Fat Albert

Bill Cosby's animated kids get a live-action makeover.

"...Omari Grandberry, Marques Houston, Keith Robinson, Jermaine Williams and Bill Cosby. If Bill Cosby really wants to challenge the..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Titan of the Telecaster Bill Kirchen

The guitarist settles in Austin but flies Transatlanticana

"...Transatlanticana, the new album from guitarist Bill Kirchen and keyboardist Austin de Lone, closes with a..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Bill Cosby

Playing a cozy venue at SXSW won't be this comedy legend's first encounter with adverse conditions

"...Bill Cosby roots around your words – feeling, searching for..."

March 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...1973 when a kid called Tom Huckabee first met Bill Paxton. They were both students at Richmond College in..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Don and Bill Show: Slightly Bent

Two titan animators drew crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown last weekend.

"...Bill is Bill Plympton, the older one, the one whose..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Seth MacFarlane furthers his Hollywood onslaught with this Western spoof in which he's no longer strictly a voice talent but is now playing the onscreen lead.

"...however, to become the perennial undercard in future double bills with Blazing Saddles – the pinnacle of Western spoofs..."

May 30, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Olympia

"...for the rest of us. So it is with Bill and Ed, a pair of thirtyish sad sacks whose..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Holy Ghost

Austin's Revenant Records follows up its Grammy-winning Charley Patton box set with free jazzman Albert Ayler's 9-CD 'Holy Ghost'

"...Captain Beefheart. Harry Smith. Even our co-founder, John Fahey. Albert Ayler's story hits that same nerve: child prodigy, teenage..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Stupidity

Could it be?: a study of human stupidity that's not, um …, stupid?

"...Directed by: Albert Nerenberg. As director Nerenberg points out, repeatedly, in his..."

May 21, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just Cos

SXSW Comedy headliner Bill Cosby shares his worst gigs ever

"...If Bill Cosby has an interview agenda, it’s you. He counts..."

March 5, 2014 Arts Post by Raoul Hernandez

Dr. Dolittle

"...-- exemplified by movies like Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, Billy Madison, Half-Baked, and the recent output of the Farrelly..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Naked City

A flawed study suggests that abstinence-only curricula does not reduce teen sex

"...some combination of the three. What is important, says Bill Albert of the campaign, is that we not get..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Enchanted No More

Rising tax bill forces owner to put art venue on the market

"...this stretch of woodland off of West Oltorf. Owner Albert DeLoach said, "Two days before the surveyors came by,..."

May 2, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Back Door Man

A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence

"...Several months ago, Bill Bentley watched Bill Bentley having a quick bite to..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Jazz Great John Scofield Endures

Guitarist and Miles Davis alum puts on a clinic Friday at Mohawk

"...66 – Gerald Clayton (k), Vicente Archer (b), and Bill Stewart (d) – anchors his first local gig since..."

Oct. 3, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Sunset Shuffle

Legislature moves the massive Health and Human Services review back two years

"...of Public Safety, not getting their current Sunset review bill passed, they get a two-year extension under House Bill..."

May 31, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Top o' the Evening!

Rollin' in the green at Dog & Duck, Opal Divine's, and more

"...Ian McLagan & the Bump Band. A most appropriate bill that starts out St. Pat’s and ends up South..."

March 16, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

'Counting Water'

Third-Place Winner

"...hospital, and all those trips to the ER with Albert, week in, week out...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Carolyn Lindell

Femmes Fatales: Rounding up Austin's Women of Mystery

"...SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT let me fulfill part of a childhood fantasy --..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature by Anna Hanks

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...last gasps of ACG, with highlights from the semi-classic Billion Dollar Babies and the not-so-classic Muscle of Love, some..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...Farr, Jim Cummings, Nican Robinson, Jocelyn DeBoer, Macon Blair, Bill Wise, Jordan Fox, Chelsea Edmondson (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...GRAND MAL: Led by former St. Johnny frontman Bill Whitten, this New York outfit is following a pair..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Austin Music Network

"...Noon Billboard..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...all ages and styles, so I got to see Albert King, Jimmy Witherspoon, War. I had also heard blues..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

Moore Is Better

"...Albert has been kinder, more delicate, in tone if not..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Review by Marion Winik

Chairman of the Board

Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue

"...aka the Texas Twister, thus came up alongside Houston's Albert Collins in the Fifties, both masters of the Telecaster...."

April 25, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Following the Milk

Take a trip with Whole Foods' anniversary cheeses, from udder to market

"...and a multigenerational commitment to sustainability and land stewardship. Bill Straus began farming here in 1941 with 23 cows...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...his second-hand cockney drawl is likely the source of Billie Joe Armstrong's. But Ness' otherwise taut, raucous, classic songwriting..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

On the Lege: A $156 Million Disaster

The Accenture scheme blows up in the state's face

"...the agency so long to cancel a nearly $1 billion contract with consulting firm Accenture is but one of..."

March 23, 2007 News Column

Reissues

"...in gospel groups, McPhatter became the lead singer for Billy Ward's Dominoes in 1950, and appeared on such important..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

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