Postscripts

What to look for in new fall titles

"...a young woman who must reluctantly return home to Manhattan's Washington Heights after working her hardest to get away..."

July 20, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"...derailed that career. He was a clothing designer in Manhattan, running a company called Blue Voodoo, which marketed what..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Apeman of Manhattan

Director Mark Ramont and his production team stage the world premiere of The Apeman of Manhattan fairly realistically, with some impressive acting, but Rosalyn Rosen's script, in which a well-off advertising executive struggles with her feelings for a former lover who is using her in the worst kind of way, may have you wondering what the show is really all about.

"...The Apeman of Manhattan: What's It All About?..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...Arts. Drawing for the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, where he studied for two years before succumbing to..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...and how that flashing skyline is the image of Manhattan to so many, the great buildings in the sun..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Summer Reading

"...10 weeks the painter and his new venture, a Manhattan museum, went bankrupt. One century later, virtually all of..."

June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

Summer Reading

"...unruly weight, and her famous friends, she is Uptown Manhattan's middle-aged answer to Bridget Jones...."

June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Ada Calhoun

It Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating the Simple Life

"...In this tongue-in-cheek memoir, the Manhattan-based writer evokes A Year in Provence when he reluctantly..."

May 25, 2001 Books Review by Stuart Wade

'Great' Gen an' Their 'Good' War

"...We worked at adjacent desks as typists in a Manhattan office. He never made a sob story of what..."

May 25, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Hit and Runway

"...reference to Allen's famous black-and-white park bench shot from Manhattan, and that reference suffers from the same film-school smugness..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone still dead, bands still touring, Dick Price getting bigger than Bob Schneider

"...column about Guy Forsyth in The Ape Man of Manhattan being at the Off Center was slightly incorrect. That..."

April 27, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone is dead

"...major role in Mark Ramonte's play Ape Man of Manhattan, running through the bulk of June at the Off..."

April 20, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

Spotlighting This Year's Visiting Celebrities

"...The Basque Table and chef/owner of Restaurant Marichu in Manhattan. Another guest, New York University professor Penelope Casas, the..."

April 6, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Aidan's Bed: Soda In Need of Proper Handling

Blake Yelavich's new play Aidan's Bed is like a bottle of soda, fizzling and popping with characters who are laughable, wry, and sardonic, but the author's uneven direction of his own play proves that even the best soda can go flat without proper handling.

"...a framework, Yelavich centers his not-so-naughty Austin universe in Manhattan around Aidan, a gay man with a scar --..."

March 23, 2001 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

SXSW Film Reviews

Peter Sutherland's film about New York city bike messengers is that rare documentary that allows the viewer to live the spectacle rather than view it.

"...Sutherland follows a motley bunch as they race through Manhattan. The film looks at the paradox of their lifestyle:..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

SXSW Film Reviews

A wholly originally, wholly beautiful rumination on memory and rootlessness

"...home. She leapfrogs the planet -- from Tokyo to Manhattan to Havana to Prague -- making observations for the..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

15 Minutes

"...one of the many electronics outlets that crowd the Manhattan sidewalks. He immediately begins filming in the cab as..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Confessions

Chris Gray gets laid.

"...-- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Letters at 3AM

The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...would be at Birdland and the Royal Roost in Manhattan when Bird and Fats Navarro and Bud Powell would..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, 1853-1929

"...misery of life in "Five Points," the infamous 19th-century Manhattan slum, without sensationalizing. He weighs out the choices faced..."

March 2, 2001 Books Review by Ada Calhoun

Talk Stories

"...She writes about how she still wakes early in Manhattan and spends the time reading about Jane Pauley in..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Review by Robin Bradford

A Full Color Palette

Painter-Director Julian Schnabel's 'Before Night Falls'

"...spoke to Schnabel by phone from his studio in Manhattan...."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Head Over Heels

"...of Amanda, an art restorer at the Met in Manhattan. After Amanda catches her boyfriend soft-shoeing another woman, she..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

A farewell to Federal Judge Lucius Bunton III

"...shipping 260 tons of sewage sludge per day from Manhattan to the West Texas town of Sierra Blanca. Merco..."

Jan. 26, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Double Take

"...and cohesive 1988 road romp Midnight Run. Herein, a Manhattan investment banker (7-Up pitchman Orlando Jones) takes the heat..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...interview last month by a Pacifica correspondent out of Manhattan's very left-wing (obligatory definition: pro-Castro type of left-wing) radio..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column

National Top 10s

"...3. Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research, Inc. (Basta)..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Family Man

"...invasive. Jack Campbell (Cage) is the kind of voracious Manhattan financier who spends Christmas Eve brokering “the largest merger..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Three Quarters of a Baker's Dozen

"...Bakery in Portland, Or., to the wheat fields of Manhattan, Kan., and the flour mills of Platteville, Colo. She..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

After a Fashion

Local openings and changes, plus a few words to the wise re the use and abuse of culottes and, ugh, mullets.

"...our days are numbered. The fever has already hit Manhattan, and if our fashion math is correct, we can..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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