The Scarlet Letter

The Vortex Repertory Company's retelling of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter feels like it's coming from a fitful, troubled sleep, a hazy dreamscape in which director Michelle Fowler and her cast create a society of suffocating morality and the cruel reprisals that await any who violate its rigid rules of conduct.

"...scaffold in the town marketplace -- punishment for the sin of adultery that left her with an illegitimate child..."

March 21, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

SXSW Records

"...informed Costello and the Clash. "The Ballad of the Sin Eater" uses a war-zone travelogue to answer the comfortably..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Spotlight: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

Ted Leo is Rising.

"...Recorded with the band Leo has toured with since 2001's The Tyranny of Distance, Hearts of Oak is..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live From SXSW's Screening Room

"...THE EYED: The Pang Brothers; with Lee Sin-Je, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon, Candy Lo, Pierre Pang...."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...Ole Miss in Oxford, where he has been writer-in-residence since 1983. He has taught Donna Tartt and Brad Watson,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Toward an Accounting

In its unjustified rush to war, the Bush administration wants Americans to apply ample amounts of duct tape over their eyes, ears, and mouths.

"...the British report Powell had quoted to the UN (praising it as "a fine paper," an "up-to-date and unsettling..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Bill Neely

Texas Platter

"...Bill NeelyAustin's Original Singer-Songwriter (Lost Art) Bill Neely's country-blues are as thick as..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...Nicola Barker (Ecco): The most stylistically assured British novelist since Martin Amis and as sly a storyteller as Ian..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

Day Trips

"...fun and learn something at the Witte Museum. "Corridos sin Fronteras -- A New World Ballad Tradition" examines the..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Victrola

Texas Platters

"...no-win relationship. Both songs make good use of the singer's light-jazz vocals, which blow smoky rather than torchy, cool..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Celtic Cuts

"...Chieftains (!) after all. If you're an admirer of Sinéad O'Connor's ethereal voice, but wished she'd record traditional tunes,..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in the Everman district and forced a change to single-member school board elections."..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

Those Magic Moments

Composer, classicist Stephen Barber's encoding and imprinting

"...the key to understanding Barber's almost paranormal discipline/ obsession: expressing himself through wood and rubber...."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Since Bradley filed for bankruptcy, SOS Alliance has urged the..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...insights into the shaky state of the current music business...."

Oct. 11, 2002 Column

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

City Hall's M.O. and the sins of Vision Village

"...enabled by chance and discouraged by design. If the sins of Vision Village now justify Austin's pulling back from..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Letters @ 3AM

The author offers notes for a poem that tells how the America of our hearts is a forgotten country.

"...mirror./To read this wall you must see yourself./Your reflection sinks/Into the polished rock, where you cannot call it back...."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

The Devil in the Details

After 10 years, the Great Streets master plan runs into controversy over two-way streets.

"...worth of policy, planning, and promises about the Central Business District (CBD). This month, the City Council is being..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Dixie Chicks

Texas Platters

"...Chiding country radio for losing touch with its roots while releasing Stevie Nicks covers..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Manikin

Texas Platters

"...half like a noir sedan in the city of sin is exhilarating. Opening with "The Sleeper," the local trio..."

July 26, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Life Goes On?

"...to a "cosmopolitan world city, luxuriant with sensuality and sin, beauty and sophistication." At the same time, the city's..."

June 21, 2002 Books Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Hightower Report

Reliant CEO Finds Religion; Edison Has the Vapors

"...Like an evangelist exhorting the sinners at a brush arbor revival to come forward, confess..."

June 21, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

"...militant pro-life group Army of God -- which supports using violence against abortion providers, and denounces birth control as..."

May 31, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...at Jovita's during South by Southwest, where the local singer-songwriter debuted her new album 1000 Kisses with a performance..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Live Shot

"...hours that Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds preached sin and salvation from the pulpit of Stubb's outdoor stage...."

May 17, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Pedro the Lion

Record Review

"...is everybody obsessed with Pedro the Lion's David Bazan singing about religion? His first EP comes out on Tooth..."

May 10, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

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

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

If Mueller is a model, then why wasn't it followed with the Villas?

"...all over the campaign trail, it would be a sin against God to pour cold water, as the MRT..."

April 12, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Day Trips

"...Abernathy Jr., owner of the hotel and several other businesses. Some, including his father, felt the movie and especially..."

March 1, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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