Texas Documentary Tour

'Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea'

"...only to those who either love the smell of dead fish and birds and cheap land values or those..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...covers resemble the accessory no girl would be caught dead without: the powder compact, complete with foil mirrors. The..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

Persistence of memory

"...my friend Steven's girlfriend Henri's ex. They seemed quite deadly, boasting greased-back hair, fast cars, and a first-name acquaintanceship..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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Our readers talk back.

"...a worker was cleaning the bug- and possibly bird- (birds are few in China) splattered windshield...."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...("Get your Rag! Get your Rag! Why do the birds go cheep, cheep, cheep? Because The Rag is so..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Your Tongue Is Deceptive

"...$130,000 in tax money, and the snake is already dead. APD as "holistic land-management stewards and public art custodians"?..."

June 7, 2005 Postmarks

Elevated Prairie

Like the police forensics center they stand before, the flora and fauna of Art in Public Places' Elevated Prairie deal with the inevitable: the life / death / life cycle

"...Police Department Forensics Center and Central East Substation appeared dead...."

June 3, 2005 Arts Review by Benné Rockett

Horror, Period

'Dead Birds'

"...films with his shockingly good Civil War-era horror film Dead Birds, it's tough to get your mind around the..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...depressed loner in all of us. – Darcie Stevens DEAD WHALE TIDE10pm, Velvet Spade After a brief hiatus from..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

M83

Record review

"...M83Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute) How programmed..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

The Art of the Business of Art

Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art

"...a sneaker's throw from both Waterloo Records and the gnarled-but-not-dead-yet Treaty Oak, the first thing you see is Clark..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Letters at 3AM

It takes fierceness to grow old well

"...wild thing/sorry for itself./A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough/without ever having felt sorry for itself."..."

June 25, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...mines a sharper, more nervous sound on its debut, Birds at Home (Excelsior). If you had any doubts about..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Gathered Treasures

'Collected Response,' the first joint exhibition of artists Steve Wiman and Marjorie Moore, is an extension of their shared passion for collecting

"...Moore's paintings, drawings, and assemblages of frogs and birds, among other things, are accomplished, attractive, thoughtful, and kinda..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...the Canary Islands didn't get their name from the birds who share their name, but from the dogs that..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

The Artists' Recent and Upcoming Projects

"...Since March, Stewart has designed the sets for Another Dead Soldier at UT's David Mark Cohen New Works Festival,..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature

The Kids Are All Right

Not your parent's summer camp, rock & roll camp!

"...silly songs I still remember, and learned to identify birds. At the more sophisticated Jewish Community Center camp the..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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Our readers talk back.

"...for those two death penalty-dealing, corporate-welfare-doling, health care-denying, military-industrial-complex-loving, roll-over-and-play-dead-when-the-chips-are-down political wimps, and guess what? They still would have..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...the great and gentle naturalist, spent a life watching birds, telling stories, writing letters, and holding together a community..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Designated Drummer

Drummer Ernie Durawa's Way of Knowledge.

"...a 100-mile radius of Austin needs a professional sitting dead center behind the bass drum, like a wisened Buddha..."

May 23, 2003 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Reel Austin Vol. 2

DVDisc

"...collectable, at least until Spoon ("Small Stakes"), Trail of Dead ("Relative Ways"), and Li'l Cap'n Travis ("The Mittens") --..."

May 9, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Cat and Mouse, Confined to a Kiosk

Director Joel Schumacher discusses his new thriller, Phone Booth.

"...booth really echoes the phone booth used in The Birds. Is what's onscreen more or less what Cohen had..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Songs: Ohia

SXSW Records

"...insert, tension between life and destruction spelled out in birds, skulls, flowers, and a broken heart. One could make..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Hess

The Image-Maker

Former Chronicle "Cover Master" and legendary tattoo artist Michael Malone's aka Rollo Banks' career has always on been in ink; now it's on paper.

"...paper is also a classic: the Day of the Dead, seen on T-shirts to this day...."

Dec. 13, 2002 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern RockLynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock

Sheet Music

"...Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rockby Gene Odom with Frank Dorman..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Some Unspeakable Beauty

Don't call it magic realism: Josephine Sacabo's photography and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo make a powerful pair.

"...ecstasy of the faithful wells in a flight of birds above a chapel in El Vuelo (The Flight). A..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

"...sea itself is ill; that the seals and sea birds are fewer, and dying of unnamed diseases; and that..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the tourism potential! As an added bonus, all those birds wouldn't be sitting in trees down by the river,..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Column

Naked City

"...Dead birds, killer mosquitoes!..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Austin Stories

"...cause fatal encephalitis. Local health authorities confirmed that a dead bird found in Barton Hills was infected with West..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature

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