Chi-Town Whole Foods Comes Out, Naturally

Austin-based Whole Foods makes history as the first anchor tenant of a GLBT community center, Chicago's Center on Halsted.

"...of out-dated computers, brightly festooned community bulletin board, and Ping-Pong table here, folks. We're talking a rec center worthy..."

July 17, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Sports Gaming Guide

Holiday Edition '06

"...the sport shine. The players are rendered well without dropping any jaws, and the soundtrack sidesteps the unnecessary hit..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Get Ready for the Abstronics of Mary Ellen Bute

A centennial celebration for the conductor of light

"...Light bends and breaks across moving models made of ping-pong balls, sparklers, cellophane, and mirrors, choreographed in a "film-ballet."..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

'Table Tennis' for the Xbox 360

"...the sport shine. The players are rendered well without dropping any jaws, and the soundtrack sidesteps the unnecessary hit..."

June 16, 2006 Sports Post by James Renovitch

On the Line, Two Shots

The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'

"...and forth between the boys, it was more like ping-pong and made it hard to develop any kind of..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Film

Interviews and reviews

"...from the first frame, disembodied, homely, and detuned voices ping-pong through our protagonist's head as she sleeps, awakens, and..."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Lone Ranger

The legend of Jerry Lynn Williams

"...20 years, I've carried around a TDK SA60 cassette, keeping it in whatever car I drive, and when cars..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

22 to Think About

Austin Museum of Art shows new local art that engages the mind

"...building. I only wish it had a couple of ping-pong balls to emphasize the directional activities within the pipes...."

Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Stereolab

"...Reverie" are two of the more recognizable 'Lab moments, bumping with energetic beats and singers Laetitia Sadier and the..."

May 27, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Varekai

Cirque du Soleil's 'Varekai' begins with Icarus tumbling from heaven but then leaps skyward again with acts that convey the thrill of flight

"...notion, bringing Icarus down in a mysterious forest, then leaping skyward again and again with acts that convey the..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Here Today, There Tomorrow

Austin ISD Schools grapple with high student turnover – and all its consequences

"...At Harris, in Northeast, the rate is 38%. And topping the charts is Linder in the Southeast, with a..."

March 11, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Sunflower Restaurant

The atmosphere is mediocre, the tables are a little too close together, the service can occasionally border on indifference – but we love this place!

"...balanced tangy dressing. BBQ Pork Balls ($7.95) are divine ping-pong-ball-sized nuggets of richly seasoned pork, resting on flat pillows..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Food Review by Mick Vann

Holiday Wish Lists 2003

Presents for public service

"...Area 303 W. Johanna, 444-7199 • pool tables • ping pong tables • used laptops • art supplies •..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Features Feature

ROYGBIV 2001

In ROYGBIV 2001: A Human Odyssey, ONE Theatre Company sets out to chronicle the universal passages of human existence through an Everyman figure that they follow from birth to death. But the show itself seems to be in the midst of adolescence: Full of big dreams, idealistic, and ready to take on the world, but still a little awkward in its own body.

"...eyes bulge outward in two almost perfect spheres, like ping pong balls plopped in a bowl of dough. The..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Coach's Corner

Patrick Ewing deserves better. And so does the Coach, who's been forced to watch (gasp!) the Olympics.

"...home early to watch the games. She tapes horses jumping in midday. In the evening the house is dominated..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Hot Sweltering Summer Sex Vignettes

Author and semi-regular Chronicle contributor Spike Gillespie (All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy) has been working on a new novel called thebelljar.net, about the high-tech nightmare that Austin has become. In it, our heroine, Alice, takes on a job as "the world's oldest high tech intern" to escape her former career in food service. At her new company, The Universe, she is in charge of making coffee and copies and building an in-house Web site to act as a style guide for her higher-ups. Her self-appointed position is to keep high the morale of one of the programmers (aka moles) whom she decides is fuckable (she's naive).

"...wrenching my back into "proper" position without warning, not helping me as I fell to the mat, shouting, "Timber!"),..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Kings of the Universe: Busting Guts, True Believers

With a pair of gut-bustingly funny solo shorts, Kings of the Universe Louis Wells and Chris Alonso stick their fingers in every dessert on the display tray, then refuse to order any : and that's satire.

"...textbook proportions while Alonso's a mean one with a ping-pong paddle...."

May 5, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Public Notice

Every year, for two weeks around the holidays, "Public Notice" hands the type over to the Public Service Community and lets them directly address you, dear readers, with requests for things they need. They need you.

"...each and every one of us has played in keeping this carnival ride cranked in high gear and to..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Austin Symphony Orchestra: Dance Fever

Robi Polgar responds to the November concert of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, featuring the premiere of Austin composer Darden Smith's Grand Motion.

"...the flair or precision of the lights. Andrew Long's laptop-tapping opening to the musical piece was as out of..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Ashes to Ashes

David Koresh trusted Texas Rangers more than other law enforcement agencies.

"...evidence and getting bounced back and forth like a Ping-Pong ball. I can see where DPS would think that..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Day Trips

River Inn Resort near Hunt is a perfect fall getaway.

"...room in the main lodge provides a pool table, ping-pong table, and video games for guests...."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In Memory

"...I eventually finished my film, I flew to Boston, hoping to interest the producers of a PBS series. My..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

Breaking the Code

Plain English Is the Goal for Land Development Rules

"...LDC-reform effort. "The developers and the neighborhoods become human ping-pong balls bouncing from one agency to another."..."

May 15, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Production Row

The Downtown Film Scene

"..."We're certainly hoping to be part of the Austin film community and..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Turandot

Calaf's quest for the heart of the icy princess Turandot is the stuff of legend and, in Austin Lyric Opera production of Puccini's opera, was an opportunity to hear some exquisite music excellently performed.

"...supplication -- there is the commedia dell'arte trio of Ping, Pang, and Pong, masked ministers prone to dramatic warnings,..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Saving All Our Changes

Cyber-castoffs are curated at Austin's Goodwill Computer.

"...-- for a quarter you and a friend could "ping" an imaginary, monochrome "pong" until the beer kicked in,..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Features Feature by Michael King

Turandot

ALO's production puts the 'grand' in grand opera

"...Joyce, and Joseph Frank (playing the trio of ministers Ping, Pang, and Pong, respectively), as well as Holton Johnson..."

April 20, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...guitarist Brett Bradford joins Ministry drummer Max Brody and Pong guitarist-cum-bassist Jason Craig to build a perfect soundtrack for..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Scanlines

"...a golf ball, although it sounds more like the ping of the first video game, Pong, and you're off...."

Sept. 29, 1995 Arts Feature

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