B.B. King Making Love Is Good for You (MCA)
B.B. King & Eric Clapton Riding With the King (Reprise)
Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes Live at the Greek (TVT)

National Records

"...primer, "I'm in the Wrong Business," is a welcome stroke after a flabby mid-section, but overall, King's playing is..."

July 14, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Love Thy Neighbor

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

"...not alone. When the boundaries between old-school stick 'n' stroke pornography and new-school, above-ground tease flicks becomes as blurred..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Johnny Staats Project Wires & Wood (Giant)

"...the most nimble of gymnasts. As if providing a stroke of mercy for the easily winded, rest stops in..."

June 16, 2000 Music Review by Kim Mellen

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...of raising blood pressure, which could result in a stroke or increase the possibility of seizure activity in pre-epileptic..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.

"...the Czech music of his boyhood. Despite suffering a stroke in 1993, he still performed occasionally in area dance..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Coach's Corner

Coach can't hit a wedge shot, or make a putt, but he's trying.

"...tempo. My right elbow has stopped flying. My putting stroke is, again, fluid and true...."

June 2, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

East Timor. Campaign Finance Reform. Napster. Living Wages. Little Richard.

"...as our local scrapyard and landfill owner. In one stroke, much of our most valuable wilderness was placed at..."

May 26, 2000 Column

All the Way to State

A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.

"...head on her boyfriend's shoulder, and he begins to stroke her blond hair tenderly. Clapping for every name called,..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Coach's Corner

Coach goes to the Harvey Penick Invitational, an LPGA golf tourney. But he doesn't learn anything.

"...breathe in her putting technique, feel her languid putting stroke. I share this information with the heavily perspiring Whipp..."

May 12, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Where the Shadows Are Deepest

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

"...Prida's Czech-American Restaurant across from the depot brings a stroke of luck: Neither of the young waitresses is exactly..."

May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Naked City

RomaDesign Group prepares to present its revised redevelopment plan for Robert Mueller Airport to theCity Council; now the ex-airport just needs some tenants.

"...Save Our Springs Alliance, which invested much time and stroke to get CSC into the CBD, has joined with..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...that we expected him to tolerate, however. The final stroke in this conflict was a fax Lou wrote Moe..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Christopher Paul Curtis

From Assembly Line to Literary Award Mill

"...bought the book anyway, recognizing its merits. With that stroke of fortune, Curtis' career as a children's writer was..."

April 7, 2000 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

One Man Talking

In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.

"...houses the sheer numbers of which are sufficient to stroke a hangarful of egos, why would someone also need..."

March 31, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SPAMTASTIC™ SPAMARAMA™

Austin's Quintessential Silly Bar Party

"...local radio talk-show host Bob Cole would suffer a stroke the day after judging SPAMARAMA™, and pert, red-headed TV..."

March 31, 2000 Food Feature

Exit 'Downtown,' Right on Sunset

In her latest project, singer Petula Clark sets aside her image as chirpy pop starlet to play mad screen diva Norma Desmond in the musical version of Sunset Blvd. Clark tells Stephen MacMillan Moser how she came by this radical departure in roles.

"...the show a success by recasting: "It was a stroke of genius, but it took courage on his part...."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Class Credit

Reviewing the Central Market Cooking School

"...was pureed, making it the perfect dip -- a stroke of genius. A tasting of soy-based sauces followed, and..."

March 24, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...interview with the monstrous patriarch -- disabled by a stroke and confined to a wheelchair, his enormous belly protruding..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Bizarre Talents

The strange road to success of former Austin bookseller Lynn Bender.

"...the titles students demanded most routinely. "This was another stroke of good fortune," he says. But for all of..."

March 10, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers Funky Nation (Tomorrow Recordings)

SXSW Records

"...air. On "Get Up on That Zydeco" (aka "Down Stroke"), producer Buckwheat Zydeco steers things a bit more toward..."

March 3, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Cross Examination

An El Paso medical supplier says the American Red Cross took part in an illegal scheme to ship medical supplies and other goods into Mexico without paying import taxes, and conspired to keep it a secret even after he was wrongfully imprisoned as a direct result.

"...him until July, and it was only through a stroke of good luck that he ever laid hands on..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Coach's Corner

Ray Rhodes may not have been fired as the Green Bay Packers head coach because he's black, but he'd still have the job if he were white.

"...too many people get painted with the same broad stroke, the paint begins to lose its sheen. I'm really..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos: Stories

"...an elderly woman whose husband has had a heat stroke reflects on the lovelessness of her marriage, founded upon..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Books Review by Marion Winik

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?

"...hills if ever one was, with little money or stroke, in a region ruled by laissez-faire Republicans who cared..."

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

New Kid on the Block

Neighborhood Services office aims to help neighborhoods help themselves

"...concerns, people all over the city could have the stroke that one finds in super-organized neighborhoods like Hyde Park,..."

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

Short Fringe @ Hyde Park Theatre

"...Stroke of Luck, produced by Austin Script Works, written and..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Postmarks

Bikes, Beets, and Bastrop.

"...would know that the party doesn't end at the stroke of midnight. Once it became January 1, it was..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column

Wild, Wild Webcasts

Why party in line when you can party online?

"...fate to muck about with the TechGods at the stroke of 12.12.99.11:11:59 is clearly begging to be asked. I..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Articulations

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center is having a rockin' season.

"...of giving Martin Burke, the show's award-winning star, a stroke, Zach has added matinees on Saturdays through the end..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Moto Guzzi Rules

An online discussion group leads to a pair of Bonneville Land Speed Records for Austin motorcycle enthusiast Russell Duke and the Moto Guzzi.

"...A passion for, say, V-twins, or Harley-Davidsons, or thumpers (four-stroke, single cylinder bikes) can transcend a lot of social..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

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