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"...There are people actually using tractors to destroy Dixie Chicks CDs, on top of the scattered radio boycotts of..."

March 28, 2003 Column

Websites from Hell

It's 4am -- Do You Know Where Your Monitor Is?

"...marriage presided over by your choice of deities (Elvis, Bill Hicks, "the Fightin' Jesus," etcetera)...."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

"...the one recently mounted for his friend and bandmate Bill Hicks. Sunday, there's a benefit for the Poor Man's..."

June 27, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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Nofziger Responds

"...in high school so that we could pay the bills (I'm 25 now). He knows what it's like to..."

April 25, 1997 Column

Jubilant Dance, MedFest, and More Weekend Recommendations

Find the right fit for your going-out vibe

"...is reminiscent of late greats like George Carlin and Bill Hicks. Last year’s Worst Daddy in the World almost..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Shane Whalley Won’t Back Down

Daring Dialogues founder on how DEI bans affect queer Texans

"...many LGBTQ+ Texans felt pummeled by the number of bills targeting them, including Senate Bill 14, which bans gender..."

June 26, 2023 Qmmunity Post by Adam Cherian

Richard Linklater Constructs a Frustrated Architect in Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett's character is the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright, but no less complicated

"...has passion projects in development hell, like his long-gestating Bill Hicks biopic, or his planned love letter to Houston..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chris Cubas: Hashtag, You're It

#PointsMe champion returns to take on the Moontower crowds

"...do whatever I wanted. My first joke was a "Bill Cosby's a rapist" joke, and they didn't just let..."

April 24, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Lot of Chatter

Things change, but Janeane Garofalo still loves to stand up on a stage and talk

"...live at the Comedy Workshop, the club that launched Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, and, after making the leap..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gig Posters, Vol. 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century

GigPosters.com comes to print

"...to make a poster ..."), and influences: Rick Griffin, Bill Hicks, Polish propaganda, Mad magazine, Bill Watterson, Frank Kozik,..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SOS Files for Bankruptcy

The stalwart defenders of Barton Springs reorganize in face of court loss.

"...federal bankruptcy court. Save Our Springs Alliance executive director Bill Bunch says, “SOS Alliance will continue to advocate in..."

April 10, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

SXSW News: Saturday

"...visit non-SXSW venues occasionally. Actually, make that non-music venues. Billy Gibbons was spotted both Wednesday and Thursday night at..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Hamell on Trial Choochtown (Such-A-Punch)

National Records

"...inappropriate (given the subject) tribute to late comedian/social commentator Bill Hicks. Perhaps the folks in Choochtown miss ol' Bill..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Austin Music goes to Amsterdam, and the Spankers come back from there; more albums don't come out, and more bad club news

"...extra jollity later in the weekend... The December 4 Billboard reports that Fastball has a track on the Supersuckers..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

I Drive Dean Haglund

"...at the Comedy Workshop, working with then-rising comics like Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, and Dennis Miller. Often, that meant..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Feature

Dude, It's Mitch Hedberg!

"...big thing." Seinfeld is over, Leno's not funny, and Bill Hicks is dead; the comedy world awaits its next..."

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

Dancing About Architecture

Ode To the Year Formerly Known as 1998

"...quite enter the new millennium is the fact that Bill Clinton is president -- for the moment, anyway. I..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The News Gets Better

Austin's 1997 in Review

"...Judge's new cartoon hit, King of the Hill, and Bill Hicks finally becomes a recording star. And it probably..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Dancing About Architecture

They Blowed Up Real Good!

"...Next Tuesday's performance by the Bill T. Jones/Artie Zane Dance Co., at the Bass Concert..."

March 28, 1997 Music Column

Dancing About Architecture

Chicago Music Hall

"...five-song EP from Peekaboo Records. Oklahoma Friendly Wonder why Bill Hicks once termed Oklahoma "the only state that Arkansas..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Waterloo Records Owner John Kunz Saves His 42-Year-Old Baby – By Selling It

With new partners in tow, the pioneering record store moves up Lamar

"...Returned to the current HQ, he retrieves a Bill Hicks CD after a car ride discussion on compact..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A T-Rex, Trivia, and Twilight, in This Week’s Recommended Events

Take those long arms and find a weekday happening

"...is reminiscent of late greats like George Carlin and Bill Hicks. Last year’s Worst Daddy in the World almost..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Moontower Just for Laughs Headliner Vir Das on Belonging and That Monologue

Indian by way of everywhere

"...club, his name mentioned in the same breath as Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, and George Carlin, "and I always..."

April 14, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cap City Comedy Club Returns

Knock, knock. Who's there? Austin's comedy big dog reopens this week.

"...that goes back to legends like Mitch Hedberg and Bill Hicks and that attracted comics like Patton Oswalt to..."

July 11, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Cap City Comedy Club Closes

COVID closure shutters the venerable stand-up home for good

"...Patton Oswalt, Ari Shaffer, Ron White, and the one-and-only Bill Hicks; its partnership with the Moontower Comedy Festival; its..."

Sept. 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Richard Linklater Shooting 20-Year Stephen Sondheim Musical

Merrily We Roll Along his most ambitious project yet

"...space race, and his biopic of late, great comedian Bill Hicks...."

Aug. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

"Secrets of Earth" at Raw Paw Gallery

Serigraphic alchemist Chris Dock invites you to look through his rose-colored lenses

"...Or, like, if Deepak Chopra hired the ghost of Bill Hicks to whack him in the face with a..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Raising Hell With the Legacy of Molly Ivins at SXSW

Texas’ beloved crusading journalist gets her documentary due

"...spirit. If only she were around today – alongside Bill Hicks, maybe – we’d all sleep a little better..."

March 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Venues

Where to find the funny in town

"...DeGeneres, Sam Kinison, Ron White, and a kid named Bill Hicks, who so loved the club he recorded many..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Brutality Television

Why you won't be seeing Austin emo puppet band Fragile Rock on America's Got Talent

"...satirist, I eat up the "fevered egos" (to paraphrase Bill Hicks) often associated with this genre. My brother grew..."

July 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Brently Heilbron

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