A Skull in Connemara

Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara teeters between the absurd and the just plain silly

"...tooth lodged in your throat while a couple of smashed Irishmen wield mallets like Gallagher and shatter a few..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Radio Birdman

Live shot

"...in the awestruck sweatbox performance space. "Non-Stop Girls" finally smashed the knob off, speed, volume, adrenal. Never has a..."

June 29, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Art of War 2 Invades Convention Center

"...dude (God forbid, of course) getting his head totally smashed open on some metal bars, the Art of War’s..."

May 10, 2007 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

2007 'Austin Chronicle' Chipmunking Contest

"...– or perhaps impress – newest Chronicle employee Metoskie smashed a seventh Sno Ball onto his creamy, hairy face,..."

March 30, 2007 Sports Post by Sofia Resnick

Larger Than Life

The late Luis Jiménez created art on a grand scale – and lived life that way, too

"...massive horse's hindquarters, but then it came loose and smashed into the artist's leg while he was straddling a..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Friday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...debut more characteristically melodic instrumentals from their new Casually Smashed to Pieces. The Ohio band's fourth release for the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

The Few

A former Marine's unfiltered photography leads an American documentary crew into Darfur

"...Babies with their heads smashed in, run over by a truck. Men castrated and..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

On Leaving Paradise for an Oasis

An Austin foodie falls in love with Marathon and West Texas' other boutique towns

"...probably my favorite, and the enormous chicken-fried venison with smashed potatoes and wild boar sausage, grilled leek, and poblano..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

The Host on High

Some entertaining words of caution

"...when, in the final moments, the entire Pyrex dish smashed on the floor, my husband and I worried we..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Food Feature by Marion Winik

Spatchcocking!

I will be your guide and translator as we cover what is sure to be a revolution in turkey preparation

"...in the carcass (reserving the liver). Add a few smashed cloves of garlic, some onion trimmings, a celery rib,..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...black cat cloaks and cock'rel crows. Proud black panthers. Smashed plate glass windows and cold fandango. Out of breath,..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'I'd Unravel Any Riddle for Any Individ'le'

"...place earlier that evening. Needless to say, my head smashed against a stubbornly resistant wooden counter, and I don't..."

Oct. 17, 2006 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Eastside Neighborhood Garden Uprooted

A more-than-25-year tradition of community gardening in Central East Austin's McKinley Heights neighborhood has come to an end, some fear for good.

"...there was no garden." Debris went airborne as Charles smashed the garden's fence with a sledge hammer, Lord recounted...."

March 31, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The M's

Record review

"...rough edges holding big tube bass, layered guitars, and smashed drums. Six-minute closer "Darling Lucia" is a mini-album itself:..."

March 10, 2006 Music Review by David Lynch

Letters at 3AM

Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.

"...a single morality, a single set of standards, was smashed like an atom into 10 million pieces. And now..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

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

"...Within 48 hours of the piece's opening, somebody had smashed a window, cleaned out the handbag display, and left..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...there. Most houses have had their doors and windows smashed in. Graffiti speaks in cryptic codes of the discovery..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Ehrhardt's Murderer Sought Cash, Marijuana

Police arrest a San Antonio man for allegedly killing UT student

"...found that a window in Ehrhardt's apartment had been smashed and Ehrhardt had been shot. Neighbors told police they'd..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

We Need to See 'Actual' Justice

"...other Taser, a $1,000 piece of high-grade plastic, get smashed to pieces? Hopefully the grand jury ruling next week..."

July 12, 2005 Postmarks

After a Fashion

Ooooh, Oprah! Grrrrl, those sales clerks locked you out? And that model did what to Cameron? And Leo DiCap got hit where? What is this world coming to?

"...the model's gown and ripping it. An unhappy partygoer smashed Leo DiCaprio in the head with a broken bottle..."

July 1, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...had been ripped from the wall, and the television smashed. Right inside the door was a wristwatch with a..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...home, they discussed the impasse over 900 containers of smashed TV tubes that have been leaking lead at Creedmoor..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...awoke that night a split second after Joshua's fist smashed into her face and ran, terrified and crying, to..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Many Unanswered Questions in Officers' Deaths

A fatal motorcycle accident was preceded by a long afternoon of barhopping

"...police arrived at the scene, sources say, the motorcycle's smashed speedometer read 90 mph. Neither the driver, Kurt Jacobson,..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Forget Bush, Oppose Smoking Ban

"...Greenbelt is dangerous and will result in the occasional smashed nut. Ouch! Perhaps studies would show that premarital sex..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...a single morality, a single set of standards, was smashed like an atom into 10 million pieces. And now..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...and clay pots thousands of years old were all smashed to bits...."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Luv Doc Recommends: Republic of Texas Friday Night Bike Parade and Free Concert

11th & Congress, Friday, June 4, 2004

"...with many bikers the experience of having his body smashed to pieces in an accident … oh, and the..."

June 4, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Loretta Lynn

"...belies her 70 years, and White wail about getting smashed on pitchers of sloe-gin fizz and having a one-night..."

May 21, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Naked City

North Carolina joins John Ashcroft's bong-free crusade

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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