Hey, Yo! Young Lovers

Rome & Jewels is choreographer Rennie Harris' new hip-hop version of the Romeo and Juliet story, set in the streets of Philly where the Caps and the Monster Qs fight for control.

"...Now comes another adaptation, this one with music and dance, closer in spirit to West Side Story, though as..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

To Infinity and Beyond!

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

"...time with What Goes Up. Playwright/performer Ruth Margraff and choreographer/dancer Deborah Hay both played the Brooklyn Academy of Music..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Tapestry wants you to see its show .com for free, and Scott Swanson wants you to find the arts on your TV, through his show Scene After Dark.

"...This weekend, Tapestry Dance Company remounts .com, its delightful peep inside the life..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...Sidney Brammer wrote about theatre and dance for The Austin Chronicle 1981-83. She is a filmmaker/screenwriter,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

.com

You know the way Dilbert can sometimes get the whole office / cyber scene down perfectly? That's what Tapestry Dance Company does in their new show .com, and just as cleverly -- but with dance. And with some real depth and beauty worked in there, too. It was like the best of Dilbert, but with Dilbert as drawn by one of the Wyeths.

"...the other night, called .com! It was this big tap-and-modern-dance thing, all about the Internet and the effect of..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

"...slip and sets out for revenge with his ragtag gang of burglar buddies, under the tutelage of crime boss..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Summer Reading

"...And those cut apart made their wayward rounds, a gang of halves in a tipsy dance," Eng tells us,..."

June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Page Two

Why Mike Clark-Madison's cover story will be informative even to the most experienced city veteran, and why the work of exploitation director Stephanie Rothman deserves serious study.

"...The Austin Film Society is presenting "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s,"..."

May 18, 2001 Column by Louis Black

George Clinton/Guru Austin Music Hall/The Mercury, February 16

"...these days of rap/metal, electronica, and good, old-fashioned lip-synced dance music, the marriage of electric rock music and hard-core..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Split Decision

"...committed by members of the Harrison Gents, a street gang, would ripple through his adult life, jeopardizing his career..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Youth of the Beast

Another wildly inventive crime thriller from a criminally underappreciated director.

"...recruits him. Jo then cozies up to a rival gang boss and plays the two sides against each other..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Articulations

With a tool or two, Austinites can make a lasting contribution to Frontera Productions and the Rude Mechanicals.

"...experienced carpenters and nonexperienced helpers are welcome. The Frontera gang will be going at it full blast this Saturday..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...It's an expensive sham, costing billions and keeping the gangs and drug lords in business. Police departments, courts, lawyers,..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Down & Out in Atlanta

The Official Crock of the '96 Summer Olympics

"..."pavilion," run by a group of Seminoles from Florida. Dancers, storytellers, craftsmen, and musicians from tribes all over North..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jonathan Hennessey

West Side Story: Brave, New, Whirled

According to Chronicle writer Wayne Alan Brenner, West Side Story survives just fine in a "post-apocalyptic future," thanks to an amazing production at Zilker Hillside Theatre.

"...all those colorful costumes, Melisa May-Moncus handling the pyrotechnical dance numbers, and -- oh Lord -- especially not as..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Raves for Marc Savlov's recent article on Ecstasy.

"...as if MDMA creates an overwhelming, mechanical compulsion to dance to exhaustion while not maintaining proper hydration. This is..."

June 23, 2000 Column

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...behold, but nothing compared to what Floyd and his gang had in mind that night. It was almost 9pm...."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reservoir Dogs

"...flee. Only Tarantino would start the film with the gang discussing the meaning of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" before..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

DJ Showcase: Spiros, Thursday, Mar 16

Wednesday Night

"...funky, freaky, free-for-all. This year, a trip inside Spiros dance club found precious few party people not gathered around..."

March 24, 2000 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...by Lloyds of London in order to get this gangster movie financed. The film centers on a mob hit..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wide Open Heart

Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.

"..."One guy thought it was like, 'Oh, y'all are gang members,' because 'Pinky' is the tough guy in the..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Miracle Man

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

"...at that time. It was like bringing the Our Gang comedies into the talkies, with a bunch of kid..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...and a buncha bikers from Taylor. Haggard and his gang also hung out with Dale Watson and his band..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

AFS Preston Sturges Retrospective Schedule

"...Art Thou? and winds up on a Southern chain gang, convicted of murdering himself! McCrea's choicest performance for Sturges,..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Music to Wallow By

Wayne Alan Brenner's list for maudlin millennium-toasting listening displeasure is sure to send you flinging yourself off of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song."

"...and I need some tunes -- but not to dance to. I need music to wallow sullenly in, a..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wild, Wild Webcasts

Why party in line when you can party online?

"...night, but only because several dozen other folks have ganged up and decided that my place is just perfect..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Hankering for millennium specials? Got 27 hours to kill? Find out what's in store this holiday season on the boob tube.

"...Champagne is reported to be in short supply, and attendance at key hot spots, like New York's Times Square,..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Rockin' Christmas Party: Party Out of Bounds

Robert Faires gets a buzz from the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Rockin' Christmas Party.

"...first few years) to seed in more thumpin'-thumpin' bumpalicious dance hits from the Disco Era and later, and encouraging..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Shag

"...nickname no longer describes her slimmed-down figure. Driving the gang is the senator's daughter LuAnne Clatterback (Hannah), the Jiminy..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Review by Margaret Moser

Austin Symphony Orchestra: Dance Fever

Robi Polgar responds to the November concert of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, featuring the premiere of Austin composer Darden Smith's Grand Motion.

"...Austin Symphony Orchestra: Dance Fever..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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