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‘Gay Place Xtra’ reviews of Dreadful Sorry, Zoe Lewis, the Gossip, and the Eagles of Death Metal

"...childhood, secret worlds, and wandering love. Bright-eyed,..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature

Dress Suits to Hire

Winding up the Rude Mechanicals' Throws Like a Girl series, Holly Hughes' 'lesbian noir' 'Dress Suits to Hire' chills and excites in calculated disturbances

"...shimmering dress she changes into while recounting a muddy childhood full of spit and nasty talk. Drag within drag...."

April 22, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

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Spurned by cool former friends and driven to distraction by Ralph Nader and the 9/11 hearings, Louis Black busts all Erma Bombeck in the SXSW aftermath

"...drove down to San Antonio to hang with my childhood friend Leonard Maltin, who was covering the Alamo premiere..."

April 2, 2004 Column by Louis Black

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...I wrote on such subjects as the forbidden world of Mormon gays at Brigham Young University; an..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

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.

"...concerned, is over. Back rubs and bare feet are forbidden, along with almost any medication, anything but aspirin and..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Bruised Egos

Fourth Place

"...Cathy, while he would intone, "Tis the eye of childhood/That fears a painted devil," having saved the part of..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Jackie Dana

Junior Blues: A Bullet Train Through Adolescence

In this week's section of Austin Chronicle Arts reviews, Robert Faires gets hooked on Rob Nash's Junior Blues and Robi Polgar goes under the Big Top for Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus.

"...of youth that shocks the senior generation, the substances forbidden by adults that young people still manage to get..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"...Church, and one of Robinson's most distinct memories of childhood was his baptism in the Colorado River. Dressed in..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

From Southerners to Seventh Grade

"...stolen and raised as an Apache. But such a forbidden and scandalous love proves too much even for Laura..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Books Feature

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"...as a musician, true to the dream of his childhood, and for the most part, it has been a..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Revival of Spirit

University Baptist Grows Despite Controversy

"...17-year relationship, just as each of them had during childhood. Keeping their homosexuality closeted at UBC was never a..."

May 29, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Indie Shorts on Display

The Territory Begins New Season

"...Jan Krawitz (27 min/Palo Alto/1996) who tries to reconcile childhood lessons with terrifying adult experience. Weaving together educational films,..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

Chinese à la Carts

Austin's Dim Sum Experience

"...creaking bakery cart. The dim sum experience combines certain forbidden elements of our childhood ("don't point") with the joy..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Coach's Corner

"...The two brothers had been taught, since early childhood, that a fan sitting at home need not be..."

June 20, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...sets off to find some half-remembered haunt from his childhood and winds up discovering a whole new approach to..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eating in Faith

Keeping Kosher in Austin

"...foods. Were I to continually nourish my nostalgia for childhood brunches, delicacies such as olives, pickles, capers, nova lox,..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Food Feature by Ronna Welsh

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Gabriel Over the White House

"...with similar comments. A mystical race of super-beings has forbidden man (and the three other alien races) from using..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Feature

Sun City Undercover

The Spinning of Del's Webb

"...your house is frowned upon. (Camper parking is actually forbidden by deed restriction.)..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Not a Drop to Drink

Comal Springs Is Drying Up

"...also go dry. And it makes him remember his childhood. "We used to go to Comanche Springs in Fort..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature by Robert Bryce

A Day in the Neighborhood

A Trip Through Three New Exhibits

"...Many of the artist's most comfortable moments came in childhood, and the memories that persist have been given (ceramic)..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

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