Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...film (minus the singing and dancing) about the underwater colony of Atlantis...."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...it's easy to see why safety is an issue. Parking brake secured, I knock at the door. Greeting me,..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Deep Blues From Gatesville

Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?

"...the Dallas County Jail, and had her baby at Parkland Hospital...."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Day Trips

Baseball, bats, obits, no buts, and environmental action figure into this year-end wrap-up.

"...for the season. Considered one of the most intimate parks in professional baseball, Enron Field was a home run..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...south of Seguin off of TX 123 at Jakes Colony Road has some of the prettiest trees and best..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...bipartisan T-shirt hawkers every three feet of sidewalk, impromptu park rallies, talk on the street ("If it was any..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

Luling's Icehouse Pottery is a thriving center of ceramic, glass, and jewelry artisans.

"...Luling had the potential to become a thriving artists' colony and they wanted to be a part of it...."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory's an ornithologist's paradise.

"...area was once part of Stephen F. Austin's original colony. Known as the Columbia Bottomlands or Austin's Woods, the..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Varner-Hoogg Plantation State Historical Park, near Houston, has gone from a settler's cabin to a great sugar plantation to an oil wildcatter's weekend home.

"...The Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historical Park on the coastal plains west of Houston still retains..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Articulations

Austin playwrights are drawing attention around the nation, and one theatre company is getting hit by the Macbeth curse smack in the face.

"...Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund grant for the Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre world premiere staging of con flama. Bridgforth shared..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Doubting Thomas

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

"...by tradition, one of the most influential. And Joe Parker at David Chapel Missionary Baptist and Sterling Lands at..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

Lumberman's Investment Corporation has offered a compromise to the city on its plans for the Sand Beach Reserve, located just north of Town Lake; the CityCouncil approves a $1.8 billion budget.

"...In what was essentially the same kind of parks-vs.-roads standoff that Mayor Watson and Council Member Griffith have..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Naked City

Austin parks are getting a much-needed infusion of cash in the latest city budget.

"...Austin's parks are getting a long-needed infusion of cash. This week,..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

Despite the many good arguments in their favor, Beverly Griffith's parks bonds and Raul Alvarez's housing bonds get shot down at council; meanwhile, Kirk Watson's $150 million transportation proposal glides through with nary a hitch.

"...Council Watch: Parks Pogrom..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Day Trips

Get your jitters all over Central Texas at these rural coffeeshops.

"...was only a matter of time before this artist colony had its own coffeehouse, but unfortunately, they put it..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The restored J.M. Koch Hotel Bed and Breakfast in D'Hannis is part of a vanishing breed of Texas frontier buildings.

"...controlled by the two-year-old state. It was the third colony of Alsatian farmers brought to the region bordered by..."

July 28, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Lindheimer Home in New Braunfels stands as a monument to the "Father of Texas Botany."

"...ran a private school for gifted children in the colony. In 1852, he became the first editor of the..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SH 130 Hot Spots

"...Colony Park; Turkey Farm (3, 4)..."

Jan. 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Hitting the Pavement

Building SH 130 is still being considered in terms of costs, routes, and whether it will be a toll road.

"...acquisition begins." Most of these relocations are from manufactured-housing parks; 68 are from the Live Oaks at Berry Creek..."

Jan. 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Short Fringe @ Hyde Park Theatre

"...As before, all Short Fringe performances are at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, at 8pm. All tickets are..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

New York

"...to discover its seedy origins as a money-hungry Dutch colony and its arduous rise to a melting pot of..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Day Trips

Discover Old World Christmas treasures at the Sophienburg Museum in New Braunfels.

"...Texas on March 21, 1845, to establish a German colony. The site for his fort, on a hill overlooking..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Condo Clash

The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms

"...it was guano from Austin's famed Mexican Freetail bat colony, Davis' reaction was, "How do we get rid of..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Day Trips

The 150-year-old Landmark Inn in Castroville was designed to not distract from the natural beauty surrounding it.

"...turns 150 years old this year and the state park is throwing a party to celebrate. The two-story former..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...Among the 123 state parks scattered across Texas, Blanco State Park has a mystic..."

April 16, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...The Meusebach-Comanche Treaty that was ratified by the colony of Germans provided safe passage for settlers through the..."

April 2, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A League of Their Own

"...veritable nest of writers, inevitably evolving into a film colony...."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Wrapped and Ready

"...flea circus to battle the evil grasshopper threatening his colony. With Antz still streaming steadily through the box office,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Film Previews

September

"...worker ant who unwittingly falls in love with the colony's Princess, and whose individuality is out of place in..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

A Commitment to Playwrights

The Life and Legacy of David Mark Cohen

"...tells me he's at the Wurlitzer Foundation, an artist colony here in Taos. I say: Yeah, I was at..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Arts Feature

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