Burlesque for Peace's Valentine's Day Extravaganza
Saturday is Valentine's Day. No shit. Surely you would like to strangle the knucklehead who scheduled this holiday on a...
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Column, Feb. 10, 2009
'Office Space' 10 Year Anniversary Reunion!
One of the great ironies of American society is our notion of freedom. We're free to do just about anything...
Column, Feb. 3, 2009
FronteraFest Long Fringe's 'The Dick Monologues'
Consider the possibility that you don't know dick. You might think you do … rather intimately even. Some people might...
Column, Jan. 27, 2009
Jo's Third Annual Chili Cold Blood Chili Cook Off
Kind of hard to wipe that shit-eatin' grin off your face, isn't it? We're only a couple of days into...
Column, Jan. 20, 2009
Bye Bye Bush
It's very likely that sometime around 3am on Jan. 20, a fleet of black helicopters will descend on the White...
Column, Jan. 13, 2009
Eldridge Goins Benefit Concert
Damn, maybe you shouldn't have voted for Obama. Think of all the great benefit concerts that won't ever happen if...
Column, Jan. 6, 2009
Riverboat Gamblers
Prediction: In '09 free will be the new rich. It always has been, really, but this year while millions of...
Column, Dec. 29, 2008
Hayes Carll and the Band of Heathens
In the immortal, drug-addled words of the Grateful Dead, "What a long, strange trip it's been." Tough year. Ugly ending....
Column, Dec. 22, 2008
33rd Armadillo Christmas Bazaar
Let's assume for a moment that you're growing psychotic from holiday shopping and want to take the edge off your...
Column, Dec. 16, 2008
Cherrywood Art Fair
There's a decent chance your office holiday party is this weekend. Excellent. After 11 months of petty politics, gossip, bickering,...
Column, Dec. 9, 2008
A Night of Music From Around the World
Living atop the monolith of American superiority, sometimes it's hard to remember that there are nearly 200 other sovereign states...
Column, Dec. 2, 2008
'JCVD' Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving. What an awesome opportunity to sabotage the Rockwellian preconceptions of family and friends. If you’re full of loathing at...
Column, Nov. 24, 2008
Night of the Moustache
Hold it off one more week. Do it for us. We know you’re all ready to take that peppermint-flavored candy...
Column, Nov. 18, 2008
Billy Joe Shaver and Adam Carroll
If you’re new to Austin, consider this: You can’t really call yourself an Austinite until you’ve spent some quality time...
Column, Nov. 11, 2008
Fun Fun Fun Fest
Oh sweet, sweet, glorious victory! Finally we’ll have somebody in the White House who doesn’t pronounce “nuclear” like a kindergartner....
Column, Nov. 4, 2008
Austin Humane Society's Rags2Wags Benefit
If you’re spending a lot of time worrying about whether or not you should wear a Halloween costume to work...
Column, Oct. 28, 2008
Scare for a Cure's World of Horrorcraft
West Coasters who visit Austin for the first time – those who spend a few days getting to know the...
Column, Oct. 21, 2008
Keep Austin Young: Celebrating the Life of Danny Roy Young
Sunday night’s Keep Austin Young concert at the Music Hall might be a little misleading. A quick scan of the...
Column, Oct. 14, 2008
Apocalypse Wow!
It makes sense that Francis Ford Coppola would make a respectable wine – not just because he's Italian and lives...
Column, Oct. 7, 2008
Texas Freedom Network's 13th Annual Celebration
It would be really awesome if Jesus returns to earth in a tricked-out intergalactic spaceship with chrome trim, rocking George...
Column, Sept. 30, 2008
Austin City Limits Festival
This weekend will be an epic smackdown: burnt orange vs. Birkenstocks. 100,000 football fans vs. 60,000 music fans – some...
Column, Sept. 24, 2008
Fantastic Fest Rolling Roadshow Screening of 'The Road Warrior'
There are a variety of ways the apocalypse could go down: We could be smashed … by a giant asteroid....
Column, Sept. 16, 2008
PDAP Benefit with Kelly Willis and Patrice Pike
If you're not high on life, maybe you need to take a bigger hit. Suck in hard, and burn it...
Column, Sept. 9, 2008
Will's Mad Hatter Boat Party
As your burnt-out lawn will attest, it was really hot and dry this summer. Thankfully, it’s almost fall. In a...
Column, Sept. 2, 2008
Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival
If you read this paper, chances are you’re not engaged in real labor – at least not on a daily...
Column, Aug. 26, 2008
Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
If you are what you eat, wouldn't you rather be hot? Exactly. The hotter the better. There will be plenty...
Column, Aug. 19, 2008
Madonna 50th Birthday Sing-Along
This Saturday, Madonna turns 50. That means Blondie must be hobbling around on a tennis-ball walker somewhere. Or maybe she’s...
Column, Aug. 8, 2008
Second Annual Austin Ice Cream Festival
Yes, of course it’s hot. You’re in Austin. It’s August. Every day when you walk outside it feels like you’re...
Column, Aug. 5, 2008
Erotica 2008
There is so much porn on the Internet these days, really, why even bother with an erotica art show? Perhaps...
Column, July 29, 2008
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Say what you will about our shoeless neighbors to the north, you have to give them one thing: Their state...
