Neighborhood Soup

"...ultimate value, it's already hard work simply to oppose bad ideas, and a lot more work to come up..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Environs Observer

"...The adage goes "It's the bad 5% ruining it for the remaining 95%." Many rafters..."

July 25, 1997 Column

Con Air

"...Jerry Bruckheimer, Simpson stamped his extra-large testosterone imprint on everything from Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun to Flashdance..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Madness of King Geek

Harry Jay Knowles' Cool Movie News

"...and rumors of upcoming projects that he's interested in, everything from Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park to Tarantino's..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs

The Death of Indie Labels: Reports Have Been Exaggerated

"...on any of their recordings, and typically does almost everything significantly cheaper. For instance, the Austin-based label spent about..."

May 2, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Let's Talk About Sex, Bay-bee

AISD Teaches Kids About the Birds and Bees

"...'til you're married." "Dangerous." "Need to be mature." "You're bad if you do -- except guys." "Pregnancy." "Important."..."

May 2, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Immaculate Perception

Author and Visionary Bruce Sterling

"...Electronic Frontier, 1992), and authored reams of text on everything from Nevada's Burning Man Festival to op-ed pieces for..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Coach's Corner

"...sandwich, crust cut off. It's the end of a bad week...."

April 4, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

A Bird in the Hand

"...Remember the Bad Selena Review! Dear Austin Chronicle:..."

April 4, 1997 Column

Selena

Selena Quintanilla Pérez, the barrier-crashing Tejano singer who was murdered at the age of 23, is the subject of this biopic that was also the breakout film role for Jennifer Lopez.

"...retrofitted with gauzy mythical trappings), thereby reassuring themselves that everything was truly as vivid and meaningful as they remember...."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...whatever's happened to me and my career, good or bad, I made the decision that I was an artist,..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Record Reviews

"...from Chicago no less, has it -- like a bad case of Tennessee Williams. Down among the manic, three-minute,..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Reflections

SXSW Film Festival and Conference

"...speak of her plight, her flight, and pretty much everything else, she instead accepts Ezra's offer of shelter and..."

March 14, 1997 Screens Feature

Picks & Sleepers

South by Southwest '97

"...I can get you for a comparison is the Bad Livers on codeine. The Lincoln, Nebraska band lacks the..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature

Sleeping With the Television On

Teething Problems at the Austin Music Network

"...So what's on the network that's so dull? Well, everything. Rock, pop, punk, jazz, acid jazz, lounge, techno, blues,..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Postmarks

Bergstorm

"...It's too bad that the economic success that the Chronicle has received..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Column

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...the enemy, just because they were Mexicans by birth. Everything was forgotten. Basically, people were trying to get their..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Li'l Green Aggravation Society

Rock & Roll's Cain & Abel: The Kinks' Davies Brothers

"...Everything you've ever heard about the Kinks is true. Everything..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Maximum Risk

"...cinema's most accomplished (and diversified) action filmmakers, having directed everything from the exhilarating comic-book thrills of Full Contact's computer-generated..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Sing Me Back Home

The Return of Libbi Bosworth

"...Yet it didn't bother country singer Libbi Bosworth too badly. To hear her tell it, back in 1992, she..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Lessons in the Dust

What I Learned on My Summer Drought

"...to make the most of what we do have. Everything is well taken care of, more so than it..."

Sept. 6, 1996 News Feature by Suzy Banks

Live Shots

"...Everything you know is wrong. Who knew that nugget of..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Feature

Eastern Condors

"...and Samo Hung. A world-class war movie that recalls everything from certified tough-guy classics like The Dirty Dozen to..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Record reviews 8/2/96

"...widely varied results. Yet occasionally, it all still works beautifully. All This Useless Beauty is, happily, one of those..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Music Review

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...with a high mortality rate, specially among children, with bad health conditions and nutrition, land problems, repression, the ideal..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

The Ex-Files

"...time. She seemed suddenly a stranger. Eerily so, because everything else about this stranger was more than familiar, was..."

July 5, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Diabolique

"...that takes its cues from Hitchcock and then spins everything around 180 degrees until the audience is nearly sick..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rhythm Thief Rap Sheet

A Conversation with Filmmaker Matthew Harrison

"..."Fuller," in Rhythm Thief] in the lead. Mike Rapaport [Beautiful Girls, Mighty Aphrodite] plays his best friend. Corrigan and..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...* 10A-Z. Bad News Bingo, ND, Lost Armadillos in Heat, Art-Core. All..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...two-and-a-half-hour riding sedan of Just What I Needed has everything, including a handful of previously unissued demos -- like..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

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