If It's Summer, It Must Be Shakespeare

Summer is the time for Shakespeare, so naturally here are a couple of the Bard's plays being staged in the Austin area -- Julius Caesar from the Austin Shakespeare Festival and Two Gentlemen of Verona from Different Stages -- and directors Paul Norton and Norman Blumensaadt to explain how they came to produce them this season.

"...certainly didn't want it to be some sort of feminist statement. I just wanted to see what would happen..."

June 27, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

TV Eye

The end of an era -- Buffy takes her final bow.

"...school as a metaphorical hell and BtVS as a feminist text are there, as are discussions of the Christian..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Through a Student's Lens, Quirkily

Texas Documentary Tour presents "10 Under 10"

"...Juana Ines de la Cruz, often called the first feminist of the Americas."The Kiely Family: foster care" D: Lauren..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Isolde: Queen of the Western Isle

Margaret Moser reviews Rosalind Miles' take on Tristan and Isolde.

"...Miles espouses a currently fashionable form of feminist paganism, not unlike Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of..."

April 25, 2003 Books Review by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...KAITO: An intergenerational head-on with Lipstick Traces and post-post-feminism feminist ex-rrriot babies delivers KaitO UK's latest, band-red (SpinART). Then..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

The Life and Work of Patsy Cline

Conference Panel

"...in country music, she was what I call a pre-feminist woman. She didn't open doors; she kicked them down."..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Live From SXSW's Screening Room

"...on her backpack, and became an unlikely but willing feminist exemplar. (CC, 3/15, 4pm)..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Revolution Rock

At the crossroads of the Clash and the great state of Austin, Texas.

"...saw his puppy-dog eyes and chose the latter. Some feminist...."

Jan. 17, 2003 Music Feature

It's the Thoughts That Count

To essay meaning

"...Love, Roses, & Other Thorny Treasures (Seal Press, $19.95), feminist writer and thinker Bia Lowe presents a memoir-laced compendium..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Naked City

SBOE Spares Channel One

"...that group," said Strickland, referring to the anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-feminist leader of the Eagle Forum. "I know Phyllis on..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Not Your Daddy's Facial Hair

Kate Messer brings us up to date on the drag king scene in Austin.

"...town. Drag kings can also claim descent from high-visibility feminist and queer activism of early-Nineties groups like Act Up,..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

It's a Trans, Trans, Trans, Trans World

"...body modification. Does breast reduction, for example, betray the feminist cause?..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

News/Print

Something wonderful is about to happen to you.

"...Finally: Book Woman's sixth annual "Turning the Tables: A Feminist Literary Feast" is happening on Nov. 10 at 6pm...."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002

The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election

"...considers an intriguing challenge. An Austin health care advocate, feminist, and social justice and peace activist, Ramsey obviously won't..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature

The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002

The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election

"...considers an intriguing challenge. An Austin health care advocate, feminist, and social justice and peace activist, Ramsey obviously won't..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature

Naked City

Sex Is Good for Texas

"...For instance, the mysterious evolution of the definition of "feminist" from "free-loving, easy screw" to "man-hating lesbian," as Ivins..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

SBOE: A Green Challenge?

Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.

"...An outspoken feminist and social justice activist, Ramsey says she's running to..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002

The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election

"...considers an intriguing challenge. An Austin health care advocate, feminist, and social justice and peace activist, Ramsey obviously won't..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature

A Little Eclectic

Texas Documentary Tour brings Immy Humes to town.

"...for succeeding generations. Lizzie as incest victim? Lesbian? A feminist taking a swing at the prevailing patriarchy?..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

TV Eye

After a 16-month hiatus, The Sopranos' fourth season finally arrives, accompanied by a slew of related books.

"...Professor of English and Feminist Theory Regina Barreca has edited a collection of essays..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Kind to Be Cruel

It's all Lovely & Amazing to actress Catherine Keener.

"...this, this is terrible, because I consider myself a feminist and all that -- but I just feel like..."

July 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Enemy Women

"...About halfway through Paulette Jiles' haunting Civil War-era feminist epic, Enemy Women, I pulled out an old Rand..."

June 21, 2002 Books Review by Russell Cobb

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...wondering whether enjoying it makes you less of a feminist or, incidentally, what makes Donald so great, anyway. It's..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Hooks Digs In

"...spent several weeks as a visiting scholar in SU's feminist studies department -- never called her audience "white supremacists"..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

TV Eye

Technology is making great strides in the development of interactive TV. Now when are TV execs going to start paying attention?

"...those "talk to the dead" specials. And I knew feminist critics were bemoaning the show's 100-year leap back in..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Liz Lochhead's award-winning dramatization of the bonnie queen's reign, is an ambitious first production for Renaissance Austin Theatre Company, but producer Lorella Loftus prevails by enticing some of Austin's finest actors from the Shakespearean courts to the realm of the experimental.

"...Lochhead writes from a traditional feminist stance -- retelling the male version of history --..."

April 19, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Notable American Women

"...silence and physical stillness. The Silentists are less a feminist cohort than some outlier group from one of the..."

April 19, 2002 Books Review by Roger Gathman

New in Print

Coffeetable book Great Women of Film touches upon the difficulties women face in Hollywood, but it's actually an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to work in film.

"...it turns out, though, readers looking for a little feminist succor will have to turn to Gloria Steinem's latest...."

April 12, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Bless all multinational conglomerates of art-school dropouts that make feminist-tinged, Eurotrash disco-pop. The Chicks have been so busy releasing..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Sparkle and Shine

Lisa Ades' new documentary, Miss America, follows the storied history of a national institution.

"...as it was in the cross-hairs of an outraged feminist movement. Then, we watched Bert Parks soft-shoeing around all..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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