Sometimes You Get What You Want

Ira Cohen was a bongo player, drummer type person who picked up gigs whenever he could, which wasn't often.

"...the sides of his face. The veins of his arms stood hard, defined, as the music traveled through them...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Alana Cash

Dancing About Architecture

New Year's New Clubs, New Arrangements for the Austin Music Network and, well, News.

"...happen. Staffers at Club DeVille were already up in arms on December 30, trying to figure out what to..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...has become a factor, and the playwright has to deal with another whole set of expectations. So when the..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"..."sweep out" a criminal nuisance, nobody gets up in arms or says that neighborhood is racist. But when a..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

All About Guitars

"...do play, they try to make it "a big deal." National tours, on the other hand, are a big..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...until just last month for her to ink a deal with local indie Doolittle Records. She follows her self-released..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

A League of Their Own

"...Red Book. Broyles wrote the Vietnam memoir, Brothers in Arms, which set him on the path which eventually led..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dude, It's Mitch Hedberg!

"...sister to Austin. The natives welcomed him with open arms, and soon he was making enough money from comedy..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...is not her enemy, it's something for others to deal with; she'll leave when she's ready. Price walks into..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...It boosts their ego and makes them easier to deal with...."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dancing About Architecture

The Rockets' Red Glare...

"...to `introduce accountability' into public access, and sweeten the deal by promising to add two `value' channels to the..."

April 4, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

As Millions Demand Justice, Texas Prepares to Take Rodney Reed's Life

Looking back at a long road of injustice for the death row inmate

"...of town. She lay on her back with her arms thrown behind her head. She wore a black bra..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Owen Egerton Gets Physical for Mercy Black

Childhood trauma lingers in this Netflix horror

"...a herky-jerky fashion, then pushes himself up on his arms, arching his back in a creepy, unbalanced way. This..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Major League Sucker

"...“other football.” As for the four nay votes, locking arms over a much more important issue that might offer..."

Aug. 20, 2018 Postmarks

Austin Tattoo Shops Offering Friday the 13th Deals

Looking for a lucky tattoo? We’ve got you covered.

"...and they’ll tattoo it on ya – legs or arms only (usually – all shops are different). Back in..."

July 12, 2018 Events Post by Sarah Marloff

Life After Gentrification

When you and your home both have to move

"...their dog outside. He held the puppy in his arms as he opened the door, then walked down the..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...escape from Syria. As he matures, he has to deal with the complexity in the confines of a refugee..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Beside the Point: Failing Our Teachers

Why won't we fund our schools?

"...Before anyone gets up in arms, this isn't a "manual labor is beneath the intelligentsia"..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Then There's This: Waste Over the Aquifer

With settlement, city must now support treatment plant in recharge zone

"...terms, the city agreed not only to lay down arms, but to support JV's permit application when an administrative..."

Sept. 13, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Playback: Dialing In Birdlegg

Birdleggs, Strange Boys, Moonpies, Ed Hall / Gorch Fock / Brown Whörnet, and other weirdness

"...his local imprint, founded in 1998, remains recordings by real-deal bluesmen, largely African-American musicians, whose authenticity, credibility, and talent..."

July 19, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

The LuvDoc chats with Marcus G. Ollington, rock star cartographer

"...track meet in central Austin – one of those deals where helicopter parents reward the shocking athletic ineptitude of..."

Aug. 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

Catastrophe and the Cure

Behind the scenes of Explosions in the Sky's most challenging and personal album

"...image is rendered ambiguously – a lone cherub with arms outstretched, caught between destruction and deliverance...."

July 1, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Decisions, Decisions

Voters ponder council election; council ponders F1

"...of Greater Austin, who sent out a call to arms early in the run-off campaign noting that "nothing motivates..."

June 17, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

I Shutter To Think

Six photographers offer a snapshot of the state of the art

"...everybody on the subway had yellow boxes under their arms, so you're like, "Oh my god, all hundred of..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Swampadelic

Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers

"...debut comes as a cosmic revelation, full of amulet charms and shadow rhythms, unfolding with the patience and confidence..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

What's Wrong With Cap Metro ... and What's Right

The transit agency is good at a few things – like digging itself into a public relations ditch

"...32-mile route were not fully functioning. "Our crossing guard arms, the timing is still needing to be worked out,"..."

April 24, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

An Expanding Definition of Family

Karen Skloss' personal documentary explores mothers and daughters and the choices they make

"...she began making a film about single parenting to deal with the change...."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Sarah Jean Billeiter

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...for charges related to possession and assembly of "unregistered firearms," as the weapons are defined by federal law...."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

Iraq Comes Home

Wounded Warriors return to the Thin Blue Line

"...PCP and dressed in a black muscle shirt, his arms a canvas of tattoos, had left the scene and..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...table full of Texas Education Agency staffers who would deal directly with the Johnston "intervention." Student leaders were also..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

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