Doesn't Really Want Help Understanding ...

"...can the courts deny Terri Schiavo the right of communion? Doesn't this violate her constitutional rights?..."

March 31, 2005 Postmarks

Paradise

There is contemporary fiction about addiction, and then there is Paradise, the fifth novel from A. L. Kennedy, which stands out for its bitter wit, its painful truth-telling, and the narcotic quality of its author's limber, serpentine prose

"...her job selling cardboard cartons; her addictive and passionate communion with an alcoholic lover; the ruins of her family..."

March 25, 2005 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

Hark! The Herald Organ Sings

New UT faculty members and exceptional organists Gerre and Judith Hancock give the mighty Visser- Rowland organ a workout with their own holiday concert

"...made notable contributions to the churches of the Anglican Communion. And they're likely the same reasons that his alma..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

Lehm Berg Winery continues a centuries-old winemaking tradition

"...if you added enough sugar. "My grandparents called it communion or church wine," Droemer says...."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Bob Marley & the Wailers

"...Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and though no sanctified communion, it goes down like fine wine in places. Followers..."

May 7, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

British Sea Power

"...in which Orwell's old maids weren't hiking to Holy Communion, they were drowning themselves in warm beer and lobbing..."

March 12, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...regularly attended a Christian church, he would not take communion. On his deathbed, he did not request a minister..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Letters at 3AM

Two words have been missing in all the hubbub about the Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision striking down laws against homosexual sodomy: Thank you.

"...anything else, is a form of communication. Commune-ication. Such communion/communication may be procreative or not; Lawrence v. Texas, dealing..."

July 11, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Living in the Moment

MM Pack profiles legendary foodie Ann Clark.

"...love, of grace, of giving and sharing, of real communion, of living fully in the moment...."

Nov. 8, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Home Grown

Why Chef Louis Lambert's Palate Is a Product of his Texas Roots

"...and ahhs about the gumbo, and a Saturday evening communion commences. This is friends night. The next night will..."

April 26, 2002 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Recommended

"...3 at 3pm to talk about her new book Communion: The Female Search for Love... Joseph Berger, the deputy..."

March 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...understand the silence of the Palestinian masses receiving daily communion -- Israeli tanks shelling safe places, a church, a..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column

Nusrat Fateh Qawwali Khan

"...A passionate, vocal-driven music from Pakistan that seeks closer communion with the Giver, Qawwali may be simple -- voice,..."

July 27, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

Articulations

Real drama bled into the staged kind when actress Latifah Taormina cut herself during a performance of Adam Sobsey's Hang Town Fry, and Salvage Vanguard releases The Cry Pitch Carrolls on CD.

"...and magical and theatrical in its own right, a communion of audience and creators that did not draw from..."

April 13, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

In God's Country

Why U2 is the best band ever

"...transform mere rock & roll into a type of communion far more ecumenical than the kind available in church...."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...bloodstream as surely as a drug, conjuring up a communion of souls that was somewhere between taking the sacrament..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Prophet for Our Times

For 10 years, Lisa Crystal Carver has been writing about sex and doing sex-drenched performance pieces under the name Suckdog. But her lifestyle is born of a profound quest for an uncompromised life, a search for truth and adventure that makes her a prophet for our time.

"...Coz describes Suckdog performances as something like a communion, whereby audience and performer are joined in the spirit..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Pocket FishRmen: The Final Blowjob, Red Eyed Fly, May 13

"...dedicated service demanded a full-scale display of gross physical communion between band and audience. Fans came out of the..."

May 26, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Postscripts

Texas -- not just the place, but the idea -- is always being celebrated in some way, it seems. But Texas writers are often behind the scenes, which is why last week's spate of events celebrating Texas writers has seemed so odd, and compelling.

"...are often in the background, fêted privately in the communion between writer and reader (or not fêted, if everything..."

April 21, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Speaking in Tongues

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

"...the quality of the set or props, but "the communion of the people there and the willingness and Lisa's..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exit 'Downtown,' Right on Sunset

In her latest project, singer Petula Clark sets aside her image as chirpy pop starlet to play mad screen diva Norma Desmond in the musical version of Sunset Blvd. Clark tells Stephen MacMillan Moser how she came by this radical departure in roles.

"...of fans are rabid, brought together in a glorious communion on the Internet. Inevitably, there's an anguished message posted..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Patti Smith Group, Waterloo Park

Friday Night

"...at once an homage, an exorcism, and a holy communion of rock and the power of the word. "It's..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Mary Fitzgerald

Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats

"...a constant, even overwhelming I. The middleman at this communion wants you to know exactly who's responsible for putting..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Review by Christopher Hess

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...the mid- to late Seventies, Patti Smith was both communion wafer and Messiah. I count myself among the many..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

The Guest From the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin

by Gyogy Dalos

"...someone with whom he can share a kind of communion. "The point is this," Rogin says. "We see in..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

Full of Schtick!

Greg Beets sends up Austin's wacky pop-punk-cum-Saturday-morning-send-up band, the Peenbeets.

"...the universe and your spirit is seeking a higher communion and blah, blah, blah, then good things will come,"..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Cooking Time Is Family Time: Cooking Together, Eating Together, and Spending Time Together

"...I can see the same sense of comfort and communion in my daughter when the family sits down together..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Postmarks

Don't Cry for Rainey

"...resemble compulsions. For excitement, yes; also for escape, adventure, communion, privacy, therapy, self-expression, even self-understanding. The American passion for..."

July 23, 1999 Column

Scanlines

Dazed and Confused

"...breasts and a personality about as spicy as a communion wafer, Love (as she's annoyingly known to her friends)..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

Live Shots

"...syncopated Bo Diddley raveup. The night ended in a communion of spiritual frenzy akin to a tent revival with..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature

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