A Colossal Wreck

The Intel Building and its discontents

"...on my works, ye Mighty and despair." The Romantic poets loved ancient ruins, and often rhapsodized about them (Horace..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

E Is for Everything

Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.

"...Thurman, and Robert Sean Leonard, Hawke's co-star from Dead Poets Society) reunite to provide highly conflicting accounts of one..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...Linklater, as well as wife Uma Thurman and Dead Poets Society co-star Robert Sean Leonard, in Linklater's digital-video feature..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...Quick: Which Texas writer or writers merited inclusion on the cover of the Beatles' Sergeant..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Check It Out

The 10 most circulated items at the George Washington Carver Library

"...Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Books Column

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...portrait photographer Richard Avedon, pop artist Andy Warhol, and poets Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan (accompanying the latter in..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Diving for Pearls

How mystery writer Rick Riordan went looking for authenticity

"...school, Presidio Hill. It was founded by these feminist poets in the Twenties as an alternative arts school. Consequently,..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

"...Hannah, who intrudes omnisciently through Eagle Lake's preachers and poets, documents Mortimer's transition from bad to worst with a..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

The World Goes 'Round

With The World Goes 'Round, director Dave Steakley has crafted a gem of a show, one that celebrates the musical team of John Kander and Fred Ebb with the panache and rich feeling of a beautifully crafted, sublimely entertaining musical of old, that makes us want us to come to the cabaret.

"...Kander & Ebb are by no means the only songwriters who can bring together salt tears and sugar sentiment..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

TV Eye

The legend of James Dean, and TNT's take on it

"...Cause), the documentary is obviously influenced by the Beat poets, mired as it is in a Beat sensibility that..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Vortex Summer Youth Theatre production of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac plays up the comic elements of the story, mostly to good effect, without ever losing touch with its romantic theatricality and verve.

"...are well used in a variety of roles, as poets, theatre patrons, nuns, actors, cadets, bakers, and other members..."

July 20, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

In Person

"When I was talking to my wife about coming to speak at the conference I told her that I expected to be pelted with rotten tomatoes," environmental journalist Michael Pollan said at the opening session of the Organic Trade Association's (OTA) first annual All Things Organic Conference & Trade Show, held in Austin last week. "She said, 'Well, at least they'll be really good, organic tomatoes. Hopefully, Muir Glen.'"

"...how a gene gun functions, Carl Sagan's (and other writers') insights into the nature of a pot high, the..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Maria Hong

The Secret History

That a man from San Antonio named Richard Santos has as much to add to the world of Jewish intellectual pursuits as an attorney named Rosen is as fascinating as it should be obvious, David Garza writes after he attended the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual gathering. For the first time, perhaps, an entirely constructive revision may be taking place in the history of those we call the "people of the Book."

"...progress and duties of Iberian society. Jewish philosophers and poets such as Maimonedes and Yehuda ha-Levi flourish. Then come..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

Postscripts

The eighth annual Texas Writers Month begins in a few days.

"...Texas Writers Month..."

April 27, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde

"...cold-water flats and furnished basement rooms." Many jazz musicians, poets, performers, and artists in New York existed as outsiders..."

April 20, 2001 Books Review by Dale Smith

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

"...currently the Poet Laureate), is one of the featured poets, as are David Watts, an NPR commentator and author..."

April 6, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

"...Unacknowledged LegislationWriters in the Public Sphere..."

March 23, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

Numerous and Curious Tongues

What two new books -- Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America by Jacqueline Barnitz and Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico by Olivier Debroise -- arrive at, like the most chaotic of the Mexican murals, is a body of work that is crammed full of dissonant faces and lives while telling a seductive tale in numerous and curious tongues.

"...elements creates an aesthetic not unlike those explored by poets like Darío and the Cuban Jose Martí...."

March 16, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...still remains one of the top tickets for performance poets across North America, and this year's lineup crams a..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Postscripts

Why dull people make witty writers and other mysteries in this week's Postscripts.

"...Austin to speak about writing and researching biography. "Most writers' lives are sadly lacking in drama," Kiernan has said...."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Theatrical Fuse

Writer and performer Zell Miller III is an incendiary device waiting for a match, and once he flicks an ember into the hidden dry undergrowth of text, there is nowhere to hide. And the good news is that he has only begun to explode.

"...1993, to MadIzm, his one-man show, to mentoring young poets, to Frontera's production of Sharon Bridgforth's con flama, once..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Real Estate and Perfect Mates

The Year in Austin Culture

"...3. Theatre Companies, Artists, Writers, Film-makers, Poets, and Coffee-drinkers Matter, and even the cynics..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Will Anybody Ever Love Neal Medlyn?

For vulnerable performer Neal Medlyn, Dork = Cool.

"...and reportedly incurred the wrath of several prominent local poets who didn't care for Medlyn's mode of expression. One..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist

"...worked to locate their own activities alongside those of poets and other courtiers and intellectuals. Ames-Lewis devotes considerable space..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the Thirties

"...odd mix of piety and Darwinism, castigated by starving poets, such as Baudelaire, and analyzed in terms of its..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Pio Pulido

Brave enough to use symbols like the butterfly, the flower, the heart, the egg, and the dove, Austin artist Pio Pulido also proves in his new exhibition at the Dougherty Arts Center that he is wily enough to find new energies in these tired subjects.

"...the black keratin bones of the wing. Artists and poets who see nature as a beauty pageant forget the..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Mary Karr Reviewed

"...high school setting that might be summarized as Beatnik Poets v. the Square Principal, the scene quickly becomes experimental..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Books Feature

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...notions of sex and solitude, expressed and exalted by poets like Xavier Villaurrutia: "La muerte toma siempre la forma..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Another Beauty

"...this statement with dry political science: "This is why poets should always endorse a parliamentary system with an expanded..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Review by Lissa Richardson

CinemaTexas

Photos and award winners from Cinematexas5

"...Artistic Director's Awards for Poets of Cinema..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature

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