The Luv Doc: Tell It Like It Is

Not everything you hear is true

"...months ago, I started seeing a guy that I met at a fundraiser. He was really sweet and funny..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Don't Ash, Don't Tell

The city’s smoking ordinance is rather lax in bars and restaurants, but hardly anyone’s complaining

"...cited for three counts of noncompliance. The first charge stemmed from failing to post a sign outside his restaurant..."

Oct. 8, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

Andrew Zimmern Talks Everything From Experimentation to Fake Chicken

We chat with the celebrity chef to discuss how food ties us together

"...Andrew Zimmern, the television personality and chef, has a lot going..."

March 18, 2022 Food Post by Rod Machen

Josh Thomas’s New Show Promises Everything’s Gonna Be Okay

Qmmunity chats with the writer, actor, creator about his latest work

"...phenom Josh Thomas – whose first show, Please Like Me (which he created, wrote, directed and starred in), you..."

Dec. 11, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Erica Lies

Let Me Show You Something You May Have Missed

Sean Perry's photographs offer to show you familiar settings in a whole new light

"...the world need another photograph of Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium? You might not think so. After all, we've..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Opinion: Everything’s Bigger in Texas ... Until You Look at Supportive LGBTQ+ Public Policies

"I should feel safe, secure, and confident in myself to be a gay Texan student"

"...My mom used to tell me all the time that "everything is bigger in Texas."..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Column by Guilleremo Gudino

Call Me in the Morning

Meet the Wheeler Brothers and their armload of Austin Music Awards

"...covering its walls, and the owner's quick to tell me not to touch the newly stained railings. A massive,..."

April 13, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Stories That Tell Themselves

In town for the Texas Documentary Tour, Albert Maysles -- the man behind such famous documentaries as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens -- talks about his fierce philosophy of direct cinema.

"...vérité -- or, as he prefers, "direct cinema" -- documentary making. In 45 years behind the camera, he has..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Kids 'n' Tell

Why Children Groove on Stories

"..."You have to start it `Once upon a time.'" So says my daughter whenever I read her a..."

June 23, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Got the Dog in Me

David Kimbrough, Jr., in the name of the father

"...his Fat Possum debut I Got the Dog in Me under the alias of David Malone to avoid confusion..."

July 29, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Everything Went Black: Darth Mouse

The future of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

"...new film that everyone was talking about. And I mean everyone. I'd just turned eleven a couple of months..."

Oct. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...Doyle Bramhall II glanced over his shoulder and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...Yorker and is currently working on a book about former Vice President Dick Cheney. On March 19, he engaged..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Everything Hits at Once

Give the drummer some: Spoon backbeat Jim Eno

"...Jim Eno wanted to start a band with me once...."

Aug. 1, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Luv Doc: Tell the Whole World

Rejection never feels good, even if the other guy looks exactly like you

"...ago, my GF of six months broke up with me over the phone on her way to a concert..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

O Solo Me-O

From Cosmic Accident to Refined Art: Rob Nash Onstage

"...and speech patterns, and his range is impressive. Any moment he might go from a grumpy father with a..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Sing Me Back Home

The Return of Libbi Bosworth

"...There comes a time in all our lives when we face..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday --..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill Cotter's Parallel Apartments Are Full of Freaks Like You and Me

And the author presents a wine-fueled glimpse at BookPeople tomorrow.

"...Bill Cotter's new novel, The Parallel Apartments, should come with one of those Government Warning Labels...."

Feb. 24, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

You Can't Bury Me

Octavis Berry died, but he left behind the League of Extraordinary G'z

"...His name was Octavis Berry, and he rapped as Esbe da..."

June 8, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Don't Let Me Fall

One ancient, cracked 45 opens the doors to the church of the Relatives

"...blue van, banging on the side and waiting for something cold, but the man under the hood is not..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...For those too young to remember, and for all you Californians and other imports, Austin's..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...To your average American, even if he is an aficionado, one for whom..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Tell It to the Judge

Jimmy Flannigan’s shake-up at the Municipal Court

"...Three summers ago, Jessica Smith, an unemployed single mother of two,..."

April 13, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Tell It Like It Is

Cyril Neville holds nothing back

"...up the driveway of Cyril Neville's two-story South Austin home is a humbling experience for someone who grew up..."

April 28, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...This is not nihilism. It's a call to ... something else...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

How Napster Changed the World and Lost Everything

Alex Winter brings 'Downloaded' to Alamo Slaughter Lane tonight

"...Downloaded, Alex Winter's film about the cultural rise and commercial crash of the landmark disruptive technology. Winter, who brings..."

July 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tell the World

"...Editor, Unlike John McCain, who says he can fix everything if only his country puts him first and elects..."

Oct. 11, 2008 Postmarks

'Deliver Me'

First-place winner

"...gravel popping under tires, checked the door one last time – locked – and stepped down onto the driveway...."

Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by John Roberts

Me and My Friends

Walking on the wild side with Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante

"...Frusciante is pure music. On a hazy, Southern California summer morning on the Sunset Strip, in a hotel conference..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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