The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...had training and professional experience – she with the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Opera Ballet, he..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...or simply jooks arose in both rural and urban African-American neighborhoods and centers of commerce. Venues ranged from someone's..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to the editor accusing me of harboring prejudices against African-Americans ["Postmarks," Aug. 18]...."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...has spent the past three years in the Texas Youth Commission's Giddings State School, where psychologists testified Jan. 24..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...bussers, band members, etc. Being a cancer patient who works in the service industry and who also enjoys seeing..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Column

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...ANDREW KENNY: Austin's serene popsters American Analog Set went on hiatus when frontman Andrew Kenny..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

St. Michael's Passion

Whose truth prevails at Austin's Catholic high school?

"...This Land, We Will Build Our School' Good Catholic youth in Austin used to attend St. Edward's, an offshoot..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...off). There's even been a software spin-off company -- Infraworks -- also based in Austin, that's developed and launched..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Dancing About Architecture

The rains came, sweeping away parking at Noahfest, Boozoo Chavis, and DJ Muppetfucker's name. Clifford Antone, meanwhile, remains in the pokey, while Schatzi prepares to go the same route and sign a record deal.

"...the first "Help Clifford Help Kids" show to benefit American Youthworks, the organization the club owner has chosen to..."

May 11, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

... And Justice for All?

Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost depicted the grossly mishandled trials of three Arkansas teens. With Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, part of the Texas Documentary Tour, they return to the scene of the crime.

"...and three films they have examined what happens when American justice and the lower societal strata collide, with results..."

April 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Making History Personal

History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.

"...races through humorous and sometimes moving stories of her youth, her strained relationship with her father, and some of..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...Zigal's wife, Annette Carlozzi, is a notable figure in American art circles and currently is curator of contemporary and..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postmarks

Sweep Them Out

"...with his pen firmly on the pulse of our American society. A modern-day shaman of sorts who consistently is..."

June 4, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Barrientos Misrepresented

"...I was asked by a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman how the city of Austin should respond to the..."

May 7, 1999 Column

Sticking it to the Fat, Lazy Americans

International Acts at SXSW

"...Belgium): Belgian band with a Puerto Rican frontman writing part-American-jazz-part-Sino-noise-punk that have Spanish titles but are sung in English...."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Public Notice

Back With a Vengeance

"...please forward info and we'll pass it along. WRL@igc.apc.org 800/WRL-YOUTH...."

Nov. 24, 1995 Column by Kate X Messer

Council on CodeNEXT

Four CMs lament inequitable land use standards throughout city

"...land use code revisions that have been in the works for years. Tuesday morning at Blazier Elementary School, in..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

In Memoriam: Jason Tremblay

Playwright to be remembered at the Paramount on Sunday

"...Access to Artistic Excellence Award and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Playwriting for Young Audiences Award...."

April 28, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

I Wear the Black Hat

Klosterman's critique of villainy over the last 40 years offers some surprisingly sharp analyses

"...cultural critic Chuck Klosterman's latest tome, the villain in American society since the Seventies, couldn't be a better fit...."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Poster Perfect

How Mondo is revolutionizing film art-vertising

"...if you will, the movie posters that informed your youth. Chances are they decorated your bedroom wall, were clipped..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Art To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Response: Polyphony Then and Now. Overall, 48 productions, exhibits, works, or artists were recognized...."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rock, Then Surf, en Español

Austin-based tastemaking website La Banda Elástica puts the emphasis on worldwide

"...Elástica is largely in Spanish, other experiments in the works include inviting artists as guest bloggers and a project..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Dig Deeper: The Austin Underground Film Festival

The third annual Austin Underground Film Festival

"...do is create an odd tone, and Wrake's movie works like a piece of music; you're not sure where..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Jim Gaffigan

Pack up the kids: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is back, taping his Austin shows for cable

"...Beyond the Pale DVD and CD. The affable Gaffigan works clean (as in profanity-free, not post-Betty Ford), and his..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Page Two: In This World

The all-consuming genius of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth

"...bugs him in a recent issue of the Oxford American...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Column by Louis Black

First Night Schedule

"...Feliz Familias, Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress. Create traditional Latin American holiday crafts: maracacitos (noisemakers), papel picados (small banners), and..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature

Secrets Shared

The documentary photos of Donna DeCesare

"...childhood. From her current featured work documenting exploited Central American and Colombian children in "Sharing Secrets: Children's Portraits Exposing..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

'Migration Uno'

What is extraordinary about artist Ana Fuentes is that in her works she aims to attain emotional states and alter external circumstances that are not part of her physical environment

"...Born in Chicago to a Mexican physician and an American nurse of Eastern European descent, she spent her childhood..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Review

The Least That Money Can Buy

Prison health care is caught between growing demand and shrinking resources

"...they might have been pretty tough mofos in their youth – throws the system into deficit. These aging men..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Still Hungry

Reassessing the state of Austin's food security

"...Devices, ConAgra and Randalls, the Ben, Willie & Darrel Youth Classic, Grande Communications, Martin Instruments, Borden's, Michaelango's, and the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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