To Your Health

How can I reduce the amount of chlorine absorbed during showering?

"...goes directly into our bloodstream, while the chlorine we swallow from drinking water is carried to the liver where..."

July 16, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Wynn's World: The Picks and Pans

Grading city government under the Will Wynn administration

"...of the growth-management apple that even the neighbors can swallow...."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hot Spot

How Richard MacKinnon and the Wireless City Project are making Austin the center of the tech universe – again

"...of paying for wireless connectivity a bitter pill to swallow...."

June 11, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

AMN loses its plumbing while Cinemania sinks altogether

"...some degree, Hendrix added, but he still had to swallow a soda shipment that should keep Emo's in mixers..."

June 4, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Summer Fun

This year's Summer Fun sings a love song to Galveston Island

"...that the mysteries lying on the other side might swallow you whole...."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Austin @ Large: Vote, With Your Feet

This week's elections set the stage for years of citizen butt-kicking to come

"...it works (or should work) is big enough to swallow Frost Bank Tower. Let's not go near it...."

May 14, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Coming Up Lemons

The House Bill on public school finance goes to the floor, and it's all about tax cuts and slot machines

"...least a few pols and some teachers organizations would swallow hard and support the bill now before the House...."

May 7, 2004 News Column by Michael King

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...wine-making, and more. That explanation would be easier to swallow if the books themselves weren't so meticulous and crafted...."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

It Is Time to Work Together

"...It is time to infuse our idealism with practicality, swallow our pride and work together. Are you listening, Ralph?..."

Feb. 26, 2004 Postmarks

Elsewhere, They Have Congressmen

The congressional landscape, Tom DeLay style

"...expanding military. His district has now been redrawn to swallow both, no questions asked – to help put the..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Austin @ Large: A Healthy Heart

Central Austin neighborhoods should embrace UT, not fight it.

"...themselves for living the urban lifestyle -- would rather swallow ground glass than live in West Campus, and have..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Luv Doc Recommends: Third Annual Rabble-Rouser Roundup and Fat Cat Schmoozefest

La Zona Rosa, Sunday, January 18, 2004

"...sense of humor. Sometimes the truth is easier to swallow when leavened with wit, and right now very few..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Here We Go Again

The redistricting case resumes: one more battle in a protracted war.

"...United Latin American Citizens, the American GI Forum -- swallow hard and defend the districts of Anglo Democrats, even..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Column by Michael King

TV Eye

After watching the HBO production of Angels in America -- for all its faults and annoyances, its unrelenting attention to the crass and sensational -- I'm reminded all over again why TV can matter.

"...few things I wonder if a TV audience will swallow. The first is Kushner's poetic language. While I was..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

'Pageant' Reviewed

Naughty Austin's production of the musical comedy Pageant reflects "real" beauty pageants in a funhouse mirror, with men cross-dressed as contestants, and the result is over-the-top, ridiculous, unbelievably corny, slipshod, and at times, genuinely funny.

"...worthwhile; if anything, it might provide chewy theory to swallow...."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

There Goes the Sun

Austin's clean-energy industry appears poised to take off -- but city leaders seem surprisingly unenthusiastic.

"...-- as the Liveable City survey suggests -- will swallow otherwise distasteful incentives to nurture a clean-energy industry. The..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Hightower Report

The war on drugs attacks poor Bolivian farmers, not drug kingpins; and Halliburton still has its snout in the war trough.

"...We might swallow that ... except that an Iraqi oil agency is..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Down South Jukin'

The South rises again even if Southern rockers deny it.

"...the South, that's not always an easy thing to swallow. The past is ever-present; witness new albums this year..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Capitol Chronicle

The imposition of probation is the latest attempt of the GOP leadership to put minority senators in their place.

"...redistricting and break the Senate quorum. But Madla didn't swallow the Republicans' pretensions to fairness...."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

Sheet Music

"...with a typewriter, is a lot easier pill to swallow...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

About AIDS

"...cheese. Those are common sources of Listeriosis. 10) Don't swallow lake or river water while swimming! Germs like Cryptosporidia..."

July 18, 2003 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Capitol Chronicle

The Lege battle over ethics covers a multitude of sins -- and hidden agendas.

"...eruption of legislative virtue was more than Wolens could swallow, especially from members ("hypocritical" and "disingenuous" were only two..."

June 6, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Reckless Kelly

Texas Platters

"...vapid as Coors Light and just as easy to swallow. Under the Table, however, finds a band that's starting..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Strange Days: Bruce Sterling

"...of adaptive single-celled organisms. In the future, people will swallow domesticated germs in pill form, and they will improve..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

I Want My MP3s

The rise and demise of Austin's once dominant file-sharing service, Audiogalaxy

"...that's a difficult pill for the record industry to swallow. They haven't really stopped people from getting their MP3..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: The Toxic Agenda

The Statesman's sensational report on Barton Springs is much less than meets the eye.

"...a meaningful distinction -- the chance that you will swallow or inhale sediment is pretty small compared to the..."

Jan. 24, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Table Fable

When a waiter forgets the customer and the service, even good food can be tough to swallow, as Mick Vann discovered on a recent visit to the Tea House.

Jan. 10, 2003 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Jim Nabors

Dreck the Halls

"...the Metropolitan Opera. With a lower register that could swallow Wyoming, his alter ego Jim Nabors' double-barreled tenor plus..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Bash

In Bash, a collection of monologues by Neil LaBute, the protagonists appear to be considerate, decent people, but in the stories they share they prove themselves capable of committing crimes straight out of Greek tragedy, and the dirigo group production achieves a breezy intimacy with the audience, engaging us so thoroughly that when the darkness falls, we find it hard to abandon them.

"...air of privilege -- the shadows that will eventually swallow them...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

This week, Stephen goes to a drag ball and gets some Texture in his life.

"...1. Do not carry any medication; swallow it all before you enter the store...."

Nov. 22, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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