Miguel and the Miracles

Why Austin's most revered restaurant, Fonda San Miguel, is still in business against all odds.

"...a city of 50-cent margaritas. "We thought we were immortal and we could rise above that," Gilliland says now...."

Feb. 8, 2002 Food Feature by Clay Smith

Music to Chortle By

Whenever Steve Saugey and Lyova Rosanoff are at the keyboards, musical shenanigans are the natural order, especially when these two pianist-parodists are spoofing classical music through one of their Forbidden Classics programs.

"...Saugey and Rosanoff dressing up as Beethoven and his "Immortal Beloved"; Mozart and his kid sister; Brahms and Clara..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Citizens Not Invited

The Dems and Repubs posture over redistricting, while the rest of us just look on.

"...In the immortal words of Dinah Washington, "what a difference a day..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Column by Michael King

The Yardbirds

Record Review

"...spindly blues of Ultimate!'s opening demos, John Lee Hooker's immortal "Boom Boom" and their own would-be blues standard "Honey..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...the Chronicle had become, and after first uttering the immortal words, "You know, bad-mouthing someone to their boss is..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Letters at 3AM

Technological progress is altering fundamental issues of identity.

"...him to a mountaintop where a vulture devoured the immortal's liver in continuous torture, until Zeus' errant half-human son..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Prescott Curlywolf Arkadelphia (Summer Break)

"...album, but Arkadelphia is all about guitar -- the immortal Fender Telecaster -- and the never-ending number of riffs..."

May 25, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Bare Jr.

Acts Playing South by Southwest

"...Bare Jr.Brainwasher (Immortal) Is this the same band that played on Boo-tay,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound

Seldom have obscure footage and recorded memories been put together in so charming a fashion

"...Eva. Ellie Greenwich married Jeff Barry and wrote the immortal "Chapel of Love," and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

What a Piece of Work Is Woman!

After four centuries of being berated, belittled, betrayed, bullied, battered, and butchered by the men in Shakespeare's plays, the women have had enough. They're ready to speak out, to give Will a piece of their minds. And in playwright Susan Kelso's Roses and Thistles, they do just that.

"...Ah, Shakespeare: Immortal Bard of Avon. England's finest poet. Playwright without peer...."

Feb. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Geddy Lee

"...since Geddy Lee is the voice of the seemingly immortal Canadian power trio, it's tough to imagine that his..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Proust Biographies

"...So one thinks of Proust as immortal, flush with the scent of Madeleine cakes and staked..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Diddley Daddy

'Bo Knows Not to be Stupid'

"...classics have traded on the hip-grinding rhythm of his immortal "Bo Diddley Beat" without reaping him the monetary rewards..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bobby Lee Carter and the Hand of God

When Miss Lena came home from visiting her sister in Jackson and found out Bobby Lee Carter had hanged a man from her sycamore tree, she left the breakfast dishes unwashed in the sink for the first time in her life.

"...any more than he cared what happened to his immortal soul. The whole town went to the funeral, hoping,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Susan Schorn

Postmarks

The Starbucks Showdown continues; and readers voice their opinions on last week's Best of Austin issue.

"...that are still out there increasing. So in the immortal words of our beloved Mojo's: "corporate coffee sucks!" And..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column

Sir Finks: Carousel Lounge, August 18

"...white-water crash the Surfaris documented in 1963 with their immortal surf call-to-arms "Wipe Out." Gone was drummer Damien Llanes,..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Gospel According to Austin, TX (Kick Butt Gospel/107.1 KGSR)

Texas Platters

"...Milligan and guitar journeyman Stephen Bruton on Sam Cooke's immortal "Touch the Hem of His Garment," Gospel starts off..."

June 30, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo (World Circuit/Nonesuch)

"...being Boleros, including the Gershwins' "The Man I Love." Immortal Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez's "No me LLores Más," with..."

June 2, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Instant Classic

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series

"...beauty and vastly skilled actress who brought us the immortal Scarlett O'Hara -- utters the line in a way..."

May 19, 2000 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...rabid, snarling testament to Texas punk. If the Dicks' immortal first single "Dicks Hate the Police" put Floyd's first..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Readers are baffled by the Chronicle's "no endorsement" for the mayoral race.

"...his (and mine), you are less likely to feel immortal and more likely to be impatient about achieving goals...."

April 28, 2000 Column

Coach's Corner

Be true to your school!

"...prose. They want facts, and lots of them. The immortal Sylvester T. Stone once said, "If it was good..."

March 17, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Ill., foursome has a staying power that is damn-near immortal in this business of throwaway pop stars, and that's..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

More Flava Than Juicy Fruit

Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Ag. From the shadow of Texas Stadium come Arlington's Immortal Soldierz, as well as Zeno Gonzalez of Puppydog Unlimited,..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature

Sugarland Express

Laying down the law on Mayberry's favorite twang-rockers

"...bluegrass, and once, James Best, The Dukes of Hazzard's immortal Roscoe P. Coltrane, guest-starred as a Merle Travis-style fingerpicking..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Alvin OpryTri-County Opry House, Alvin, Texas, January 22

"...Going to) San Antone," proving Doug Sahm really is immortal (even if Wofford credited Charley Pride). And the capacity..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Top 10 1999/National

"...Jerry Renshaw 1. Bare Jr., Boo-tay (Immortal/Epic)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! & Horton Hears a Who!(Rhino Movie Music)

Xmas Records

"...on CD. In fact, it seems that we have immortal animator Chuck Jones to thank for much of The..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Count Her In

For 30 years, article by article, Denise Schmandt-Besserat has built an ironclad case to explain a mystery that foiled archeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers for hundreds of years.

"...the funerary vessel then served to make the ancestor immortal in the same way the name's chanting had previously...."

Dec. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Ada Calhoun

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"...now-defunct death-metal gods Sepultura grinding their way through Marley's immortal declaration of Third World defiance, a single line sums..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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