One Night on Red River

Darcie Stevens returns to the live music beat – for just one night – on Red River

"...3) The country is in shambles. Bank accounts are drained; gas costs up to $2..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Bicycles, Roses, and Survivors

The Lance Armstrong Foundation and the spirit of its founder

"...to find the LAF in a bit of a shambles...."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Burly-Q Confidential

"...a bastion of relatively innocent carnality that fell to shambles as the sexual liberation of the Sixties opened up..."

July 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Flea in Her Ear

Seeing actor David Stokey in the Mary Moody Northen Theatre production of A Flea in Her Ear, carrying off the spectacle of a man whose life has utterly unwound for the most preposterous of reasons, provides a refreshing reminder of the pleasures of farce.

"...have happened to -- devolve into a wobbling, slack-jawed shambles is a devilish delight...."

Oct. 3, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

The Hole in the Wall closes.

"...face harsh reality. There was irreverence, too; of the shambles the Hole staff seemed to be in, regular Don..."

July 5, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Coach's Corner

The abuse heaped on Ken Caminiti for his Sports Illustrated expose on steroid abuse is disgraceful. Actually, he's done the game a favor by shining a light on the situation.

"...target: an admitted substance-abuse guy with a life in shambles. It's disgraceful. Piling on a crippled messenger who can't..."

June 7, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...good excuses for why the city finances are in shambles following one of the longest runs of prosperity in..."

April 26, 2002 Column

Primary Numbers Crunched Here

A breakdown of the voting in the March 12 primary election

"...of our own devise. Redistricting left our system a shambles, but the Lege did us a favor by dividing..."

March 22, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Fall Book Reviews

"...to as the Apocalypse, Baker's actions left lives in shambles and marriages in dust, which is not Buddha nature,..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Summer Reading

"...Empire. Her story of a shimmering Constantinople in political shambles is nearly as absorbing as her story of Halide's..."

July 27, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Coach's Corner

"...Extra Guide." It's now dog-eared and lying in a shambles beside her chair. During the two-hour telecast she compulsively..."

July 20, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Cinema of the Americas

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

"...this: Besides leaving the country in economic and political shambles, Fidel Castro's regime has served to destroy the basic..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Feature by David Garza

Deep Blues From Gatesville

Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?

"...Department of Criminal Justice, when their lives are in shambles and their families, at least the ones without much..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Letters at 3AM

If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.

"...his gutting of federal habeas corpus ... the utter shambles of American foreign policy ... the deification of the..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

A Question of Equity

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

"...one of Equity's darkest hours: Union finances were a shambles, and it had been forced to raise the minimum..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Postscripts

The kind of ghosts the first writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House hopes to encounter and details on how to sign up for the Austin Public Library's Summer Reading Program.

"...Kyle. It was vacant then and "kind of in shambles," Falcon says, but still, they thought it might be..."

June 2, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Coach's Corner

Coach can't hit a wedge shot, or make a putt, but he's trying.

"...contracted. Every facet of my "game" was in total shambles...."

June 2, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

After a Fashion

A fetish club turned into a fashion catwalk at Atomic Cafe's recent fashion show.

"...Diaz's productions. For a production that was reportedly in shambles that afternoon, it came off relatively problem-free, at least..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Coach's Corner

Coach weighs in on UT men's basketball (still lacks reliable offense), Super Bowk 34 (the Tennessee Titans should take it in an upset), and Bobby Phills' fatal car crash (tragic, but it was after all his own fault, and at least he didn't kill any innocent bystanders).

"...Bobby Phills is dead. A young family is in shambles. They'll bear the emotional scars of the car crash..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"..."When I bought the place it was in shambles," he says," And we completely remodeled it. Gutted it,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Coach's Corner

In this year's Super Bowl: Rams vs. Titans?

"...can't beat my NFL forecast. After five weeks, well, "shambles" only underscores the limitations of the King's English. It's..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

"...Steamboat 1874 is dead. Officially. The club is a shambles thanks to its loving patrons!..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column

James St. James' Disco Bloodbath

"...days of New York's trendy club nightlife were in shambles by the mid-Nineties. The scene had self-destructed slowly since..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Review by Margaret Moser

Buried in Scandal

SCI and the Money Trail

"...August of 1996, May took over an agency in shambles. The agency's previous director had left a few weeks..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The ACM Machine

Assistant City Managers Outlive Rumors of Their Demise

"...is of critical importance to the city. Still, the shambles of Lessard's days overseeing the Austin Police Department cannot..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Postmarks

DeWitty Center Helpful

"...dollar has left our society and those cultures in shambles. And yet, with NAFTA, we will soon "bless" another..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Column

Coach's Corner

"...raping someone at gunpoint. His personal life is in shambles. He's now treated as a poisonous three-eyed rat by..."

June 13, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Dennis, are invited over for drinks, while the cobbled-together shambles of George and Martha's life fall apart over the..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The Rockets' Red Glare...

"...while others found the whole "performance" to be a shambles, unfocused both in its message and execution; apart from..."

April 4, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

This Magic Moment

15 Years of the Austin Music Awards

"...sort of involved myself. I thought it was a shambles backstage the first year and I sort of went..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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