Best Funk
RUNNERS-UP: Hot Buttered Rhythm, Ugly Americans, Sister 7, MC Overlord
Best Female Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Toni Price, Kelly Willis, Juliana Sheffield, Trish Murphy, Abra Moore, Patti Griffin, Lou Ann Barton, Lisa Tingle, Janet Lynn, Shawn Colvin, Ana Egge, Sarah Dashew, Beth Black, Lucinda Williams, Ginger Mackenzie, Jyl Hershman, Kacy Crowley, Sara Hickman, Paula Nelson
Best New Club
RUNNERS-UP: Dessau Music Hall, Purgatory Lounge, The Spot, Mercury Lounge, Polly Esther’s, Jake’s, Twist, Gatsby’s, The Library
Best Hard Rock/Metal
RUNNERS-UP: Godzilla Motor Company, Sinis, Human, Vallejo, Soak, Soul Hat, Pocket FishRmen, Cadillac Voodoo Choir, El Flaco
Best Horns
RUNNERS-UP: Ephraim Owens, Tony Park, John Mills, Elias Haslanger, Jon Blondell, Tomas Ramirez, Kaz Kazanoff, Ed Vizzard, Kyle Turner
Best Radio DJ
RUNNERS-UP: Jody Denberg, 107.1 KGSR; John Aielli, KUT-FM; Kevin O’Connor, 107.1 KGSR; Paul Ray, KUT-FM; Whipping Boy, 101X; Dale Dudley, KLBJ-FM; Jenn Garrison, 101X; Loris Low, KLBJ-FM; Sara Trexler, 101X; Carole Chandler, KVRX; C.J. Buchanan, KVRX; J.B., Mix 94.7; Bryan Beck, 107.1 KGSR; Cary Brady, Mix 94.7; Chris Hillen, KLBJ
Best Jazz
RUNNERS-UP: Eias Haslanger, Ephraim Owens, The Brew, Golden Arm Trio, Jazz Pharoahs, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, The Lucky Strikes, Tony Campise, Los Jazz Vatos, Nash Hernandez Orchestra, Ta Mere, Tomas Ramirez, Blue Millenium, Tosca
Best Keyboards
RUNNERS-UP: Riley Osborn, Marcia Ball, Glover Gill, David Boyle, Floyd Domino, Pete Gordon, Ian McLagan, Ginger Doss, Marilyn Rucker
Best Radio Program
RUNNERS-UP: The Morning Show with Sara and Jenn, 101X; J.B. & Sandy, 94.7; Eklektikos, KUT-FM, John Aielli; Local Licks, KLBJ-FM, Loris Lowe; Lone Star State of Mind, 107.1 KGSR, Kevin Connor; Folkways, KUT-FM, Dan Fosyter, Sue Fawver and Ed Miller; Next Big Thing, 101X, Andy Langer; Twine Time, KUT-FM; Graveside Service, KOOP, David Spradling &…
Best Lounge/Swing
RUNNERS-UP: The Lucky Strikes, Mr Fabulous and Casino Royale, Hot Club of Cowtown, Merchants of Venus, Seth Walker, Blue Millenium, The Day Jobs, Rocket 69
Best Male Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Bob Schneider, George Devore, Tony Park, Guy Forsyth, David Garza, Don Walser, Joe Ely, MC Overlord, Jon Dee Graham, Monte Montgomery, Jimmy LaFave, A.J. Vallejo, Britt Daniel, Alejandro Escovedo
Best Radio Station
RUNNERS-UP: KLBJ 93.7; KUT 90.5; 101X, KROX-FM 101.5; KOOP 91.7; KVRX 91.7; The Mix, KAMX 94.7; Jammin’ Oldies, KFMK 105.9; KASE 100.7; KAZI 88.7
Best Mexican Traditional/Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Los Super Seven, Flaco Jimenez, Mariachi Estrella, Ta Mere, Correo Aereo
Best Miscellaneous Instrument
RUNNERS-UP: Lloyf Maines, pedal steel; Cody Braun, mandolin; Ponty Bone, accordion; Wammo, washboard; Glover Gill, accordion; Steve Rees, bagpipes; Lynda Millard, flute; Flaco Jimenez, accordion; Mambo John Treanor, washboard
Best Record Producer
RUNNERS-UP: John Croslin, “A Series of Sneaks”, Spoon; “Emits Showers of Sparks”, Sixteen Deluxe; Stephen Bruton, ” Dog Years”, Storyville; David McNair, “Orleans Parish”, Silver Scooter ; “Los Super Seven”, Los Super Seven; Billy White, “Earthbound”, Ginger Mackenzie; Carl Thiel, “Picture Me This”, Lisa Tingle; George Devore, “George Devore & The Roam”; Bruce Hughes &…
Band of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Sister 7, Pushmonkey, Reckless Kelly, The Scabs, Vallejo, The Gourds, Ugly Americans, Spoon
Best None of the Above
RUNNERS-UP: Blue Millennium, Tosca, Austin Lounge Lizards, Rubinchik’s Orkestyr, The Gourds, Two O’Clock Courage, Gulf Coast Playboys, Sambaxe, Killer Bees
Best Singer-Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Trish Murphy, Patrice Pike, Ana Egge, Beaver Nelson, George Devore, Alejandro Escovedo, Blu, Bruce Robison, Willie Nelson, David Garza, Jon Dee Graham, Bob Schneider, David Grissom, Kacy Crowley, Lucinda Williams, Monte Montgomery, Paula Nelson, Sara Hickman, Stephen Bruton
Best Record Store
RUNNERS-UP: Cheapo Discs, Tower Records, Antone’s, Thirty Three Degrees, Sound Exchange, ABCD’s, Local Flavor, Best Buy, Borders Books & Music
Best New Band
RUNNERS-UP: Lonelyland, Cadillac Voodoo Choir, Sinis, Tosca, Blind Luck, Human, Godzilla Motor Company, Paula Nelson, Afterglow
Best Pop
RUNNERS-UP: Ugly Americans, Sister 7, Dexter Freebish, Bongo Hate, Ginger Mackenzie, Trish Murphy, David Garza, George DeVore, Tie: Quatropaw/Silver Scooter
Best Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Patrice Pike, “Know What You Mean,” Sister 7; Bob Schneider, “Boom Boom Baby,” Ugly Americans; George Devore, “Wait”; Terri Hendrix, “Gravity”; Bruce Robison, “Angry All the Time”; Britt Daniel, “Car Radio,” Spoon; Tony Scalzo, “The Way,” Fastball; David Garza, “Discoball World”; Jon Dee Graham; Alejandro Esvovedo; Kelly Willis; MC Overlord; Beaver Nelson; Monte Montgomery
Best Video
RUNNERS-UP: Sister 7, Know What You Mean; Bruce Robison, Angry All the Time; David Garza, Discoball World; Derailers, California Angel
Musician of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Patrice Pike, Malford Milligan, Jimmie Vaughan, Bob Schneider, Tony Park, Tony Scalzo, Guy Forsyth, Glover Gill, Monte Montgomery, Lucinda Williams, Jon Dee Graham, Shawn Colvin, Eric Johnson, Ian Moore
Best Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Vallejo, Pushmonkey, Fastball, George Devore, Soul Hat, Ugly Americans, The Scabs, Chris Duarte
Best Strings
RUNNERS-UP: Erik Hokkanen, fiddle; Amy Tiven Farris, fiddle; Howard Kalish, fiddle; Cody Braun, mandolin; S. Ames Asdell, viola; Alvin Crow, fiddle; Danny Levin, mandolin; Gene Elders, fiddle; Will Taylor, viola
Album of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Storyville, Dog Years (Atlantic); Pushmonkey, Pushmonkey (Arista); Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Mercury); Vallejo, Beautiful Life (TVT); Terri Hendrix, Wilory Farm (Tycoon Cowgirl); David Garza, This Euphoria (Atlantic); Ugly Americans, Boom Boom Baby (Capricorn); Jimmie Vaughan, Out there (AristaAustin); Spoon, A Series of Sneaks (Elektra); Don Walser, Down at the Sky-Vue…
Best Roots Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Damnations TX, The Gourds, LeRoi Bros., Asylum Street Spankers, George Devore, Derailers, The Resentments, Joe Ely, Terri Hendrix
Best Concert By a Touring Artist
RUNNERS-UP: Dave Matthews, Southpark Meadows 8/15/98; Garbage, AMH 10/16/98; Lyle Lovett, Paramount Theatre, 12/1-3/98; Elton John, Frank Erwin Center 8/7/98; Ani DeFranco, Bass Concert Hall 10/7/98; Ben Folds Five, AMH 5/14/98; Goo Goo Dolls, Liberty Lunch 10/27/98; Billy Bragg, UT Ballroom 12/7/98
Best Single
RUNNERS-UP: Sister 7, Know What You Mean (AristaAustin); Pushmonkey, Handslide (AristaAustin); Lucinda Williams, Right in Time (Mercury); Storyville, Born Without You (Atlantic); The Gourds, Gogityershinebox (Watermelon); Ugly Americans, Boom Boom Baby (Capricorn); Vallejo, Snake in the Grass (TVT); Spoon, Car Radio (Elektra); Terri Hendrix, Gravity (Tycoon Cowgirl)
Best Soul/Hip-Hop
RUNNERS-UP: Big Game Hunter, Storyville, Hot Buttered Rhythm, W.C. Clark, The Atlantics, Buttahfly, Mayhem Brew, Albert Redeaux, Brotha K
Best Concert Poster
RUNNERS-UP: The Esquires, Crazy Lady; Storyville, Antone’s; Sister 7, Steamboat; Uranium Savages, Continental Club
Song of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Pike/Sutton/Phillips/Phillips, “Know What You Mean”, Sister 7; Parks/Key/Hoffman/Fogarty/Behrens, “Handslide”, Pushmonkey; David Grissom, “Born Without You”, Storyville; David Garza, “Discoball World”; Bob Schneider, “Boom Boom Baby”, Ugly Americans; Lucinda Williams, “Can’t Let Go”; Britt Daniel, “Car Radio”, Spoon; Lucinda Williams, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”; Terri Hendrix, “Gravity”
Best Tejano/Conjunto
RUNNERS-UP: Flaco Jimenez, Los Pinkys, Ruben Ramos, Little Joe y La Familia, Santiago Jimenez, Texas Tornados, Johnny Degallado, Te Mere, La Diferenzia
Best Cover Art
RUNNERS-UP: “Dog Years”, Storyville, Larry Freemantle and John Halpern; “Boom Boom Baby”, Ugly Americans, Bob Schneider; “Pushmonkey”, Pushmonkey, Rita Kardis and Jeff Novak; “Sinis”, Sinis, Krank Von Shaft
Best Alternative/Punk
RUNNERS-UP: Pushmonkey, Fastball, Sister 7, The Scabs, El Flaco, Pocket FishRmen, Soak, Ugly Americans, Sixteen Deluxe
Best World Music
RUNNERS-UP: Tosca, Two O’Clock Courage, Killer Bees, Sambaxe, Govinda, Rubinchik’s Orkestyr, Inkululeko, Raggamassive, Susanna Sharpe
Best Dance Club
RUNNERS-UP: Paradox, Planet Austin, Red Room, Miguel’s La Bodega
Best Blues
RUNNERS-UP: Guy Forysth, Jimmie Vaughan, Toni Price, Antone’s Blues Monday Band, T.D. Bell & The Blues Specialists, Chris Duarte, Ian Moore, Jake Andrews
Best Acoustic Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: George Devore, Jud Newcomb, Guy Forsyth, Patrice Pike, Britt Daniel, David Holt, John Reed, Mike Barnes, Terri Hendrix, Jake Andrews, Alejandro Escovedo, David Grissom, Marvin Denton Dykhuis, Rich Brotherton
Best Live Music Venue
RUNNERS-UP: Liberty Lunch, Steamboat, Continental Club, La Zona Rosa, Stubb’s, Flipnotics Coffeespace, Backyard, Cactus Cafe, Flamingo Cantina, Electric Lounge, Mercury Lounge, Babe’s, Emo’s, Saxon Pub
Best Country
RUNNERS-UP: Dale Watson, Derailers, Reckless Kelly, Willie Nelson, Kelly Willis, Hot Club of Cowtown, Wayne “The Train” Hancock, Asleep at the Wheel, Robert Earl Keen
Best Bass Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Yoggi, Darrell Phillips, Glen Fukunaga, Pat Fogarty, Bruce Hughes, George Reiff, Tony Scalzo, Brad Fordham, Edwin Livingston, Omar Vallejo, Mark Rubin, Sarah Brown, Speedy Sparks, Amy Boone
Best Local Music TV Show
RUNNERS-UP: Austin City Limits, KLRU; Austin Music Network, AMN; Check the Action, AMN; Rock.Alt, AMN
Best Cover Band
RUNNERS-UP: The Recliners, King Cheese, Duck Soup, SSIK, Big Time, Taboo, Diamond Smugglers, Dysfunkshun Junkshun, The Esquires
Best Drums/Percussion
RUNNERS-UP: J.J. Johnson, Sean Phillips, Frosty, Brannen Temple, Darwin Keys, Tommy Taylor, Paul Pearcy, Eddie Cantu, David Robinson
Best Music Store
RUNNERS-UP: Strait Music, MusicMakers, South Austin Music, Ray Hennig’s Heart of Texas Music, Tommy’s Drum Shoppe, Workhorse Guitars, One World Music, Guitar Resurrection, Becktell & Blackaby
Best Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Ana Egge, Trish Murphy, Sara Hickman, Damnations TX, Two O’Clock Courage, Butch Hancock, Don Walser, Robert Earl Keen, Caryl P. Weiss & Mary Reynolds
Best Electric Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: David Volt, Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Johnson, Derek O’Brien, Mike Barnes, Jon Dee Graham, Jesse Taylor, Will Hoffman, David Abeyta, A.J. Vallejo, Howie Behrns, Chris Duarte, Ian Moore, Mitch Watkins
Best Music Writer
RUNNERS-UP: Michael Corcoran, Chris Reimenschneider, Margaret Moser, Ken Lieck, Christopher Hess, Greg Beets, Raoul Hernandez, Don McLeese, Michael Bertin
Selections by Sublett
Boy, wouldn’t you like to have been at this pitch meeting? Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of what? Like over two dozen fucking crime novels. Plus, lots of movies have been made from his books, and cool ones, too: Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Mr. Majestyk, 52 Pickup, and Stick. That last one with Burt Reynolds,…
South by Spoken Word
STEPHEN SPYRIT: This Portland artist may be more familiar as a musician than a spoken word artist; he’s one of the founders of Hitting Birth, an eclectic Portland band with a cult following intersecting industrial, tribal, and funk music fans. (8:30pm) J ELLIOTT: Elliott plans to unveil a long poem exploring his Native American heritage…
Reflections
Robert Rodriguez handles his digital camera during the “Guerrilla Filmmaking” workshop photograph by Jana Birchum Included here are reviews of some of the films showing in the SXSW ’99 Film Festival. More reviews will be included in next week’s Chronicle and even more can be found online at http://www.auschron.com. The symbols (RP), (WP), and (USP)…
About AIDS
The current issue of Esquire magazine has a cover title that captures AIDS and the United States in 1999: “The Four-Letter Word We All Forgot About.” America’s ADHD attention span has, indeed, already lost any meaningful focus on HIV/AIDS, and we appreciate Esquire’s attention. However, the primary article, “The Virus at the End of the…
1999 SXSW Music Festival
SUNDAY PICKS All showcases subject to change THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS: As reverent as Jon Langford’s paintings of his country heroes, so are his Pine Valley Cosmonauts in their musical salute to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. The constellation of guest vocalists on last year’s Bloodshot Records tribute — Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Robbie Fulks,…
The Trouble With Ally
Ally McBeal troubles me. As the title character of the show, Calista Flockhart’s Ally is the current crown princess of the Fox Network and perhaps all of week-night prime time. It says something that Ally is mentioned by first name. You know a character has gotten into your consciousness, or under your skin, when you…
Coach’s Corner
A normally barren, desolate, and cynical worldview took an unlikely twist this weekend: It got worse. And to think on Wednesday the weekend shimmered with shiny possibilities. My NCAA draw sheet was done. This year I was using a system. It wasn’t hard to visualize my name on top of the pool results, nor was…
SXSW Record Reviews
Keep It Like a Secret (Warner Bros.) The world may not make any more sense to Doug Martsch now than it did when he wrote the songs for 1997’s Perfect From Now On, but he’s taken profound steps in tidying up the cosmic clutter surrounding his little corner of it. Keep It Like a Secret…
Love Will Keep Us Together?
Bailey and Steph romp in their backyard. photograph by Jana Birchum Bouncing briskly through the kitchen, the low whoop of imitated airplane engines spilling from his mouth, 2.5-year-old Bailey doesn’t realize he’s the object of so much attention. His biggest problems, at the moment anyway, are the aerodynamics of his toy airplane — should it…
Day Trips
A resort becomes a public park in San Marcos. photograph by Gerald E. McLeod At 50 years old, the glass-bottom boats at Aquarena Center in San Marcos are still making the rounds of Spring Lake, with a new owner at the helm. The homemade white fiberglass and polished wood boats still give visitors a look…
Texas Platters
At the very least, A Day in the Life, an overwhelming 2-CD sampler of Austin music, addresses two entirely distinct Austin issues: 1) That we’ve become Los Angeles, with everybody looking out for themselves, and 2) the sheer volume of local music has made it impossible for the average Joe with no money to identify…
Postscripts
Consortium, the book distributor for El Paso’sCinco Puntos Press, has sold all 3,000 of its copies of Cinco Puntos’ La Historia de los Colores (The Story of Colors), which might not be that noteworthy had it not been for the fact that all those copies sold nearly two months before the book’s originally planned publication…
Page Two
Everywhere is motion; everything is motion. In the morning, first I drive to the Chronicle offices. The building hums. People are moving quickly through the hallways. On computers all over the building word after word after word appears on the screen like some endlessly verbose film title being typed out as an opening credit. This…
1999 SXSW Music Festival
THURSDAY PICKS All showcases subject to change TERRY BOZZIO: Dripping with percussive proficiency, Austin resident and former Zappa — and Missing Persons — drummer Terry Bozzio Monte Warden has recently released two albums. The first, Chamber Works, shows Bozzio flexing his composition muscle in orchestrated pieces focused on the drumkit, while the second, Drawing the…
Get It While You Can
What was Janis Joplin running from? She must have been running from something; why else would she have ridden her rocket to stardom so hard? Why would she have grabbed the golden ring but still insisted on going another round after it was firmly in hand? Janis Joplin was rock & roll’s first female superstar;…
Public Notice
Welcome to Austin, Texas! Welcome to SXSW! You’re not thinking of staying for long, are you? Not that we don’t want you (and your big city ways). Heck, we ourselves are transplants from somewhere else. What brought us here in the first place? Oh, right … SXSW. For conference virgins and veterans (sluts?) alike, Austin…
Suffer the Little Children
On the face of it, Texas is in a crisis where abused and neglected children are concerned, with growing numbers of kids in need of Child Protective Services (CPS) intervention. In January, the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (DPRS) — the umbrella agency that houses CPS — reported a sharp increase last year in…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
One researcher at Duke University says that humans are the only mammals incapable of simultaneously drinking and breathing. According to KUT’s Larry Monroe, songwriter David Olney said Fred LaBour (“Too Slim” of the group Riders in the Sky) started the Paul McCartney death rumor. Actor Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H fame played a doctor on an…
The Chisum Tale
Representative Warren Chisum photograph by John Anderson After a decade in the Texas House of Representatives, Warren Chisum has acquired a hide as resilient as rubber and as impenetrable as steel. Vilified and ridiculed in Austin for his often-anachronistic positions on social issues, particularly gay rights, Chisum has developed a sense of humor that belies…
Homage to a Road
illustration by Jason Stout In the music of the Southwest, one image is constant: the road. Whether it be blues, folk, rock, swing, conjunto, country, or those unclassifiable singers who combine and transcend all categories — if the road isn’t invoked directly, its presence is felt, somebody is always arriving, always leaving, and there’s always…
In Search of Homosexual Activity
The two bills below seek to ban gays and lesbians from adopting or fostering children in the State of Texas. by Warren Chisum H.B. No. 382 76R2219 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to placing a child in a foster home or adoptive home. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE…
Food-o-File
Foreign Correspondence Several weeks ago, Austin songwriter/soup chef Ruth Carter and her husband Bill Carterjoined their friend and bandmate Johnny Depp in London where they’re working with him while he makes a movie. Ruth has been corresponding regularly via e-mail with little tidbits about the London restaurant scene. Recently, she mentioned visiting the world-renowned London…
S� World
The city will have to make several lease terminations with the following existing tenants: � Liberty Lunch: If everything goes as planned, the city expects to make an announcement this month regarding the club’s new location, which could include part ownership for Lunch owner J’Net Ward and a larger performance space. Ward, being the smart…
Slouching Toward Happy Hour
211 E. Sixth, 474-7372 Happy Hour: 4-7pm Mon-Fri Those who fear straying far from the vortex of this week’s SXSW activities may want to consider trying the happy hour at Marisco Grill, located on Sixth Street. Sandwiched between a nightclub and a sleazy all-night drugstore in the heart of downtown, the no-nonsense Marisco Grill has…
On The Lege
Had boxing referee Mills Lane been in the room, he would have declared it a technical knockout. Loralei Gilliam, executive director of the American Family Association of Texas, was in a hearing room at the Capitol last Thursday afternoon testifying against HB 938, also known as the James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Act. Gilliam told…
1999 SXSW Music Festival
FRIDAY PICKS All showcases subject to change Fastball FASTBALL: All it took was a song, “The Way,” and Austin’s previously ignored power pop trio Fastball wound up generating a platinum album, a year of solid touring (Everclear, HORDE), a pair of Grammy nominations, and a SXSW ’99 panel to discuss the phenomena. Best of all,…
Kkkjfk
The program is titled American Dissident Voices, and its introduction describes it as a program speaking for Americans “who value quality above equality, and are willing to do whatever must be done to restore America to racial and moral health…. This is a program speaking for Americans who dissent from the United States government’s policies…
Dancing About Architecture
Calm down! Calm down! I know you’re saying screw everything else, all you really want to know is wassup with the Tom Waits show at the Paramount. Well, unfortunately, after considering all the possible options of determining who will get into the 1,300-seat venue (trivia contest, raffle, chain-smoking competition), there’s still no immediate action you…
Naked City
Mayor Pro Tem Jackie Goodman lost her bid to postpone the approval of $1.6 million to rehabilitate the Holly Power Plant’s Unit 1 for possible use this summer. “There are a great many numbers that I am unable to make jibe with each other,” Goodman said, asking for more time to study the issue before…
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Kelly Willis, Cesar Rosas, Jimmie Vaughan, Beaver Nelson, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, Golden Arm Trio, Queens of the Stone Age, Right Said Fred, Black Kali Ma, Harvey Sid Fisher, Laika & the Cosmonauts, Waco Brothers, Neko Case, Cibo Matto, Meat Puppets, Asylum Street Spankers, Exene Cervenka, �Viva Malpache!, Sister 7, Sexton Sextet, and…
Click on This
The Charmed Horizon Consider this your map of the future. Twenty-three Web siteschosen by industry experts, created by savvy, driven individuals with a flair for the creative, and surprise, surprise, they’re not all loaded with dough. What they all are is eager to please. As part of the infotainment phenomenon that has come part and…
Articulations
In an ironic counterpoint to a story celebrating the rising star of one of the artistic leaders of Ballet Austin, here’s notice of what appears to be the falling star of another artistic leader of that company. In the Austin American-Statesman’s March 13 “Metro” section, Arts Writer Michael Barnes broke the story that the BA…
Genius of Love
photograph by Todd V. Wolfson It’s February 1999, in the quiet, smokeless confines of the Cactus Cafe on the University of Texas campus, where a rapt crowd looks on as a frazzled Daniel Johnston seats himself at the club’s piano. His wavy, almost completely gray mop of hair has grown to shoulder length, and his…
Tricks of the Trade
Sunday, 10am Mark Cuban photograph by Greg Selig It’s like my granddaddy used to say, “When your favorite tool is a hammer, everything around you starts lookin’ like a nail.” In his opening keynote for the SXSW Interactive conference, Mark Cuban of Broadcast.com laid out his view of the Internet’s future, and not too surprisingly,…
Risen From the Ashes
Stephen Mills in Ashes When Austin has a winner, everybody knows it, right? The local newsrags trumpet the achievements of the hometown champion in 40-point boldface type, area news jocks and other microphone wranglers breathlessly repeat the victor’s name and recount the circumstances of the triumphant deed, municipal merchants use their businesses’ signs to pay…
1999 SXSW Music Festival
SATURDAY PICKS All showcases subject to change DAMNATIONS TX: With Half Mad Moon (Sire), the Damnations TX are poised to take over the world. The album is an outstanding collection of songs that inject rock & roll lifeblood into folk and country structures, beautified by the vocal harmonies of sisters Deborah Kelly and Amy Boone,…
Scanlines
D: Sam Peckinpah (1972) with Susan George, Dustin Hoffman, Peter Vaughan, David Warner The poster for Peckinpah�s Straw Dogs, with its titillating “Banned in the U.K.” tag. In Straw Dogs, nebbishy American mathematician David Sumner (Hoffman) relocates with wife Amy (George) to her hometown in a picturesque, quaint Cornish village. Hoping to leave the hustle…
In Person
Thom Jones has a past as a boxer, an alcoholic, a Recon Marine, and a janitor, which has brought him to his present state as an epileptic (a military brawl began the epileptic fits for which he was discharged, and years of boxing worsened the condition) and one of the finest short-story craftsman writing today,…
Lean and Mean?
Carole Keeton-Rylander photograph by Alan Pogue Buried in the latest Texas Performance Review, “Challenging the Status Quo,” published by the comptroller’s office, tucked away literally in a footnote to the section titled “Reduce Department of Human Services’ Costs,” is a figure many DHS workers are bound to find disturbing — 3,042. That’s the number of…
Short Cuts
The Academy Awards telecast occurs this Sunday, March 21, 7:30pm (CST), on ABC (ch.24, cable ch.3). In our continuing effort to make life easy for our readers, we present here a list/betting form/tally sheet of the contenders in the top eight categories. While preparing for the Oscars, you might want to tune in and catch…
