Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League

Record review

"...with the rest of Bobby's world-view and offers a shrewd glimpse into someone who's an immense influence. (Bobby Bare..."

July 9, 2004 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

After a Fashion

Stephen gets all gushy when he poshes it up in Houston – sort of like The Simple Life, but backward.

"...is not only witty and engaging, but she's as shrewd and clever as she is beautiful and gracious –..."

April 2, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Big Fat Independent Movies

Sending Off SXSW Film 04

"...to the man's short, intense life and the insanely shrewd comedy that filled it. Hills and Hicks' other old..."

March 26, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Top 10 Shows in 2003 That Shed Light in a Dark Year

"...and slapstick with grace, but he also revealed a shrewd grasp of Shakespeare's characters, which his cast embodied with..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Standing by Stanley

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.

"...to carry the torch, and Kramer has made a shrewd yet tender career out of doing so...."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and line up financing through honest means is simply shrewd and not "bottom-feeding" as you described it. While I'm..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

GREAT TEXAS MOVIE CO. GOOD FOR MARBLE FALLS

"...and line up financing through honest means is simply shrewd and not "bottom-feeding" as you described it. While I'm..."

Aug. 5, 2003 Postmarks

Alton Brown Is Coming to Town

"...and Stephen Hawking. His show, Good Eats, provides a shrewd mix of slapstick, subtle cultural humor, and hard-edged science...."

March 28, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Gurf Morlix was integral to its greasy grooves and shrewd wordplay, but be warned, Growl also contains an anthem..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...That's what some very shrewd citizens are counting on, in fact banking on. To..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...That's what some very shrewd citizens are counting on, in fact banking on. To..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Column

News/Print

"...at McSweeney's online or at independent bookstores, in a shrewd little business move), there might end up being some..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

O Brother

How a bluegrass soundtrack turned out to be the biggest music business success story since Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction.

"...O Brother mania is more likely the product of shrewd marketing, subtle mass peer pressure (euphemistically called "word of..."

July 19, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera

"...may be an inveterate philanderer, but he's also a shrewd businessman and an unceasingly hard worker. Of course, he's..."

March 29, 2002 Music Review by Clay Smith

Blog to the Future

Where P2P might be taking journalism, or not

"...by about 20 years. Searles made a number of shrewd comments about weblogs crossing the threshold between vanity press..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...The Cry Pitch Carrolls; Critics Table award, curst & Shrewd...."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston

Texas Platters

"...hilarious. And if you want to see just how shrewd Mr. Johnston is, pop the disc into your computer..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Pirate Jane

Pirate legends, it seems, are the last bastion of childhood, the stuff of imagination for all ages, Margaret Moser writes. And the faces behind the fierceness were not necessarily men.

"...her view of distaff life on the water is shrewd and unglamorous. She focuses less on the lurid notion..."

July 13, 2001 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Interactive Festival

The young and the geek-chic

"...error of mistaking fantasy for reality. Ashe made some shrewd comments about micro-billing problems on the Web. She claimed..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

The Future's So Bright ...

Johnston High School has problems with grades, attendance, dropouts, a magnet program resented by the host school, and a high turnover rate among principals. Will new principal Sal Cavazos stay and can he make a difference?

"...air as he makes his point, a look of shrewd conviction firmly planted on his face. "I believe the..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Looking to the Future

"...and bullshit," Kreth says. In the future, he says, shrewd companies will stop treating people like anonymous consumers and..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...them tick. In this regard, Burns has been pretty shrewd about the way he's put Jazz together...."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Real Estate and Perfect Mates

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Taking on Austin's blazing real estate market, Tomlinson made shrewd observations on neighborhood character and used his expert understanding..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Martha Stewart Living: Home For the Holidays (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia/Rhino)
Rosie O'Donnell & Friends Another Rosie Christmas (Sony)

Christmas Records

"...the world Martha Stewart, that word is most likely "shrewd." She takes simple ideas and items and turns them..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Word of Mouth Tour, Stubb's, October 25

"...backing up his claim to world-class freestyler status with shrewd references to Stubb's and the Longhorns, a colorful duet..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Quitting the Nairobi Trio

"...was supposed to be" is priceless. Knipfel is a shrewd observer, with some interesting commentary to make. Just don't..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward

Texas Music Group

TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.

"...in the side of Geissler and Ward and a shrewd ally for her clients. Her main requirement is that..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...fringe of lashes, and his blue eyes seemed very shrewd as they stared at my tits...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...work again and again, in Pale Idiot, curst & Shrewd, Ubu Roi, Lust Supper, Crucks, Salivation, don b's Snow..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wide Open Heart

Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.

"...into a full-time vocation for Williams, thanks to a shrewd scheme involving a major urban public transportation hub and..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

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