adams and the passion of David Gray, May Day's only drawback is that it crawls a..."

March 13, 1998 Music Review

Scanlines

"...long-term classic, and should simply not be missed. -- Christopher Null..."

July 4, 1997 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

"...than its glorious whole. Huh-huh... I said "hole." -- Christopher Null Poor Jayne Mansfield. The one-time UT student was..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...edgy hopelessness that surrounds Nadja's (un)life like a tattered gray shroud (much use is made of a toy Fisher-Price..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

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