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September 30, 2001
THE SILENT TREATMENT Seventy-eight-year-old Marcel Marceau, who puts on more than two hundred pantomime shows a year around the world, will perform this month in Austin, Crockett, and Tyler. Are you generally a quiet person even when you’re not working, or do you cut loose and talk constantly? Generally, I
By Katy Vine
Reporter
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September 30, 2001
Katy Vine gets animated with Richard Linklater.
By Katy Vine
Feature
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September 30, 2001
Mexican movies were muy caliente in the middle of the past century, and Harlingen's Rogelio Agrasanchez, Jr. has the posters to prove it.
By Katy Vine
Business
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August 31, 2001
Though no one at Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics will say too much about her physical condition, 83-year-old cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash remains in fragile health following a stroke she suffered five years ago, and she rarely leaves her famous “round house” in North Dallas. Until that time, she was
By Katy Vine
Culture
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August 31, 2001
With its psychosexual overtones and perverse violence, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was so sidesplittingly over-the-top when it was released that the horror film genre hasn’t been the same since. Filmed in Austin, the pioneering 1974 flick brought tasteless gore into mainstream theaters—and made it nearly impossible for most
By Katy Vine
Back in January 1976 when Gary Cartwright wrote “Is Jay J. Armes for Real?” Armes was best known to the average Joe or Jane as “the dude with the hand-hooks who can do karate.” He bragged that he was a private investigator who employed more than two thousand agents, that
By Katy Vine
In September 1984 Gloria Brock (a pseudonym) began a three-year relationship with Mark Reeves. It could have been the perfect romance, except that Brock was a Dallas prostitute and Reeves was the infamous Dapper Bandit, the man who committed a string of bank robberies from 1978 to 1988 without ever
By Katy Vine
Around the State
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July 31, 2001
Houston gets cheap; the Art Guys suit up for an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; John Leguizamo goes Live in Austin, Dallas, and Houston; and festivals fill the summer menu.
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz and Katy Vine
Katy Vine steps through a minefield.
By Katy Vine
Katy Vine sits down with the former mayor of Gun Barrel City.
By Katy Vine
Around the State
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June 30, 2001
Houston pitches a great weekend, museums across the state kid around, Jamie-Lynn Sigler slips into the role of a new soprano, and zoos go wild about their exhibits.
By Patricia McConnico, Jennifer Olsen and Katy Vine
Summer’s blast furnace is firing up. Luckily, Texas is a paradise of spring-fed pools, sparkling beaches, and more. Here are our picks for the best places to chill out, get wet, and go off the deep end. Plus extra web-only information!
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz, Jennifer Olsen, Joe Nick Patoski, Katy Vine, Suzy Banks, Charlie Llewellin and Kit McConnico
Around the State
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May 31, 2001
Dame Edna dresses up Houston; three new travel guides throw the book at Texas; a Flock of Seagulls (and other eighties acts you thought were lost at sea) return to Houston; and regional theater takes a bow in Austin, Fort Worth, and Waco.
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz and Katy Vine
Around the State
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April 30, 2001
World-class photographers develop their work; Ann-Margret exposes herself; Ray Charles has the symphony on his mind; and horses ride herd on the state.
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz and Katy Vine
Around the State
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April 1, 2001
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz and Katy Vine
Around the State
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March 1, 2001
Alexis Bledel fits in as one of the girls.
By Katy Vine
He's produced albums for the likes of Roy Orbison and Elvis Costello for years, but now Fort Worth's T Bone Burnett is writing songs again and composing music for movies and plays. At 53 he's on a creative roll and, as he says, "Never bored."
By Katy Vine
Around the State
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March 1, 2001
With stars ranging from Willie Nelson to Tommy Lee Jones, an Austin awards show gets top billing. Plus: The North Texas Irish Festival harps on its success; Houston has a weekend perfect for the kids; El Paso packs the house for the Siglo de Oro; and Dallas' Meadows Museum has
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz and Katy Vine
Web Exclusive
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February 1, 2001
Assistant editor Katy Vine reveals what it was like to live for a week at Walden, an apartment complex in Houston that has the fastest residential Internet connection in the world. (See "Love and War in Cyberspace".)
By Katy Vine
Feature
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February 1, 2001
Brandon and Denise were not like other people. They were smarter, more introverted. They adored computers, playing games online at three in the morning with people in Finland. When they and other hard-core techies moved to Walden, a Houston apartment complex with the fastest residential Internet connection in the world,
By Katy Vine
Nicholas Gonzalez lands a knockout role.
By Katy Vine
Critics praise him. Woody Allen loves him. And no one does a better Truman Capote. Meet Midland's Douglas McGrath, a writer-director who's ready to take center stage with his role in a new movie.
By Katy Vine
Around the State
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February 1, 2001
From ballet to boot-scootin', Houston offers up a great weekend. Plus: Austin and Dallas put artists on display; Galveston gets fat; San Antonio hits an operatic high note; and the San Antonio CineFestival focuses in on the films of Efrain Gutierrez.
By Patricia McConnico, Eileen Schwartz and Katy Vine
David Gordon Greene gets the big picture.
By Katy Vine
Heidi Grant Murphy hits a high note.
By Katy Vine
On the set with Bruce Rodgers.
By Katy Vine
Feature
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September 30, 2000
Want to get up close and personal with kudus and kangaroos, tigers and toucans, okapi and orangutans? We're especially fauna these zoos, the ten best in the state.
By Eileen Schwartz, Anne Dingus, Katy Vine and John Morthland
When I first walked into the Caldwell Zoo, I ran smack into a wall of stench radiating from the flamingo island (summed up by one young nose-pinching passerby as “stinky”). Happily, the inevitable eau de zoo didn’t linger as I wound my way down a path to the East African
By Katy Vine
Face
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September 30, 2000
Juan Miró builds his legacy in Austin.
By Katy Vine
San Antonio brothers pen a sitcom that's all in the family.
By Katy Vine
Sixteen years ago, rookie filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen changed Austin with a Simple plan.
By Katy Vine
A Houston actress launches her career.
By Katy Vine
The Fort Worth whiz kid taken seriously on Wall Street.
By Katy Vine
How Lubbock’s Legendary Stardust Cowboy stays legendary after all these years.
By Katy Vine
Good neighbors, good fencers.
By Katy Vine
Jessica Simpson wants to love you forever.
By Katy Vine
The places, people and stories behind Texas music.
By Eileen Schwartz, Joe Nick Patoski, Jordan Mackay, Katy Vine, John Morthland, John Spong, John Ratliff and Michael Hall
A Houston native who keeps score.
By Katy Vine
A ballerina on her toes.
By Katy Vine
At Austin’s High-tech Happy Hour, the schmoozing and boozing is about finding your next job. And, maybe, landing a cute millionaire.
By Katy Vine
He’s worth tens of millions of dollars at age 28, but money, as they say, can’t buy happiness: Two weeks in the life of Andrew Busey, dot-com hotshot.
By Katy Vine
One family's racket.
By Katy Vine
“The first dance performances I saw were at the Armadillo World Headquarters, where nachos and beer were sold throughout the shows,” says 29-year-old Maydelle Fason. Who could guess that this experience would eventually inspire the former Austinite to pursue a career in cutting-edge dance? As a teenager, Fason received a
By Katy Vine
“I am a writer from a particular community in Texas,” says 38-year-old Sergio Troncoso. “It’s not even El Paso. It’s Ysleta, the east side of El Paso. I grew up around cotton fields and combines.” That environment has emerged in Troncoso’s stories years after he left for the East
By Katy Vine
Face
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September 30, 1999
Judy Walgren is outrageous, hilarious, and surprisingly laid-back, but when she starts talking about what she’s working on, there’s no questioning her seriousness. “The whole reason I went into photojournalism wasn’t so much because I love taking photos,” says the 36-year-old Dallasite. “It was a calling to go out and
By Katy Vine
Reporter
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September 30, 1999
There’s something unorthodox—to say the least—about the Christ of the Hills Monastery in Blanco.
By Katy Vine
“Everything I do out in the yard—throwing the baseball with my brother or the football with my dad—always turns into an accuracy contest,” says Drew Brees. And practice, in the case of this twenty-year-old quarterback, has made near-perfect. As the starter at Austin’s Westlake High School during his junior and
By Katy Vine
Why is he a cult hero to deejays and record collectors— and why is he such a recluse? I wanted to know, so I tried to find him. And I did, in an upscale Houston neighborhood. And we drank beer.
By Katy Vine
Aspiring actors take note: Getting started in the film industry requires flexibility. “I’ve played a zombie, I’ve played an alien, and I’ve played a lot of nerds,” says John Patrick White. Unlike most performers, however, the 26-year-old Houston native has never had to play the real-life role of working stiff.
By Katy Vine
A seven-year-old guitarist who makes his stage debut alongside blues legend Albert King is a novelty, even after he has jammed with Buddy Guy, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, and Albert Collins. But what happens when the kid grows up? He becomes a seasoned veteran—more of a contender than less experienced peers
By Katy Vine