Piece of Work

A row of shining tines, wrought like the iron spire fences hemming in 18th-century churches, but burnished to blinding brilliance in ultra-modern stainless steel, stand at attention on the wall of D Berman Gallery, and the clash of the familiar and the novel is disarming.

"...the wall of D Berman Gallery, secured in the grass of no lawn. The tines are screwed instead into..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

Ted Bundy

"...familiarity throughout the film -- in the glaringly green grass, in the tacky fluorescent glare of supermarkets, in the..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

True Crime?

Why is the Austin American-Statesman in touch with the lawyers for Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings and its subsidiary Holt, publisher of the critically acclaimed A Death in Texas?

"...About 11:30 p.m., his car was found on the grassy shoulder. ... A deputy found Peacock's body about 225..."

June 28, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Was this election the end of an era?

"...But seeing a lot of dry grass is not the same as starting a prairie fire,..."

May 10, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Life as a House

"...entirely by hand, complete with tiny thatches of faux grass lovingly glued into place). Sam (Christensen) begins the film..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

What's Wrong with Public Housing?

The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority

"...wall that could be written on covered with graffiti, grass up to your kneecaps." That was about one in..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

An Austin Original

Celebrating the Life of Otto Hofmann,1918-2001

"...Aware of the fragrance of the freshly mown prairie grass in this small, country cemetery, I recall my late..."

June 8, 2001 Features Feature by Robyn Turner

Wanda

"...the sexually bottled-up Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass. In Wanda (which Loden also wrote), Loden stars as..."

May 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

McGuffey's Readers helped establish American education as we know it (or knew it).

"...was published; and a year after that, Leaves of Grass. Not long after little forgotten Louisa wrote her date,..."

April 27, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Texas Book Festival

Photos by John Anderson

"...I learned: You know the way it mars the grass when you leave the hose laying on it for..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Titanic Town

"...with their tight emerald fringes of obsessively tended carpet grass. These neighborhoods, you think, could blend seamlessly into the..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Ann Pizer: Folly: The Natural Order

In the 16 color photographs that comprise the exhibition "Ann Pizer: Folly," the photographer captures some sense of the magic in formal gardens, of our foolishness in trying to tame nature, and of the way we sway between the two.

"...is, well, unnatural. The trees, the hedges, and the grass do not grow for us. They belong to themselves..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Cotton Mary

"...way through Imitation of Life or Splendor in the Grass can attest. Yet the trick of distilling real tragedy..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Ian Moore And All the Colors... (Koch)

SXSW Records

"...by the time 1998's Ian Moore's Got the Green Grass came out on his own Hablador imprint, almost all..."

March 10, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Trouble in Paradise

Rebecca Chastenet de Gery explains why her visits to Pacifica Fine Dining have varied in quality.

"...vinaigrette, lemon aioli, pico de paradise, or garlic lemon grass. The dinner that left me less than satisfied with..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

James Carlos Blake

"...a night in the Everglades (the setting of Red Grass River) during alligator mating season. In the Rogue Blood,..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Across the Universe

Gearing up for a new national tour of her hit show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Lily Tomlin took a few minutes to talk about connectedness -- her connectedness with The Search, with audiences, and with Austin.

"...to The Search makes me think of Leaves of Grass, which Walt Whitman just kept doing new things with..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bad Dog

When we see a dog running free, why are we frightened? Longtime Austinite Paula James meditates on the effect that fear of the natural world has had on us.

"...green squares, we were satisfied to keep a little grass growing in front for appearances. Lines between homes were..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Paula James

Postmarks

Puzzled by Oppel

"...soccer fields. Cars park on what used to be grass near the soccer fields. The grass has been replaced..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

Hill Country Breakdown

"...acoustic stringed instruments, and broke into a medium tempo bluegrass tune, the response was unsure. Polite and restrained. Confused,..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...The Money & The Grass (MIA)..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Just the Facts, Ma'am

"...hippie pads and occasionally suburbia. Hippies wigged out on grass, man, and climbed walls when dropping acid. Pills were..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Thin Red Line

Malick's return to filmmakng after a 20-year absence is this WWII story based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel. The film is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature.

"...images: the way the camera moves through the tall grass, the shots of exotically colored birds and prehistoric crocodiles,..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Expectations of Future Growth

Third Time Lucky?

"...willing to put in the work, and think a grassroots approach could allow us to make a living regardless...."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Record Reviews

"...Ian Moore's Got the Green Grass (Hablador)..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...county Health Dept., a crew of workers cut the grass, dismantled a transient camp, and collected all the trash..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Feature

Texas Tropes

Is Don Graham Really Texas' Literary Curmudgeon?

"...tenders; long days; dreams and broken dreams; and Johnson grass: anyone who has worked a cotton field in Texas..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Mafia!

"...make it into the last Naked Gun episode. Watching grass grow is more humorous than this, and if you..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

"...GRASS..."

June 5, 1998 Music Review

Live Shots

"...moniker brings with it is a big one: less bluegrass. Having blossomed among the bluebonnets for 10 years, remaining..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature

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