Big and Getting Bigger

Austin comic Eddie Gossling has always gotten a lot of attention for his size, but these days he's getting more attention for his comedy, and J.C. Shakespeare explains why.

"...on the parenting skills of dolphins or mathematically challenged NASA engineers. Not that Gossling doesn't enjoy doing "blue" material;..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Sci-Fi Classics

"...explains once and for all why no one at NASA is planning any Venusian probes any time soon. There's..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community

"...available in the U.S. and, honestly, in light of NASA's recent Mars probe disaster, it may have to be..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

No Ordinary Folk

Producer Fred Miller remembers the making of this antiwar documentary, which focuses on the music of folk legends Peter, Paul & Mary.

"...of For All Mankind, the Academy-Award-nominated feature film about NASA's first moon launches. He also created the statewide TV..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

October Sky

"...a true story (see the autobiography Rocket Boys by NASA scientist Homer Hickam), which lends much credibility to an..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Final Judges

Profiles of the Short Story Contest judges.

"...in Houston. After working as a technical writer for NASA and for the oil and gas industry, she was..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature

Robyn Hitchcock

"...to sound more like R.E.M. than anything on Up! "NASA Clapping," meanwhile, sounds for all the world like a..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Music Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...NASA has been working with Chris Gilman, an Oscar-winning special-effects..."

June 25, 1999 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...which he admitted didn't exist. HACCP was developed by NASA to protect astronauts from the possibility of gastro problems..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Postmarks

Economic Cleansing

"...The plot lacked any logic whatsoever -- I'm sure NASA will be interested in knowing that a hull breach..."

April 16, 1999 Column

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...mission with a tightly wound precision that could make NASA blush. (Emo's, 10pm)-- Greg Beets..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...NASA is studying the possibility of commercializing the space station..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Live Shots

"...or just becoming indifferent? If not for the high-pitched nasal-draw of singer Tim DeLaughter, Tripping Daisy would be largely..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...DANCING AT LUGHNASA..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Day Trips

"...Ballunar Liftoff Festival at NASA/Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake matches hot air balloons..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dancing About Architecture

Crossing the Final Path

"...the first time it's been readily available since a NASA study determined that listening to River City "increases subliminal..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Lost in Space

Performance Artist Sally Jacques Lives Life on the Edges

"...Of course, Jacques, like NASA, knows that one doesn't go off exploring space alone...."

June 5, 1998 Arts Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...asteroid the size of Texas, that is. Bad news. NASA sends the world's foremost deep-core oil driller (Bruce Willis)..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...tall, quiet, bespectacled -- it's the look of a NASA grunt, a science type who's always calculating throw weights..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Asteroid Conundrum

"...15 astronomers had been called in Houston (home of NASA), apparently in a rush. It included Dr. Yoemans (zero..."

April 3, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Heebie-Jeebie News

Local TV Feeds on Muck and Mayhem

"...the event may be a mere promotional stunt for NASA. But whether clearly or marginally fluffy, and no matter..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Public Notice

Ugly Americans

"...deploy nuclear technology in space (just in time for NASA's launch of 72.3 pounds of plutonium onboard the Cassini..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

Into the Groove

Cutting Vinyl With Fat Tracks

"...appears wholly modern. Looking like something out of a NASA storage facility, Dalmasso's lathe hails from 1969 and is..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Fortunate Son

The Return of John Fogerty

"...da Bulls' "One for the Thumb" NBA title nor NASA's landing of that glorified erector set on Mars compare...."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Coach's Corner

"...might as well have been sitting in on a NASA engineering parlay. This arcane jargon is really not so..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Aliens, Martian Colonies, and Dwarves

1997 Hugo Nominees Reviewed

"...technical passages that would be fascinating only to a NASA engineer, and his limited use of dialogue slows the..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Books Feature

Roadkill

Hovercraft Emo's Sunday, July 20

"...to Darwinism, Altered States, isolation tanks, according to one NASA psychologist, can cause hallucinations as well as out-of-body experiences..."

July 18, 1997 Music Feature

AISD Notebook

"...from compiling student portfolios in digitized video to downloading NASA images of Jupiter's moons off the Internet...."

Dec. 13, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...moon -- that same speck-in-the-universe feeling persists throughout Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth by Jay Apt, Michael Helfert,..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

The Spirit of Cooperation

"...Like the resourceful ethos of the very co-ops they..."

Nov. 8, 1996 News Feature

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