Feeling the Heat

A profile of the new Texas ACLU and Executive Director Will Harrell

"...campaign gave many Texans more knowledge of their state's underbelly, and progressives are determined to leverage national attention to..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

The Land of Laughs

"...America, which on closer inspection reveals not a seedy underbelly but a magical one. The effect is akin to..."

April 13, 2001 Books Review by Shannon McCormick

SXSW Film Reviews

You can't make this shit up.

"...notion that when it comes to chronicling the ticklish underbelly of some obsessive subculture, you can't make that shit..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Monuments

"...Agatite, Texas -- Clay Reynolds pokes around in the underbelly of life in a small town. Throughout his first..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Review by Charlotte M. Wright

Showgirls

Like a car wreck you can't take your eyes off of.

"...awash in tawdriness that is supposed to represent the underbelly of American life, where everyone's a whore. A dire..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Price of Passion

"...town. Drawing on her own professional insight into the underbelly of Austin crime, courts, and politics (the author is..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Books Review by Amy Smith

Food-o-File

Anthony Bourdain is a hot literary dish, Rosa Salas, whose salsa was a huge hit at the recent Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, is already serving her concoction at a local restaurant, and the details on learning how the ancients ate.

"...late-spring, tell-all tome Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (BloomsburyUSA, $24.95, hardback) and that book's appearance on The..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

I never thought the letters in "Postmarks Forum" were real until this happened to me ...

"...I watched the Republican party on television. The dark underbelly of racism and intolerance were covered up with a..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Column

... And Justice for All?

Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost depicted the grossly mishandled trials of three Arkansas teens. With Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, part of the Texas Documentary Tour, they return to the scene of the crime.

"...part of their careers documenting the soft and rancid underbelly of small-town America. In eight years and three films..."

April 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lou Reed Ecstasy (Reprise)

"...Loss; it's gorgeous and scary, wandering wide-eyed through the underbelly of the city Reed has written into mythology. The..."

March 31, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Fistful of Freaks

Albert and Allen Hughes' American Pimp

"...at the modern pimp as arbiter of the inner-city underbelly. In a fractured economic environment where the disparity between..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Survival of the Fittest?

The unlikely story behind the Austin-based black comedy, Natural Selection.

"...clever twist on the modern-day glorification of the criminal underbelly is spot-on, and the film's parallel documentary and narrative..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Walk on the Wild Side

"...Algren, who, like Jim Thompson, wrote about the human underbelly. But with multiple rewrites, including drafts from Clifford Odets..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Pigs, Pimps, and Pornographers

A look at this prolific, political Japanese filmmaker

"...not acceptable, Imamura portrays. But when Imamura depicts the underbelly of "pigs, pimps, and pornographers," he is not looking..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Salvatore Botti

Postmarks

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

"...next level -- the "third" floor, the club's upstairs underbelly -- and positively buried a couple of chairs and..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column

Exhibitionism

Picasso at the Lapin Agile: Expecting the Best

"...Nineties -- a familiarity with both the country's seamy underbelly and Tinseltown's elite --into a larger meditation on America's..."

July 9, 1999 Arts Review

Ms. Write

"...falls time and again into a dark and bizarre underbelly of shady stables and twisted trainers. There's more than..."

July 2, 1999 Books Feature by Jessica Berthold

Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...escape from the barrio, Away Games pokes at the underbelly of Tejada's tale to reveal a story of how..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

Coach's Corner

"...of the Game, are feeble whitewashes of the sick underbelly of pro football. When something more honest is printed,..."

May 21, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...Twenty-four hours in the underbelly of urban post-war Belgrade are depicted by veteran Yugoslavian..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Tom Waits

"...life instead of just its dirty flesh and grimy underbelly as with the visceral opener, "Big in Japan." Waits..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Off The Bookshelf

Short reviews of recently published books

"...almost charitably, his native South while ripping its vicious underbelly to shreds...."

April 16, 1999 Books Feature

Further Reflections

"...hysterically funny slacker caper movie filled with a stale-beer Austin-underbelly ambianceof pawnshops, shabby apartments, and punk rock bars (trombone..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

The Truth Will Set You Free

"...most. A lot of the stories I do are underbelly stuff, but none of them affected me personally until..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hole-o-ween

"...the roar and the string of sightings of the underbelly of a DC-10, can be no more than 10..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Coach's Corner

"...then the taller, stronger Lakers, exposed luridly the soft underbelly of Seattle: no rebounding, no toughness, and thus, too..."

May 29, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Summer Film Events

"...Phil Karlsen, 1955) B-movie legend Karlsen explores the seedy underbelly of Americana in this tale of a newspaper editor..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Poison Little Pills

"...arguing about with Smith and Garza is the nasty underbelly of the annexation debate -- age-old state-wide legislative wars..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Exhibitionism

Dreamgirls: Groovin' All Night Long

"...audience a glimpse of the backstage workings and seedy underbelly of the entertainment business. Director Dave Steakley meticulously captures..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Arts Review

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...Dogged poet of L.A.'s sordid twentysomething underbelly, writer-director Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation, The Living End)..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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