Joe Nichols At Rodeo Austin
News flash for the CMT crowd: Lil’ Bow Wow is no longer Lil’, he’s just Bow Wow. Woof! He’s all...
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Column, March 30, 2006
Southpaw Jones’ First Annual 29th Birthday & CD Release
Here’s a dirty, filthy, shameful little secret: Austin is lousy with poets – not the free-versing, in your face, theatrically...
Column, March 23, 2006
SXSW Free Concert with Spoon & Echo & the Bunnymen
You may not feel it yet, but it’s on. You might be tooling around Pflugerville in your honeydipper truck, hoovering...
Column, March 16, 2006
SXSW Film Screening of Darkon
You might want to layer up, it’s about to get cool. That’s right, the glamour train of SXSW 2006 arrives...
Column, March 8, 2006
Ain’t Misbehavin’ Reunion Show
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” It’s impossible to know...
Column, March 1, 2006
Asylum Street Spankers DVD Release Party
Although it can safely be said that not all progress equals improvement, generally, over time, society as a whole walks...
Column, Feb. 21, 2006
Lucky Tomblin CD Release
Last weekend Vice President “Deadeye Dick” Cheney went “Final Fantasy” and declared open season on lawyers. Apparently the V.P. is...
Column, Feb. 17, 2006
Nuts and Bolts Valentine’s Party
Tuesday is Valentine’s Day. For single people in the workplace – at least those in a mixed-gender environment – it’s...
Column, Feb. 11, 2006
Fronterafest Short Fringe Best of the Week
It would be a serious chain yank to tell you that you’re going to love everything you see at the...
Column, Jan. 28, 2006
Silver Thistle Pipes and Drums’ Burns Supper
When was the last time you stared into the dark, gaping maw of your own mortality? Maybe it was that...
Column, Jan. 21, 2006
Star of Texas Tattoo Art Revival
Just about everybody at some point in life gets wasted and does something stupid. What else explains the population explosion?...
Column, Jan. 12, 2006
Saturday Free Show at Emo's
Enough with the goddamned football already. You may still be jacked up about the Longhorns’ crushing defeat of the mighty...
Column, Jan. 7, 2006
New Year's Eve Spectacular with the White Ghost Shivers and the Small Stars
New Year's Eve is pure bullshit, start to finish. It’s hype stacked on hype stacked on hype … ad infinitum....
Column, Dec. 31, 2005
Jerm Pollet’s Merry F%@#ing Xmas
Last week the president of Iran called the Holocaust a myth. His statements were a huge shock to a world...
Column, Dec. 24, 2005
KOOP Radio 11th Birthday Party
How do Hindus celebrate Christmas? Does Ganesh slap on a four-sleeved red coat with white fur trim and sleigh around...
Column, Dec. 17, 2005
Trail of Lights 5K
Nobody likes a health nut. Nobody wants a sinewy, sportive, high-on-life, idiot-grinning endorphin junkie getting all up in their chili,...
Column, Dec. 10, 2005
X-Mas Unwrapped! A Holiday Burlesque
You know what Christmas doesn’t have enough of? Nudity. Cold weather notwithstanding, Christmas just isn’t a very skin-centric holiday. Oddly,...
Column, Dec. 2, 2005
All American Rejects, Rooney, The Action Is
Thanksgiving, like communism, cat bathing, and anal sex, is much better in concept than execution. The idea is great: Take...
Column, Nov. 25, 2005
Dr. Seuss: An American Icon
Back in 1931 a 27-year-old cartoonist named Ted Geisel illustrated his first book. It was called Boners, and it received...
Column, Nov. 19, 2005
James McMurtry
It says a lot that on a Friday night when you could be out trying to get laid you’re at...
Column, Nov. 11, 2005
"Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?” Opening and Reception
Believing in something is a very special kind of magic, and the more unbelievable that something is, the more powerful...
Column, Nov. 5, 2005
Halloween on Sixth Street
Halloween on a Monday? This is Bullshit. Somebody needs to put in a call to the Pope or maybe Satan,...
Column, Oct. 31, 2005
Extravagasm Fantasy Ball
If you woke up this morning with the vague feeling that life is getting too monotonous, tedious, and … well...
Column, Oct. 22, 2005
All Over the Map Hoot Night
Here’s the key to living a full, satisfying life: Take a lot of pictures. You may not be especially photogenic....
Column, Oct. 15, 2005
Texas Barbecue Festival
“People who enjoy eating sausage and obey the law should not watch either being made.” – Otto von Bismark. Simpsons...
Column, Oct. 8, 2005
Texas Freedom Network's 10 Years for Texas Gala
Democracy is a bit of a sticky wicket. On the one hand you have the fundamental philosophical precept that all...
Column, Oct. 1, 2005
Old Pecan Street Festival
No football this weekend. That ought to dress up the color scheme considerably. Be honest with yourself: Austin is one...
Column, Sept. 24, 2005
Sixth Street for Bourbon Street Benefit Concert
Most people have mixed emotions about New Orleans and that’s OK. New Orleans is a pretty mixed-up place, and not...
Column, Sept. 15, 2005
Out of Bounds Improv Festival
The famous playwright Sacha Guitry once said, “You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.” If...
Column, Sept. 10, 2005
Austin Bat Fest
Here’s an idea: Maybe Austin would still be weird even if we didn’t have all the bumper stickers and T-shirts....
