Charlotte's Web

Scottish Rite Children's Theater makes its stage version of E.B. White's 'Charlotte's Web' bright and stimulating with lively interaction and fine performances

"...concerned pig from slaughter. Fellow actors Stephen Touchet (Uncle Homer Zuckerman) and Andreá Smith (Narrator) understand how to keep..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

13 Mid-Sixties Texas 45s

"...9) "I Never Cared for You," Homer..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature

Yummer Reading

"...Egypt, the Hindu Rig Veda, and the works of Homer. Something in today's culture has sparked a renewed interest:..."

May 27, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack

Wings of Desire

After several years in the States, where he directed four films, German-born Wim Wenders decided to head back home and compose a love letter to Berlin

"...ancillary characters who anchor their ethereal counterparts, such as Homer, an elderly man who wanders around Berlin trying to..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Review by Audra Schroeder

Playing for Time

Turk Pipkin's 'The Old Man and the Tee' reviewed

"...and balls, professional lessons. It's a journey worthy of Homer, one that takes him from sun-dappled seaside courses in..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Arcane trivia of the damnned!

"...are today. They appear in the epic poetry of Homer and Virgil, the tragedies of Aeschylus and Seneca, the..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...plots and characters, and if Hollywood can piss on Homer, then why shouldn't Brad Neely get a piece of..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

San Francisco in South Austin

Finding dim sum and Cantonese seafood, early birds and all-nighters, at Marco Polo

"...large dollop of fiery chile paste. We drooled like Homer Simpson when he thinks about doughnuts...."

March 19, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

SXSW Film Reviews

"...Oct. 7, 2001, Barry Bonds launched his record-setting 73rd homer into the outfield stands of San Francisco's Pac Bell..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

Miró Quartet

For their second concert of the season, the lavish tone and flawlessness of the Miró Quartet served Beethoven better than Ives and Crumb

"...simplistic – the standard ABA over which the Ramones, Homer's Odyssey, The Love Boat, and seventh-grade book reports commune...."

Feb. 20, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Austin @ Large: A Bad Precedent

The courthouse deal is another chapter in Austin's same old sad Downtown saga

"...Street (next to the current City Hall) and the Homer Thornberry Judicial Building, joined to the Federal Building a..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...away. Can you imagine television with nothing other than Homer Simpson types?..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column

Politically Correct Means It Bothers Someone Else, Not Me

Jan. 6, 2004 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

'For the love of God, beam me up Scotty!'

"...Though Ulysses drank to Achilles in Homer's Odyssey nearly 3,000 years ago, the first known toast..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...any other culture hasn't done? Look at the classics. Homer's Odyssey probably started out as a report about a..."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...master of the form, a bard of West Texas, Homer of the Panhandle...."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rights and Consequences

The Redistricting trial pits "partisan gerrymandering" against the Voting Rights Act.

"...trial, currently proceeding in a federal courtroom at the Homer Thornberry building at Ninth and San Jacinto, might have..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

TO: America; FROM: The BBC

Subject: FWD: 'The Office' on DVD

"...up from Cliff Clavin and a handful down from Homer J. Simpson, catch phrases, mannerisms, backstory, and all. Watch..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

TCB

All the hip-hop that fits in ATX.

"...Chingo Bling and the Color Changin' Click (latest release: Homer Pimpson), as well as Latino rap from the likes..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

What, Me Worry? Yes.

'American Splendor' is one of the most celebrated movies of the year, and everybody loves my comic again. But … I dunno.

"...three times, once by Dan Castellanetta, the voice of Homer Simpson, in a Los Angeles production. So it didn't..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Screens Feature by Harvey Pekar

TV Eye

The end of an era -- Buffy takes her final bow.

"...(2000) and The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer (2001). With chapter titles like "A Kantian Analysis of..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

The good, the bad, and the God on TV.

"...last week's episode of the The Simpsons (in which Homer took prayer to a ridiculous level), and the sight..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

What NBC's new Kingpin means for the representation and presentation of Latinos on television

"...because there are so few to choose from. If Homer Simpson were one of only a handful of white..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Happy 300th, The Simpsons.

"...thanks to a settlement he wins when he takes Homer to court to win his emancipation. Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock

"...7. "I Never Cared for You," Homer..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Stan Rice's Final Message

"...of the hero's descent into the underworld: Odysseus in Homer, Aeneas in Virgil, and Dante in his own Inferno...."

Dec. 20, 2002 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Carmina Burana/Hymn to the Earth

For its first concert of the 2002-03 season, Conspirare offered a striking premiere of Hymn to the Earth, by local composer Donald Grantham, then conductor Craig Hella Johnson led a gregarious and eager mob in a sing-along version of Carl Orff's popular Carmina Burana.

"...Donald Grantham, who was commissioned by Conspirare to turn Homer's poem into song. For a work with so supplicating..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Coach's Corner

The abuse heaped on Ken Caminiti for his Sports Illustrated expose on steroid abuse is disgraceful. Actually, he's done the game a favor by shining a light on the situation.

"...question -- fairly or not -- every tape job homer, every skinny, 170-lb. second baseman who shows up next..."

June 7, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

Coach is a proud papa; his son Adam graduated from college last week.

"...so I won't be mistaken for any kind of homer. But what happened to Cedric Benson last week in..."

May 10, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Naked City

Is Homer Simpson Available?

March 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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