On Leaving Dove Springs

A meditation on neighborhood, fear, family, and change

"...it wouldn't be found. After carefully securing the laptop and making sure a light was on to give the..."

Aug. 22, 2014 News Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

A Declaration of Independence

Zavala Elementary and Principal Sean Fox are succeeding at going their own way

"...Principal Sean Fox was faced with an emotional quandary. The previous week, a student stole a book from..."

May 9, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

If You Wear it, They Will Run

Wearable tech is shaping the way people run the Austin Marathon

"...what a lot of runners do. Hydrating, stretching – and, like an increasing number of racers, checking that all..."

Feb. 15, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...as the Eighties’ first true pop star. Catch him and his crew tonight at the Belmont...."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Not Everybody Is In This Weekend's Austin Sketch Fest

But that doesn't mean we've forgotten The New Movement

"...And as much as local comedy attention is focused on..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...And then the word came: The feds had raided a..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Where He Got That Pony

Steven Wright on his inspirations and stand-up origins

"...If stand-up legend Steven Wright didn't exist, I'm not sure anyone..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arms on Brazos

As it nears completion of an extended 'Great Streets' rehab project, has Austin learned any lessons?

"...There's good news for Downtown residents and regulars. After more..."

Aug. 5, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Secret Club

South by Southwest 2011 Keynote speaker Bob Geldof played the Armadillo World Headquarters with the Boomtown Rats. Afterward ....

"...Geldof: rock star, activist, Live Aid founder, humanitarian, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Democracy Incorporated

Writer Ed Burns on education, totalitarianism, and the possibility of community

"...traditional career path. Working for the Baltimore Police Department, then as a public school teacher, he eventually partnered with..."

July 30, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Kicking the Tires at Fleet

City whistle-blower confirms that the trouble at Fleet Services has been much worse than scrap tires and bad record-keeping. And nobody in charge wanted to hear it.

"...show that officials within the city's Fleet Services Division, and many others in City Hall – including former City..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Imaginary Television

A conversation with Graham Parker

"...men" of British rock, often pigeonholed with Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, songwriters with distinctive, passionate songwriting styles who..."

May 5, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Page Two: Same As It Ever Was

South by Southwest and other lifetime labors of love

"...the single hippest guy in my high school class (then at least a decade behind me), longtime lead singer..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...week after a battle with cancer, was celebrated locally and nationally for his fiction and nonfiction. He also wrote..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead

Graveyard

"...of which guitarists Jonatan Ramm (lead), Joakim Nilsson (rhythm/vox), and Rikard Edlund (bass) spark a firestorm of doomy roar..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Here Comes Sickness

Mudhoney guitarist Mark Arm comes clean

"...“I certainly don’t sit around and think about things that happened 15 or 20 years..."

Sept. 4, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Who Did He Serve?

Scott McClellan on Bush, bipartisanship, loyalty, and duty

"...The similarities between George W. Bush and Scott McClellan, who served as Bush's spokesman when he..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Re-Re-Re-Re-Reopening Night

The Ritz: Talkie theatre, cowboy hangout, playhouse, comedy and punk club, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

"...It's 7am, seven days before Día de los Muertos, and 320 E. Sixth is full of ghosts. It's chilly..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...the social justice movement in Latin America share an understanding that there's always a bullet out there with our..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 2

Nashville, Coconut Grove, and points in between

"...a lot of New York folkies followed him to), and that he recorded the album in Nashville with Nick..."

May 25, 2007 Column by Louis Black

What's Past Is Prologue

Recreating classic tap routines from the screen and stage opens an exciting new future for Tapestry Dance Company

"...or more. But now they've exploded into three dimensions, and they're in the flesh, being danced right now, right..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

She's Her Own Grandma

Carole Keeton Strayhorn – what a long strange trip it's been

"...her confirmation on the November ballot as an independent candidate for governor. After waiting more than two months for..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Lone Ranger

The legend of Jerry Lynn Williams

"...You say you want it and you want it bad..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...Austin, News Editor Michael King interviewed writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz and his collaborator, producer Elizabeth Avellán, about the background of..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Page Two

When Gravity Fails: Notes on the influence of Ed Lowry, 'Crazy Mama,' and not sweating the small stuff

"...And it's Eastertime too..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Inside the Actor's Superego

How Michael Baldwin got here (hint: It involves a showbiz upbringing, Oreo cookies, and shrieking armadas of flying, brain-sucking spheres)

"...be a teenage girl living in Japan in 1976, then chances are your heart still quickens at the mention..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

Memories of the first stirring of Self and Soul.

"...of us, he looked like a 10-year-old. The instigator and prime attacker was called Big Archie, a heavy, vicious..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...well as a broad range of new Canadian films and a Canadian retrospective of silent actress-writer-director Nell Shipman. There..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Finding Their Tuva

The Texas Documentary Tour screens 'Genghis Blues,' the Belic Brothers' next step in living a 'kickass, adventurous life and meeting cool people.'

"...two truly swell stories: the one in the film, and the one about the film told by filmmaker Adrian..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are women like? What..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

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