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Songs of democracy in distress

"...are more likely to kill them? What am I missing?..."

April 25, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Long May You Run

Previewing the 2002-2003 Austin Music Awards.

"...downtown is paying a premium to be in the middle of the action, the noise ordinance is akin to..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Back in the Saddle Again

Long considered a lost film, Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand gets its long deserved due at SXSW.

"...Jesus Christ, he's got this fucking town in the middle of Monument Valley that's never seen a cow, ever!..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler

The Lights Are On: Is Anybody Home?

Downtown's boom has busted, yet developers still build.

"...The two may have looked like any other middle-aged guys on the prowl that night, but Hendricks and..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

TV Eye

TV Eye checks out Time Warner Cable's Digital Video Recording system.

"...TV watching TiVo-style has made me wonder if I'm missing the tech TV boat...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.

"...The middle-class wife in Far From Heaven is supposedly intelligent, yet..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of rhetorical questions (yes, he has been to the Middle East, including the occupied territories), irrelevancies, and vulgar ad..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column

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"...Democrats. For Barrientos to win so decisively in the middle of a state GOP landslide is impressive, and Democratic..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column

Man Walks Into a Room

"Often enough in Man Walks Into a Room, you get a plot description and a lesson," writes Clay Smith of Nicole Krauss' beguiling and haunting debut novel, about a man who loses his memory and isn't particularly interested in getting it back.

"...of Modern Art; people don't end up in the middle of Mercury Valley by accident. At the hospital, the..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Books Review by Clay Smith

Bruce Springsteen

Record Review

"...songs that deal with 9/11 directly, such as "You're Missing" or "Waitin' on a Sunny Day," threaten to reduce..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Music Review by Dan Oko

Ralph White

Full Disclosure

"...out. But in all honesty, there's a big thing missing from today's usual suspects. It's called vibe, or groove...."

July 26, 2002 Music Review by Danny Barnes

Jimi Hendrix

DVDisc

"...it was a golden opportunity for him to reach middle America, and as it transpired, the telecast wound up..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Kent H. Benjamin

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"...is to throw them off the ballot is completely missing the point. I don't think most voters are that..."

April 19, 2002 Column

Josh Rouse

Music Showcase

"...basically a shoebox with the top and back side missing -- everybody except the 20 or so folks directly..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Coach's Corner

Mark Cuban has transformed the once-pathetic Dallas Mavericks into an elite NBA squad -- but they're not quite there yet.

"...open' ... except they're not much better than Dallas, missing almost as badly and almost as often. The difference..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

From Bethlehem to Austin

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

"...another Vietnam war -- this time possibly in the Middle East -- without a notion of what it is..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...were obsolete). More people joined up, and in the middle of the summer a prototype issue was published. When..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Dead Kennedys

"...Scopes-style obscenity trial over the H.R. Giger poster insert (missing here). In stretching most songs past the four-minute mark,..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

Fearless Jones

"...from Paris' store, recently pulled up stakes in the middle of the night. Paris has no clue; he just..."

July 13, 2001 Books Review by Clay Smith

Dangerous Corner

Different Stages' latest attempt at a theatrical answer to a good, cheap summer beach novel, J. B. Priestly's 1932 mystery Dangerous Corner, isn't much fun. It's full of unsympathetic characters rendered in a flat and melodramatic style.

"...are members of the pre-World War II English upper middle class who live in the world of country cottages,..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...to public service, viewers and producers alike find the missing vitality of regular local television on cable access. "When..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

"...thinks "he couldn't afford even the most raucous of middle-aged whores now, and he knew he'd probably arranged in..."

June 29, 2001 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

Rick Treviño Reviewed

"...too on top of the mix, and the album missing the overall organic feel of the best Buena Vista..."

June 8, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Show

The aesthetic at Girasole speaks to the food fashion of our age, according to Chronicle writer Rachel Feit. It is studied, indeed, almost market-researched in its appropriateness.

"...about who we are as a people. During the Middle Ages in Europe, for instance, bigger was better, and..."

June 1, 2001 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Postmarks

Everybody talk about: pop music, aquifer protection, police presence, even doggie do and doggie don't.

"...4 issue, city of Austin Public Information Officer Michele Middlebrook-Gonzalez wrote in her letter to you that I made..."

May 18, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of many, many cars, trucks, and SUV's through the middle of Waterloo Park...."

May 11, 2001 Column

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...for the Third Ear. Mette is a Norwegian Jew, middle-aged, settled into a childless marriage with her Nordic husband,..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...a checkered past dating back to 1988. After being missing in action for a couple of years, they're hitting..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Thou Shalt Not ...

Each one of Krzysztof Kieslowski's 10-part Decalogue is constructed carefully enough to be seen on its own. But together, they are a jigsaw puzzle of color, texture, emotion, and meaning. We take a look at this extraordinary series, which the Austin Film Society will screen at the Alamo Drafthouse on Saturdays through March 3.

"...of Marble and Man of Iron) as Dorota, a middle-class musician whose husband (Olgierd Lukaszewicz) is dying of cancer...."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Livin' Lavaca Loca

In the early Eighties, back when Jay Leno was still funny, he and a number of now-big name comics told jokes at a little place on Lavaca called the Comedy Workshop. Being there changed the life of one person, who recalls what it was like.

"...they responsible for the furnishings in said rooms. The missing furniture was later located in another comic's room...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Angela Davis

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