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The libraries hit the books, and environmentalists speak out.

"...Austin spends about $22 per person on library services. Seattle spends almost $60...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Solis to the antics of such modern harlequins as Seattle's Big Poppa E and Chicago's Shappy. Texas is represented..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

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Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...Seattle, WA..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Christmastime comes to Austin.

"...Asleep at the Wheel (who are everywhere at all times), Shawn Colvin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Marcia Ball, Kelly Willis,..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Hightower Lowdown

The Firestone Tire / Ford conspiracy; genetically engineered corn and StarLink; WTO's complaints about citizens

"...the WTO's anti-democratic policies at its 1999 meeting in Seattle. The New York Times reports that the leaders still..."

Nov. 17, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

Six Degrees of Ron Berry

With another acting job in a new play, his own new theatre about to open, his own stage company that champions theatre as something fun as well as substantive, and a lot of friends to help him make "good stuff" onstage, is Ron Berry the Happiest Man in Austin?

"...stage. They were smiling and looking over the audience, sometimes speaking quietly to each other. Before sitting down, I..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...and don't lack for disposable income. They live in Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Boston, Charleston, Baltimore – everywhere but..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

David E. Kelley is one of the most gifted and powerful television writers of the late Nineties : so why is he wasting his talents on trips around the belly buttons of the most self-obsessed, spoiled creatures ever created for the small screen?

"...The second scenario makes me crazy. How many times has a person of color been the tacitly understood..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Neither Fish nor Fowl

"...I've mentioned fish or aquatic life forms maybe four times in my career has indelibly marked me as a..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Spontaneous Composition

"...Hartnett had checked out McCarter spinning DJ-style a few times, while McCarter would often go to hear Hartnett's one-man,..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Exhibitionism

"...Consider Seattle artist Erik John Geschke's installation sculpture A Victim of..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Review

Record Reviews

"...(who is unfortunately too quiet in the mix at times) found two other musicians talented enough to plumb these..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

Bittersweet Ending

Notes From the Republican Revolution

"...It's times like these when you find out who your friends..."

Nov. 6, 1998 News Feature

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Think Positive

"...Street in Cincinnati, the Gaslight District in San Diego, Seattle's Market Place, Detroit, Phoenix, Toledo, El Paso, Portland, Hollywood......"

May 8, 1998 Column

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...women who become obsessed with hunting down the unsubs, sometimes to the detriment of their own marriages, families, and..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Brain Boom

Austin's Techno Geeks and Slackers Cash In

"...cash in technology are still in Silicon Valley and Seattle. "We're the third-tier brain trust and we got both..."

March 20, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Only the Beginning

Wednesday Night SXSW "Sleepers"

"...SXSW pull-out section, there will be three or four times as many "Picks and Sleepers," twice as many "SXSW..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...receive for his contributions to American folklore, it can sometimes be hard to tell exactly how he accomplished it...."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Please Try This at Home

Local Cookbooks Bring Ethnic Food Traditions to You

"...that she can possibly use, cull through them several times, then test the most likely candidates with her sister..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Record Reviews

"...their sirens' call, guiding us surrealistically through the vast, sometimes dense, multi-textured dubscape. When you peel away all those..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...Haggard not helped one iota by the fact that Seattle's princes of punk discovered Don Walser and Willie Nelson..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...firmly entrenched in Soundgarden territory (remember when the now-defunct Seattle band's manager, Susan Silver, was helping them out?). While..."

May 23, 1997 Music Review

What's Anchoring Neal?

Spelce's Ninth Wave Hangs Ten With Charles Kuralt

"...and ran on the CBS Evening News about 30 times a year. And although Spelce says he was looking..."

April 4, 1997 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

Search & Destroy

Pages That Rock

"...Stone -- an encyclopedia of modern music for modern times. Out with CSNY, in with the Minutemen. There is..."

March 14, 1997 Books Feature

Xenophobia?

International Acts at SXSW

"...up. Verse chorus. Verse chorus. Add an introspective line. "Sometimes too much knowledge is a curse." Another song? Okay,..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

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Overhyped Roadshows

"...of good-but-not-that-good road shows stifle some pretty good and sometimes great homegrown music? As manager of a local rock..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Column

Musings on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

"...Edward Klein. Klein was editor-in-chief at the New York Times Magazine and knew Jackie for eight years. He met..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Books Feature

The Connection of Merce Cunningham and John Cage Chance

"...or literally the flipping of a coin, which he sometimes uses to decide the order in which to place..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Arts Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...nothing to do - but the movie is funny, sometimes side-splittingly so. And that's all that really matters, isn't..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Java Amping

Austin's Coffeehouse Circuit

"...the recent invasion of the squeaky clean minions of Seattle's Starbucks. If you count all the mall and campus..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Music Feature

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