Dancing About Architecture

The Austin Music Awards firm up the line-up, while Ozzy Osbourne sneaks in the SXSW back door with the film conference.

"...featuring members of the Reivers, Glass Eye, True Believers, Wild Seeds, etc. Security measures are already under way to..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Social Studies

James Hynes' satires of academia allow the author to say funny things about serious people.

"...review of his second book, Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror, which is also a satire...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...Portland's Dandy Warhols (Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia) duked it out with Primal Scream..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...was one of the first confessional singer-songwriters, setting true-life tales of love and woe to music before Hank Williams...."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns

"...Joe "King" Carrasco & the CrownsTales From the Crypt (Roir) When this tape was recorded..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Wages of Sin

"...broken dreams of becoming a Navy SEAL to Busenberg's wild stories of being a super-rich CIA assassin, her chronicle..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Books Review by David Garza

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...this atmosphere of war and supernatural intervention, paranoia runs wild. Is Telephus lying? Is he an agent of the..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Walkin' the Dog

"...Bellandra appears repeatedly in waking dreams to offer illustrative tales about their slave ancestors. Socrates and his friends carry..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Review by Ada Calhoun

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

"...hit a strip in this new collection of offbeat tales featuring Ben Katchor's off-the-beaten-track shutterbug Julius Knipl, you'll come..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Review by Robert Faires

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...only the beginning. His childhood recollections are filled with tales of "goat monsters" behind his grandmother's armoire and an..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Night Visions

Director Alison Maclean and author Denis Johnson on Jesus' Son, a soulful, darkly comic take on life and death as a junkie

"...Indian chief, like a little boy who wakes up bewildered in the middle of the night and has to..."

July 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...and treaties of the day, illustrating not just the wild political forces behind the race, but also the more..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...year. Perhaps the coincidence isn't that odd, given the wildly unpredictable gestation period that most books undergo before they..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Gladiator

These Coliseum slavery capers earned a Best Picture Oscar.

"...– but that story seems cribbed from previous, better tales. Much of what is good about Gladiator stems from..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

Captain Daytrips visits the Webb Folk Art Gallery and Museum in Waxahachie.

"...society will sponsor a bus tour of Tony Rice's Wild West Town in Sherman, David Strickland's studio/sculpture park in..."

May 12, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

With his election a foregone conclusion, Mayor Watson sticks close to the party scene Saturday night.

"...reading "HELLO, I'M A HOTTIE," regaled the crowd with tales of his summer plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Myth, Blood, and Ink

What people have invested in the debate over the de la Peña diary : which suggests that famed Alamo legend Davy Crockett was executed by Santa Anna and not in the heat of battle : is not some mere fandom or kitsch, but a genuine passion for how the story of Texas is written and how it affects real life. It may no longer matter how Crockett was killed, but it does matter how we now allow him to live.

"...he could merely be retelling false or distorted secondhand tales. Still, there was a curious mood in the LBJ..."

May 5, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide

Listings

"...spent their time reading and daydreaming of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books about life on the 1860s prairies. The Pioneer..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

Book Reviews

Writes of Spring

"...U.S., while in many cases going extinct in the wild, it's little wonder Green expects us to be upset..."

April 14, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

As Much Magic as Fact

In the month since the much-hyped publication of Stephen Harrigan's historical novel The Gates of the Alamo, a visible restructuring of the public notion of the fort has seized the imagination of Texas. Chronicle writer David Garza explains why.

"...difficult challenge: From Harrigan's first boyhood love for the tales of frontiersmen-turned-heroes to the recent publication of his extremely..."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Class Credit

Reviewing the Central Market Cooking School

"...new way of thinking about Central Market's well-known and wildly popular cooking school. A story about gathering a group..."

March 24, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...House of the Moles is like one of those tales of twins who lived most of their lives apart,..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Book Reviews

Winter's Tales

"...an appearance in Great Plains. Le's big personality and wild stories are fun. He tells tall tales that could..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

Real Life Rat Tales

Carol Brorson consults the experts to get to the roof of Austin's rat problem.

"...are probably always going to be there from the wild," she said...."

Jan. 21, 2000 Features Feature by Carol Brorsen

Public Notice

This week, Public Notice explores bike activism, the Y2K fallout, lesbians who lose their shoes, and so much more ...

"...orgy of bike get-togethers world-over: the group ride. Ride wild and free, young bicycle patriots! 440-0471.Y2K Took My Baby..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...Asleep at the Wheel (Ride With Bob), Wayne Hancock (Wild, Free & Reckless), Hot Club of Cowtown (Tall Tales),..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...unfolds a carefully constructed story that splits into four tales of illegal immigrants whose dreams of prosperity, love, education,..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"...result, Mano Negra, a Paris-based octet who delivered their wild, circus-on-fire songs in French, Spanish, English, and Arabic, toured..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...1:45-3pm The Workshop: Tales From the Tom Grimes, Chris Offutt, Jane Smiley Iowa..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature

Cabaret Balkan

"...series of interwoven vignettes. The episodes all have different tales with different characters, although several of the characters wander..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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