missed you too much

"...of a full week. saturday sucked. saturday was beautiful and amazing for the group as a whole -- most..."

Oct. 15, 2007 Promotions Post

My Child, My Child, My Alien Child

My Child, My Child, My Alien Child reveals poet-performer Zell Miller III in Richard Pryor mode, spinning tales of fatherhood in richly comic, broadly accessible style

"...outset of My Child, My Child, My Alien Child, and in the solo performance that follows, his reactions to..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Stadium Devildare

The Rude Mechanicals' Stadium Devildare, from a script by Ruth Margraff, offers a muscle-bound riff on reality game shows and superpatriotism, but its torrents of text eventually leave the brain numb

"...say can you see ... anything but red, white, and blue? Probably not, if your eyes are trained on..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

TV Eye

How to resolve conflict? Japanese import Iron Chef has the right idea.

"...group removed their suit coats, rolled up their sleeves, and began to fight. Whoever was left standing won "the..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

In Pro Arts Collective's admirable production of Having Our Say, the intimacy of the performing space and warmth of the show's two actresses make the experiences of the centenarian Delany sisters -- and the history they have lived -- come alive in a remarkably personal way.

"...perhaps you think of monarchs in countries long ago and far away, epic struggles for power in courts of..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Nina Simone, Bass Concert Hall, October 30

"...to Austin for its 2000-01 season, the legendary vocalist and civil rights activist having made her home in France..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Fox at 10

TV Eye

"...coup against the ABC (Ch 3), CBS (Ch 5) and NBC (Ch 4) networks...."

April 11, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

American Buffets: In Defense of Gluttony Golden Hometown Family Stockade

"...the so-called New World in their own chosen image. And while their dogma was one of do-unto-others, their M.O...."

Sept. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

Learning to Love Austin FC's Roster Through Their Native Cuisines

International players' kitchen

"...Prayers have been answered. Chants have been written, rewritten, and belted out in preparation for their official debut. At..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Adam Wood

In the Room

First-place winner

"...rattles deep beneath a tufted quilt of bagel-sized manboobs and an earthtone layer of Eddie Bauer winter-wear. The elevator..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Raul Garza

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...with members of A Giant Dog, the Strange Boys, and brat pack leader Orville Bateman Neeley III, a prolific..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...affair for the members of Minneapolis' Lynhurst. Brothers Matt and Jake and sis Mari extrapolate the heartbreak of those..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Roy Head

I Wanna Tell You a Story

"...McClinton to Grady Gaines, the list is big, bad, and nationwide, and Roy Head's name should be chiseled in..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...It's all over and I'm standing pretty..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Rare Bird

From her office vantage point, beside the rosy glow of the majestic Capitol dome, 78-year-old feminist, political powerhouse, and gay rights lobbyist Bettie Naylor keeps a watchful eye over the doings at the legislature

"...the imposing memorials to Confederate war veterans, volunteer firemen, and the hardy stock of pioneer women who settled this..."

June 3, 2005 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Walk Like Cleto

H-town's Chingo Bling slings tamale beats

"...The oversized football jersey, diamond-studded braces on his teeth, and hubcap-sized medallion around his neck with his name emblazoned..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Antone's, this dynamic, climbing toward a dozen members horn- and percussion-driven Latin powerhouse has developed into one of the..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

The ARA Faces the Music

For the Austin Revitalization Authority, Eastside renewal proves to be a long, slow dance

"...Back when she was a liberal Democrat and the mayor of Austin, Carole Keeton McClellan (now the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...more harm than good to Texas families" is unfounded and that the process tries to ensure that permanently removing..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...people who have much to criticize about daily life and its shortcomings in America, such as myself, have taken..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...infinitely more to every play than meets the eye, and that innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...to take over the world. The album is an outstanding collection of songs that inject rock & roll lifeblood..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Making Lists

"...decisions. When he cannot go back to the village and display his prizes, in pride or in scorn, he..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Naked City

Off the Desk

"...being, the feud over the future of the state-owned land, which nearly went the way of big-box retail developments..."

July 31, 1998 News Feature

Cum On Feel the Noize

The New Dessau Music Hall

"...by John Carrico The Dessau Music Hall used to stand in the middle of nowhere. Now it stands in..."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

It's Hard to Say

Hating Speech at UT

"...with the issue of free speech in all its glory and ugliness. Pro-Hopwood Law Professor Lino Graglia's not-so-nice comments..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Marc Levin

Amor Prohibido

Selena's Crossover Dream

"...Como la flor... Like the flower that dazzles and delights with its beauty and can brighten the most..."

June 28, 1996 Books Feature

How Austin's Theatrical Couples Keep Romance Alive Love's Labors Won

"...to romance. Get within the walls of a playhouse and, as at camp, you're outside the boundaries of daily..."

Feb. 9, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...SXSW Film has always been up with comedy, and a quick skim of the just-released feature lineup shows..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...half is explosion. The town grows into a city and then into a big city, known to people worldwide...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

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