Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...the administration is deafening. Three months passed without an indictment or an official report on the incident, while both..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

The Gates of the Alamo Reviewed

Mark Busby reviews Stephen Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo.

"...layered by mythic retellings, is an enigma shrouded in mystery, obscured by politics, and clouded by legend. Any novelist..."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Alcina: Mystery Pageant

Local Arts Reviews

"...Alcina: Mystery Pageant..."

March 3, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.

"...TSPR will undoubtedly offer many worthwhile recommendations for improving management of our programs and assets. During..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Column

Book Reviews

The Politics of Prose

"...market crash in the English-speaking world, and a murder mystery to boot. Admittedly, it has all the elements of..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Letters at 3AM

Death is not a separation, but a living presence.

"...is. But the truth is that we are a mystery to ourselves; we are far more than what we..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Coach's Corner

Coach weighs in on UT men's basketball (still lacks reliable offense), Super Bowk 34 (the Tennessee Titans should take it in an upset), and Bobby Phills' fatal car crash (tragic, but it was after all his own fault, and at least he didn't kill any innocent bystanders).

"...game, where points will come from is a game-to-game mystery. With a starting lineup consisting of two seniors and..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

Don't look to the past, don't repeat other's mistakes, and don't read the Chronicle's movie reviews.

"...diversity, new and old money, folks concerned about their environment, some about development, and an ever-decreasing middle class. One..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Column

Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety

"...the middle with commonly held but questionable beliefs about government conspiracies, the evils of drugs, Women being from Venus..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Review by Ric Williams

Count Her In

For 30 years, article by article, Denise Schmandt-Besserat has built an ironclad case to explain a mystery that foiled archeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers for hundreds of years.

"...Schmandt-Besserat has built an ironclad case to explain a mystery that foiled archeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers for hundreds of..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Ada Calhoun

A Glorious High

"...From moments like that, you might expect him to have been..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Pauline Kael

Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia

"...Robert Webber, Helmut Dantine, Kris Kristofferson, Emilio Fernández. A moment of silence now for the late, great Warren Oates...."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black

Council Watch

Several prospective candidates are expressing an interest in running for the council seat Gus Garcia is vacating

"...and highly regarded council member. And since his September announcement that he would not seek re-election, the tributes have..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...to Wyoming's Devil's Tower, where he and the assembled government (including a scientist played by French director Truffaut) make..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Book Tour Confidential

"...the economy bursting upon itself with prosperity, and the enjoyment of all luxurious and enlightening things becomes a moral..."

May 21, 1999 Books Feature by Carol Dawson

Undercover on High School's Ritziest Glitziest Night It All Goes Down at Prom

"...and misery and homogeneity -- and the few pure moments you were genuinely able to transcend them...."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature

Record Reviews

Duke Ellington

"...but a superb leader who could spot talented, unique instrumentalists and showcase them beautifully. Ellington, a Washington, D.C., native,..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM

Begging the Question

"...forget it -- which is to say, if your enthrallment with the work doesn't go deep enough -- maybe..."

April 2, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...was tongue-in-cheek or fodder for the next Penelope Spheeris documentary. Another highlight came when Anal Demonstrative starlet Nina Whett..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Get It While You Can

"...for chump change. That's important because Caserta's sometimes acerbic comments eerily ring true almost 30 years later...."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Postscripts

Events

"...reporter Laura Lippman, the creator of the Tess Monaghan mystery series (Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butchers Hill) is coming..."

March 5, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Murder in the Suburbs

Good Luck Penny

"...Penny had spent the previous weekend away at a women's retreat with the couple's church. She was eager to..."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Murder, Mayhem, and the Underbelly of Life

Friends in Low Places

"...Hartwell with a knife, a deadly weapon," as his indictment so unambiguously states, and then torching her Jeep and..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Books Feature

Sleazy Listening

"...back to about l972 or so ... two burly men came to your mom and dad's (or uncle's, or..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Coach's Corner

"...of high school games in Austin. Always to my disappointment, I usually enter a half empty football stadium or..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

1997 Texas Book Festival Program

"...Arnold 1:30pm I Liked My Book Better: Surviving Film Treatment Moderator: Lawrence Wright; Doug Richardson, Janice Woods Windle, Mary..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Books Feature

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...conversation with Joe Lansdale at San Antonio's WorldCon, I mentioned that an acquaintance declared his last novel The Two-Bear..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

Pressure Drop

The State of Modern Reggae

"..."Reggae," says the driver, mentally chewing over the subject a few moments. "Dunno much..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature

Glow of the Tube

"...In the tumult of the civil rights movement in the mid-Sixties, LIFE magazine ran a photo essay..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Backstage Crew

Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show

"...election will get them one step closer to the environmental consciousness for which they've labored a quarter of a..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature

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