Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters A Merry Christmas With Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (Decca)

Christmas Records

"...middle-American way imaginable. It's as sweet and easy to swallow as Christmas candy, and like those deliciously sugary treats,..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Using the F Word: A Commentary On Feminism

In the nine choreographed dance-theatre pieces that make up Using the F-Word, REALMdanceproject fashions a collaborative yet tenaciously personal portrait of feminism.

"...each other/ The family weakens by the bite we swallow" (from Jane's Addiction's "Three Days"), I remembered something Ani..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...Napoleon on the scene; that's a big one to swallow. It is an old tradition of the novel to..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

TV Eye

For working-class people who didn't get a college education handed to them, CBS' That's Life rings true. Also, reports on the loss of UPN in Austin, the upcoming Larry David series, and Buffy & Angel season premieres.

"...night, while intimidating students by day. Yeah, okay. I'll swallow that, as long as those kind of contrivances are..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Sometimes You Get What You Want

Ira Cohen was a bongo player, drummer type person who picked up gigs whenever he could, which wasn't often.

"...his glass in a salute and took a big swallow...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Alana Cash

Has Daniel Clowes Really Grown Up?

"...of a generation. Still, his early work tended to swallow and vomit out an entire generation's thoughts -- 1985's..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

Commentary

"...my own back yard. It wasn't until my first swallow of Güero's Hornitos Perfecto that my heart and my..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Food Feature

Naked City

Despite the many good arguments in their favor, Beverly Griffith's parks bonds and Raul Alvarez's housing bonds get shot down at council; meanwhile, Kirk Watson's $150 million transportation proposal glides through with nary a hitch.

"...But supporters of Griffith's proposition could perhaps swallow those arguments more easily had they not just seen..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Total Entertainment Package

Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings

"...see it. We really had no choice but to swallow our pride and head home to Austin. It was..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Video Reviews

"...the scene in which Johnny's compatriots force him to swallow a coin and wash it down with cooking oil..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Dog Park

"...Night Live-inspired Superstar). Perhaps the most difficult thing to swallow is that two good-looking people like Wilson and Henstridge..."

July 14, 2000 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...response, KAiROS got the audience to chant "Vote or Swallow!" Once they even got heckled by McCown's mom. In..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Shades Cafe

Lakeside Dining 2000: Many Restaurants, Not Much Water

"...of four feet long with mouths big enough to swallow a grapefruit whole. The children (and lots of adults)..."

July 7, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

TV Eye

Resurrection Blvd. may not be the perfect show about the Latino experience, but it's a step in the right direction; also, Sex and the City's third season disappoints.

"...Avenger-like at the end, was just too much to swallow. I half expected Uncle Ruben to pull a wrestler's..."

July 7, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...glorious experience. His body language echoes his words. Between swallows from an oversized mug of cappuccino, this is his..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

How It Was for Me: Stories

"...When Pete finds love with a man, Margaret must swallow her broken heart and move on: "Now she had..."

May 5, 2000 Books Review by Martin Wilson

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...Hills, a quartet of characters argue, drink, snort, and swallow their way through a long day's journey into morning,..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Going, Going, Gone?

Gary Bradley agrees to sell 1,000 acres of land to the city

"...months-long negotiating process that makes the deal easier to swallow from the city's -- and the public's -- point..."

March 17, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History

"...finds it in Adrian, Texas). Whether or not you swallow the premise that coffee has always been a major..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Books Review by Ada Calhoun

Money, It's a Gas

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

"...one entity is to strain at a mugging and swallow a massacre. Really, between World War I and the..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...That's assuming Austin could swallow the concept of an independent agency using public funds..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Edibles in Isolation

Send Me to a Desert Island, but Let Me Have My ...

"...to break the tops off and hope to not swallow the broken glass? How about wine glasses? (Message to..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature

Visions of Sugar Plums

It may be old news to most of us, but every December thousands of children discover The Nutcracker for the first time, and it inspires many to take up dance. Dawn Davis was one of them, and she talks to three young ballerinas about what The Nutcracker means to them.

"...that you admire. From them, you learn how to swallow the butterflies, how to accept the racing heart, the..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Grow and Prosper

With neighbors still reeling from 1990 expansion, Hyde Park Baptist plans another growth project.

"...$600,000 over three years -- easier for churchgoers to swallow, especially if they believe it is God's will and..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Manchurian Candidate, The Train, Seconds

"...off its tabloid absurdities, yet Frankenheimer demands that we swallow them whole (and we do). It's no wonder that..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Deadly Globs

Brenner recalls the time Carl Orff took his breath away. Really.

"...under the circumstances, I thought -- and attempted to swallow...."

Oct. 1, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two

Welcome to the 1999 Best of Austin issue.

"...the radio on immediately. I waited for Eli to swallow one more bite of egg and down his vitamin..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Mixing Miami With Copacabana

A profile of Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.

"...of black cultural expression -- with an infectious, addicting, easy-to-swallow variety of musical guises. Even more than Milton, even..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

Scavengers of the Vast Wasteland

Whether they're riffing on punk, metal, funk, jazz, film scores, or even klezmer music, Brown Whörnet attacks each passage with a vociferous intensity that seldom fails to keep an audience at attention.

"...continental U.S. at least once. This pugnacious desire to swallow miles is not what you'd expect from a group..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...on, it colors; what it cooks is easier to swallow," she says. "An arsonist comes from a family of..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

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