Clear-Cutting Austin

Rapid growth laying waste to city's urban forest

"...the lot's clean; what is there left to do? Oh my God!' So I went out in front and..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Hustle and Show

City Theatre Company's first year is a lesson in building a new stage and mounting a season at breakneck speed

"...performers. "In the past," she says, "it's always been, 'Oh, I'm friends with so-and-so.' But with this show, it..."

July 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

John Graves, Writer

Thoreau, like many of the modern-day nature writers, had a cause. Graves sees himself as a writer who chooses a subject.

"...John Graves, Writer..."

May 25, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Once Upon a Time in Spain

Guillermo del Toro on fairy tales, facists, and everybody's new favorite movie

"...and the dead people, and after a while he sees that it's about to be dawn and realizes that..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Big Pitch

A horror film starring UT students aiming for the big screen

"...smiles. Dead Poets Society meets The Shining. Can't miss! Oh, and to up the stakes, one of the groups..."

May 19, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Power, Forward

Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'

"...he tries to convey political ideas through what he sees. There's a lot of things I disagree with. I..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Really Over There

The Texas Documentary Tour: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds' 'Occupation: Dreamland'

"...GS: Oh, no, for a number of reasons. One, they don't..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Making Biscuit

Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7

"...I had a peacoat mod outfit and a little John Lennon hat I would wear that would freak people..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Full Body

John Irving on his job and the upcoming 'Until I Find You'

"...junior year, I was told that a young novelist, John Irving, taught there, though he was on sabbatical. I..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Books Feature by Louis Black

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...a little more, Robbers would be the outcome. March sees the release of their Fine Lines EP on New..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

How Safe Is Your E-Vote?

Proponents of electronic voting promise no repeat of Florida in 2000, but critics say it could be even worse

"...2003 quote, he said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year,"..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Human Touch

Violinist Laurie Young Stevens finds the passion and flash in baroque music

"...bowing to Bach, venerating Vivaldi, or kowtowing to Couperin. Oh, she adores and esteems the music of these great..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta is not amused by the two rich chicks on Fox's farm.

"...as to how the good life operates. Beneath the "Oh, that darn rich girl" giggles that come from watching..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Live on Paper

When he's not covering canvas with acrylic-based images of Japanese toys and Italian scooters and good old American action-figures, Tim Doyle dabbles in the art of the comic book, distilling his day-by-day existence into three black-and-white segments each in monthly issues of Amazing Adult Fantasy.

"...of others than to speak of his own work. Oh, sure, he'll mention that his big painting of G.I...."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...pretty daunting," he says. "I started to feel like, 'Oh God, what am I going to do?' Just terrified...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

At Long Last Love

Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."

"...tenderness among bitter roots, drawing enemies together, sundering vows. Oh, grooms die, but the sisters' effort to protect themselves,..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

They Lost My Grandmother's Brain

One lover of the grape interviews another - one who writes songs and plays music.

"...moderation. "Let's not make this whole thing about my alcoholism," he warns, "but it's okay if some of it..."

July 21, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

The Real World: New Orleans and Survivor, CBS' brutal bid to rein reality television, are sure to fascinate pop culture fans throughout the summer. Belinda Acosta explains why she resents it: and why she can't stop watching.

"...an ebullient Dolly Levi. Barnabus Collins was a vampire. Oh wait ... he was a vampire (in Dark Shadows)...."

June 9, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...couldn't find hardly a thing. I used to pray, "Oh, will something please happen in Tibet so I could..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Speaking in Tongues

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

"...in the back of my head and I go, 'Oh, that's part of this somehow, isn't it? I'd better..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rats!

Think you're the only one with a rat problem? Bernadette Noll reassures that you are not alone.

"...company anyway, and when it is spoken it is oh-so hush-hush and shameful...."

Jan. 21, 2000 Features Feature by Bernadette Noll

TV Eye

Hear the networks scraping the bottom of the barrel ...

"...and a movie. No real stinkers, no real "must sees" either. The most promising offerings are all the new..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Duke Still Had It

"...Paul Gonzalves Trio ... Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, and Johnny Walker." Then, literally propped up against a girl in..."

May 14, 1999 Column

Genius of Love

"...photograph by Todd V. Wolfson..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Y Ask X and Y?

"...Chad Salvata Oh. My. God...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

The House That PAC Built

"...responsibilities include, he says, "basically everything that the public sees: marketing, advertising, front of house, the box office. Then..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Don't Dissolve District

"...Oh to once again dance with tequila-inspired abandon without worrying..."

May 1, 1998 Column

A Word From Our Sponsor

Jingles All the Way

"...to the client before they come to us," says John Hunter of Juniper Music in Dallas, who has composed..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Behind the Mask

Fetish Nights

"...While fetishes didn't catch on at Emo's, Ohms was already having a modest success with them, the..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

New Wave Schtick of the `90s

Just Can't Enough

"...television offspring like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. Oh sure, the Fifties had actually been around as early..."

July 18, 1997 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

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