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Sept. 29, 2006 Column

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"...26]. I have found comfort today in reading your pages, being reminded of not just Mr. Antone, but Stevie..."

June 2, 2006 Column

Hard Candy

Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.

"...Directed by: David Slade. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh and Odessa Rae. Little Red Riding..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Life, Fiction, and Selling Out

Life, fiction, and selling out

"...centers on Prairie Wind, Young's most recent album. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras used eight to 10 camera positions, shooting in..."

March 31, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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"...Ellen BriggsIt Is Important to Vote! Tuesday, Feb. 14Dear Editor,..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Column

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...the plan itself. The NKM document was essentially an 18-page list of good ideas that could be tackled separately..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

News From the New American Diaspora and Other Tales of Exile

Jay Neugeboren's 'News From the New American Diaspora' travels the world, but more often than not, the most memorable pieces of his third short-story collection capture the grandness of those small, personal epiphanies

"...Life." It sounds silly out of context, but when Ellen, the protagonist, regards the artfulness of a fresh napkin..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Dance Fever

With Hot September Flurries, a corps of Austin choreographers burn up the Blue all month long

"...this town boasts enough dance makers to fill a page of the calendar with a different one for every..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Okay, SXSW has officially begun and your Style Avatar is deep in it. Watch where you step.

"...Walker, Julia Smith, the incandescent Anne Elizabeth Wynn, filmmaker Ellen Spiro, Cliff Redd, and Gail Chovan and Evan Voyles,..."

March 18, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin

"...Marcia Gay Harden, inducted by Ellen Burstyn..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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SXSW 2005 looms on the horizon

"...Palindromes (Narrative, directed by Todd Solondz; with Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Masur): The brilliant Solondz's..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

It's time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for our roads

"...honorees include: Marcia Gay Harden, to be inducted by Ellen Burstyn; Irma P. Hall, to be inducted by Joel..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

SXSW Presents – a new series on KLRU that features beginning, independent documentaries – is the latest development in the vibrant Austin film scene

"...Mobilus Media is the award-winning team of documentary filmmakers Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein, who will offer a sampling..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...as many as 30 hours in advance studying each 10-page application and supplementary materials (e.g., promotional pieces, videotapes, résumés,..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...easily one of the finest in the doc field). Ellen Spiro just received a Guggenheim; her last film, Atomic..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...to show you at least some of it. In "Page Two," there's more background and detail as to our..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Naked City

"...their attorneys, who had requested the materials, that the 73-page memorandum and 1,750 pages of supporting documents are exempt..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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April 4, 2003 Column

News/Print

I've some good news and I've got some bad news. Which do you want first?

"...being inbred or treating your customers like shit? Austinite Ellen Hobbs would probably tend toward the latter, though by..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

WWJD?

Jesse Sublett's insider guide to Bouchercon.

"...of mystery fiction, will be represented by his wife, Ellen. If you're lucky, you got wise to the con..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Citizen Mary

A Profile of Mary Arnold, Advocate for Austin

"...his good fortune. Two days before the election, a full-page political ad appeared in the Statesman. The bold print..."

April 5, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

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"...Michael May responds: Ms. Bradley makes some excellent points in her letter as she did in her..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column

Citizen McCall

Kinky Friedman once remarked that the line between fiction and reality is the one he snorted back in 1978. More than two decades later, he's still getting things mixed up. Chronicle writer Sidney Moody investigates why he puts his friend John McCall, the multimillionaire shampoo magnate and owner of the beauty supply firm Armstrong McCall, in his new detective novel Steppin' on a Rainbow without even bothering to change his name.

"...more like someone you would read about in a page-turner of escapist fiction than encounter in the course of..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...Who Wanted to Dance. Opens it to the first page, where Frank, in his purple bathrobe and mouse slippers,..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Austin's Best Novelist

"...On the next page, when he gives a kind of aerial view of..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

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"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

"...imagine the relief I felt when I read your "Page Two" column regarding Mr. Jones[July 14]. Louis, you helped..."

July 21, 2000 Column

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...the sex scenes resembling Gunn's childhood love drama between Ellen, the Fisher-Price TV anchor, and Dan, the plastic stuntman...."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...with David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Steve Borden, Page Falkinburg, John Goodman...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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HPBC is on the minds of many this week; Gotham lingers in the shadows.

"...Kudos to Erica Barnett for her excellent piece on the Hyde Park Baptist situation ["Grow and..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column

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Housing, ACC, and Spooner.

"...Because the ACC board has made this commitment to excellence in education, I now strongly support raising the cap..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column

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