Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...says in an article about Patton in the Oxford American's recent music issue, the word "door" comes out as..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Orlando Cachaíto López Cachaito

"...Orlando Cachaito Lopez is one of the outstanding Latin American bassists to emerge in recent decades. On his solo..."

July 27, 2001 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hits!

Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel

"...produced TV ads. Although K-tel's buffet-style MO seems quintessentially American, the company was actually founded in Winnipeg, Ontario, by..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Short Cuts

A report from the Vanity Fair Oscars party and other film-related news and upcoming events.

"...This week's film fest V2.0 is the first annual African-American Independent Film Festival, April 6-7 at Southwestern University in..."

April 6, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Worlds of Flavor

As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Mick Vann writes. My pulse quickened and I salivated uncontrollably every time the possibility of attending crossed my mind. I would love to go, but my financial picture was in its usual bleak and blurry mode. Then came the call from my editor. I had gotten a surprise, last-minute press pass.

"...actually cooking and learning at the side of the masters. Or you could opt for a seminar on Indian..."

March 23, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...and Eastern Europe. Starting off is Slovakia/Texas group Skulpey, masters of Sunday-afternoon indie rock, followed by the rumbly, urban,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...By 1875, the area had become a mostly African-American community (official segregation in Austin wasn't instituted until 1926)...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...But she is also exceptionally well-read and holds a Masters in English Literature. (She's even been known to pen..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Lot of Livin' to Do

For 15 years, Paul Beutel has managed Austin's Paramount Theatre, programming its popular film series and live shows and bringing it back from financial ruin, and he still puts in six to seven days a week there. Where do his passion and devotion spring from? Would you believe Bye Bye Birdie?

"...of musicals, his film degree, his stints as an American-Statesman film critic and a UT Performing Arts Center publicist,..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Kings of Monterrey

Hanging out in Monterrey with a passel of up-and-coming Mexican rockers

"...have college degrees and are members of a Latin American rarity -- a thriving middle class. The local music..."

June 16, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Page Two

Cities can manage their destinies.

"...think Sturges is the most underappreciated of the great American comic masters. All seven films in this series are..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

More tributes to Doug Sahm

"...the Bible -- "No servant can serve two two masters. -- You cannot serve both God and money" (Luke..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column

Off the Bookshelf

End of an Age

"...to attempt; the "dining philosophers" problem of mismatched Zen masters and chopsticks is as old a joke in the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Books Review

Why Should Anyone Care Now?

"...name from an almanac, an article about the first American riot, dubbing it the Doctors' Mob of 1728. From..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Kent H. Benjamin

Exhibitionism

Latino Comedy Festival: Ripeness Is All

"...The servants Columbina and Arlecchino scheme to defraud their masters of much money (and no small measure of self-respect)..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Review

Dylan Plays Vegas

"...of their currency. For instance, Dylan sang an unforgiving "Masters of War," a 1963 song that now evoked images..."

July 9, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Book Reviews

"...and wrong of a war that scarred thousands of American citizens. It also raises the question of whether the..."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

New World Pioneer

"...Sisters,and Coffy are not on most people's lists of American classics, but they sure are on some people's. Besides..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Joni's Jazz

"...pop music. So I'm drawing from a resource of American music that's very black-influenced with this little pocket of..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Bauhaus

"...black crepe, mesh, patent leather, etc. Of all the American whistlestops on Bauhaus' tour, the ancient port city captures..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Whither Buttholes?

"...features SXSW-like panels such as "Union Do's: What the American Federation of Musicians Means For You" and free musicians'..."

April 24, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Geisha and Other Books of 1997

Dusting off the Bookshelf

"...That Arthur Golden, a young male American writer with a Masters degree in Japanese history, has..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Books Feature

Reissues

"...Korner and John Mayall never existed. As purveyors of American blues in the London of the early Sixties, the..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

El Azteca Restaurant

"...he learned his hospitality lessons very well from the masters...."

July 25, 1997 Food Feature

Sing Globally,...

As the One World Project Turns

"...in California, Stearns was a pretty typical white North American teenage guy when he started school at UCLA; his..."

April 18, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Radical Radio

Is Hightower's Show Too Liberal for Austin?

"...area's finest musicians, including Jimmy Heap & the Melody Masters. In fact, when I was growing up in nearby..."

April 18, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...reader, a welcome change from the works of the masters that we the mortals will never match...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Overhyped Roadshows

"...power of East Timor). In order to ensure that American corporations receive their "fair" share of these oil reserves,..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Column

Texas Platters

"...THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

Art:

"...The Art and Life of Henry Ossawa Tanner and American Hooked Rugs, 1800-1930, on view through Dec. 1717 North..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

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