Playing for the People

More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

"...comes to knowing who people are, I'm just pretty bad at that. I'm not this photographer who knows everything..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Microbrew Renaissance

It's a good time to drink beer in Texas

"...Austin Amber is pedestrian, the Bootlegger Brown is not bad but I'm just not a huge fan of browns,..."

July 4, 2008 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Strange but True

Jad Fair making art out in Manor with monsters, aliens, and dead dogs

"...monsters, spewed from a soft spot for the Modern Lovers and the Velvet Underground. The group launched Fair's career..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Film News

Austin picks up a 'Hitcher'; Linklater's Cannes deux attitude; and the rest

"...a woman who, er, takes a bite out of bad guys. Need I say more? Bob Hudgins of the..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Electronica ad nauseAM sounds like a bunch of Kraftwerk lovers reconfiguring the Chuck E. Cheese animatronic band catalog. L.A.'s..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

The Hightower Report

Saudi Arabia puts lipstick on a pig; and Gary Winnick puts lipstick on his greed.

"...from the Saudi oil fortunes. Also, far from being freedom-lovers, the ruling Saudi family runs a repressive dictatorship that..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Who Killed Stacey Stites?

A re-examination of a Bastrop murder case leaves many unanswered questions.

"...prepared to testify that Reed and Stites had been lovers, defense attorneys presented only two of them during the..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Big in Austin, Big in Japan

If a holiday gift trend is big here this year, chances are, it was already big over there

"...mechanical approximation of the American domestic pet experience. Too bad that robo-hound did not hunt, and moreover, could barely..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Articulations

An invitation to the city's loosest arts awards ceremony from the Austin Critics Table, a happy birthday to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, and playwright Ruth Margraff is a hit in Big D.

"...instrumentalists, and every other kind of artist, patrons and lovers of the arts, and all their friends and family..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...call it a comeback). D'Angelo's smoky Voodoo and Erykah Badu's sultry Mama's Gun eschewed the tight, Seventies AM radio..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...off the congested island of Manhattan is no picnic; bad directions from Avis land us on the Jersey turnpike,..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Time to Bounce

Rapping with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the funkiest Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court

"...hip-hop, they continue this tradition on The Good the Bad and the Funky, the first Tom Tom Club offering..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by John G. La Briola

Grunt Work

Interview with America's favorite Gladiator about his band

"...with Crowe's innate gift for spinning hardscrabble yarns about bad luck and busted hearts; if they weren't from Down..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...the name of your ex-husband? Can a color cause bad dreams? Can a cornfield make you cry?" It all..."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Beyond the Norm

The Impressive Euro-Asian Fare at Bistro 88

"...Tofu lovers will relish chef Liu's Domino Tofu ($10.95), a stack..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...ain't; imagine instead a mini-South by Southwest for blues lovers headed toward Fantasy Island. Despite its corny moniker, "the..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...but no less painful. And even before Austin music lovers had a chance to recover from the post-Lounge hangover,..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Taboo Topics, True Subjects

Reflections on Race in the NBA

"...derives from the racist assumption that "black trash" or "bad Negro" would be redundant.) Two days after the Finals,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Books Feature by David Shields

The Neal and Joe Show: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

"...at all, it seems. Joe R. Lansdale (Freezer Burn, Bad Chili) and Neal Barrett Jr. (Pink Vodka Blues, Interstate..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Mike Shea

A Rural Riddle

Hays County Water Planning Partnership forms to try and stop unmitigated growth

"...it long and hard, because they have such a bad name here (in Hays County)," she says. She grimaces..."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Going for Broke

Fruit Salad Days

"...had already established a good reputation with roots music lovers, secured overseas distribution, and seen several of its releases..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Book Reviews

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

"...on a weekly paper, bummed around, wrote half a bad novel. Discovered I was able to understand computer systems,..."

June 11, 1999 Books Review

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...Appetite) is simply that: an imagined specimen of American bad taste, narrowly defined in opposition to her own enlightened..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...seduces her mother's husband. And then things go from bad to worse. And the movie goes from divine to..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Exhibitionism

Twelfth Night: Gently Into That Good Night

"...everything is possible, where the good inevitably outweighs the bad; above all, Faires is a gentleman -- a scholarly,..."

May 7, 1999 Arts Review

It's a Mystery to Me

"...Indeed, it's a mystery to me how true book lovers could develop such nasty prejudices. In my book, one..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Get It While You Can

"...no. Janis craved love and affection, family, friends, and lovers. She desperately desired acceptance, and had an insatiable appetite..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...a lifetime's worth of songs to choose from. The bad news is the bulk of those are often just..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

"...I'd been puffing on something other than tobacco? Too bad -- it's true. You can relax, though. The new..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Have Yourself an Animated Christmas

"...Jessica Rabbit: “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” "The challenge," a reader..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

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