Beside the Point: An Open Letter to Rich Oppel

Sometimes it's hard not to agree with Rich Oppel

"...through your editorials and Sunday columns, I was as shocked as anyone. Not necessarily at the things you were..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Miller's Tale

Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'

"..."Somehow the Lord took care of me."You Shocked My Modesty!..."

July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

On Death Row: Texas' 'Law of Parties'

Kenneth Foster's capital case highlights arbitrary state law

"...Brown got back in the car, we were all shocked," Steen wrote in an affidavit. "Even Brown looked shocked...."

July 6, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Friday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...Love, is scheduled for 2007. – Michael Bertin Michelle Shocked..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Wooly Bully

Simple, the 2006/2007 Austin Music Awards

"...another pair of special guests, Carrie Rodriguez and Michelle Shocked. Offering a taste of Kooyman's charitable radio venture, the..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar yawns at the Grammys and gets a dry cut

"...I'm sure we all know the details. But I'm shocked (shocked, I tell you!) to be reading that the..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

God Bless This Mess

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Doug Block's '51 Birch Street'

"...Filmmaker Doug Block, as the still shell-shocked best man at his father's wedding, articulates the reaction..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Election 2006

The latest from the campaign trail

"..."Now he thinks he's Jesse Jackson," he said. "He's shocked by comments about people of color – that really..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature

The Wicker Man

Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.

"...dearth of comedy in my lifetime. If the giggly shocked expression that blossomed on my face while watching LaBute's..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twelve and Holding

This disturbing but emotionally authentic story about adolescent life treats its subjects with bravery and compassion.

"...think as a parent I was supposed to be shocked by it, but I wasn’t: Grim and challenging though..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...recalls. "I said 12 hours at most. He looked shocked and started to cry." Family and friends were summoned;..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Saddened but Not Shocked by Jackson CountyDear Editor,..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column

Grizzly Man

This documentary reveals how Timothy Treadwell, the popular grizzly bear preservationist, may have needed the bears more than they needed him.

"...live in harmony with nature, and tend to be shocked when nature doesn’t play fair. Veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thursday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Austin City Limits taping from 2001. – Jim CaligiuriMICHELLE SHOCKED11pm, Cactus Cafe The venerable folkie will be all over..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Point Austin: The Usual Suspects

On trying my best to be scandalized by the Comptroller's report on the CTRMA

"...The comptroller is shocked, simply shocked – and she points, by contrast, to..."

March 18, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...lovingly rendered (it’s CGI) and abrupt enough to elicit shocked howls of laughter. Then there’s this year's pièce de..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saw

Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.

"..."It’s got to be a parody, right?" camp and shocked silence broken only by the grinding of molars as..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Catwoman

The fur flies as Halle Berry tempts us in leather.

"...a lusty alley cat on the prowl, you’re a shell-shocked veteran of the workplace wars, mousey, mad, or (briefly)..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Homeland Security = Ridiculous Measures

"...away from me? It sounds so silly, but I'm shocked. I'm really shocked. I mean, I didn't have any..."

July 12, 2004 Postmarks

Maybe Tomorrow Will Be Better

"...for the first time in 10 years and was shocked by how dense everything has become. After seeing Michael..."

July 6, 2004 Postmarks

The Death of Ben Brownlee

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

"...him out," said 17-year-old Francis Manning, but she was shocked to hear that he'd actually gone through with it...."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

News Top Tens

"...obligation to register as a lobbyist (incorrect), and was shocked ... shocked! ... to discover a big corporation using..."

Jan. 2, 2004 News Feature

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."(Making the Run to) Gladewater," Michelle Shocked..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

X2: X-Men United

"...one young X-Man outs his mutant self to his shocked, suburban, steadfastly "normal" parents. Says Mom, "Have you tried..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gambling? What Gambling?

Allergic to taxes, the Lege tries to balance the budget with the rolls of the dice.

"...balance to the tune of $2.9 billion. (Lawmakers were shocked, shocked to find there are smoke-and-mirrors going on here.)..."

May 2, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Something Someone Someplace Else

Like so many characters in American drama, the folks in Ann Marie Healey's Something Someone Someplace Else are trying to measure the distance between the life they have and the life they want, and Hyde Park Theatre's world premiere production is so rich in humor and warmth that we feel no distance between them and us.

"...big city, both staring ahead in silence, the same shell-shocked expression on their faces. It's the stupefied look of..."

April 18, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Bloody Sunday

"...IRA. Indeed, in one of the film's last shots, shell-shocked young men are seen lining up to enlist. No..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Ring

An urban myth about a videotape that causes the death of anyone who watches it is given a good workout in this American remake of the Japanese horror sensation.

"...a morgue. Still, she registers the encroaching horrors with shocked eyes, and her maternal instinct (playing to the terrific..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

God's Own Reps

"...of Houston) or A&M. DeLay said his daughter was shocked to discover there are coed dorms at A&M (although..."

April 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Hightower's Hoedown

Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour kicks off in Austin.

"...goal. During an evening-capping performance by Texas-born singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked, he stood behind the stage, talking with a couple..."

March 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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