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SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...Turner-worthy sex appeal, which the band backs up with rockabilly rhythms and gypsylike carnival riffs. On last year's LP..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Gallery Lombardi: A little farther from the train tracks, but the art still rocks

Gallery Lombardi has left its longtime home on Third Street for new digs on West Seventh, but you can expect the same great salon-style group shows for which it's known

"...surprisingly, drawings by 150 different artists, including ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes, and … And You..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

John Mayall

Gift Guide

"...Once it seemed that all the notable English blues guitarists of the Sixties did time in John..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Luv Doc Recommends: Smokin’ Singles Night With the K-Tel Hit Machine

La Zona Rosa, Friday, July 28, 2006

"...A-List performers: Trish and Darin Murphy, Johnnie Goudy, Paul English, Mike Belile, Kyle Crusham, and Benjamin Hotchkiss as well..."

July 28, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

Hopes He Dies Before He Becomes Michael King (But How Will He Know?)

"...in East Austin. Mr. King: Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, USA 0198614373 $10.95 at BookPeople. Or,..."

May 9, 2006 Postmarks

Sound Checking for a Pulse, and Finding It

The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.

"...of the American music world: from Ray Charles and Billy Preston going crazy R&B on an early television variety..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

TV Eye

So, you wanna be in pictures?

"...The folks that brought you Mr. Bean and Billy Elliot are coming to Austin in search of funny..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

"...juke joint honk of those who originally inspired the English guitarist. He's lost to newer audiences who see him..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

News/Print

Everything is illuminated extremely loud and incredibly close

"...and screenwriting James Hannaham, and poet, playwright, and UT English Ph.D. candidate Liz Jones...."

April 1, 2005 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Circus Maximus

The UT Wind Ensemble's premiere of John Corigliano's Circus Maximus' was more than a concert; it was an event

"...sometimes brisk, often stately promenade through a neatly landscaped English garden. Then came an abrupt about-face, a loose, sensuous..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Sheet Music

"...of the 20 most pleasant sounding words in the English language," cites Rob Jovanovich in this biography of one..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Crowley's partner-in-busking. A recent series of demos produced by Billy Harvey suggests that while her lilt may be country,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...around here since the Eighties, putting him alongside contemporaries Billy Joe Shaver and Blaze Foley. Don't Make Me Laugh..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

ACL Prime Time

Blurbs to ACL Music Fest by.

"...of Andrea Echeverri's Aterciopelados, with whom she's toured. Best English translation might be Suzanne Vega. If Patty Griffin and..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Music Feature

TCB

Takin' it to the streets with the Dixie Chicks, Real Heroes, Ash, and Onion Creek Crawdaddies

"...rock, like SINIS or something," says guitarist Paul "Hi-Watt" English. "We even played a bill with SINIS, and some..."

May 30, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Jane?, and lesser but memorable works by Peter Ustinov (Billy Budd), William Wyler (The Children's Hour), Frank Perry (David..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...provoked reaction. Three months prior, in October 1977, the English quartet had detonated in the media with Never Mind..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...called The Session. It was a very popular show; Billy Joel did his first television performance on it. It..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

Greener Pastures

Youth, Joy, and Jean Arthur

"...is a very compact little island," intones the long-nosed English narrator. "Not large and sprawling with tedious distances, but..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.

"...Saturday... Cock(ney) an ear for Jody Denberg's interview with Billy Bragg this Sunday, 8-10pm, on KGSR. The bloke's new..."

March 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Songwriters and Spirit Chasers

Resentments Jon Dee Graham and Stephen Bruton go mano a mano about their new albums.

"...blessed to be around great songwriters like Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Delbert McClinton, and Bonnie Raitt,..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Or that troll and his gruff billy goats,..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column

Wintry Mix

The holiday film forecast

"...... Miramax's best shot at Academy gold -- best English-speaking shot, at least -- combines the studio's usual suspects:..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...this Hollywood spoof. All-star lineup includes John Cusack and Billy Crystal (who penned the script with Analyze This co-screenwriter..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

Kissinger gets lost

"...down into the pit, crutches and all, and while English horn proved to be an impossible reach for his..."

May 18, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...ROD MOAG: Anyone who's heard Moag's Country, Swing & Rockabilly Jamboree show on KOOP knows that the UT faculty..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Earl Keen, Ryan Adams, and believe it or not, Billy Bob Thornton. (Austin Music Hall, 10pm) -- Michael Bertin..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...Mekons Timms, Jon Langford, and the rest of these English expatriates continue to do for country music what the..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

It's a salmagundi of responses this issue, with bits regarding dolphin bacteria, word use, national politics, and Marc Savlov's cinematic taste (or lack thereof).

"...For more on Bogota, in Spanish and in English, see www.alcadiabogota.gov.co or ecoplan.org/wtpp...."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column

Yo-Yo's, Black Halos, Emo's Main Room

Friday Night

"...Co. had come up in Midwestern bars instead of English pubs. In addition to having the best collection of..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

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