Luv Doc Recommends: Jesse Sublett in-store with the Class of ’78
Waterloo Records, Friday, May 28, 2004
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May 28, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc
Letters at 3AM
Americans and Iraqis are dying for Bush's pride and his hopes of re-election
"...whether Sadr City is named after Moktada al-Sadr, the 31-year-old Shiite invariably described as "fiery," or his father, a..."
April 16, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura
Page Two
An amalgam of influences with a life of its own, the Chronicle is smarter than we are
"..."Even in those days when I was twenty years old, I had told myself: better starve, go to jail,..."
Jan. 16, 2004 Column by Louis Black
Page Two
History is speed-racing through this decade; we're queasy and anxious to get to the finish line.
"...law that the past offers a concrete guide to unfolding events. Even accepting that assumption, let's remember that the..."
Jan. 2, 2004 Column by Louis Black
Short Cuts
Austin film -- top 10 with a bullet
"...Thirty-One Million, Five Hundred and Thirty-Six Thousand Seconds Dept.: But don't you think it felt like..."
Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
Animation Revelation
Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment
"...Q bests likelier options A and B every time, blindfolded, with its one diminutive arm tied behind its back...."
Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...to the aquifer and flooding, traffic congestion, and plain old overdevelopment have stepped up to beg the city of..."
Nov. 14, 2003 Column
The Resentments
"...into adulthood. Hughes ruminates on love, too, with "Several Thousand," tugging heartstrings with his sweet vocals. Yet it's the..."
Nov. 14, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser
Page Two
Contemplating the devastating effects of redistricting on democracy and the transformational effects of knowing Ondine and Ed Lowry.
"...The several-decades-old redistricting efforts by both Democrats and Republicans may prove..."
Oct. 17, 2003 Column by Louis Black
Milton Mapes
"...Name," are broken up by new Austin anthem "A Thousand Songs About California," sounding like it just fell off..."
Oct. 10, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
McCanlies, Texas
Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.
"...But most of the high regard that the industry holds him in is based on scripts with which most..."
Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black
South for the Marijuana
The gringo travels to Mexico in search of weed and wisdom.
"...This particular officer was an older man in a green gray uniform, sitting on a..."
Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax
Short Cuts
Harry Knowles takes over British airwaves … and magazine ads … and the sides of busses … and pretty much anywhere else that those clever lads in the SkyTV marketing department can manage to fit him.
"...sequel to Herschell Gordon Lewis' splatsploitation grindhouse classic Two Thousand Maniacs! "It's really subversive as hell," crows Knowles, who's..."
July 11, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
The Project in Interpreting the Texas Past
"...backsides clamor in the wooden pen, while inside the old stone farmhouse, Parks and Wildlife interpreters work hard at..."
July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young
'Lost Ark,' Resurrected
Three boys, seven years TK, and one heck of an homage -- a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark that earned the blessing of their hero.
"...in the summer of 1981, and our trio of 10-year-olds proved no exception. So the next summer, the three..."
May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
After a Fashion
"...in a very short time, and at least a thousand parties in between, I knew it would require industrial..."
April 25, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Beyond Limits Otherwise Prescribed
George W. Bush refuses to put our money where his mouth is in matters of domestic defense, even though all the experts testify that America is as vulnerable to major terrorist attacks today as it was on 9 / 11.
"...of the population of Iraq is under 15 years old. That is the fact to remember when discussing the..."
March 21, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura
Fire Marshalls of Bethlehem
Music Showcase
"...name is purportedly the answer to the question "Two thousand years ago, who was responsible for there not being..."
March 14, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Condemned Banks Looks to Supreme Court
Delma Banks death row appeal reads like a laundry list of everything wrong with Texas capital punishment.
"...was convicted of the April 1980 Texarkana murder of 16-year-old Richard Wayne Whitehead, shot dead in a park near..."
March 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Nasdijj Reviewed
"More than the inherent unfairness of life, Nasdijj is angry at man's cruelty and a culture which fosters the abuse of the young," writes Michael Robertson. And as a writer, he "rough-hews the English language until it takes stunning forms."
"...young son Awee appear "exactly the way it had unfolded at least a thousand times in dreams." Their request..."
Feb. 14, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Robertson
The GOP's Inaugurama
"...with co-chair Drayton McLane (owner of the Houston Astros) holding court on the dais beside John Whitmire, Henry Bonilla,..."
Jan. 24, 2003 News Feature by Michael King
Capitol Chronicle
The legislative leadership sends out feelers about a pilot voucher program.
"...probably see a run at a pilot program," Craddick told the San Antonio Express-News. "I'm for trying anything in..."
Dec. 20, 2002 News Column by Michael King
Page Two
"...all that -- but a return to a more old-fashioned morality. All this, they believe, will be accompanied and..."
Dec. 13, 2002 Column by Louis Black
Letters at 3AM
You don't think that this whole thing with Iraq could have anything to do with the fact that Iraq sits on 10% of the world's oil reserves? Naw. It's gotta be them weapons of mass destruction.
"...the testimony about Iraqi atrocities in occupied Kuwait. One 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl ... was particularly compelling. 'Weeping and shaking,'..."
Dec. 13, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM
You can't always be who you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you can be who you need.
"...will point the way. Unlike Graceland, 90 miles northwest, thousands do not make the pilgrimage to this place every..."
Nov. 1, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
Dancing About Architecture
Labor Days ends, people bummed.
"..."There was a ton of dead space" where the old kitchen was torn out of La Zona Rosa, according..."
Sept. 6, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Dancing About Architecture
Rave debacle leaves one dead.
"...Sunday morning it had been called off, and a 22-year-old man was dead from an apparent Ecstasy overdose. To..."
Aug. 23, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Did SOS Matter?
The battle for Barton Springs has been a struggle over the soul of the city.
"...town with a conscience," Circle C developer Gary Bradley told The New York Times in 1983. ''We will not..."
Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
The Hightower Report
Bush wants to spend your taxes on missile defense, but won't tell you if it works; and, WWJD -- What Would Jim Do?
"...It's the old Star Wars flimflam that he's trying to pull on..."
July 5, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower
Letters at 3AM
With inaction, inattention, cowardice, and stupidity, Americans are watching tyranny take shape in plain sight before our eyes, while the overwhelming majority say and do nothing.
"...and time on terrorism. Yet no one dreams of holding Cheney and Ashcroft accountable; no one asks them serious..."
June 28, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
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