Email Author Clay McNear

Awards

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "He's With the Banned"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Chick Magnates"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Acidic Jews"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "No-holds Bard

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Pat Murphy's Law"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Expatriate Games"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Someday My Prints Will Come"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "The Dirt Devil Wore Prada"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Four Leaves and a Rake"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Carnival of Shoes"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "From Hair to Paternity"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "50 Ways to Love Your Liver"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "The School of Hard Box"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Noir is Hell"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Praise the Lard"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "O Solo Trio"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Quantum Bleep"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Tome Capsule"

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1998 Stories by Clay McNear

• Generation Exceptional

  published August 27, 1998

  "We had a rule: absolutely no classical music whatsoever." Orli Shaham laughs at the memory -- and its obvious irony. The young musician is... More >>

• Night & Day

  published August 20, 1998

  Thursday August 20 Legendary dancer/choreographer George Balanchine once said, "All leading dancers want to dance Swan Lake at least... More >>

• Sexual Healing

  published August 20, 1998

  The artfully turned opening of Vocessitas/Little Voices is the essence of filmic storytelling. The tale's female protagonist leaves work and heads... More >>

• Night & Day

  published August 13, 1998

  Thursday August 13 He's a country comedian -- a Stetson-wearin', story-tellin' guitar player from Longview, Texas -- but don't go... More >>

• Night & Day

  published August 6, 1998

  Thursday August 6 Jake Johannsen's shtick, starting out, was the nerdy guy hesitantly stammering his way through long takes on... More >>

• Dada's Little Dividend

  published July 30, 1998

  The late Andy Kaufman was the king of discomfiting comedy. Fearless and reckless, he pushed his muse to extremes of near- and actual violence,... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 30, 1998

  Thursday July 30 Gravel-throated Dale Watson is a hard-core honky-tonker of the first order, and it's not too much of a stretch to... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 23, 1998

  Thursday July 23 The works in "Judye Williams: Flying Pies and Cowgirls" call to mind Leslie Caron's famous retort to the offended... More >>

• The Menu That Fell to Earth

  published July 16, 1998

  WALLER -- The Internet come-on might've piqued the interest of extreme adventurer Tim Cahill, author of the tomes A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 16, 1998

  Thursday July 16 Though both were born in Houston and consider themselves "visual diarists," the dual exhibitors of "In Situ:... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 9, 1998

  Thursday July 9 Though both were born in Houston and consider themselves "visual diarists," the dual exhibitors of "In Situ:... More >>

• Adam and Eve Hit the Sauza

  published July 2, 1998

  In Hannah and Her Sisters, Daniel Stern plays a rock star looking to buy artwork he doesn't claim to appreciate from an embittered intellectual... More >>

• South of Houston

  published July 2, 1998

  Who knew that Houston had an underground? The Tunnel, as the befuddling, 6.3-mile subsurface promenade is informally known, has been with us since... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 2, 1998

  Thursday July 2 Not About Nightingales was penned in 1938 by Tennessee Williams, then age 27. The flawed but worthy drama is about a... More >>

• Hooray for Old Hollywood

  published June 25, 1998

  The exhibit "Who Framed Robin Hood?" is presented by Houston's Hollywood Frame Gallery in conjunction with the Warner Bros. Festival of Classics... More >>

• Blaffer's Cups Runneth Over

  published June 25, 1998

  The lady in heels knitted her brow, bent her knees and took a mighty swing, as if she were gunning for the 18th green at Augusta. There was a loud... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 25, 1998

  Thursday June 25 Jill Morley's True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl was a long-running underground smash in New York -- not least... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 18, 1998

  thursday june 18 Frank McCourt wrote ravishingly of his blighted upbringing in Limerick, Ireland, in the book Angela's Ashes: A... More >>

• Capitaine Blood

  published June 18, 1998

  GALVESTON -- "They 'ave been accusing me of taking American sheeps seence 1812. I do not steal from my own corn creeb!" As Todd Jensen calmly... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 11, 1998

  thursday may 11 Why is D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back considered a modern classic? The 1967 film is one of the standard-bearers... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 4, 1998

  Thursday June 4 The French poet Alfred de Musset described the title character of Abbe Prevost's novel Manon Lescaut as an... More >>

• Design for Nonliving

  published June 4, 1998

  David's in oil and gas. Clair's an actress at the Alley. Their daughter, Rebecca, is at MIT, but returns frequently to use her whiz-bang... More >>

• Night & Day

  published May 28, 1998

  Thursday May 28 It's curtains for the venerable warhorse called the Music Hall following Theatre Under the Stars' production of... More >>

• Aggie Yoke

  published May 21, 1998

  TV's highly rated Beverly Hillbillies was axed for attracting hicks. Robert Earl Keen wrestles with his own 500-pound demographic gorilla:... More >>

• Night & Day

  published May 21, 1998

  Thursday May 21 Actor Leonard Nimoy, his pointy Vulcan ears turning the color of split-pea soup after his character Spock dosed... More >>