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2000 Stories by Dylan Otto Krider

• Psychic Agenda

  published December 28, 2000

  First rule of predicting the new year: Keep it obvious. It will be a cold winter in the Midwest. It will rain a lot in April. We'll learn more... More >>

• Dead Puppies for Christmas

  published December 21, 2000

  To call it a museum is misleading. And the term "weird," though accurate, doesn't quite do it justice. What the Museum of the Weird... More >>

• Annie, Get Your Makeover

  published December 14, 2000

  You wouldn't re-edit Welles or modernize Hemingway's sexist characters, but on the Great White Way, treating the original books of musicals as... More >>

• Support Troupe

  published December 7, 2000

  The middle-aged members of Bere'sheet Ballet may describe themselves as survivors of cancer, abuse, cult brainwashing and struggles with... More >>

• Nuts About the Nut

  published November 30, 2000

  "I estimate that there are about 400 American ballet companies that operate with a serious degree of professionalism," said John Munger, director... More >>

• To Protect and Serve Art

  published November 23, 2000

  It turns out the Houston Police Department did William Steen and his young artists a favor when some misguided cops whitewashed the exterior wall... More >>

• The Sound of Movies

  published November 16, 2000

  You may go to "see" a movie, but to sound mixer Mark Berger, who won Oscars for Apocalypse Now and The English Patient, film... More >>

• Complex Reading

  published November 9, 2000

  Junot Díaz describes the collaborative reading he'll be giving with the novelist Chang-rae Lee as: "My God, you couldn't think... More >>

• It's a Punk Rock Life

  published November 2, 2000

  For photographer Bill Daniel, the world of the early '80s was a really uncool place. Reagan -- to Daniel, the symbol of the military industrial... More >>

• Breaking God into Movies

  published November 2, 2000

  As much as screenwriters have the reputation for being smut peddlers, virtually any writer yearns to craft the kind of meaningful, spiritual... More >>

• Natural Selection

  published October 26, 2000

  University of Houston creative writing professor Mark Doty first turned from his poetry to try his hand at a memoir because he no longer... More >>

• Calendar Editor Gets Read

  published October 19, 2000

  Cinda Johnson, a woman experienced in the art of siang mein, or face reading, studies our features. The calendar editor's nose is narrow at... More >>

• Quantum Critique

  published October 19, 2000

  Karen Shepard's debut novel, An Empire of Women, brings to mind that age-old quantum uncertainty principle: Does an artist change... More >>

• Cartoons with Kick

  published October 5, 2000

  For quite some time there has been a growing cult of folks thirsting for a breakout film that would do for animation what the Dark Knight... More >>

• The Latex Glove of God

  published September 28, 2000

  Martin Gray owns two pairs of pants, three shirts and a pack for carrying his camera equipment. He just so happens to be on a mission from... More >>

• But Seriously...

  published September 14, 2000

  Unfortunately, when people think of theater, words like "dry," "stuffy" and "serious" all come to mind. It smacks of the passive rituals of church... More >>

• The Fact of Fiction

  published September 7, 2000

  Many fear that the postmodern trend of mixing fiction and autobiography sacrifices truth for the sake of entertainment and authorial agendas.... More >>

• Lucky Strikes Back

  published August 31, 2000

  It's Tuesday morning, and it's looking to be one of those hot, muggy August summer afternoons. It's the kind of day when a smoker, exiled to the... More >>

• It's Clean in Mayberry

  published August 31, 2000

  A joke usually depends on an element of surprise, something that tacks left when you're expecting it to go right. An easy way to do that is... More >>

• Down But Not Out

  published August 24, 2000

  Houston is not the fight town it was in the '50s and '60s, though the city does still have strong connections to the sport. Evander Holyfield... More >>

• Turning the Camera on Mark Seliger

  published August 17, 2000

  Not just anyone can convince Jerry Seinfeld to don an Elvis outfit, or Mick Fleetwood a bridal gown. Getting celebrities to do outrageous things... More >>

• Two Baboons and a Body Bag

  published August 10, 2000

  Let's get one thing straight. The artwork featured in "Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas" may not be ordinary, but it's not... More >>

• Not By The Book

  published July 27, 2000

  When Sidney Berger, director of the Children's Theatre Festival at the University of Houston, heard that the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of... More >>

• James Pineapple Esq. Is Dead!

  published July 20, 2000

  Okay, maybe not dead dead. The local comic legend has still got a few days left before he's laid to rest at the completion of his farewell... More >>

• An Inventive Mind at Work

  published July 13, 2000

  Let's face it. Most people would just as soon maneuver across the road construction downtown with bad shock absorbers as learn the physics behind... More >>