Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...by Lesbians, STC, 2001; Peter Sloan, Light Up the Sky, Austin Playhouse, 2001; Charlie, Fish, Aunt Lulu Plays, 2000;..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Life After Death: A Novel

"...and other Northern states: late-season evenings when the summer dark changed texture and the night sky grew light again...."

June 22, 2001 Books Review by Marion Winik

The Hightower Lowdown

ZapMe!'s snooping on kids, downsizing hurts the boss too, and Fleet Bank's fleeting sympathies

"...it never occurred to them that there were any dark clouds in the corporate sky. Having to punt a..."

June 22, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, April 27-May 6

"...With 18-wheelers rocketing past at knee cap's length, oncoming darkness wasn't going to be a welcome handicap for a..."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Oliver!

Despite some fine performances, consistently lush and well-executed chorus numbers, and stunning sets and costumes, the Austin Musical Theatre production of Oliver! leaves one wanting more.

"...drop-and-fly system of the Paramount Theatre, McCollum presents a dark, dank, dirty, dreary London, all stone and brick and..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...everything is just the right size. Open daily until dark...."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature by Gerald E. McLeod

The Zinophiles

The Zinfandel Advocates and Producers Come to Austin

"...The Zinfandel grape is midnight-dark and capable of making red wines so intense that..."

April 20, 2001 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...Rice pastiche that began: "Outlined against a grey November sky, the Four Horsemen rode again Sunday. You know them:..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Oklahoma!

Austin Musical Theatre's Oklahoma! pulses with a rousing liveliness that makes it delightfully fresh, a territory that a joy to visit.

"...Rendered in bold azure, they provide a vivid, dreamlike sky that delineates the new world being carved out by..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Sandy and Bob are almost done in, while Kirsty MacColl isn't so lucky, and Pops Staples goes onto his great reward. Dopey the Goat, meanwhile, becomes cabrito.

"...and as backup singer for the Smiths, her alternately dark and cheery solo albums never really hit on this..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...but it looks that way, as open to the sky as if it were set on the edge of..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...of beautiful Texas Sunshine.'" It's the antithesis of a dark, November night when word of Sahm's death spread through..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fastball The Harsh Light of Day (Hollywood)

Texas Platters

"...Zuniga at turns maudlin and philosophical, but always romantic ("Dark Street," "Vampires"), while Scalzo bipolarizes from extreme highs ("Morning..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Armchair Adventures

"Good adventure books do the same thing as a good adventure," Chronicle writer Dan Oko writes in this roundup of recently published adventure books.

"...high latitudes the light never entirely left the night sky. Without the usual sequence of light and dark, the..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...and neck opened in a wide gash that flows darkly onto his shirt and puddles across the car's compromised..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Getting the Joke

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

"...Fairbanks is a young comic who recently left Big Sky country in Montana to join Austin's comedy circle. Three..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Feature

Letters at 3AM

Advice to a high-school graduating class: Face your fear and take risks.

"...other's lives quickly and permanently.) But ... there's that pesky speaker, and he or she must speak -- a..."

June 9, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

TV Eye

The Real World: New Orleans and Survivor, CBS' brutal bid to rein reality television, are sure to fascinate pop culture fans throughout the summer. Belinda Acosta explains why she resents it: and why she can't stop watching.

"...like those lustrous Nebraska clouds across a dazzling blue sky. There wasn't a TV in sight. Back in the..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Oh Susanna!

Drinks at Donn's Depot with Austin country music diva Susanna Van Tassel.

"...the low-ceilinged Broken Spoke or under the oak-treed open sky of Central Market's back deck is to be seduced..."

May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Gates of the Alamo Reviewed

Mark Busby reviews Stephen Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo.

"...marshes flocks of shorebirds came cascading down from the sky -- pink spoonbills and willets and pelicans whose preposterous..."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...music and community come together under a big Texas sky, plenty of Shiner Bock in white plastic cups, the..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Girl, Upgraded

According to the 1999 Interactive Digital Software Report (IDSA), the majority of people playing computer games are older than 18, and 38% percent of the people most frequently playing computer games are women. Boy, have things change

"...with bad Eighties haircuts, shrouded from daylight in a dark apartment stinking of dirty clothes and kitty litter, their..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Postmarks

How the WTO touches our readers' lives; and other hot-button issues like film reviews, bikes, and Kevin Fullerton.

"...follow today wasn't even adopted until 1582. And the Dark Ages probably added to the confusion as to what..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Column

Through the Windshield

"...plains of iron, gone numb under a hard low sky, driving blank, gone frozen coasting the lines of longing,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Books Review by Harvey Pekar

Coach's Corner

Cornhuskers vs. Longhorns: don't try this at home.

"...of game day atmosphere stuff: the color of the sky, the weather, the tone of the crowd. I see..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...muddled, final orange halo dissolves outside in the night sky. The place is dark and I immediately turn on..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...the horn, another lifts the torch and illuminates the sky like the Fourth of July. An American flag flying..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

Exhibitionism

Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander: Time Passages

"...the emotional colors that deepen them the way the darkening blue at twilight makes a Texas sky seems so..."

July 23, 1999 Arts Review

Little Fleshlets, On the Run

"...were garbled in transmission. My heart felt like a darkened room in which you know there's furniture but you..."

July 23, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...was along the lines of glorified flashlights, and the darkness coupled with Morales' ever-present shades (not to mention the..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

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