Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedyby Yael Kohen Sarah Crichton Books, 336..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

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"...loss of 100 million lives in wars of the 20th century, conspicuously in World Wars I and II. Although..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...era. It starts in the present, with nine young women in swimsuits spread across the circular stage, covered in..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

As Much Magic as Fact

In the month since the much-hyped publication of Stephen Harrigan's historical novel The Gates of the Alamo, a visible restructuring of the public notion of the fort has seized the imagination of Texas. Chronicle writer David Garza explains why.

"...it the "first great American novel of the 21st century." And Harrigan has said that he could be persuaded..."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

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Puzzled by Oppel

"...a design movement that works by pointing out that 20th-Century America's carbon-dioxide addiction is ugly and tasteless. It's (literally)..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

A Way They'll Never Be

"...because he remains the most influential writer of the 20th century. To paraphrase James Agee: There isn't anybody writing..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Donald Trump Relies on Eugenics Concepts, UT Prof Argues in New Book

Examining modern effects of the American eugenics movement

"...Eugenics, according to the definition of early 20th century scientist and Nazi darling Charles Davenport, was the..."

Aug. 16, 2024 News Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...there for her. With the help of the two women, she will face all the surprising events caused by..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How the Filibuster Has Already Undermined Democracy

The recent attacks on reproductive rights reveal another reason to let the filibuster burn

"...the filibuster didn't fully take form until the 19th century...."

May 6, 2022 News Feature by Michael King

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark Updegrove

The Library's director from 2009 to 2017 on LBJ's evolving legacy

"...we needed to get LBJ firmly in the 21st century and needed to compel younger people who might not..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Michael Ray Charles' New Art Asks Hard Questions About Race and America

The internationally acclaimed artist returns to Austin with new work that, as ever, leaves us asking ourselves what we see

"...posters, and magazine covers from the mid-19th through the mid-20th century, his works layered white nostalgia for earlier, "simpler"..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beethoven to Beyoncé

SXSW Music panels – topics over talent. Except they're also star-studded.

"...Lead Belly: Bringing a 20th Century Music Icon into the Digital Age Thu., March..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Remembering Nora Ephron

Comfort and a clear-eyed, ever-witty lens on the lovelorn

"...the sound of the vacuum cleaner, and panels on 'Women in Film.'”..."

June 27, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'Honora Jacob: New Paintings'

The shifting history of women explored in colorful, sartorially elegant images

"...its debut in 1968, to associate itself with the women's liberation movement. It was a successful campaign and used..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...buildings a-blazing, blowing up in flames. I heard men, women, and children crying out, to their God for mercy...."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Harvesting History

An appreciation of the pecan

"...states." Immediately after the Civil War and into the 20th century, gathering wild pecans provided a necessary livelihood for..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...and on the topics of business and education. The women brought favorite family dishes to share. The men barbecued...."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

3 Women

It came to Robert Altman in a dream, and that much is clear

"...3 WomenCriterion Collection, $39.95..."

June 11, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

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"...11é2 years ago I asked my ethics professor if women who had abortions committed more suicides than women who..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column

Post-Minstrel Syndrome

Blackface Is a white fantasy about the way things used to be

"..."Colored Women."..."

June 20, 2003 Arts Feature by Verushka Gray

Veris Dulcis: Music of Medieval Germany

On a night in the spring of 2003, the Texas Early Music Project took an Austin audience back to medieval Germany with songs of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries that sounded as authentic and as full of life as the time when the music was born.

"...The first, Hidegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutem, was an 11th-century liturgical drama by one of history's most intriguing women...."

April 11, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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"...won't do a pinch to prevent sexual abuses on women, shootings of browns, or crowd control by officers utilizing..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...hunt down the mysterious, predatory "Beast of Gevaudan" in 18th-century France. -- K.J...."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...Until the final quadrant of the 20th century, about the only way to become a chef..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety

"...questionable beliefs about government conspiracies, the evils of drugs, Women being from Venus and Men burping from Mars, school..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Review by Ric Williams

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Roll High School, the band recorded End of the Century ('80) in a tumultuous session with Phil Spector. "Do..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Exhibitionism

(Re)Flex: Opposing Dance Camps

"...we live our lives at the end of the century. Pre-approved credit cards, mail-order catalogs, and online auction sites..."

June 18, 1999 Arts Review

Off the Bookshelf

Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine

"...difficult to sustain happiness at the end of the 20th century -- unless of course we have Nersesian's sense..."

June 18, 1999 Books Feature

The Abreasted Development of Russ Meyer

"...the tale of a repairman who could see through women's clothing. It doesn't sound like much, but the next..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Crossing Literary Borders

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

"...an authority, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. Yeah. It's all ego."..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

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