Day Trips

North Texas' Lake Texoma is about more than just fishing for stripers.

"...covers 89,000 acres and has 580 miles of shoreline. Driving north of Denison on U.S. 75 across the dam..."

June 22, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...If he hadn't been driving the getaway car, Tim O'Connor might have punched Willie..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Day Trips

Off-road biking trails of the Lone Star State.

"...The management often hosts races on weekends, so before driving long distances it is best to call 512/237-3112 or..."

May 18, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Rollergirl

A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star! You are a muse on eight wheels! You are roller skating!

"...the birthday parties in the hottest part of summer, driving in a wood-paneled station wagon to the roller rinks..."

May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...top of the VW Cabriolet in 75-degree weather and driving out to Mount Bonnell." Hard to believe he once..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...phone number for civilians to report solo drivers illegally driving in the carpool lane. Though not the first Seattle..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...it's certainly no reflection on his songwriting. In fact, driving a Crescent City cab for years and years supplied..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Welcome to Austin. You're Screwed.

Can you get there from here? In downtown Austin, the answer is no.

"...Try driving downtown and you'll experience firsthand the dumb policy being..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

E-tail This!

La Frontera is proof that e-commerce has not destroyed traditional retail commerce.

"...You're driving north along I-35. As you enter Williamson County, at..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Talk Stories

"...one train ride (from Cleveland to New York), one driving story ("a super-favorite driving song": "I Heard It Through..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Review by Robin Bradford

Bad Blood

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

"...presidential campaign motorcade. "Yeah," he says wryly. "I was driving Mr. Daisy."..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

"...costs. It is most definitely a great alternative to driving in this town. You think I-35 has short on-ramps?..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...do. When I was seven years old, I was driving a tractor out in the field with him. I..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Shadow of the Vampire

"...a vampire is a nifty conceit, and with Dafoe driving this particular hearse, we are at the very least..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Social Studies

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

"...so the prospect of spending the month of February driving around the Midwest to read out loud from a..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

These letters spell highway violence, the environment, and a lost bracelet.

"...these highways, just as they feel perfectly comfortable about driving single-person cars everywhere...."

Dec. 29, 2000 Column

The Treats of Laredo

Shopping South of the Border Guarantees a Feliz Navidad

"...car horns. You get the distinct impression that you're driving in Mexico...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Features Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Politics & music & the politics of music.

"...Driving Kills..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Readers' last gasps on light rail.

"...costs taxpayers millions of dollars every year, while making driving even more difficult with lane closings and construction sites...."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column

Rock en Tijuana

The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.

"...largely because of his track "Polaris," which with its driving Norteño rhythms, horns, and snare, became a popular dance-floor..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...I got very good at fixing while I was driving, a skill that would later serve me well on..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Letters at 3AM

Michael ventura mediatates on the permeability of reality.

"...and dreams, sometime in the late 1970s, I was driving with Sara into Joshua Tree National Monument, on the..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The Chumps R.I.P. Good Times (Mortville)

Texas Platters

"...the recently departed Chumps steadfastly delineated themselves with fat, driving power chords and the David Johansen-on-glue vocal stylings of..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...others to him in his longing for acceptance and driving them away, and the conflict is twisting him apart..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

Welcome to our annual free-floating thought-association game.

"...usually lasts until I leave town. Flying in and driving back through Austin, I'm always reminded of how much..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Louis Black

What's In Store

The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.

"...and seasonal displays. University of Texas students are another driving factor, as they often need places to keep their..."

Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Postmarks

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

"...aware that just building rail doesn't keep people from driving cars. So they're working on increasing public support for..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Column

Two for the Road

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

"...Roads: Driving America's Great Highways by Larry McMurtry..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Six Degrees of Ron Berry

With another acting job in a new play, his own new theatre about to open, his own stage company that champions theatre as something fun as well as substantive, and a lot of friends to help him make "good stuff" onstage, is Ron Berry the Happiest Man in Austin?

"...Arts Project theatre company. "I think that that's the driving principle to why we all do it together: why..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...Love took flight, fueled in equal parts by the driving beats of acid house music and Ecstasy, dubbed "E"..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

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