On the Case: No. 3

Movin' on up

"...to the volubility, turning past traumas into a distant mirage. There had been worries that the number of pages..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

War Reporting for Cowards

Studiously neither pro-war nor anti-war, this 'anti-sending-me-to-war-book' rather too appropriately evidences reluctance to see actual combat, expending nearly two-thirds of its length establishing Ayers' coward credentials before setting off on the road to Baghdad.

"...Accomplished days of the war in Iraq. A taunting mirage one moment, a figure of judgement the next, that..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Books Review by Spencer Parsons

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...think: Gambling, showgirls, and quicky marriages are just a mirage. It is hyper capitalism. It is dense smog forming..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column

Future Isn't Pretty

"...think: Gambling, showgirls, and quicky marriages are just a mirage. It is hyper capitalism. It is dense smog forming..."

Aug. 2, 2005 Postmarks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...thousands of dollars in a retirement account is a mirage equal to their hope of winning the lottery...."

May 27, 2005 Column

Whut It Dew

They don't call DJ Rapid Ric the Mixtape Mechanic for nuthin'

"...local artists including Bavu Blakes, Dok Holiday, Basswood Lane, Mirage, and Smackola, Ric's Austin Powers mix CD eventually landed..."

May 20, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

People With Money Don't Understand How the Rest of Us Live

"...thousands of dollars in a retirement account is a mirage equal to their hope of winning the lottery. It..."

May 16, 2005 Postmarks

Beatbox

Beatbox

"...dark tryna get a ray of light to himself." Mirage, DJ Kunal M, and DJ Tats demonstrate The Other..."

April 29, 2005 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

TCB

News from Chicago, Las Vegas, Nashville, Houston, New York, and Mexico, all with an Austin connection

April 8, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Not Fade Away

The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.

"...just that it was pouring applause, somehow producing the mirage of a confetti snowstorm swirling down from the balconies,..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...the new Paris, or just a Lone Star Rancho Mirage for the over-50 set?It Ain't Easy..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Slanging That Rhyme

Tracing the history of Austin hip-hop through its vinyl

July 9, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

B-Boy City 11

Live shot

"...and mic checks by fellow locals Global, Tee Double, Mirage, Traygod, and Shyliek helped intensify the room's energetic aura,..."

June 18, 2004 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Young Heart Attack

Texas platters

"...Can you smell the melting blacktop? The border's a mirage away, and Young Heart Attack is sittin' bitch. Mouthful..."

May 14, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Passing the Buck

With the special session nearly gone, the goal continues to recede

"...decade's worth of accountability-test worship has been simply a mirage) and "aggressive mentoring programs" (until somebody was rude enough..."

May 14, 2004 News Column by Michael King

TCB

Spring is here and there are more music festivals than bluebonnets

"...Young Heart Attack, Broken Teeth, Dynamite Boy, DJ Cassanova, Mirage, and Tia Carrera, who unfortunately had $200 of cash..."

April 16, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

SIMS and Alejandro Escovedo on the mend, plus more hip-hop and SXSW for your shoulder-to-shoulder

"...toe while Double and guest MCs like Bavu Blakes, Mirage, and Traygod Shekhem bring the knowledge. It's actually divided..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

Don't wanna meet yo daddy, just want you in my Caddy

Jan. 16, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

All the hip-hop that fits in ATX.

"...wall is devoted to local artists including Bavu Blakes, Mirage, Overdose Click, and Baby Boy G, but those dozen..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Designated Drummer

Drummer Ernie Durawa's Way of Knowledge.

"...and fortune, for most anyway, was still a shimmering mirage down the road. El Molino was a bit wack,..."

May 23, 2003 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Dream of a New Circus

In the two decades it has taken for Cirque du Soleil to reach Austin for the first time, this Montreal-based troupe has not only reinvented circus as performance art but grown into one of the most unexpected and unlikely of entertainment empires.

"...presenting Nouvelle Expérience in a yearlong residency at the Mirage Hotel. Its success was so overwhelming that a theatre..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Feature by Michael Point

Beatbox

Texas Platters

"...Melodic Science of ATX, comes the bloodshot Bonifide MC Mirage, spitting continuously calm perspectives into his laxed life of..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Coletti

The Name of the Game

Raising deer, oryx, antelope, and more on central texas ranches

"...restaurants around the country. The biggest customer is the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas; other stalwarts include the Mansion..."

June 7, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Stories from the Midway

Coney Island Creepout

"...to ourselves, like we'd stumbled on some collective childhood mirage, perfectly preserved from the park's pre-World War II heyday...."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Michael Chamy

The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000

"...extend covert agendas. It's our holy city, a dazzling mirage many Americans are eager to embrace...."

May 11, 2001 Books Review by Dale Smith

The Hightower Lowdown

Creative Destruction; Poor People Don't Vote

"...The president had come. It was not a mirage. It was a hoax. He used the poor people..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

All Texas: Bavu and DJ Nick Nack's Soundscape, Tee Double's TX Resident, Big Moe's City of Syrup, Destiny's Child's The Writing's on the Wall

"...and he enjoys sparring with guests Tray God, Garyson, Mirage, and Aussie sheila Maya Jupiter... The self-titled CD from..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Local Flow

Austin hip-hop in the house -- really

"...securing a record deal for his junior high buddy Mirage on his label Goodvibes...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Coach's Corner

"...really aren't there at all. A neat and tidy mirage -- sounding quite convincing -- to fill the pages..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

Aging stars and aging boomers spell an ongoing decline in the popularity of tennis, Coach muses, while dropping a bundle in a Vegas sports book.

"...week's column, born inside the sports book of the Mirage Hotel, where I sullenly sip another bad -- but..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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