Sugarcoated

With the exhibit 'Sugarcoated,' co-curators Lisa Choinacky and Katherine McQueen have assembled an energetic mix of drawings, paintings, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media by female artists

"...fabulizer Heyd Fontenot. The women are half-naked, but their faces share a smushed-up, squinting-into-the-sun expression that effectively desexualizes them...."

June 2, 2006 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Serious GAME

For the Austin Outlaws, the game is the only thing

"...only difference is that the women use a slightly smaller ball. The league plays an eight-game season followed by..."

June 2, 2006 Sports Feature by Kevin Brass

TCB

TCB scales the Wall of Sound festival at Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater

"...dressed for church and crowded six deep into the small upstairs balcony stage, used suggestive rhythms, spindly guitar lines,..."

April 14, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...the state's case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, who faces money-laundering charges stemming from his fundraising activities in the..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature

AISD Attendance Zones

"...be divided between three other schools, each of which faces its own boundary issues...."

March 10, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Toro Obscuro, Randy Jewart's Tears, and Young-Min Kang's Hillerova's Faces also received accolades. They and other artists will be..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...shining the spotlight reflection from his pick-guard into our faces, grinning that grin and asking, "You out there?" Well..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Samuel Alito, and continuing hostilities in Iraq, with a small cutback in U.S. troops and an increasing emphasis on..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature

Honky-Tonkers Don't Cry

Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore

"...is proud without being cocky. Like Merle Haggard, his small frame and classic smile are only a cover for..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...in the face of the devastation of Katrina, still faces plenty of unanswered questions, including how FEMA is going..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature

NG House

NG House is a blessing to Chinese food aficionados in Austin, especially South Austin

"...The place can seem stark and small at first glance, but it's impeccably clean. Forget the..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Food Review by Mick Vann

Stopping the Nonsense

The No Nonsense campaign gears up to derail the national anti-gay crusade

"...For someone who faces formidably long odds in a statewide battle against a..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Really Over There

The Texas Documentary Tour: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds' 'Occupation: Dreamland'

"...and right person." Meanwhile, we scour in vain the faces of a fingered suspect or his cowering family for..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...Seven this year to sing Bob Wills' "My Window Faces the South" on Heard It on the X. –..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Nutty Brown Cafe

Your first impression on walking into the Nutty Brown Cafe is that this place must have been here when the cattlemen were still using the Chisholm Trail

"...lived-in and timelessly comfortable. To the right is a small dining room with tables, benches, and chairs. To the..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Food Review by Wes Marshall

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"...the classroom, since teaching book knowledge is such a small percentage of their responsibilities. Every year their workload increases..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Column

Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

"...He sees the forest for the trees, noting the smallest detail without losing any sight of the grandest ambition...."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

La Putain Avec Les Fleurs

A review of Roho Productions' "junk melodrama."

"...you like a jack-in-the-box, singing and dancing. In this small tunnel, you feel as though you're looking through a..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

The Monkey Time

How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project

"...Dr. Dolittle. He felt the pain of chimpanzees in too-small cages at the zoo, which he nevertheless loved...."

Aug. 5, 2005 Arts Feature by Cindy Widner

Page Two

A new car sparks a meditation on years in motion, with the radio on

"...Van Morrison's "Domino" played again and again on different small stations with precious little range. On one drive up..."

June 17, 2005 Column by Louis Black

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...was not a trace of unkindness visible in people's faces or in words uttered when the splendidly equipped colored..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

I Love Brentwood Elementary

"...school can evidently go a long way in a small neighborhood. I only have good stories to tell about..."

May 23, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...and U.S. 183. Many residents of homes in the small, moderate-income neighborhoods that back up to Walnut Creek, which..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...to council in 90 days on affordable housing and small business development strategies for the revitalization-zone area. – C.S...."

May 6, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

University Co-op Presents the 2005 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival

"...Building, 23rd and San Jacinto, some of them quite small and able to seat 15-50 people. The schedule has..."

April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Genghis Khan

In 'Genghis Khan,' Salvage Vanguard Theater crafts a surprisingly traditional, surprisingly intimate, and absorbing operatic portrait of a lion in winter

"...It's with such small strokes that the artists of this Salvage Vanguard Theater..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Texas prosecutors use the 'law of parties' to widen the net for capital punishment

"...the car; Steen and Brown pulled bandanas over their faces and, with one of them brandishing the gun, approached..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

FWS Punts Salamanders to TCEQ

Environmentalists decry shift in enforcement responsibility

"...It is, after all, endangered; it is also very small. Maxing out at three glorious inches of aquatic amphibian,..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

True Hollywood Stories

Texans who took a chance and headed west tell all

"...a business where people need to match names with faces. What better way to do that?"..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...Sixties blues shouter Lavelle White, the Faces' Ian McLagan, and Mark Andes of Spirit and Firefall..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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