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See a show and aid local theatres, catch some more Crush, show some dramaturgs how to two-step, and read up on Austin artists in national mags

"...see it as it heads into its final week: Half the proceeds from the Thursday, Feb. 17, performance will..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Statistics on American education tell a dreadful story, the story of an advanced technological society slipping back to a state of ignorance and superstition

"...• Bill Moyers reports "nearly half the U.S. Congress ... 231 legislators in total ......"

Feb. 18, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

Artists have tried to replicate the method of creating cement sculptures that look like wood, but few have mastered the technique like Dionicio Rodríguez

"...finest creations, many of them accessible to the public. Half a dozen of his sculptures were added to the..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Upcoming Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines

Of all the secrets in Uncle Walt's vault, one would expect Donald Duck decked out in SS regalia to rank with 'Song of the South' and the pseudo-sex subliminals of 'The Little Mermaid'

"...Duck was busy, as he's also seen routing the Japanese in the excellently choreographed "Commando Duck," going AWOL for..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...fine, combed back from the forehead. In 1944, a Japanese grenade blinded him in the left eye; it rolls..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...chanteuse and former Wild Colonial's magnificent voice is only half the story. Her solo debut, Manhattan Records' The Things..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...(Manifesto), Ken Stringfellow hasn't been resting on his laurels. Half of influential Seattle popsters the Posies, he's filled his..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Being Robert McNamara

Through 'The Fog of War,' Errol Morris gets inside a mind full of hindsight, regret, and the lessons of Vietnam

"...for devising the fiendishly effective firebombing of some 67 Japanese cities. On one single night in Tokyo, in March..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Disco Hospital

Live shots

"...surroundings, he tossed in a Julian Cope cover about halfway through but otherwise stuck to crowd-pleasers like "Sound Exchange,"..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

After a Fashion

The story of how the Style Avatar got his sew on

"...community college program in Seattle, run by painstakingly detail-oriented Japanese women, we had to know how to sew very..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Death Becomes Her

Kier-La Janisse unleashes CineMuerte on poor, innocent Austin.

"..."One of the few strictly horror outings of renowned Japanese porn director Hisayasu Sato, Naked Blood is about a..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Dead Girl Talking

Showtime approaches the subject of death with Dead Like Me, a new series that moves the focus from those left behind to those dearly departed.

"...Billy & Mandy. The toon, now expanded to a half-hour, features children who befriend the Grim Reaper and follows..."

June 27, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...squabble over signs while a war is being fought half a world away. The war is currently affecting and..."

May 16, 2003 Column

War Drums

"...of a city of 5 million people, more than half of them children 15 or younger...."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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Our readers talk back.

"...I thought we used the atomic bomb on the Japanese for the same reason we had been dropping tons..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...the merchants and landholders were full of insinuation and half-truth, yet you quoted their most preposterous balderdash with approval...."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...incorporated last year, the organization's 2,500 partners, more than half of whom are non-U.S. citizens, decided to incorporate in..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column

Dancing About Architecture

"...took his time going onstage and then played a half-hour set before deciding it was too hot onstage, and..."

May 24, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Latest Catch

Food writer Mick Vann on the hits -- and the misses -- of Roy's

"...atop a mound of edamame (curiously cold but boiled Japanese soy beans). Next is a pair of "potstickers" (actually..."

March 29, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW 02 is over -- finally

"...presented her with an apology gift of roses on behalf of the Chronicle helped ensure that Love didn't run..."

March 22, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Learning to Play Nice

SXSW Interactive panelists discuss the future of the tech industry. A lot.

"...products abroad, providing all the bells and whistles only half-heartedly delivered in the U.S. (WAP, anyone?)...."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Learning to Play Nice

SXSW Interactive panelists discuss the future of the tech industry. A lot.

"...products abroad, providing all the bells and whistles only half-heartedly delivered in the U.S. (WAP, anyone?)...."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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Our readers talk back.

"...lived in Portland for the last two and a half years. The debate over light rail here is so..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Column

Serve Chilled

The Summer Reading Menu

"...him on the finer points of escargot eating, the Japanese woman competing for the title of the biggest eater..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

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.

"...columnist; autism; the Penitents of northern New Mexico; the Japanese snow monkeys of South Texas; a transsexual's spiritual journey;..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Festival Schedule

The Seventh International Festival of Ethnographic Film

"...1,000 drown and 14,000 are arrested and sent back, half of them take up difficult lives in Spain and..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

Bill Maher flops in onscreen attempt to cut Harry Knowles down to size.

"...people ages nine to 16 on such topics as Japanese Animation, Web Design, and Laff TV. Classes run June..."

March 30, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...of their Minty Fresh CD Puzzle; so haute you half expect Serge Gainesbourg to come out of the speaker..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...and Walter Daniels' harmonica and they'll slice you in half. (Hole in the Wall, 11pm) -- Christopher Gray..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Tamizdat Showcase, Ritz Lounge, Friday 16

"...until the tune bulldozed itself into disintegration. The second half of Tamizdat's showcase featured the talents of Polish sonic..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

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