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TV Eye
PBS delivers the goods.
"...conjunto and Tex-Mex music, Accordion Dreams is a useful primer. But what carries this work by Austin-based Galán is..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

MP3 for Dummies
"...what they are apart from songs, then this little primer's for you...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

"...it all by "Sexy Daddy," Survivor is a superb primer of 21st-century girl talk, and lifting that Knight Rider..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

The Kinks
"...The Kinks' BBC Sessions serves as an excellent two-disc primer for one of the all-time brilliant British rock groups...."

July 13, 2001 Music Review by Kent H. Benjamin

Right Man for the Job
Charlie Robison says 'fuck everybody.'
"...a page, the feature served as an excellent Robison primer: His wife is a Dixie Chick, his brother Bruce..."

June 29, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Asleep at the Wheel
"...Very Best of; it's an Asleep at the Wheel primer. If you're already ass-deep in Asleep, get The Best..."

June 29, 2001 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Now Serving ... Time
Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation
"...expert, like Loftus, who can offer the jurors a primer on how eyewitnesses make mistakes. "But that's still dicey,..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Food-o-File
Why two new books that cover the basics of waiting tables are so necessary.
"...in increasing their take-home pay could use as a primer or refresher course. The Waiting Game is so highly..."

March 30, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File
Local foodies who are traveling for food, and an update on the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival.
"...Seasons Hotel and a Spanish Regional Cheese & Wine Primer and booksigning at the Granite Cafe. The festival winds..."

March 23, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Coach's Corner
A guide for the younger generation: Sick of hearing about Woodstock? Recreate all of its dubious glories at this year's Super Bowl party.
"...a little new to this thing, accept this elementary primer...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
"...for the curious reader than an explicit survey or primer might. Too often, surveys of art attempt to achieve..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

It's the Media, Stupid
"...should look to It's the Media, Stupid for a primer...."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Review by Lee Nichols

Barbecue! Bible: Sauces, Rubs and Marinades, Bastes, Butters & Glazes
"...For example, the section on rubs begins with a primer on salt, including the role of salt in culinary..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Food Review by Mick Vann

America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives
"...book is too scattershot to make it an effective primer on recent U.S. history, though Walker writes smoothly and..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

Twenty Ads That Shook the World: The Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How It Changed Us All
"..."ring around the collar"). Twenty Ads is an excellent primer for learning more about the strategies that have affected..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Books Review

B.B. King Making Love Is Good for You (MCA)
B.B. King & Eric Clapton Riding With the King (Reprise)
Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes Live at the Greek (TVT)
National Records
"..."She's My Baby." A.C. Reed's humorous, Musical Economics 101 primer, "I'm in the Wrong Business," is a welcome stroke..."

July 14, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Herbie Hancock, One World Theatre, May 27
"...World Theatre, Herbie Hancock could have played beginning piano primer "Chopsticks" for 90 minutes and the ebullient audience would..."

June 9, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Suzanne Vega, One World Theatre, May 20
"...by only a bassist, next plunged into quantum mechanics primer "Small Blue Thing" and the mouth-watering "Caramel." Pausing, Vega..."

May 26, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

MotherKind
"...and pulses, memories and fear. So MotherKind is a primer for our own appointment with death, also a commemoration..."

May 12, 2000 Books Review by Debra Monroe

Fanning the Flames
Did TV News Reports Jeopardize Out Youth Austin's Partnership With AISD?
"...Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation & Youth, A Primer for Principals, Educators & School Personnel. The pamphlet was..."

March 24, 2000 News Feature by Suzy Spencer

Introducing American Politics
"...at a high-school and college-level audience, this slim, illustration-heavy primer on politics American-style gives a very rudimentary introduction to..."

March 10, 2000 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Council Watch
sos board votes no on the proposed bradley settlement
"...for local control. The memo serves more as a primer on Austin's development regulation history than as a position..."

March 3, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

After a Fashion
A scandal in the modeling business?! Gasp!
"...tales of its seamy side: Gia's story is a primer of how not to survive the modeling business, and..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Male
"...the post-"post-feminist" world, Susan Faludi's Backlash was an invaluable primer on the history of the feminist movement and what..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Review by Erica C. Barnett

Everywhere Is War
A beginner's discography to Rock en Español
"...°Reconquista! The Latin Rock Invasion is Rhino's best musical primer, concentrating on the hail of guitar fire from this..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Our Lying Eyes
A New Revelation, like its predecessor, Waco: Rules of Engagement, will face an uphill climb with the intellectual and political establishment.
"...My book, The Ashes of Waco -- today the primer and book of record about the events of Waco..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Dick J. Reavis

Book Reviews
"...its compactness and matter-of-factness, and it makes a decent primer on this monumental, even essential, American personality. Inevitably, however,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Media Clips
The Daily Texan student newspaper celebrates 100 years in publication as two former editors publish a book on the Texan's history.
"...university professor tenure" -- it is, nonetheless, an important primer on lessons that were hard-won. The Texan today enjoys..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Postscripts
"...Griffin, takes another approach: It is very specific, a primer of sorts for anyone who must endure a family..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Off the Bookshelf
End of an Age
"...in the importance of "show, don't tell," and a primer on the value of a good copy editor.--Adrienne Martini..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Books Review

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