Dancing About Architecture

Woodshock, forever turbulent.

"...Now, in 2001, as Austin becomes less like Austin every day, a new Woodshock..."

June 1, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...under her belt (as author or editor), she's one Austin writer who may not be a household name --..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

The Future's So Bright ...

Johnston High School has problems with grades, attendance, dropouts, a magnet program resented by the host school, and a high turnover rate among principals. Will new principal Sal Cavazos stay and can he make a difference?

"...The District 2 representative on the Austin Independent School District Board, Rudy Montoya, a Johnston High..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Light Rail, Green Politics, and much ado about the city's growing pains.

"...The recent use of Austin icon Lance Armstrong in the campaign to promote light..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Column

Throwing Down Love

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

"...players call Nashville home. And yet, just like with Austin's country contingent, there's a handful of legitimate players thriving..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Day Trips

Barry's Coffee Company in Temple provides fuel for the discerning I-35 driver in the form of real coffee, desserts, and the best chicken salad sandwiches in the universe.

"...truck stops, and greasy spoon cafes along I-35 between Austin and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Not only do they..."

June 23, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dancing About Architecture

The war betwixt Dynamite Hack and Vallejo escalates, in truth and in fiction; Watchtower gears up to rock Germany's ass off; Hank's Roadside Cafe bites the dust.

"...this is fine and dandy -- a bit of healthy competition and tongue-in-cheek "dissing" between local factions. Still, considering..."

June 23, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Fractured Greeks: Great Deeds, Human Follies Fractured Greeks

If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the Greek tragedies, it's VORTEX Repertory Company, and under the direction of Bonnie Cullum, Fractured Greeks, a collection of scenes taken from and inspired by the Trojan War plays of Euripides and Sophocles, holds together pretty well.

"...and their war-wracked, gods-besodden lives. If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the..."

May 26, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Center of Gravity

City's influx of new money and new businesses shifts council's political sails

"...Visionary, long-range policy-making has become the guiding principle of Austin politics, or (2) we no longer care about anything..."

May 26, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

In All Your Future Endeavors

A young writer comes to grips with his lot in life after graduation.

"...It was good to get back to Austin -- just in time for Eeyore's Birthday. But somehow,..."

May 12, 2000 Features Feature by Kevin Wood

Carrying the Burden

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

"...of pounds of donated, perishable foods at the East Austin housing project. Now residents' council president Genaro Hernandez, his..."

April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Ego Has Landed

Love Supreme frontman Noah Lit shares his interests and disinterests - and talks about his band occasionally.

"...blinding success. But where do these egos come from? Austin is packed with egos -- musicians, to be more..."

April 28, 2000 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Sk8 Baby Sk8

Austin author Inga Muscio (Cunt, Seal Press) reflects on her experience as a badass skateboard babe and wonders why more women in Austin don't fancy life on four wheels.

"...(Go fast, fly, land, keep momentum.)..."

April 7, 2000 Features Feature by Inga M. Muscio

Dancing About Architecture

Punk rock rough stuff; Emo calls it quits; Tenacious D seems to be the shit.

"...charges have been filed as of yet with the Austin Police Department, though in the Bulemics' case, videotape of..."

March 24, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO AUSTIN: A faith-filled congregation of some of Austin's leading gospel..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Public Notice

This week, your pals at Public Notice hit the drag shows, the lanes, the halls, and the alleys, all while making room for next week's chocolate binge : all for a good cause, o'course.

"...the story behind a particularly heinous crime in recent Austin history, the brutal murder of 18-year-old transgendered Donald Scott..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Field of Dreamers

Two dems, five gop candidates vie for district 48 race, but the seat is expected to remain Democratic.

"...primary is Mandy Dealey, a former president of the Austin Area Mental Health Association whose record of community activism..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Road Show

watson goes to washington to talk transportation; city backs off of terrace pud money, no settlement yet with gary bradley, city may step in to stop expansion of hyde park baptist church, council to consider retail space at csc.

"...draw local matching funds to encourage the allocation to Austin of state highway funds. Watson said that any project..."

Jan. 28, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.

"...all snugly in the pocket of political bosses who keep the machine of government humming along with the sweet..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Off the Desk

"..."is that the party has raised more money." A healthy war chest is nothing to sneeze at, but party..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

After a Fashion

Lo-carb diets are all the rage right now. Funny thing, they've been around a long time...

"...with a weight problem don't really care about being healthy anyway -- if we did we wouldn't be fat...."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...In Austin to support their new album, La Marcha del Golazo..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Corner to Corner

In his final "Corner to Corner" column, Mike Clark-Madison declares victory and gets out, noting that neighborhood issues are now taken seriously in mainstream city politics.

"...1994, issue that I have not been able to keep -- for example, that I would "never talk to..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice

Happy Father's Day

"...week: The Parents & Children's Educational (PACE) Project encourages healthy relationships between fathers and their children. They offer a..."

June 25, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Sweep Them Out

"...programs, unwittingly teach in an indirect and unintended manner, unhealthy prejudgment and contempt, which are detrimental to happy and..."

June 4, 1999 Column

Living in a Dream

Too Many Ways to Fall

"...The 1990-91 Austin Music Awards photograph by John Carrico..."

May 14, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Day Trips

"...feeling all its own. Fifty miles southwest of downtown Austin, the park is on the Blanco River four blocks..."

April 16, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

All About Guitars

"...explains with distaste. He says residents of this South Austin neighborhood have been known to shoot these peacocks, because..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

Net Worth

"...author Michael Wolff would provide the festival with a healthy corrective to the sort of rosy overoptimism displayed in..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

On The Lege

Knocking Out Hate

"...Houston Mayor Lee Brown, American Jewish Congress of Texas, Austin Human Rights Commission, Texas chapter of the National Organization..."

March 19, 1999 News Column

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