Cookbooks

Gift Guide

"...made, and the like. The Sushi Experience is total immersion into sushi on the highest level, presented with clarity,..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Film News

I've got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?

"...Grant for Emerging Filmmakers. The prize is a five-day, full-immersion mentoring program... Reel Women board member Brandy Rainey and..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Kashmere Stage Band

Record review

"...school band programs as the impetus for amateurish hip-hop immersion, few high school bands encapsulate the contemporary immediacy of..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

My Migas, My City

As Downtown development explodes, Las Manitas Avenue Cafe and its neighbors face an uncertain future

"...Escuelita, the city's only Spanish-immersion preschool program, serves over 100 children. Las Manitas makes..."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Studying for Justice

Austin students get a summer immersion in activist history

July 14, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

Static

The Salvage Vanguard Theater world premiere of Ryan Pavelchik's 'Static' seats 12 viewers in a hotel room with a man desperately seeking to find himself

"...truly moving resolution, and this despite our almost total immersion in one of the deepest mysteries of all –..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Gift guide

"...of the most powerful of early Hollywood. With the immersion of a cultural anthropologist's best writing, Cooper and Schoedsack..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from under the pink granite dome

"...to laptops (despite poor evidence from the existing Technology Immersion Pilot Program) and to let superintendents spend textbook funds..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Column

Paradise

There is contemporary fiction about addiction, and then there is Paradise, the fifth novel from A. L. Kennedy, which stands out for its bitter wit, its painful truth-telling, and the narcotic quality of its author's limber, serpentine prose

"...rapturously beautiful and horrifying to experience – a complete immersion into the world of the drinker – and it..."

March 25, 2005 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

Naked City

An early Christmas present for educational technology vendors?

"...in a variety of state- and locally funded technology immersion initiatives...."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

AISD Goes Global

Johnston High School welcomes immigrant students and makes waves in the neighborhood

"..."Work," in this case, means language-immersion exercises – or this morning, card games. Science teacher..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

She Lives

Clementine Hall was the 13th Floor Elevators' hip, maternal Wendy, providing food and security for the band's tribe of Lost Boys

"...first – and best – example of the total immersion Rock Wife...."

Aug. 20, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Right Man for the Job

Steve Lawrence has succeeded at just about everything in life – especially importing and distributing European wines in Texas

"...several times, and Pepsi even sent him to an immersion school in Cuernavaca to learn Spanish. Lawrence ended up..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...The lyrics of Hall's songs also reflected his immersion in enlightened schools of thought, worlds apart from what..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Meanwhile, Back at the Barn

The performance schedule for the Shakespeare at Winedale 2004 class

"...of students is at Winedale, being changed by its immersion in three of Shakespeare's plays. The class of summer..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Termite King

AMOA hosts Manny Farber at the Movies

"...own boundaries." The aim of termite art is "buglike immersion in a small area without point or aim, and,..."

July 2, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Four Eyes, Three Dimensions

Alamo brings in big technology for 'Little Expo'

"...neat-o factor, what's the point? Far from being the full-immersion cinematic marvel that movie taglines would have us believe,..."

June 18, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

About AIDS

AIDS-related pain? Get paid for research!

"...The second study ("Capsacin Immersion") will last a year – 52 weeks – with..."

June 11, 2004 Column by Sandy Bartlett

The Haven

Exploring the grounds and sounds at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top

"...$25, the concerts are a perfect getaway to and immersion in a world that feels impossibly far away but..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

'Never the Same Again'

Jesse Sublett's 'Rock 'n' Roll Gothic': an excerpt

"...Dianne's artistic impulses, plus our constant immersion in music, stoked my ambition to play rock 'n'..."

May 7, 2004 Books Feature

Mike Kindred With Dexter Walker

Texas platters

"...and on it the duo produces 14 full-bodied, total immersion barroom blues-rock tracks. Kindred wrote or co-wrote 13 of..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

New Year's Eve Events

"...& MARGO'S MURDER MYSTERY DINNER & DANCE is an immersion of improv actors interacting with the audience, between gourmet..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

New Year's Eve Events

"...& MARGO'S MURDER MYSTERY DINNER & DANCE is an immersion of improv actors interacting with the audience, between gourmet..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

The North Project

Local theatre genius Ron Berry and his talented friends of the Refraction Arts Project have turned the Blue Theater into a snowed-under tundra, with an amazing array of multimedia effects, live performers, sounds, and moments real and imagined, all inspired by the frozen North.

"...amount of description here can hope to duplicate the immersion one feels in this amazing installation. A suggestion: Go..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

After a Fashion

It was a "Mighty Real" period in at least one young man's life: Oh, those heady disco nights! Oh, the power! The Passion! The psychedelics! Oh, it's all within reach through the grace of MP3s! Oh, I should have saved them!

"...seldom explored. The rest of the decade was total immersion into that world. Though I left the drugs behind..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Mouthing Off

Lowell Bartholomee has a lot to say, and he says it in plays that blaze like a Klieg instrument throwing gritty metrosphere of modern life into stark relief -- stark comic relief.

"...their companion shorts point toward a life of media immersion...."

July 26, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Brute

Record Reviews

"...on Chesnutt's voice and lyrics, both of which survive immersion in fleshy arrangements relatively unscathed. More bellowing and less..."

July 19, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Hess

2002 Summer Camps

"...and Western-style -- these two-week sessions are a total immersion in horsing around. Starts May 28. 243-3500. www.goldenvistaequestriancenter.com...."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Recommended

"...warnings that the dam was in precarious condition. "For immersion in another time and culture, with generous dollops of..."

April 26, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Giants Have Us in Their Books

There are moments of magic in Shard Live Performance Collective production of Giants Have Us in Their Books, Jose Rivera's five-play take on human vices and virtues, but they are few and far between in an evening filled with urban and suburban angst, folly, and outright nastiness.

"...Shard really have going for them is their complete immersion in their work; they are unswervingly committed to their..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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