TCB

Austin (and its Music Network) will endure, Scandinavia and Interpol invade, and local alt-rock is sweeter than ever on Ear Candy.

"...the U.S. Even in the current climate, it's not hard to see a wealth of opportunities. Perhaps prospective club..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Speak, Mr. Craddick

The new choice for state House Speaker circles his political wagons.

"...invariably among the House's firmest defenders against the GOP's hard right. Yet here they were signing on, at least..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...More hard times for the local arts community: Austin Musical Theatre..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Susan Gibson

Texas Platters

"...of her untapped reserve, that's not going to be hard. Since parting ways with the Amarillo-based Groobees last year,..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Confessions of a 'Little House' Lover

Bonnets and braids and pioneer lovin': Christina Smith treks to the land of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

"...and hillbilly hairdo. The real Ma looks tough and hard, like she could kick some serious butt, which she..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Feature by Christina Smith

Right Where They Belong

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

"...tie, while the other three beefeaters tug at their candy stripes and contemplate laying off the bratwurst. Me-me-me-me baritones..."

July 26, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stories from the Midway

Teenage Carnie Lust

"...I was 17 and working in a candy store run by insane identical Russian twins who alternately..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Hey Kids! Free Comics!

The folks who make and sell comic books are hoping that a promotional giveaway of 2 million comics after the release of the Spider-Man movie will rescue their ailing industry.

"...fact, it may be a sign of just how hard times are for the industry that virtually everyone, from..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Robert Faires

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Portraying the kids from the Peanuts comic strips is trickier than you might think, but two of the performers in the Silver Star Theater Group production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown radiate the bold outline and broad humor -- the cartoon essence -- of the source material.

"...As drawings go, it could hardly be simpler: a plain-vanilla circle for a head, two..."

April 26, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Russian Grocery

"...deli case is haphazardly filled with various types of hard sausages, and a small refrigerator case in the corner..."

April 19, 2002 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Really Rad Rachel

Media darling Rachel Muir and her nonprofit Girlstart earn the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award.

"...Girlstart, "I mean yeah, there's Hello Kitty, there's cotton candy, but there's real learning going on here."..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Girl Singer: An Autobiography
Liberace: An American Boy
The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader

Sheet Music

"...ol' Sammy Davis was simply a joke, trying too hard to be hip, and winning my everlasting disdain by..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Music Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Beauty of the Beast

Austin's IMAX theatre opts not to screen the newly remastered Disney film.

"...with dolphins. Dolphins is luminous and enchanting, educational eye candy that goes down remarkably easy for kids phobic of..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...City" column, political writer Michael King blasts American-Statesman editor Richard Oppel's poorly written column of Sept. 16, yet, in..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Blow Up Your Video

MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!

"...The Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night was influential in codifying the visual style..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Juvenile, HPC, Black Gold, Botany Boyz, Lil' Troy, Opposing Threat, The Metro, April 8

"...dry-humping dance. Ask any video director; scantily clad eye candy is as essential to the Down South flavor as..."

April 20, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Flashing Lights, from up Ontario way, is about as candy-coated as the happiest of Britpop bands, though they manage..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

It Takes a Village

Horn orchestra La Tribu blows it DiY style.

"..."It's hard to get everyone there for rehearsal," Pulkingham chimes in...."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...captured the essence of his subjects, including the stripper Candy Barr, Leroy, the champion fighting pit bull, and the..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Peter Frampton

"...Too Far (For My Baby)," and the Montrose "Rock Candy" rip-off, "(I'll Give You) Money." While it's a little..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Boris and Natasha, The Movie /
Dudley Do-Right

"...two heroic villains results in a film that's as hard to follow as it is to laugh at. Oh,..."

July 28, 2000 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

The Real World: New Orleans and Survivor, CBS' brutal bid to rein reality television, are sure to fascinate pop culture fans throughout the summer. Belinda Acosta explains why she resents it: and why she can't stop watching.

"...against the other team. Short-term prizes are waterproof matches, candy bars, and canned food. The long-term prize, depending on..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...about time that something be done. It's not that hard to figure out a solution, but no one is..."

March 17, 2000 Column

Edibles in Isolation

Send Me to a Desert Island, but Let Me Have My ...

"...Recipes (UT Press). San Antonio cousins and fifth-generation Texans Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez shared their family's culinary secrets..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature

Tunnel Vision

The unrighteousness of parity and its horrible aftertaste.

"...here's a suggestion for the NFL scriptwriters: Make a hard-fast rule to let only one sub-.500 team from each..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column by Taylor Holland

More American Graffiti

"...Bill L. Norton (1979); with Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, Candy Clark, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Charlie Martin Smith,..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Review by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

Reflections on the memorable television specials of Christmas past

"...was also a way to deal with a particularly hard -- and for my mother, a humiliating -- year..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

David E. Kelley is one of the most gifted and savvy television writers of the late Nineties : So why is he degenerating into Aaron Spelling?

"...It's hard not to marvel at David E. Kelley's career. Ideas..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Jeffery Smith's Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia

"...North Point Press, $24 hard..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Books Review by Martin Wilson

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...and manuscripts as being "like a kid in a candy shop." His short stories were conventionally published in good..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

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