The Human Factor

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost on romantic zomedy 'Shaun of the Dead'

"...In these salad days of the reanimated zombie genre, who'd have thought that..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Showdown at Lick Creek

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

"...from the pond but instead had collapsed during three days of rain the previous week, allowing more silt to..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in some quality or degree" and "much above the ordinary or average." Does Texas measure up to those standards?..."

May 14, 2004 Column

The Bold and the Beautiful

Young chef / owner Tyson Cole has Uchi right where he -- and probably everyone else -- wants it.

"...and adventurous cuisine that is definitely out of the ordinary...."

Nov. 14, 2003 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

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.

"...by love and imagination are the common prayer of ordinary life. What follows is an abridged version of a..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

About AIDS

"...whose immune systems can no longer fight off the ordinary germs we encounter in our daily lives. Whether brief..."

July 18, 2003 Column by Sandy Bartlett

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"...By. If this is true, then there are several extraordinary opportunities in this year's Cine Las Americas International Film..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Reason Why

"...us involved in imperial crusades abroad while pillaging the ordinary American at home. The same families who are exploited..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by George McGovern

The Lights Are On: Is Anybody Home?

Downtown's boom has busted, yet developers still build.

"...prowl that night, but Hendricks and Jones were no ordinary fellows. They were developers convinced they had struck gold..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Letters at 3AM

Michael Ventura observes the great John Cassavetes at work on the set of his next-to-last movie Love Streams.

"...Days before he shot its final scene we were in..."

March 8, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Dictates

"...but the press didn't back off. During the following days, newspapers large and small lambasted Ashcroft for his half-truths,..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Capitol Chronicle

In Texas Courtrooms, a Fair Legal Defense is Often an Empty Promise

"...attorney be appointed for a poor defendant within 20 days of an arrest, and that county commissioners set up..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...themselves, but they're not going to bring back the days when jazz and pop were virtually synonymous. The vast..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Postmarks

Politics & music & the politics of music.

"...insists on the right to keep polluting the air. Ordinary U.S. citizens contribute enormously to world air quality destruction...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column

Good Impressions

Si Bon is located on South Lamar in a comfortable old home. Step through the door and you find a warm, friendly atmosphere: happy customers tended by smiling staff. A cozy bar. White tablecloths, a comfy fireplace and lip-smacking aromas. Before you ever get to your table, Si Bon makes a good impression.

"...Six days later, Emily and I returned to see how Si..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Who Will Survive?

Seven council members. One coveted position. And, in the end, only one survivor.

"...still important today, right? But in the first 100 days of the second Watson regency, we've seen fractiousness every..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips

Sleep and shop 19th-century style at the Comfort Common Bed and Breakfast in Comfort, TX.

"...Common Bed & Breakfast is anything but plain or ordinary. The fanciest hotel in Comfort when it opened in..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Viva la Revolution!

Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.

"...into his campus locker and remained there for seven days? If your answer is Chris Burden, then you know..."

March 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

A Place of Her Own

In her two short story collections, Lasting Attachments and Crossing Shattuck Bridge, Annette Sanford can be laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, and tragic, sometimes in the same breath. But she couldn't do it if she lived in the city. The country is indelibly her metier.

"...was published and revealed, all over again, what the ordinary people have to say if you just listen. If..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Day Trips

Send your favorite daytripper or daytripper-to-be on a photographic journey through Austin or a uniquely Texan greasy-spoon odyssey.

"...Murals, art, Armstrong, architecture, people, places, the ordinary, the unusual, farms, sculptures, animals, plants, and much more..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Online Day Care: The Whole World Is Watching

"...spongy white beard. This morning was one of those days (temper tantrums, tearful goodbyes), but for her, that fiasco..."

Nov. 5, 1999 News Feature by Sarah Hepola

Texas Platters

"...make a point (20 times), or more than two days' recording time on a two-track console. And you certainly..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

Musical Manifesto

Davíd Garza's

"...find a copy seemed a little out of the ordinary...."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Toast to an Artspace About Art

Pro-Jex's Tunnel of Art on Fifth Street Was More Than a Gallery, Much More

"...Star and Becky, the shop's owner, don't throw away days fretting over Neil's fate, that is to be expected...."

April 3, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...of Zairian soukous and Cuban old school salsa. An extraordinary arranger and musician, Lemvo, who spoke to the audience..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...dat? No foolin', game ball. Ah, dose were de days, don't you know, ah yiss dey were dat, so..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Postmarks

Postmarks Scandal!

"...are often used, as well, as sites for market days where vendors and farmers set up an array of..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Column

Postmarks

ACC Needs Planning, Not Damning

"...Caryl Schneider Bloody Sundays..."

June 20, 1997 Column

Postmarks

Nofziger Responds

"...the Continental Club and loved it. Just a few days before he died, he went with his mother and..."

April 25, 1997 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...on science as required by law." Babbitt has 30 days to tell us what he's going to do about..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature

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