How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

"...the logic that has allowed sprawl to take over prime agricultural land that in many places has prime topsoil..."

May 4, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...DIXIE WITCH: This power trio is Denton's prime entry in the burgeoning Texas School of Big Dumb..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Tito Puente The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 1 (BMG)

"...school at 16 to play professionally. One of the prime movers behind Latin music's big splash in post-WWII America,..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by David Lynch

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...Now that more of the new prime-time shows have hit the small screen, it's interesting to..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A Night at the Opera

Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.

"...completed, PBS refused to put the film in their prime-time schedule. They didn't care for it, and don't much..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Time Regained

"...depraved Baron de Charlus and Beart as Gilberte, Marcel's prime artistic muse and the object of his thwarted desire...."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Psycho Beach Party

This campy send-up of surf and slasher movies uses Gidget movies as its comic template.

"...dead. Chicklet, who suffers from multiple personalities, is a prime suspect. Whenever she sees circles, this sweet-16 tomboy turns..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Space Cowboys

"...setup many times before. Geezers, 40 years past their prime, are obliged to undertake a dangerous mission for which..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Straight Out the Trailer

Examining the current overwhelming white trash influence in popular culture

"...routinely crush their TV competition. And the three hottest prime-time show of the past year? ABC's Who Wants to..."

July 28, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...here is questionable, Hilgers says, but the location is prime. Though we're in what's known as "far East Austin,"..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Return of Wayne Douglas

A flood of posthumous Doug Sahm CDs, both old and new, hits record stores

"...Cajun sessions. Capturing the band in their raw, unwashed prime, complete with matching suits and Brian Jones haircuts, both..."

June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

After a Fashion

Wimberley has small-town style in spades.

"...It is. The Square and its adjacent properties are prime shopping. Needless to say, much of what is bought..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Small Time Crooks

"...gags are hilarious (the burst water main being the prime example), while others (like Allen's repeated attempts to surreptitiously..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coach's Corner

David Stern knows less about fixing the NBA than Coach knows about fixing a car.

"...you the wrong part. Which leads directly to The Prime Directive of Fixing: After some time, effort, and frustration..."

May 5, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Dancing About Architecture

Dynamite Hack goes prime-time; Atomic Cafe hangs in there; the Old Settler's Music Festival is upon us.

"...the familiar faces of Austin's Dynamite Hack on the prime-time show Farm Club. Actually, it comes on at 10pm..."

April 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...RONNY COX: A prime candidate for SXSW left-fielder of the year, presently Ronny..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

A Big Word With a Small "A"

Sue Graze leads an organization that works to bring the visual arts to the entire Lone Star State. She talks with Rebecca Cohen about her first year directing the Texas Fine Arts Association.

"...new building helps a lot. It's located in a prime spot and it's not intimidating. Before, I'm sure people..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Omega Code

"...moments like this and we might've had ourselves a prime, creepo-camp party renter a la The Omen. As it..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

TV Eye

Chick dramas: we just don't get it; also, what to watch this witching weekend

"...reading some of the ink spilled over the new prime-time offerings and some returning favorites. Shows like Providence, Judging..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Dancing About Architecture

Is the new Sir Douglas Quintet collection is from the original masters? Doug Sahm makes the final call. Also, Michael Nesmith, Junior and Tanya Rae Brown, and Clifford Antone updates.

"...Best of Freddy Fender, has also just released The Prime of Sir Douglas Quintet, which has Bentley in a..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Three to Tango

"...as one of the most likable, charming men on prime time, Matthew Perry couldn't pick a good acting vehicle..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

TV Eye

From Ethel Mertz to Margaret Cho, we examine how the small screen has portrayed big women; also, a look at Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.

"...recent complaints by Latino and African-American organizations that network prime time lacks diversity, Cho's story illustrates, from a first-person..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Mystery, Alaska

"...is all Kelley's territory, I suspect, he of the prime-time earnestness and treacly storylines, though Roach does his bit..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Hear the networks scraping the bottom of the barrel ...

"...set out to do is look at the fall prime-time schedules and make some calls on what looks good,..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Ignacio Elejaide. Bossa Cubana culls material from the group's prime, when they wowed audiences (including in Paris, the Beatles)..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Use Only as Directed

Patenting the Formula

"...pipeline last year are likewise not ready for council prime time. As jaded city dwellers, we're supposed to be..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

An Ideal Husband

The Oscar Wilde drama about deceit and honor is presented by a solid cast.

"...Robert's ascendancy from the House of Commons into the Prime Minister's cabinet is destined. However, in Victorian England (especially..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Day Trips

"...recharge zone. The group had targeted 30,000 acres of prime real estate in northern Bexar County for preservation, much..."

May 14, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Uncut

"...young men in 1979 Ottawa. In this absurdist storyline, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is stalked, and people communicate nonverbally..."

April 9, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Spirit of Mid-Season

"...WB), and Everything's Relative(4/6, NBC). Big Moment is another prime-time game show for ABC, which already carries Whose Line..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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