Homecoming Queen

Many actors leave Austin seeking a career on the stage and are never heard from by the folks in their old hometown. But Austin native Starla Benford has come home as the star of a national tour. She talks about starting out at Harvard, making her mark as a professional, and nine months on the road with The Vagina Monologues.

"...the heart of Texas. It's only once in a blue moon that a Marcia Gay Harden makes her way..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Austin style is rocking into spring as local fashion steps out -- again -- at the Club DeVille Spring Fashion Extravaganza.

"...for a somewhat more sedate, but never dull presentation. Blue Velvet was an absentee; a year ago, they complained..."

May 11, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Unrequited Love

Considering the high prices and small portions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood admits that to pursue her tryst with Emilia's would make her a fool for love.

"...the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, Packwood has the perfect venue for his subtle and sophisticated personal cuisine at..."

May 4, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...also applies to local mutant jazz outfits like the Blue Noise Band, Futants, and Gnappy, who can be found..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...by the 5th Dimension ("Stoned Soul Picnic," "Wedding Bell Blues," "Sweet Blindness"), Barbra Streisand ("Stoney End"), and Three Dog..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Mojo's Mayhem & Kontinental Kar Show & Shine, Continental Club, Saturday 17

"...at South Austin's Continental Club. It's always seemed a perfect setting for seeing live music after dark, yet its..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...in Austin. In the Tailgators, he fused Fabulous Thunderbird-style blues with hardscrabble swamp-rock that made the trio enormously popular...."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Redd Light Special

One right fine Tele-pickin' dude

"...twang that Volkaert reels off on Telewacker is the perfect expression of both his disarming, easygoing manner and rather..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three/
Get Carter

"...was a renaissance of the genre. Mr. Brown, Mr. Blue, Mr. Gray, Mr. Green -- sound familiar? In The..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Through the Eyes of a Kid

Bringing kids to adult theatre is uncool, but what's about children's theatre, where they belong? Ada Calhoun borrows a friend's three-and-a-half-year-old son to find out and discovers that theatre ain't all magic when you're a preschooler.

"...of all this, he also started playing with a blue scarf, a scarf I realized we must have accidentally..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Songs in the Key of Ethan

A Postmodern Fear of Significance

"...over selected works from Plane Crash City and Big Blue House to discover just what they hell they were..."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Love Thy Neighbor

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

"...the plastic surgery theatre. The fact that Fugate (Tobacco Blues) has shot the whole thing from an unintrusive, fly-on-the-wall..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lush Life

The divine Miss Nancy Wilson brings her lush life to Austin.

"...fans. Instead, she's a world-class interpreter of everything from blues and gospel to Broadway showtunes, at home whether backed..."

June 2, 2000 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Coach's Corner

Coach goes to the Harvey Penick Invitational, an LPGA golf tourney. But he doesn't learn anything.

"...in the shade, leaning heavily against a wall, a blue, battered KC Royals hat covering his closed eyes. We're..."

May 12, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

City of Great Bread

"For some time now," Virginia B. Wood writes, "I've had this fantasy about putting advertisements in selected East Coast newspapers to entice Italian immigrant or Italian-American bakers to relocate to River City and bake their wonderful breads for me. And for you, too, of course."

"...garlic and olive oil. It looked to be the perfect accompaniment to my antipasto platter covered with shaved prosciutto,..."

April 14, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...more to me than trying to make things technically perfect or having the optimum guitar player or something. I..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...been playing Sunday nights at Austin's Home of the Blues for so long, Clifford Antone lists him as a..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Barkers

Barking at the Moon, except not with Ozzy

"...Stitching together every musical square of red, white, and blue fabric conceivable -- hymns, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, barbershop,..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Golden Arm Symphony

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

"...Fortunately, this Sixth Street live music venue is the perfect setting for such a spectacle. Opened in 1974 as..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Edibles in Isolation

Send Me to a Desert Island, but Let Me Have My ...

"...2. Three recent food products that have materialized: Blue Bell's Cherry Limeade Sherbet -- hearken back to the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature

Desert Island Discs

"...3. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (Columbia)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Girl, Upgraded

According to the 1999 Interactive Digital Software Report (IDSA), the majority of people playing computer games are older than 18, and 38% percent of the people most frequently playing computer games are women. Boy, have things change

"...its cheap, whoring pleas for my attention: "Find the perfect prom date! Wanna know what's hot this year?" The..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Tailgating Teasips

Mick Vann makes a foray into the curious and often elaborate rite of University of Texas fandom known as "tailgating" and discovers some intriguing practices.

"...pressure rests on the recon team to obtain the perfect spot (especially one under the shade of the big..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris, Bass Concert Hall, October 10

Descriptions of live shows

"...Carter, and Bill Monroe. Highlights included John Hiatt's "Icy Blue Heart," promptly followed by the Harley Allen-penned "High Sierra"..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Review by David Lynch

Super-8's Super Fans

The Cinemaker Co-op preserves the art of the littlest of motion picture formats -- Super-8 -- and trains tomorrow's filmmakers along the way.

"...would send Picabo Street fleeing in terror, was a blue Pan Am Airlines duffel loaded with old camera gear...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postscripts

Unconvincing

"...and his tendency to mold his wife into a perfect political image. Apparently, it's not convincing enough. All that..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Italia With & Without

Week One: The Tour

"...the mountains and the Ligurian Sea, the green and blue water slapped and foamed at the jagged coast. I..."

May 28, 1999 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Stompy Jones

"...out like sunglasses in a police lineup. "Stompy Jones." Perfect. A lifetime of imagination in a song title. We..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...The reissue of an album as perfect as 1969's Dusty in Memphis hardly needs bonus tracks..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW 1999 Film Spotlights

"...Day In Black And White (review, issue #30) Desert Blue(review, issue #29) Digital Shorts (review, published on web only)..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

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