Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Speaking of big GOP donors, one of them just swallowed..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Back to school this week, on the streets, and..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Chicago home. Texas is home to Bedheaders Matt & Bubba Kadane, founders of the New Year with Saturnine bassist..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...arena rock, punk, and glam custom-made for sullen youths kicking beer bottles down the railroad tracks. Denmark's Defectors are..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...projects and consistent aesthetic success of so much local filmmaking. But rather than tell you about Austin's extraordinarily unique..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

TCB

What a sampling of the Austin music scene wants for Christmas.

"...Santa Baby..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...Dead Man Walking, Austin Lyric Opera..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...PEELANDER-Z: Residing in NYC, this Japanese trio is CBGB..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Story Book Children

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez duet their way into Austin's heart.

"...Austin's most accomplished singer-songwriters of the Eighties. She started taking violin lessons at age 5 and began performing locally..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Fastball gains velocity, Herring swims upstream, and Spoon's new single is ripe for consumption

"...spotted a potential one downtown that they're "nuts over"), working on pulling a national board together, and fundraising to..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Will Travel for Food

Central Market's Jane King visits the gentrified Grassmarket area of Edinburgh and the used-cookbook store of Clarissa Dickson Wright, formerly of Two Fat Ladies.

"...Wright, the surviving member of the Two Fat Ladies cooking-show team, has a handkerchief-sized used book shop in the..."

July 19, 2002 Food Feature by Jane King

Naked City

Clean Campaigns heat wave, Alcoa's new problems, No Pipeline solutions at AAS, Personnel puzzles at AISD, City resignations, Mueller redevelopment candidates, Hyde Park meets again & Ed Herman's letter to the Times

"...and give it directly to Longhorn Pipeline? -- Michael King..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...and Museum, but after I explained that I was talking about my friend of 12 years, James Ellroy, the..."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dancing About Architecture

Austin leaves Ken Lieck homeless and fuming.

"...Technology's not all bad -- I never said that...."

April 28, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

BS4 Improv & Sketch Comedy Fest Schedule

Fri, Apr 2 - Thu, Apr 8

"...King of the Hill Day Barbecue..."

April 2, 1999 Arts Feature

Reissues

"...important records as "Sixty Minute Man" and "Have Mercy Baby." When he was canned by Ward and replaced with..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

My Fair Ladies

"...It's ladies' day in Austin this Friday, with thousands..."

July 31, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...them numbers? So, while we know the clock's already ticking, take a few minutes to get the inside scoop..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...17-19. MTV personalities Kennedy (the Republican one) and Peter King (the surfer-dude one) will host the festivities, which will..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Road Shows

"...FRI 1 King's X, Back Room..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Music Feature

The Connection of Merce Cunningham and John Cage Chance

"...50 years of these two legends of the avant-garde working together, little would be left to chance in this..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Arts Feature

Food-O-File

"...start planning for Mardi Gras. Sure, you can mail-order King Cakes from New Orleans, but first check out the..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Dancing About Architecture

"...vocalist Dave Derrick has gone "biz" on us now, taking a post as the new regional promotions guy for..."

July 21, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Apollo 13

Howard's take on the ill-fated 1970 moon shot is filled with the almost unassailable heroics of the U.S. space program and the genuine urgency of history.

"...supportive wife to a thoroughly unexpected cameo from B-movie king Roger Corman as a congressman, Apollo 13 is filled..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Hatfield Takes a Rest

"...Austin blues community. The recent benefit for ailing BBQ king Stubbs brought in a very helpful $3,000, though unfortunately..."

May 5, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Farewell, Ray Harryhausen

The master of stop motion passed on at 92

"...motion pioneered by his childhood hero Willis O'Brien on King Kong. Arguably the pinnacle of his career was the..."

May 7, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Funniest Person in Austin 2012

The comic crowned king this year had the Nazer's edge

"...with each finalist, like some gang of joke junkies seeking bigger and bigger highs. By the time No. 11,..."

May 18, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Three Cheers for the Alternative Softball League

"...typical ASL game. However, BookPeople won, 18-8, and remain king of the mountain, and Emo’s is close behind, standing..."

July 15, 2008 Sports Post by Kristine Tofte

Bobby

Bobby looks at the lives of some everyday people who are about to get caught up in the avalanche of history when they become witnesses to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

"...many still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King two months earlier. The story of Bobby Kennedy, from..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Stuart Little

Retelling of E.B. White's children's classic.

"...turf because Rob Minkoff's (co-director of Disney's The Lion King) retelling of White's classic children's book is a spun-sugar..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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