Rock en Tijuana

The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.

"...Colonia Nido de Aguilas, junked cars decompose and half-starved dogs troll for food. A Border Patrol helicopter buzzes overhead,..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

The Hightower Lowdown

Shutting Out The Majority; 'Quality' Junk

"...establishment media outlets continue to pretend that these two lapdogs of the moneyed elites offer us the "clear-cut choice"..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

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

"...facts from fantasy (if he indeed was jumped by four men, one with a knife, how is it that..."

July 21, 2000 Column

Dining del Lago

Lakeside Dining 2000: Many Restaurants, Not Much Water

"...without a map. The big pool is a mere four feet deep, and the kiddie water-play area reaches a..."

July 7, 2000 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Page Two

Is the alternative press dead?

"...movies. Then we came upon several bodyguard types handling dogs, and I shut up. Governor Bush, it turned out,..."

June 9, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Postscripts

How Mitch Cullin's novel in verse began as a college assignment and ended up being optioned by a Hollywood producer.

"...Matador, Texas where my grandparents live, somebody was poisoning dogs there and I was driving through and visiting. It..."

May 26, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...Getting Naked involved him doing a strip routine with four women orbiting him enthusiastically. Before the actual clothes-removal, the..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...written a letter to the campus newspaper, a weekly four-pager, criticizing -- condemning, I hoped -- specific actions by..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

Richard Garriott

Ready for a Few More Rounds

"...Suddenly, in bursts Garriott, being pulled along by two dogs on leashes in his hands. He's smiling on his..."

March 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Lindsey Simon

Lone Star Sweden

"Lars Gustafsson has the air, somehow, of a sailor," Roger Gathman writes about this Austin author transplanted from Sweden. "It is as though he were some Swedish Sinbad come to rest here after a dozen ports. And in a way, that is true."

"...structure that contained a menagerie of birds, cats, and dogs; but perhaps Gustafsson himself is the most exotic beast..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

More a Man Than a Legend

Observing as the golden-throated Flatlander becomes a record-label executive

"...spacious. Guitars hang on the walls, a couple of dogs roam the halls, and surprise, some of Butch Hancock's..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Grand Old Mess

Can Travis County Republicans Ever Get It Together?

"...politics," Bentley enthuses on his answering machine, "please press four." That's the first clue to Bentley's free-form style. Get..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Coach's Corner

It's Valentine's Day, and Mavericks fans are in love with Dennis Rodman. But it'll pass.

"...It was a time of sleeping with dogs (canine) and being happy about it. Hours of angst-filled..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

Any Given Sunday bites, but no worse than the Coach's prognostications last week. Old wisdom: The Colts are the best in the league. New wisdom: Titans may be for real.

"...week. Oh, he divined the winners of three of four games, but none went as predicted, and the one..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.

"...passageways, in search of the wild Colbert, with their dogs a-howling and shotguns a-blazing. In short, they blast the..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Coach's Corner

A best-of-the-century roundup

"...finest hockey team on earth ... as if their four consecutive Gold medals weren't proof enough. America, on the..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...Bellevue psychiatric prison ward for six months. The other four continued on as Moby Grape...."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Whole Package

With Margaret Wiley, you didn’t have a one-trick pony; you had a multitude of talents and personalities in one big and big-hearted woman. Wiley’s friends and colleagues at Esther’s Follies offer their memories of this exceptional Austin comedian who died November 2.

"...I visited her house, she had redecorated, and her dogs had matching outfits to go with her furniture. My..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Coach's Corner

Cornhuskers vs. Longhorns: don't try this at home.

"...home, the only noise in the house is my dogs snoring and drawers frantically slamming as I, becoming increasingly..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...out of the way. I hear cabinets slamming. The dogs and even her precious kitty have been threatened with..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...spouse)will call you at work to tell you your dogs got out of the back yard. They've lived in..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Natural

"...first time we came to Austin. There were maybe four people there, and we sucked. Really bad. We were..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Book Reviews

"...that led to the ambitious dream of Communism. Yes, four-fifths of the world lived in dire poverty as Marx..."

July 23, 1999 Books Review

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...etched this night into my permanent record. Three or four songs was all it took to make this ambitious..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

It's a Mystery to Me

"...Night Dogs, by Kent Anderson, was one of the big success..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Postmarks

Interfaith's Socialist Agenda

"...but will hide behind the government, drooling like rabid dogs as the government extorts cash for their agenda. I..."

April 23, 1999 Column

Scanlines

Dream for an Insomniac

"...to show the role of each member (as Resevoir Dogs would later on) as the clock counts down to..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings

"...RITES 1.5 (M.B.) 9/11/98 FORGOTTEN SILVER 3.5 (M.S.) 4/10/98 FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER 3.5 (R.S.) 2/13/98 A FRIEND OF..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...was booking such counterculture fare as Freda & the Firedogs and holding fundraisers for liberal politico Lloyd Doggett. South..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Regular Folk

"...Gilbert Garcia, joint owner,with his four brothers, of the sandblasting business his father founded, lives..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

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