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State reps Jack Stick and Todd Baxter deserve their very own 'Best of Austin' category

"...Now, let's all take a few moments together to marvel at this statement: "Candidates are not permitted to listen..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Column by Louis Black

"Manny Farber: About Face"

"Manny Farber: About Face" reveals the critic / artist to be quintessentially American, defining himself and his art through objects – materialism as artistic expression

"...Raisins, Cracker Jacks, Planters Peanut Bars, and that waxed-paper-wrapped marvel of childhood sweetness, Bit-O-Honey. Little pieces of what look..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...While I don't dispute the excellence of this chicken-and-garlic marvel that Phoenicia makes, I'd like to point out that..."

June 18, 2004 Column

Four Eyes, Three Dimensions

Alamo brings in big technology for 'Little Expo'

"...what's the point? Far from being the full-immersion cinematic marvel that movie taglines would have us believe, 3-D filmmaking..."

June 18, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

We Come to Honor Ed Ward Not Bury Him

"...While I don't dispute the excellence of this chicken-and-garlic marvel that Phoenicia makes, I'd like to point out that..."

June 15, 2004 Postmarks

The Misses Overbeck

Different Stages' production of The Misses Overbeck generates an affectionate quality that personalizes the particular objects surrounding all of us

"...past, to dream about who she was, and to marvel at the power of hands, heart, and mind to..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

In Person

Funny Papers, April 24

"...east. I dropped into sleep, the latest issue of Marvel's X-Statix ("X-Statix vs. the Avengers, Part One," as penciled..."

May 14, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pickup on South Street

"...screentime somehow comes up short, though one has to marvel at how the Hays office could outlaw married couples..."

April 23, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

How is this year's South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference shaping up compared to previous years?

"...yet, silly you, you've already missed your chance to marvel at many of the roving packs of celebs and..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Comfort, Upgraded

Zax Pints & Plates mixes boutique beers and a bistro menu – with predictably mixed results

"...under the Congress Avenue bridge to watch the nightly marvel produced when millions of bats launch out of steel..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Zombie Heaven

Two former Zombies, back from the dead

"...short, everything. Even the exhaustive liner notes are a marvel. "Extraordinary" indeed...."

Feb. 20, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...the suburbs, but they also – in fact, I marvel at it, how they can come up with new..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Resident Alien

Shane Bartell is finally ready to say. Just don't say he's a 'singer-songwriter.'

"...not playing bass or accumulating a dazzling stockpile of Marvel comics and related toys...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Lives Less Ordinary

The Austin Film Society's neorealism and Beyond: Italian Cinema, 1948-1970

"...co-productions of the 1960s and 1970s, including Fellini's Technicolor marvel Juliet of the Spirits and de Sica's prestigious The..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

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.

"...through a dark and eerie tunnel of sounds, then marvel as the space opens up to reveal, all in..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Cry Pitch Carrolls

The Cry Pitch Carrolls uses three crotchety old widows, a homeless mother and child, and a poodle to address the darker shadows of religion and memory, and Salvage Vanguard Theater's revival of Ruth Margraff's opera is a plush, cloudlike dream.

"...they laugh heartily and chatter like bystanders witnessing a marvel. Can this messiah's abnegation be forfeited for a little..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"..."Even though as a musician and conductor I can marvel at how he's put it all together in a..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Pepe Romero

The Austin Classical Guitar Society scored a great coup in booking guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero, who treated the sold-out house to a hypnotizing, intoxicating evening of Spanish grace and melody.

"...To watch Pepe Romero playing his guitar is to marvel at the variety of beautiful sounds one man can..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

Record Reviews

"...Über- producer Rick Rubin takes the controls for Dylanesque marvel "Long Shadow," originally penned as a submission for the..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Review by Dan Oko

The Fortress of Solitude

Why are we reviewing Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude when everyone else is? Because it's the finest novel of the past five years.

"...rites the same in any language or era. Pro-Keds, Marvel Comics, stoopball. It's a hot-air balloon of pop and..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Old Grey Whistle Test

DVDisc

"...on his go-round. John Lennon, circa 1975, is a marvel of candid, boyish charm for his countrymen inquisitors. Edited..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Robert Randolph & the Family Band

"...on his band's debut studio album, Unclassified. A live marvel for years, Randolph and his band shoot sparks of..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

Jesus Hopped the "A" Train

The artists of Mainline Theater Project have given their all to the characters and story of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the "A" Train, but sadly, what they have given their all to is a long-winded, superficial, ultimately unenlightening story of ruined life in the New York City criminal justice system.

"...of imagination in the plot, you can at least marvel at the actors' commitment to their characters. As problematic..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Human Marvels

Texas Platter

"...Human MarvelsWith It Before soaking a torch in lighter fluid, sparking..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Music Review by Kate X Messer

Ignorant Design at the SBOE

There is little Intelligent Design to be found on the State Board of Education

"...need to be a minister or an acidhead to marvel at the complexity of the eye or the origin..."

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

The Beat Divas / Maryann Price

Texas Platter

"...harmonies, clear voices, and mature, nuanced delivery is a marvel. Although recorded live, there's no sense of spontaneity in..."

April 11, 2003 Music Review by Belinda Acosta

Saved or Destroyed

When he wrote Saved or Destroyed in 1994, playwright Harry Kondoleon knew he was dying, and with its faithful rendering of his dreams and truths, the Mainline Theater Project keep Kondoleon's beautiful creation alive.

"...Saved or Destroyed made me laugh, think, and even marvel at the beauty of it all...."

April 4, 2003 Arts Review by Rob Curran

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...the hands of Galactus, the devourer of planets. Yes, Marvel Comics are big in Berlin, too, as German singer-songwriter..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

TV Eye

The pre-Top 10, unofficial year in review.

"...much of a David E. Kelley fan, I still marvel at the swiftness with which Girls Club (Fox) was..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics

DVDisc

"...legacy currently being revisited. Unfortunately, for every Jackie Wilson marvel, there's a novelty landmine like Dino, Desi & Billy,..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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