Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...to appreciative audiences around the country: the Rude Mechs' Lipstick Traces and Get Your War On, Dan Dietz's tempOdyssey,..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

How far are you willing to go to make a picture?

"...Mann, for several minutes, sports only an almost sheer black body stocking, which leaves little to the imagination. And..."

March 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Wine of the Week

Randall Grahm, rich weirdo, makes great wine

"...artist sit in a deli, drawing pictures with borrowed lipstick and pasting them on the sides of mustard bottles..."

March 23, 2007 Food Column by Wes Marshall

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...and actor Betty Shamieh, author of Roar and The Black-Eyed, with Elana Greenfield, a playwright who moved as a..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...gift card to Claire's, expect 10 more layers of black eyeliner and a fresh row of piercings just to..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Willie Nelson

In box

"...much luck with country. Too sophisticated, uptown, and, um, black for Nashville, the pioneering label nevertheless signed Willie Nelson,..."

June 23, 2006 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Rare Bird

From her office vantage point, beside the rosy glow of the majestic Capitol dome, 78-year-old feminist, political powerhouse, and gay rights lobbyist Bettie Naylor keeps a watchful eye over the doings at the legislature

"...ran into him at the drugstore, and I had lipstick on. He told me I was going to hell...."

June 3, 2005 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

The Judges

"...theatre collective Rude Mechanicals. His adaptation of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century was..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM

'My love is an imperfect thing but it sings.' Those are the words to be carved on the tombstone of Michael Ventura's brother Aldo, an unstable soul who died last week.

"...better approach carefully." (I wrote that, in that gal's lipstick, on my bathroom mirror.)..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

St. Edward's University has bravely undertaken Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the show is, strangely, a good time

"...space through swinging doors painted white with windows of black mesh. In the arena, two television monitors are positioned..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

TV for Fans of TV

After much off-season media attention, the Emmy Award-winning The Osbournes returns to MTV for its second season on Tuesday.

"...Tyson. The series was the first to feature a black woman in a recurring role (Tyson) and the first..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

'Heaven' Sent

Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.

"...this gardener doesn't look like Rock Hudson: He is black, and Cathy's husband, played by Dennis Quaid, is a..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

100% Texan

Kevin Fowler is among the brightest of the Young Texas rising stars.

"...along. "Even then, he was playing that countrified rock, Black Crowes-style. He was good on slide guitar, too. We'd..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Eating Between the Lines

Books for Cooks

"...Vongerichten -- chef-restaurateur of New York's Jo Jo, Vong, Lipstick Cafe, Mercer Kitchen, as well as hot spots in..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Food Feature by MM Pack

Car Crashes & Other Sad Stories

"...be less likely to upset visiting co-eds. Splendid, crystal-clear black and white photographs of car crashes, circa 1950-something. The..."

June 9, 2000 Books Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...of taut lean-mean Suburban Rock Dolls. They'll be bringing lipstick-smeared sound to promote their upcoming Sympathy for the Record..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Public Notice

Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.

"...has worked with the Independent Radio Network, Gavin Magazine's Black Music department, and with artists such as LL Cool..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...present by shooting us ingeniously forward into the past (Lipstick Traces, Rocky Horror, Jesus Christ Superstar) or back to..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Bruised Egos

Fourth Place

"...locked door I scrubbed away the red stain of lipstick and all the rest of my makeup. Alone in..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Jackie Dana

Scanlines

Armored Car Robbery

"...decrepit industrial and harbor areas are drenched in inky blackness. At the very least, Armored Car Robbery should be..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature

Live Shots

Tom Russell

"...ample time to refill and refuel, Bell, now in black, returned for more oldies ("Knock on Wood," "Dock of..."

May 21, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

Built to Spill

"...their poppy debut, while showstoppers like "Yoo Hoo" and "Lipstick" plant juicy kisses on the ass cheeks of everyone..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Book Reviews

"...his ear. McMurtry also describes the doomed love of Black Buffalo Woman, his fateful meeting with General George Armstrong..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Books Review

Heavy Western

The Derailers

"...wall. Western shirts and hats sliding past taffeta and lipstick, high heels and high hair. Looks like a post-war..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What to Give the Starving Performing Artist O, for the Poor Player

"...is akin to hot tap water stirred with a black crayon. Consider this for your caffeine-loving artist: a Thermos...."

Dec. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

Record Reviews

"...too early to tell if they're deserving of the lipstick, Backfeed Magnetbabe is a sizable step in the right..."

July 7, 1995 Music Review

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