Page Two: Running With the Wild Gang

Self-proclaimed patriots don't seem to have much love for their country, except on their own terms

"...any unexpected snap has me jumping out of my skin as if I'm a thief who might just be..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

A recent slew of political, cultural, and environmental documentaries prove how indispensable PBS is

"...First up is Barak Goodman's installment of American Experience, My Lai, which examines one of the darkest..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...University of Texas. I was taking a class in American studies, and my teacher, David Gaines, introduced me to..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

The fight over re-redistricting is a battle for the civil rights of minority Texans.

"...they want to be Texans, they want to be Americans, and they want to assimilate, with this great opportunity..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of others away. To take an accurate poll, try asking clubgoers down on the street on any given night..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...Early in 1872 eight American cowboys crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, driving ahead..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Tributes

"...Jones Salutes Hank Williams (as opposed to Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) has tried to be and embody in the latter..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...City, Robbie Fulks is the Don Rickles of the Americana movement. If his last outing wasn't as raunchy as..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

One Is Enough

"...can get free information on any cancer through the American Cancer Society hotline at 800/ACS-2345...."

Oct. 10, 1997 Column

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...dolt about the Adults, as I have, here's the skinny: somehow, over the past three years, they've quietly evolved..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...the way down" vocal hook, which gets under your skin like a bad case of mites, or the closing..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Music Review

The Eugenic Circus Comes to Town

A Downtown hotel is hosting a natalist, eugenics-aligned conference in December. Why Austin?

"...extreme conservatives – such as Rod Dreher of The American Conservative – have condemned it. But that hasn't stopped..."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Book Festival 2020: Isabel Wilkerson on Caste

Festival talk highlights structural foundations of U.S. divisions

"...roles in the social hierarchy — generally signified by skin color, but persisting above, below, and beyond individual attitudes..."

Nov. 17, 2020 Arts Post by Michael King

Op-Ed: Extinguishing Racism in Central Texas

Pflugerville Councilmember Rudy Metayer on how we can start rebuilding a broken society

"...social media coverage of an all too familiar, utterly American series of events – race-driven hate crime, inflammatory rhetoric,..."

June 12, 2020 Column by Rudy Metayer

Local Exhibitions Point to Ways People of Color Were Freed but Still Aren't Free

The Carver Museum asks: Freedom when?

"...in its Juneteenth exhibit, they refer to enslaved African Americans prior to the official announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation..."

June 14, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Los Coast Doubles Down on Its Psych-Soul for Label Debut

Local fivepiece embraces the spirit of wandering

"...There he met a fellow wanderer. American Spirits..."

June 14, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Qmmunity: LGBTQ and the Search for a Wide Enough Umbrella

Plus, OUTsider Fest is here to queer up your weekend

"...acronym "LGBTQ" is a leader of – ask "ordinary Americans to drag themselves through a list of initials" that..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Life Before 'Mean Girls' and YOLO

Austin Film Society presents 'Teenage'

"...democratic consumerism was rising, England was the gateway of American youth culture into Europe, and in Germany, Hitler was..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

'Beauty Is the Best Priest: Short Plays of the Harlem Renaissance'

ACC's Department of Drama polishes a few rare gems by black women playwrights

"...Negro literature" – a term ascribed to the great African-American poet and thinker James Weldon Johnson – saw a..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Expressing Himself

How David Bologna made the leap to Broadway and a Tony nomination in Billy Elliot the Musical

"...should he? His cross-dressing turn as Michael, the irrepressible, secure-in-his-skin best bud to the titular hero of Billy Elliot..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...There were other books that got under my skin, I'm sure of it, but I have a terrible..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...Hendler, Federico Luppi, Jazmin Stuart, Jose "Yayo" Guridi (North American Premiere)..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Forever Young

The alumni artists of "YLA 15" continue to transform our world into their own

"...a few blocks up the avenue: Arthouse's annual "New American Talent" exhibition and Austin Museum of Art's triennial "New..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Is My Life

LZ Love's reveal: dance music!

"...cheekbones of her mother's family – black, French, Native American. Her skin bears a coppery sheen within its deep..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tim Miller Preaches to the Choir

Review of The Lay of the Land at the Vortex Theater

"...gone gray, he's grown thick around the middle, his skin has lost elasticity. I've experienced all those changes in..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer

One Last Gasp

Geezerville 2009

"...2) Son Volt, "Jukebox of Steel," American Central Dust (Rounder)..."

Jan. 6, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Konnichiwa, Austin!

Celebrating Japanese animation and pop culture at IkkiCon IV

"...Japanese animation (animé) and graphic fiction (manga) have penetrated American culture, it's still hard for some outside of fandom..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Revolution of Spirit

Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin

"...asks how does collective grief and trauma inform the Black-American experience and what must a Soul do to heal."..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young

Roy Head

I Wanna Tell You a Story

"...not bragging on his son Sundance, this year's best American Idol hopeful to get the boot. His Texas accent..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Embracing The Riches

The Riches young Sam Malloy comes out (as if he was ever in…).

"...some loaded suburban dead people in pursuit of the American Dream – is in its indictment of the careening..."

May 15, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

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