Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...Yet after 25 years of music and mayhem, the Uranium Savages have eked out a seemingly permanent place in..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Rough Magic

"...endearingly ditzy magician's assistant, is engaged to marry wealthy uranium magnate and all-around S.O.B. Cliff Wyatt. Unfortunately, while backstage..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Boy's Life

"...fool's quest in a broken-down car to prospect for uranium in Utah. Subsequently, one dream keeps being supplanted by..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nukes Not So Nice for Texas Groundwater

South Texans are banding together to demand tougher regulation of uranium mining

"...arms over groundwater pollution linked to the mining of uranium used to fuel the reactors...."

Oct. 17, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Letters at 3AM

America has engaged in a long-term strategy, through three presidential administrations, to take over the Iraqi people whom we've made helpless from a ruthless form of bio-warfare.

"...War, the United States used munitions treated with "depleted uranium." Radioactive bullets and artillery shells. To be wounded by..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Breaking a 'Fever'

New filmmakers hope to shed light on Navajo Nation's paradox of plenty

"...our homes. We're talking about the yellow glow of uranium ore and its devastation of the Navajo Nation...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Screens Feature by Matthew Irwin

Postmarks

Don't look to the past, don't repeat other's mistakes, and don't read the Chronicle's movie reviews.

"...Re: "Too Dumb to Die," [Dec. 10] about the Uranium Savages. I'd like to respond...."

Jan. 21, 2000 Column

The Hightower Report

Forest Service Serves Mining Company; and Flaunting the Law While Flying the Flag

"...river, the gorgeous sunsets – and, of course, the uranium mines...."

Feb. 29, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

A Man, A Can, A Plan

SPAMARAMA™ Founder Dave Arnsberger

"...Dave Arnsberger talking. As an original yuckmeister of the Uranium Savages and founding father of SPAMARAMA™, he has much..."

March 31, 2000 Food Feature by Margaret Moser

The Right Snuff

Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn't just another face in Austin's eccentric crowd

"...hashish. Snuff shared a house with bandmates from the Uranium Savages that was known as the Corn Palace and..."

July 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Winning the war in Iraq is not a measure of our country's morality.

"...and unwritten in most printed Iraq War coverage: "depleted uranium." U.S. and British tank, artillery, and heavy machine-gun shells..."

April 18, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

"...together to oppose one company's plans to renew large-scale uranium mining operations in the county. Goliad's county judge, Commissioners..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature

Nuke Waste: Get It While It's Hot!

Crony capitalism drops a dirty bomb on Texas

"...West Texas oil boom-town-gone-bust of Andrews, and from the uranium mines of the Congo to the prairies of Nebraska...."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Sublett recalls both bands opening for Tubes-style theatrical satirists Uranium Savages at Soap Creek Saloon on New Year's Eve..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Luv Doc Recommends: Artly Fest

Threadgill's World HQ -, Saturday, July 9, 2011

"...as a live music venue. Two months later, the Uranium Savages played their first show there. Thus began a..."

July 8, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Govern With Hypocrisy

"...to Saudi Arabia, President Bush promised to supply enriched uranium to the Saudi kingdom in exchange for more oil..."

May 20, 2008 Postmarks

Pick Your Poison

"...international recognition of your right to nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment. Also, the broader intentions of the treaty seemed..."

Jan. 9, 2006 Postmarks

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from under the pink granite dome

"...Duncan, it's required to "deal with the 11(e)(2) waste [uranium ore enrichment] coming in from Fernald, Ohio," courtesy of..."

July 1, 2005 News Column

After a Fashion

Oh, Stephen! Always a bridesmaid, never a bride! Fret not, honey, your day will come!

"...AND MAYHEM Tuesday night, Dec. 16, 8-10pm, the legendary Uranium Savages invite you to come early and stay late..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Dancing About Architecture

A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW

"...be plenty of music from the likes of the Uranium Savages, Asylum Street Spankers, and Flaco Jimenez, who'll no..."

March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"...the barrel of a four-foot penis at last week's Uranium Savages performance --"..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Five Arts Happenings off the Walls and in the Wild

Historical celebrations on your doorstep and road trips worth the drive

"...TexPopATX (1516 S. Lamar) amid live music from the Uranium Savages and Big Mon. Suggestion: Bring a lawn chair!..."

March 31, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise proves he’s the last of his kind

"...through a near-impossible attack on a (notably anonymous) enemy uranium plant. Oh, and one of his students is Rooster..."

May 27, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Playback: Gone Unsane

Unsane bassist just left Austin for Italy, while SXSW eschews Sonicbids to bring their submissions process in-house

"...Charlize Theron wore a Uranium Savages T-shirt on the Bravo network's Watch What Happens..."

July 28, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Zero Days

Chilling cyber warfare doc explores the Stuxnet virus

"...that controlled the centrifuges Iran was using to enrich uranium at its Natanz nuclear facility. Stuxnet was no ordinary..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clarification Needed

"...were true. They told us Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Niger, but the CIA did not believe that..."

May 22, 2015 Postmarks

'Crazy Carl and His Man-Boobs' Premieres April 1

No joke

"...many more Austin mainstays and original tunes from the Uranium Savages...."

March 24, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Uranium Savages

"...Scourges of the long-gone Soap Creek Saloon, Austin's Uranium Savages come roaring back to life after a 30-year..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...they've done nothing. Let me just say this: Enriching uranium is one thing. Doing the next step, fabricating a..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: An Extraordinary Silence

Oddly, American progressives don't protest Obama's war in Pakistan

"...Valerie Plame Wilson: "A hundred pounds of highly enriched uranium could fit in a shoebox – and 100,000 shipping..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

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