NFL Analysis 101: Messiahs, Little Women, and Birth Control

"...Deion Sanders on the NFL Network. Golly. People were shot in Vegas as this ghost-chasin’ cat dropped money from..."

April 11, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Pop Levi

"...From the first pounding slap-backs and compressed vocals – tight as nut-hugging 514s on..."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Kate X Messer

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...band. Sound familiar? Well, Mark Pickerel, who used to slap skins for the Screaming Trees, can only hope that..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...go ahead and say it: gentrification. It's always a slap, that word, but I'm afraid it's unavoidable here. Gentrification..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'

The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it

"...version of McMurtry's novel, forcing many scenes to be shot in neighboring areas. The theatre is a shell, gutted..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

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"...real lesbian bar, Sidekicks, this past Saturday. What a slap in the face after all of the Pride Week..."

June 17, 2005 Column

The Election, the Baby, and the Bathwater

Heflin challenge could reverberate statewide

"...Perhaps it's a long shot, but the Year of the Rooster could bring about..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

New Questions Raised in Owens Shooting

DNA tests and an eyewitness account seem to not match the official story

"...heard gunfire – four evenly spaced, but not rapid, shots. She didn't immediately get out of bed – rising..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...crusade in the Dec. 5 cover story as a slap in the face to good journalism ["Women Dig In,"..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column

Standing by Stanley

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

"...Mad World, also the first film shot on 70 mm and to have cartooned opening credits,..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Owens' Family Calls for the Feds

Allegations of grand jury tampering against the DA and police chief

"...shooting in East Austin that left Owens dead. Glasgow shot Owens five times -- the culmination of a string..."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...a real feature shoot for the reality fairy to bitch-slap me something good and make me realize that no,..."

July 18, 2003 Column

"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"

Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.

"...to buy his film for $40,000 -- "not a slap in the face," he's quick to say, but he..."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Record Review

"......")? That same banshee wail is glimpsed on the slap-down grind of its predecessor, "Date With a Night," Yoko..."

April 25, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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"...addresses these sad realities but then makes a startling slap in the face of rising above usual constricting parameters..."

March 28, 2003 Column

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Another Stockholm girl, Marit Bergman, leads into the Divinyls-like slap of blonde Linda Sundblad and Lambretta. (Maggie Mae's, 9pm-midnight)..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Born to be Reviled

Interstate 35's worst stretch is also its most politically organized -- and that's a problem for TxDOT.

"...engineers could usually kick away half a neighborhood and slap down as many lanes as they wanted; for instance,..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

Moonlight Towers

Texas Platters

"...be clever, cool, or challenging, but to comfort, caress, slap on the back, and buy a round of tall..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Right Man for the Job

Charlie Robison says 'fuck everybody.'

"...to brunette. "Now the cuffs match the collar," he shot back before storming out. More recently, they whispered about..."

June 29, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Jesus Is Coming

The video mailed across the state, the Christian film that found an audience in Austin, and other stories of evangelicals using film to spread the word

"...and melodrama that mark the genre in favor of slapstick comedy and a message of hope. "You'll laugh," Warner..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...ROCK EN ESPAÑOL DOS: With a slap of the hand, the second half of this Rock..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Take Out the Heat

Sure, complaining about the heat only makes it worse. A long string of 100 degree days presents an unsolvable problem but it just so happens that there's one summer problem we can solve. What to do about dinner on a day when the ambient blast furnace is stuck in the triple digits and operating any appliance hotter than a microwave is a sure sign of madness? Where to go, what to buy, how to put a tasty meal on the table without working up a sweat?

"...marinades so that all you have to do is slap the fish on the waiting outdoor grill and, presto,..."

July 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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"...homogenized chains; the lack of affordable housing; a feeble slap (p.30) at the post office design and Gotham's changing..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column

October Previews

"...Slapstick and folklore combine in Bosnian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica's new..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

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Puzzled by Oppel

"...the fact, jack. Let's face it; Sixth Street is shot-bar hell, and that's what the residents of Smart Growth..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...thing or two about the Catholic letting of blood. Shot with a rifle between his buttocks at point-blank range..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Public Notice

"...a nuzzle. It's so fresh, you'll probably have to slap it! The center employs at-risk youth to run the..."

May 28, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...the kind of barbecue that'll make you want to slap your pappy. The turkey sausage is quite simply the..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

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CSC: It's a Good Thing

"...I see as his obsession with the tedious liberal slap fights at KOOP. I breathed a hearty sigh to..."

April 2, 1999 Column

Commissioners Court: Precincts 1, 2, and 4

Pct. 1: Davis vs. Parker

"...Jim Shaw, a chiropractor, actually has a pretty good shot at blocking Sonleitner's re-election bid. In Pct. 2, anything..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature

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