Rising Son

The son of Muddy Waters inherits the family bidness.

"...a long way to go before arriving at said pantheon, but when he moans, "Please baby, please remember I'm..."

July 6, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Flies on the Wall With Attitude

Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.

"...most when the filmmaker intrudes least. Of the original pantheon of cinéma vérité-ists (or direct cinema filmmakers, as they're..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Better Than Nothing

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

"...the breakthrough. Now, of course, he's in the jazz pantheon...."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Playthings Demo Mode

"...The Playthings lift several defining elements from this lost pantheon of power-pop while adding scruffed-up punkisms borne of their..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Judge Chip Kidd by His Covers

"...to a rock star in the rarefied world of high-end graphic design. Regarded as the world's foremost book jacket..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Cary L. Roberts

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...Pantheon, 435 pp., $27.50..."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel

"...Pantheon, 546 pp., $26.95..."

June 9, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

"...Pantheon, 448 pp., $26.50..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Review by Dan Oko

Steel Magnolia

"...about her vicious, poetically Southern entrance into the ghostly pantheon: "Sometime after the start of the Civil War in..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

In Order to Live

An American in Paris (1951)

"...of the abyss that Bresson leaps securely into the pantheon as one of the most inspired givers of form..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

An American in Paris (1951)

"...of the abyss that Bresson leaps securely into the pantheon as one of the most inspired givers of form..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

Writes of Spring

"...Kafka's Curse: A Novel by Achmat Dangor Pantheon Books, $22 hard Very early on in Achmat Dangor's..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

Spotlights

"...bombed. Sure, dirtweed makes an appearance, but in the pantheon of cinematic drug abuse, roofies have it all over..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature

Making Lists

"...a Texan!" -- Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Oh, Lady, You're Good!

Dee Dee Bridgewater

"...one of the two leading candidates in the new pantheon of Holiday/Vaughan/Fitzgerald. And she did it with Dear Ella...."

April 17, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...in Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Davis (Pantheon, $27.50 hard) is that the singing and songs of..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...well-read, behind the bar, as opposed to attending a high-priced bartending academy where Cocktail's Tom Cruise and the Mr...."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

The King and I

TV Eye

"...was solid reason for his ascension in the music pantheon. He's young, handsome, lithe, and bursting with promise, unaware..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

O Captains! My Captains!

Star Trek: First Contact

"...all queries regarding his involvement in the series, the pantheon, whatever. That voice, that wonderful theatrical baritone is in..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Emotion Pictures

Toward a Fuller Understanding of Sam

"...the years, Fuller's work has earned him fans in high places; he's gained almost cultish popularity amongst some critics..."

June 28, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Live Shots

"...is blasphemy to the gods in the Texas guitar pantheon. Or maybe a smile would have been an admission..."

June 14, 1996 Music Feature

Cassady, Kerouac, and Other Dharma Bums Back Beats by Jennifer Scoville and Dave Cook

"...of such detail, and indeed a discussion of Ginsberg's high school grades seems downright gratuitous. But his family life..."

May 26, 1995 Books Feature

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