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Sure Shot

Texas author explores the people who made pool cool

By Jennifer Mathieu
Jan 15, 2004

Fresh out of college and working as a young reporter in Costa Rica, R.A. "Jake" Dyer wandered into a pool hall to do some exploring. What he found there would take ahold of him for the rest of his life. "It was a really identifiable subculture," says Dyer of the...
All Bands on the Big Tour

Sleater-Kinney graduates from the club circuit to shed shows. Is the world ending?

By Jennifer Mathieu
Apr 3, 2003

It's just a half-hour into the "Shock and Awe" campaign, and there's nothing but ghostly green, Jerry Bruckheimer-esque war images being broadcast on television. So it's not surprising that Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein has more on her mind than her band's tour with Pearl Jam. "It's just horrible," she says...
Sleater-Kinney

One Beat (Kill Rock)

By Jennifer Mathieu
Oct 31, 2002

Every time a new Sleater-Kinney record is released, there's a lot of frantic media posturing about just what Sleater-Kinney is. Are they post-riot grrrl? Lady punk? Angry musicians with politics? Blah, blah, blah. The argument could go on till the hipsters come home to the squat, but the one thing...
Ben Kweller, with My Morning Jacket and Little T & One Track Mike

Tuesday, July 16

By Jennifer Mathieu
Jul 11, 2002

Does the universe really need another scruffy yet nerdy boy in his early twenties strumming his guitar and singing about his girlfriend? When the boy is Ben Kweller, the answer is yes. Sha Sha, the debut album by this homegrown Texan (he's from Greenville, an hour northeast of Dallas), is...
A Higher Calling

A former nun spends her days in the Second Ward, trying to bring a better life to its Latinas

By Jennifer Mathieu
May 30, 2002

It was a clear October evening in 1998, just two days before Halloween, when Mary Jo May decided to pull off her next big idea. After months of unsuccessfully appealing for action from local police and politicians, the former Catholic nun and longtime Second Ward activist decided media attention was...

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