Taboo Topics, True Subjects

Reflections on Race in the NBA

"...go to the game because we want intimations of excitement/danger/evil, of something sad or bad in ourselves we would..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Books Feature by David Shields

Legends of the Super-Heroes

"...bird jokes brought against Hawkman alone (some by his mother!) are enough to make you want to throw the..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

Final Judges

Profiles of the Short Story Contest judges.

"...are Mommy Club, Boyfriend School, Alamo House, and Do Evil Cheerfully...."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature

A Day

First Place

"...eluded me, the pellets thudding harmlessly off his stupid evil hide...."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Karl Monger

Do-It-Yourself Girl Revolution

For the last two years Miranda July's work in fanzines, performance art, music, and movies have allowed her to support herself off her art. "No day job" - how many performance artists can say that?

"...of the two-part Love Diamond, Tini Santini's obsessive-compulsive suburban mother (who cleans the outside of her house with a..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Ada Calhoun

September Previews

"...the woman of her dreams just hours before her mother and brother are to move in with her. The..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Not a Wussy Girl Band

"..."There are churches on every corner. My best friend's mother told me on various occasions that I was going..."

July 16, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The "Master of Disaster"

"...word was "airplane," and who in childhood made his mother set an extra place at the table for his..."

June 4, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

And Thy Right Hand Shall Teach Thee

"...not respond to the instructions of his father or mother, you are first to discipline him. If he still..."

May 28, 1999 Column

The Emperor Jones

"...man alive. Lots of actors could have played the evil aspect of his character, but David somehow managed to..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...Austin is to strongly restrict housing construction in the much-reviled yet abundantly populated suburbs. No new houses built, so..."

March 26, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Share the Smart Growth

"...inadequate employees -- just like there are obviously bad grandmothers -- but they risk their lives every day for..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Column

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...Jelly Roll Morton, and rare footage of the Parisian vaudeville performer Josephine Baker. Photographer James VanDerZee documents the Harlem..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...the original 2-LP album, some came out later on Live/Evil, Big Fun, and Circle in the Round. Some are..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Postmarks

"...Texas family that is, is Coach Mack Brown, a Cookeville, TN native...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Column

Postmarks

"...cars for shopping and for their jobs? Imagine the mother of three trying to lug home bags of groceries..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Home Is Where the Tax Credits Are

"...enhanced reputation in the community. Our recent 2nd Annual Mother's Day Garden Tour was supported by the Austin American-Statesman..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Facts, Not Gossip

"...states, "The people of Sodom and Gomorrah are utterly evil and everything they do is wicked." "To know" means..."

June 5, 1998 Column

Food-O-File

Bocaditos Calientes (Hot Little Bites) for the Week

"...secrets of the Moroccan fish that is her Sephardic mother-in-law's favorite Rosh Hashanah dish; Marilyn Scher, former pastry chef..."

May 29, 1998 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...Nixon is not dead. He embodied way too much evil, paranoia, puss, bile, and hatred to just up and..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Postmarks

Slusher Kicks Ass!

"...me, who once lived in a trailer with my mother and my father, I really feel uneasy... [about the..."

March 13, 1998 Column

Scanlines

The Magnificent Ambersons

"...you are a paranoid parent intent on playing Big Mother, then you will probably find Disc Tracy a useful..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

A Double Shot of Wry

Author Neal Barrett, Jr.

"...dedicated Bad Eye Blues to "Joe R. Lansdale, my evil twin" reciprocates. "Joe's mostly my resident nut friend. We..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Texas Platters

"...the Lobby Bar. Robert Rodriguez's vision of whiskey-soaked barroom evil in From Dusk Till Dawn might as well have..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Music Review

Postmarks

Open Records Good

"...Cantu, stop using the Church to advance your own evil pride...."

Sept. 12, 1997 Column

Postscripts

Shuttle Carnage Looms

"...you were about to publish would hurt Keith, his mother, family, and friends. She was indeed a Judas in..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Column

Zeroing in on Zuniga

Place 5 CandidatesTarget the Man With the Money

"...point in his favor. Plus, he is not the evil monster his opponents have portrayed him to be. In..."

April 18, 1997 News Feature by Amy Smith

Drivin' the Devil Away

Miss Lavelle White

"...night time; midnight in the garden of good and evil. Want and longing hang thick as the inevitable smoke..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Scanlines

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

"...to cheer Graham on as he does in his not-really-so-evil stepmother, though the whole process is far from pretty...."

Feb. 7, 1997 Screens Feature

Dusting the Bookshelf

Recent Titles

"...(Random House, $26 hard) is a novel with the devil's own squeezebox as its central figure. By no means..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Books Review

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