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"...were not only incorrect, but filled with downright made-up lies. Even my 11-year-old son read your article and asked..."

April 25, 2003 Column

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

"...Middlebury College in Vermont, the Iowa Workshop, and the University of Montana-Missoula). He now teaches at the University of..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

What It Is to Be Human

Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.

"...I wish everybody could sit down and talk for an hour or two with..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Run by Families, Run for Families

It's a Friday evening at the Santa Cruz Center for Culture, and as the Aztlan Dance Company rehearses its production of Reflexiones '02, the company shows how after 30 years it's still not only an exhilarating dance company, but very much a family affair.

"...Driana Gonzalez designs the costumes and make-up. Run by families, run for families...."

Nov. 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

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"...If Mr. King believes that this Commissioners Court has somehow moved away from..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

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"...Language is the key to school success. Sitting passively and filling in bubbles does little to promote..."

March 29, 2002 Column

Coach's Corner

The agony and the ecstasy of the Bears

"...attention to playoff TV schedules: to avoid eminently avoidable situations like this. I could go skiing any week, but..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

You Can't Go Home Again

Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett on why James Crumley, whose mystery The Final Country has recently been published, is the best writer from Texas to disown the state.

"...ride. The narration soars and singes and the characters lie, cheat, steal, seduce, interrogate, and complain with the laconic..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...lascivious entertainment, wasteful consumerism and carefree drinking. So they believe, rightly or wrongly, that America's "immoral lifestyle," with its..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

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Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Part of the U.S., British, and allied military initiative in Afghanistan is to drop food to..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

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"...taken at least a moment to reflect on the positive aspects of life here. You, however, spend your time..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

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"...taken at least a moment to reflect on the positive aspects of life here. You, however, spend your time..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

The Player

With Adventures of a No Name Actor, a comic memoir of his adventures in the screen trade, anonymous player Marco Perella is finding literary stardom.

"...a suspect. Cattle-prodded. Black goo bubbling from his dying alien lips. Tickling Helena Bonham Carter's ear with a celery..."

July 6, 2001 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...in the Central Business District -- don't let them sit or lie down. An ordinance passed on first reading..."

June 1, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Japancakes

"...post-rock pioneers such as Macha and Tortoise, this time lie a little too flat. To even refer to them..."

March 9, 2001 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Coach's Corner

In a very boring weekend, the very lowest point is watching the UT men's basketball team get thumped.

"...No mail. I check out the Harry Potter Web site. Kelly comes home with no shoes but with Dr...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Quick & the Dead: A Novel

"...heartbreaking, philosophical, and packed with the kind of detail, situations, and dialogue that can only come from her delightfully..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Review by Martin Wilson

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...by the Library of Congress. These, you'd like to believe, are artists who know what they're doing...."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point and Shoot

Without looking Matt knows the deer is dead.

"...the pure of heart shall see Her,' Father proclaimed. Sitting beside Ray in the pew, Matt felt Ray's elbow..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Bonnie West

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East Timor. Campaign Finance Reform. Napster. Living Wages. Little Richard.

"...regarding my settlement negotiations with the city of Austin. Believe me, I know that on any given week you..."

May 26, 2000 Column

Sk8 Baby Sk8

Austin author Inga Muscio (Cunt, Seal Press) reflects on her experience as a badass skateboard babe and wonders why more women in Austin don't fancy life on four wheels.

"...Violence, near-death experiences, death itself, emotional trauma, alien abduction, and disease are among some of the things..."

April 7, 2000 Features Feature by Inga M. Muscio

Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show: A Roaring Existentialist Campfire

Kerthy Fix's Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show is an intimate, sometimes disturbing look at a group of people in perpetual free fall. Public Domain's production of Howard Barker's Possibilities is a fascinating invitation to the Theatre of Catastrophe and to run around on the tarmac.

"...both onstage and with each other that it's like sitting around a roaring existentialist campfire to hear them talk...."

March 31, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

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Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...the reasons I am supporting Ann and why I believe she is the best choice for this seat...."

March 17, 2000 Column

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We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

"...We believe it is unconscionable to create a development that is..."

March 10, 2000 Column

A Place of Her Own

In her two short story collections, Lasting Attachments and Crossing Shattuck Bridge, Annette Sanford can be laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, and tragic, sometimes in the same breath. But she couldn't do it if she lived in the city. The country is indelibly her metier.

"...neck, on the right you'll see Miss Eloise Bannister sitting on her bench reading her devotionals. Wave to nice..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night

"...University of Iowa Press, 250 pp., $19.95 (paper)..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward

Stop, Thief!

Austin Among 10 worst cities for bike thefts

"...Bluejay, another avid cyclist who runs a popular Web site for bike enthusiasts, speaks more calmly about the problem,..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Coach's Corner

Will the real genius please stand up?

"...midseason football report, membership in Mensa not being a prerequisite for sports writing. Finding untilled soil in the heavily..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Council Watch

City Council considers status of various development-related lawsuits in executive sessions.

"...they had been, the very definition of executive session implies that the council's deliberations are, for the time being..."

Oct. 22, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Benign Growth?

"...the northern section of the county, some of which lie over the Edwards Aquifer or its recharge and contributing..."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

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