'Bomb Shelter: or the Modern Pinocchio'

A refreshingly different after-the-bomb fable that gets at our impulse to create through a playful acting-out of 'Frankenstein'

"...basic in us, and with its high spirits and open heart, its sense of exploration, its willingness to wear..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Wranglers on the Verge of a Monumental Turnaround

"...six strokes on the final hole of the British Open to force a playoff, which he lost. All he..."

June 10, 2008 Sports Post by Christopher Bond

Six-Card Stud

It's a wide-open Place 4 race

"...call for "the nation's greatest urban park" in the heart of Austin and an ordinance allowing transfer of development..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

(don’t Go back To) ROCKVILLE

R.E.M. Accelerates

"...– the band itself “held court” here in the heart of cow town at UT’s most venerable watering Hole...."

March 12, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Moosehead

Canada gets bigger

"...Is it your open heart and mind lending themselves to emotive, acoustic songwriting..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

The Song Remains the Same

Led Zeppelin reunion boot

"...were a mixed bag live. Jimmy Page could crack open terra firma one night, then the band would sputter..."

Feb. 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hills Snyder: All Good Children

In the Gallery 68 show, the artist posed as a serial killer being executed for his crimes

"...the suspense of anticipating the direct experience of an opening performance or first-time viewing. Snyder's latest project occupies one..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Attorney General, or Witchfinder General?

Can’t get a straight answer from Attorney General Michael Mukasey as to whether waterboarding is torture or not? Just ask the UT History faculty!

"...as part of the history department’s celebration of the reopening of Garrison Hall. Garrison has housed UT’s history department..."

Feb. 4, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

Darling, Powerful Nikki

Poet Nikki Giovanni salves souls at VTech.

"...Hokie nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts..."

April 17, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

The Mountain Goats Gruff

Getty's got the Mountain Goat on the horn.

"...time I heard John Darnielle's voice, he ripped my heart out and made me cry cubicle tears. It was..."

March 11, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

'Possession Arrow': Badgley<-Razook

They have made their selections, and I'm split between bliss and extreme bitterness.

"...can't ruin the good feeling I have in my heart at this moment. Dear Life: I love you. Sincerely,..."

March 11, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

This Is Not Compassion!

"...least robots have an excuse – they don't have hearts. There is no room for judgmental, crystallized thinkers when..."

Aug. 8, 2006 Postmarks

The Showdown at Lick Creek

As once clear water runs dark, a community defends its natural heart

"...is a very mixed blessing; it doesn't diminish the heartbreak and headache brought on by what caused his home's..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta mourns the passing of Bob Keeshan, the man with mutton chops who made her life matter when she thought it mattered least

"...enough to figure out that small gestures and an open heart, even through the filter of TV, a medium..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Black Kali Ma You Ride the Pony (I'll Be the Bunny)

(Alternative Tentacles)

SXSW Records

"...Besides his mother, that is? You Ride the Pony opens with "Kali," the most menacing maternity-themed song since Glenn..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Boy With Loaded Gun: A Memoir

"...schadenfreude -- but when offered and received with an open heart, true confessions can be a serious source of..."

March 3, 2000 Books Review by Marion Winik

Seela Something Happened (newimprovedmusic)

Texas Platters

"...Guitarist Darwin Smith does yeoman's work throughout, particularly on "Open Heart," and the album's centerpiece, "Hurricane," while former local..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...Ian. The renowned folkie of "At Seventeen" turned unlikely openly-lesbian-buddy-of-Howard-Stern comes to display her songcraft, old and new. (Cactus..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Point and Shoot

Without looking Matt knows the deer is dead.

"...Matt pulls out his knife and slowly slices her open, below the long neck, breast bone to prissy tail...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Bonnie West

Sxsw

"...Few bands in the alt-country realm pull on the heartstrings by the sheer strength of melody as deftly as..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Longing and loss explored in this stunning, tender anthology

"...their minds or holding a secret close to their heart. His anthology, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, is a..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Things Are What You Make of Them

The deliciously cracked comedies of Bob Byington

"..."Hello, baby, hello/Open up your heart and let your feelings flow" –..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Platters

"...On the title track/opening number of Flaming Red, recent Austin transplant Patti Griffin..."

July 31, 1998 Music Review

Postmarks

Justice Denied

"..."endangered species" of the East Austin resident community, take heart!..."

June 6, 1997 Column

Nothing Here Has Any Real Value

Honorable mention

"...box is covered in green fabric, and when I open the lid a tiny plastic ballerina twists ungracefully, hesitating..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Sarah Elizabeth Eastep

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Edwards Aquifer, simultaneously launching a public relations assault that opened with an Austin American-Statesman cover story. In what may..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...was used for someone who was putting their whole heart [into something] and really believing in what they were..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

The Full Monte

"...the seventh floor, amid tight security, the elevator doors opened and out stepped a teenage boy holding a guitar..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Whisks Up

The Way To Cook

"...picture may be worth a thousand words on the open market, but from the novice cook's perspective, a picture..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Food Feature

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...Now, there's a term to conjure dread in the heart of a poor theatregoer. It suggests self-proclaimed artistes in..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

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