Texas Treasures

Moody Anderson and His Western Warehouse

"...that's been tailgating me for the past quarter mile, and cut the sharp left that takes me through a..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.

"...a general question: Why did you decide to run? And what's your purpose in doing so?..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Scene of the Crime

Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions

"...conference to deliver big news. Ten years after city and county officials gathered to announce that they'd found the..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'An Independent Person'

A Conversation With Randi Shade

"...We spoke with Council Member Randi Shade at her Clarksville home on Friday, May 20,..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Dogville

Lars von Trier's new film is both masterful and misanthropic.

"...Hall, John Hurt, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Lauren Bacall and Blair Brown. The Danish director Lars von Trier (Breaking..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Living in a Dream

Too Many Ways to Fall

"...The 1990-91 Austin Music Awards photograph by John Carrico..."

May 14, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

A Life Less Ordinary

"...Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Dan Hedaya, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm and Maury Chaykin. From the trio that brought us Shallow..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Violators Will Be Punished

"...In the beginning, there was music. And damn, it was yummy. Trouble was,..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...want my son to lay in peace, with quiet and respect."..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Beauty and the Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All of..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

Ramblin’ After Midnight With Stef Chura

Detroit indie rocker steps into the spotlight with second LP

"...DIY staple feverishly jostling for layered clarity. Witness it and her live on Sunday inside at Mohawk...."

July 18, 2019 Music Post by Beth Sullivan

Judas Priest Co-Founder Ian Hill Wields Firepower

UK metal gods near the half-century mark

"...after the first show of a two-night New York stand, Ian Hill, 67, apologized for a cold but came..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Cherubs Flourish in the Afterlife at SOS Fest

"We didn’t want to be a Cherubs cover band playing Heroin Man over and over for people"

"...telephone receiver, out spews a deviant spiral of noise and rhythm punctuated by man-on-fire howls. You can snap it..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

A Journey to 'Parkland'

Writer/director Peter Landesman on the untold stories of JFK's death

"...When journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman started writing the script for his JFK assassination film..."

Oct. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Total Utility

The pain and politics of raising electric rates as a means of controlling our destiny

"...Hall. To his left stood Council Member Chris Riley and Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole. Spelman and Cole were..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Courting Change

Travis County needs a new civil and family courthouse – and a new way of doing business

"...The lot at Third and Guadalupe sits in the middle of an area checkered..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...just that. That was the be-all, end-all, long-term plan. And I think the spirit of what we were trying..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Science of Sleeping Together

Mary Roach has taken on ghosts and cadavers. Now she's taking on sex.

"...is the funniest science writer since Samuel Tissot, bar none. Who was Samuel Tissot, you ask? He was the..."

April 11, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Tearing It Up

Tearing It Up: Smart, committed, and usually the funniest person in the room, Ann Richards kicked down doors and prepared us all for the future

"...was racing around as I always do, even when there is no reason, and my eyesight is shot and..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Column by Louis Black

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

"...Cube, Clea Duvall, Pam Grier, Jason Staham, Natasha Henstridge and Lobo Sebastian. When John Carpenter was on Late Night..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"...Robert Conran is standing in the inmate visiting room of the Texas Dept...."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...way, as open to the sky as if it were set on the edge of a marsh. Standing in..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...Any physical resemblance between writer-performer Terry Galloway and her "sisters" in the Rude Mechanicals theatre company is..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

"...too high. Please see Subsection (1) Contribution Limits for Non-Candidate Political Committees...."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column

Texas Platters

"...Though he was born in El Paso in 1940, there's little about Phil Ochs' music that says "Texas," other..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

Out of Pawn

Austin's Best Bar Band, Buick MacKane

"..."Well, y'know, we are the best band in town," boasts Alejandro Escovedo of Buick MacKane, the..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

The Unabridged Billy Joe Shaver

Country outlaw wanted – alive and kickin’

"...a gig at John T Floore’s Country Store in Bandera and said he’d have to call me back from..."

Aug. 5, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Spinning The Color Wheel

Bob Byington supplies the Q's, Alex Ross Perry the A's

"...I was in a movie that's done really well and it's coming to Austin, so I wanted to ask..."

July 27, 2012 Screens Post by Robert Byington

One Big Gay Happy Family?

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...Members of QueerBomb, Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...the Texas attorney general's Cyber Crimes Unit -- was demanding entry. By the end of that morning, Perez's academic..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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