Coach's Corner

Odds and ends: David Stern … Drew Bledsoe … KevinGarnett … Rick Reilly … and more.

"...move the Hornets -- a once-model franchise that Shinn single-handedly destroyed -- to another city. An accountant yes. A..."

May 3, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...Currently a San Antonio resident (and not surprisingly a good friend of those other Central Texas genre..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Aidan's Bed: Soda In Need of Proper Handling

Blake Yelavich's new play Aidan's Bed is like a bottle of soda, fizzling and popping with characters who are laughable, wry, and sardonic, but the author's uneven direction of his own play proves that even the best soda can go flat without proper handling.

"...When HBO began airing Sex and the City in 1998, a rumor circulated that the show was..."

March 23, 2001 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Articulations

Big career moves for a couple of Austin playwrights and big parties thrown by a couple of Austin arts organizations.

"...are chosen to spend a 12-month residency in Minnesota using center services, including readings and workshops with professional directors,..."

March 2, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...Put it this way: If New Orleans is the city of sin, the Neville Brothers double-dipped. Those tales --..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...to Mexico in the revolution and the post-revolutionary period. Since I was very young -- a teen, or maybe..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...further for them than anyone else in the book business. Attending an event planned by Hamrick and his staff..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...Work is a sin. Work is for suckers. No boring leisure! Celebrate the..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Food Poems

If reading this collection of haiku poems with a food theme entices you to cook something wonderful and have great sex, you can thank us later.

"...feature. Dear friends presented me with a copy of Haiku-Sine: 217 Tiny Food Poems by Texans Who Love to..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...become musicians. Others who do legitimate work in the business must fight the groupie label. And a few, like..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...also the second time they were seeing one another since 1969, when Sterling delivered the news to Cale that..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

Sweeps period approaches, and it's no big whoop that prime time is dishing up more drama, intrigue, and sex than ever. But the intelligent treatment of gay relationships on prime time? That would be a something to celebrate.

"...and romance -- in all its sweaty, sweet, and sinful aspects -- is the featured pleasure of the month...."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...the course of the year seemed unusually dramatic: the closings of Black Mountain Arts, the Public Domain Theatre on..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...tradition itself is a tradition. It has been ever since Hib's father -- James' grandfather -- ruled the clan..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Growth Spurt

Nine Shows That Transported Me

"...was the show of the year. In its characters' musings on time and change, we could glimpse the author-performers..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Top Nines

Greg Beets

"...3. Wannabes, "On the Business of Being Young" (Cut on CD included with Pop..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...New Way" roll by at breakneck speed, while the sing-along stomp "I'm Going Back to Mom and Dad" and..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Review

SXSW Record Reviews

"...it to the devil stomp of "Angry Cockroaches" or easing around the wicked sway of "Sweet Cycle" ("Who am..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Top Ten Art

The Best Art Shows in 1997 That I Never Reviewed

"...by Lyons Matrix, Women & Their Work, and Galeria Sin Fronteras, this area of Guadalupe and Lavaca just south..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Feature

Postmarks

DeWitty Center Helpful

"...Sincerely yours,..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Column

Articulations

Uptown District Up!

"...ACA Gallery, Women & Their Work, Lyons Matrix, Galleria Sin Fronteras, and Robert Peeples, Jr. Gallery -- and four..."

June 27, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Recommended

"...Angels -- out in support of the gritty New City of Sin -- open...."

May 30, 1997 Music Feature

Neon Austin

South Lamar

"...metal); the Longhorn Po-Boy signs (2901 Medical Arts); Galeria Sin Fronteras (1701 Guadalupe); the purple Wrapido spiral (3023 Guadalupe);..."

May 23, 1997 Arts Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Chasin' the Clouds Away

"...day in the sun is not enough for the city's cabin-fevered citizens, and the word "Eeyore" was on the..."

April 18, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Ripe and Ready's Heartwork

"...that they have combined performance art and poetry with surprising results...."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature

Articulations

Pan Soars Into Holdover

"...of Peter Pan last week still unsure whether this city wanted what it had to offer, large-scale professional stagings..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Arts Column

Visual Arts Top 10

Best Art, 1996

"...this show in which local artists, each with a singular and somewhat bizarre point of view, joined in a..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Big Flamingo

"...actually owns it, that'll be determined on October 10." Sin Carola (w/o Caroline) Sincola's drummer/manager Terri Lord says the..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Column

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Taylor in his book The Great Dinosaur Mystery, man's sin caused dinosaurs to eat meat and become violent creatures...."

Feb. 2, 1996 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

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