Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...Monday, in ceremonies ranging from the simple and eloquent (Austin firefighters) to the grandiloquent and lugubrious (D.C.). President Bush..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature

Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads

Austinite Hector Galán’s reverential look at Grammy-winning "Texican" rockers Los Lonely Boys is a document of persistence, passion, and some of the finest rock & roll since Stevie Ray Vaughan’s untimely exit.

"...Boys get a documentary to call their own in Austinite Hector Galán’s reverential look at the band, the culture,..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lear Jaunt

Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn

"...in the UK for 15 years. He came to Austin to get a graduate degree in the English department,..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

TV Eye

What if?

"...mother holding down too many jobs while going to school, and a quiet delivery man who turns out to..."

June 16, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Hey, Hey, Woody Guthrie, I Made You a Film

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: 'Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home'

"...spent any time around a campfire or on a school-bus trip to anywhere, the words to Guthrie's opus, "This..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

On The Lege

Big Tobacco, poor smokers gain temporary reprieve, and other tax politics news

"...until June 1 to come up with a new school funding plan that, for now, doesn't actually provide schools..."

April 28, 2006 News Column by Amy Smith

On the Funding Front

New funding helps the Blanton get wired and kids at Zach and KHDC get inspired

"...will feature materials for families and students in grade school as well as on the university level. This donation..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film News

Bob Hudgins, successor of Tom Copeland at the Texas Film Commission, isn't wasting any time; plus, Andrew Shapter, Lunafest, and more

"...and an experienced locations scout. He worked locations on Austin-shot Michael in 1996 and got to know Copeland. Of..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Day Trips

Shopping and eating in the Alamo City always seems like a good reason for a day trip to me

"...A new discovery for me on a recent trip to the area..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...they generally return quickly. It took me three tries. Austin has been my home for close to 20 years,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...Sampson and Irma Louis found themselves wandering around Downtown Austin in the grip of one of Katrina's side effects...."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

China Syndrome?

Investigating reports of the ink monkey's return – and whether it existed to begin with

"...were their era's bestselling discount paperbacks. Slammed with deadlines, old-school Chinese authors employed the next best thing to editorial..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Books Feature by Dylan Siegler

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)

"...ahead of Dreyfuss but behind Chuck. In junior high school, I would receive giant bags of fan mail right..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D

Robert Rodriguez adds a dimension with this kids fantasy movie, but only in the most literal sense – 3-D.

"...early, homemade shorts than a creative advance for the Austin-based jack-of-all-cinematic-trades, who writes, shoots, edits, composes, and does whatever..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stay Sweet, BFF, KIT

'Freaks and Geeks' fans and their bittersweet assembly at the Alamo

"...have been at it since 9am, brunching on authentic school-cafeteria fare with stars from the show at the Garza..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Adopting a Survivor's Tale

Stephen Mills' journey into the Holocaust leads a community toward tolerance

"...claim on Mills' interest since he was in high school, and in recent years – especially since 9/11 –..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film News

Finally, something louder than a whisper for incentives, but it'll take a roar; plus, Bill Plympton, Texas on TV, and Dinesh Potluri

"...kind of incentives are there?'" says Suzanne Quinn of Austin Studios, who has spent the past two years watching..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

The Election, the Baby, and the Bathwater

Heflin challenge could reverberate statewide

"...Rep. Will Hartnett, R-Dallas, the designated House "master of discovery," will consider Heflin's allegations of illegal balloting in the..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...Hancock, and Traci Lamar are the most recognizable, from Austin's Texana Dames, though sharp eyes will recognize Joaquin Hancock...."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...that reflects the city that we're in. Coming to Austin, we'll want to have a sense of Austin as..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

'He's Forked Himself'

Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about 'The Hammer'

"...Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress, by Austin authors Lou Dubose and Jan Reid. The book recounts..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Senators Live Beyond Their Means

A study of 'campaign expenditures' finds that our part-time state senators live very well

"...by watchdog organization Campaigns for People. The group's biggest discovery – that only 40% of the senators' campaign funds..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

In Search of the Wild Art

'Cracks in the Pavement' leaves art objects in unexpected spaces throughout the city

"...than 100 art objects for specific sites all over Austin – beneath bridges, beside freeways, along sidewalks, up in..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Fun

Oh, Galveston

"...Molly's embodies the same casual, everybody-knows-your-name feel as those Austin treasures. With over 60 draft beers from across the..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...play right here."Looking for New Tools Last month, when Austin Police Officer James Hellums walked up to survey the..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...three antipodean punkaroonie Kiwi ladies met in "college" (high school to us Yanks), bonded over Patti, Poly Styrene, and..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...to the principal's office once for wearing shorts to school. The vice-principal cut the threads that held the cuffs..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...of the breathtaking world-cinema selection. Which doesn't mention the Discovery series, the innovative Visions celebration or the Masters tribute..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

TV Eye

Jack Kerouac is turning over in his grave while middle-class kids "following their bliss" in The Open Road mangle his vision.

"...of hitting the road in search of adventure and self-discovery. But soon after their comically rocky start, I found..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

On Ondine on Film: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...significant number of the small group that started The Austin Chronicle were film graduate students. We had become friends..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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