Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
If you've poked your head outside recently (never a good idea in August) you’ve probably noticed that there is a...
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Column, Aug. 28, 2005
Rude Mechanicals' Black Eye Ball
You’re right, you should feel nervous about attending an event called the Black Eye Ball. Sounds like something held at...
Column, Aug. 20, 2005
The Monster Big Band
It goes without saying that if you like to swing, you’re reading the right section of the paper. If you...
Column, Aug. 14, 2005
Devil's Day at the Cove
Summer doesn’t last forever. In Austin there’s only about 250 days of it, give or take. Then comes fall, a...
Column, Aug. 6, 2005
The Greencards
If you’re not chain-smoking unfiltereds, it’s time to get with the program. The end is near. As of September, Austinites...
Column, July 29, 2005
Heybale! Concert
It’s tricky business recommending brown bagging in a space so close to the Variations section. There’s always a chance for...
Column, July 22, 2005
Moonlight Towers Free Show
Damn it. You spent all that money on your tattoo. You need to let it breathe every once in a...
Column, July 9, 2005
Austin Symphony 4th of July Concert and Fireworks
Traditionally, the Fourth of July is when we celebrate freedom, and what better way to celebrate freedom than a three-day...
Column, July 4, 2005
Willie Graham Legg Perthes Benefit
If you’re a true music fan, one of those front row, fist-pumping, hair throwing, thong tossing diehards who’ve perfected the...
Column, June 24, 2005
The Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity
To truly claim citizenship in Austin means having to occasionally step far out of your comfort zone. Not so bad...
Column, June 10, 2005
Fourth Annual AGLCC Pride Parade
If you were going to throw a Gay Pride parade in Austin, you’d probably do it on the weekend when...
Column, June 4, 2005
The Emotions
Memorial Day should be a peaceful time of quiet reflection, a good day to nurse that blistering sunburn and wicked...
Column, May 30, 2005
Austin Air Guitar Championships
Experts tell us that between 60% and 90% of all communication is nonverbal – exactly the kind of statement of...
Column, May 21, 2005
Bikes Across Borders Light Up Your Bike Night Ride and Vigil
This Friday is the 13th. Statistically however, it’s pretty unlikely that you’re going to get butcher-knifed by a lunatic in...
Column, May 13, 2005
The Vagina Monologues
Be honest with yourself: Mother's Day weekend is a pretty abysmal time to be trying to get your mack on,...
Column, May 7, 2005
Pro Beach Volleyball
Though it’s not quite as sedentary as baseball or bass fishing, the sport of volleyball attracts more than its share...
Column, April 29, 2005
Fighting Brothers McCarthy
Secondary smoke is annoying, nearly as annoying as the moldy, dried-sweat funk of the jogger in front of you at...
Column, April 22, 2005
Austin International Poetry Festival Humor Showcase
Count on this: When the apocalypse finally does happen, it will be brought about by earnest, sincere, well-intentioned people. There’s...
Column, April 16, 2005
28th Annual Southpaw Jones Birthday Celebration
There are something like 850,000 songwriters in the greater Austin metropolitan area. That’s a rough estimate, but if you’ve ever...
Column, April 1, 2005
'American Beer' Screening
After the dogfucking debauchery of SXSW, it’s probably best that you take a cool-down lap, right? Maybe do a little...
Column, March 27, 2005
Hunter Darby Presents SXSW Showcase
SXSW runs until Sunday. Seriously. No shit. So if you get rat-assed retarded at the Vanilla Ice showcase on Saturday...
Column, March 20, 2005
The Fearless Freaks World Premiere
Ah yes. Another SXSW. The yearly reality check for all the starry-eyed dreamers looking to make it big in show...
Column, March 13, 2005
Bottle Rocket Screening with Kumar Pallana
Some people claim that the Oscars are a whole lot more fun if you say it with a lisp. True,...
Column, Feb. 26, 2005
Chris Gage Benefit Concert
The cool thing about not having socialized health care or universal health insurance isn’t the huge amounts of money we’re...
Column, Feb. 19, 2005
Carnaval Brasilero
Now is a really good time to schedule one of those two teeth cleanings per year allotted on your dental...
Column, Feb. 5, 2005
Austin Lounge Lizards' 25th Anniversary Show
Ah, the Hawaiian shirt … fashion staple of the middle-aged white dude (MAWD, acronymically). Short of strapping on a fanny...
Column, Jan. 29, 2005
FronteraFest Short Fringe “Best of the Week”
“If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.” No, that’s not some deranged, sadistic Old Testament rant, but a paraphrase...
Column, Jan. 22, 2005
Storie Productions presents Square One by Steve Tesich
Traditionally in Austin you have up to a year to take down your Christmas lights. If you happen to be...
Column, Jan. 14, 2005
Grupo Fantasma New Year's Eve Party
This Friday is New Year’s Eve. If you don’t already have a pretty decent idea of where and how you...
Column, Dec. 31, 2004
Dale Watson’s Annual Christmas Show and Dance
This may or may not come as a big surprise, but there isn’t a whole lot going on this weekend...
