Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

"...Eight Crazy Nights seems to be fashioned around the idea of making fun of as many body parts as..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Managed Health Care

The SIMS Foundation helps local musicians, and finally, itself.

"...SIMS (Services Invested in Musician Support) was formed. The idea was to offer what Ellison might well have benefited..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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Our readers talk back.

"...know that Rebecca's letter should not affect any person's idea of our leaders...."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

Baby Day

"...to exercise their lungs and make a stink. The idea actually is an adaptation of an old idea made..."

Sept. 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Our readers talk back.

"...good taco. The Chronicle does little but sustain the idea that bad things, or novel new funky things, come..."

July 12, 2002 Column

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...a punk flare-up that seemed designed to negate the idea that she was a folksinger. It was recorded by..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Triumph of Love

"...scenes of seductive passion are unmovingly bland, and her idea of masculinity is merely to speak her lines in..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kissing Jessica Stein

"...skit by co-stars Westfeldt and Juergensen, who turned that idea into an off-off-Broadway show (Lipschtick), which served as the..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Songwriters and Spirit Chasers

Resentments Jon Dee Graham and Stephen Bruton go mano a mano about their new albums.

"...went into the Believers, I did it with the idea that I was the support guitar player. I'd done..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Donnie Darko

This unnerving, electrifying film provides a unique take on the teen psyche in modern suburbia.

"...“Every living creature on Earth dies alone.” It's an idea the film superficially proves true, but spends its entire..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gosford Park

The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the Thirties.

"...What Altman needs is a solid framework: a good idea and precisely drawn characters to work from. In Gosford..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Beautiful Mind

"...obsessed with only one thing: finding one truly original idea. His unconventional methods, however, are what strike everyone else..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

Last week's Pearl Harbor / Gift Guide cover draws fire.

"...the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. In a flood of ideas about the cover, it was an idea that emerged..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column by Louis Black

E Is for Everything

Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.

"...ode to spaghetti western/kung fu classics. Based on an idea Thurman and her Pulp Fiction director conceived at a..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...magazine even though, it turned out, they had no idea what they were doing. The first year, especially, was..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Bully

"...friend Marty (Renfro) and others in his circle. The idea is hatched by Marty's girlfriend Lisa (Miner), a Pizza..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Le Placard (The Closet)

"...chaps and condom beanie-hat, and you've got the basic idea of this French comedy import: Man undergoes dramatic lifestyle..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Thank God It's Friday

UT grad Christian McLaughlin discusses Spyder Games, his MTV "soap opera on crack."

"...to spice up their love life. Julie rejects that idea, never having done anything harder than a pot brownie...."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Mommies & More: Baby Night

"...to exercise their lungs and make a stink. The idea actually is an adaptation of an old idea made..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...his appearances as Prof. Griffin, but he has an idea. With the undying persistence of a flesh-jonesin' zombie, Fotinos..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...Texas was the first to come up with the idea, but it wasn't; both New Mexico and Colorado had..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

"...the foundation under this proposal, which is a new idea, are accounted for in the school finance formulas under..."

May 25, 2001 Column

Page Two

To what citywide scandal has our monopoly daily directed its powerful attention? It's a local scourge, a plague, a deep-rooted city problem: the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. (Okay, well, we don't get it either.)

"...it required this kind of effort? I had no idea. I asked Chronicle publisher -- and SXSW founding director..."

May 11, 2001 Column by Louis Black

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Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

"...A Bad Idea, Dollar for Dollar..."

May 4, 2001 Column

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...Sixth and Neches during the "riot," but had no idea that anything was going on. When her friends went..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Food for Thought

Ken Rubin, Culinary Scholar

"...by Arthur D. Murphy and Stephen A. Lorenzen. The idea that poor people would have time to chat with..."

April 27, 2001 Food Feature by Clay Smith

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Hyde Park Baptist foofaraw and assorted cultural allegations.

"...berate the author's treatment of them is a refreshing idea, but making it a hard-line feminist critique of Shakespeare..."

March 9, 2001 Column

Miss Congeniality

America's Sweetheart plays a detective who goes undercover to vie in a beauty pageant.

"...plum assignment. Initially, Hart balks at the gig (her idea of a great Friday night involves taking out her..."

Dec. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Coach's Corner

On an ill-advised trip to Europe, Coach comes to a startling realization.

"...value of bonus miles, thinks this is an outstanding idea. She's happy to send me off to Moscow or..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Mueller: The Art of the Deal

Will the City Give Away Mueller Airport to Save Barton Springs?

"..."and if it turns out this isn't a good idea, then absolutely the city would go through with doing..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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