Left Behind

The Omnibeast – and a sect of video-art zealots at UT – is hungry

"...blindfold in a secret underground barracks, my boss, Louis Black, is dead. Soon, his head will be rendered with..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Black Enrages Reader..."

July 25, 2003 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...poorly written column of Sept. 16, yet, in [Louis Black's] latest editorial column ["Page Two"] you claim that: 1)..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Reissues

"...such important records as "Sixty Minute Man" and "Have Mercy Baby." When he was canned by Ward and replaced..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Beautiful Loser

Keith Ferguson: No Apologies, No Regrets

"...alive in coolness. Live-in archivist Liz Henry led a mercy mission of volunteers that bulldozed through, organizing Ferguson's worldly..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Josh Alan Friedman

Coach's Corner

"...and every minority and body type is carefully represented. Black-white-brown-yellow. Fat kids, tall kids, frat kids, small kids, underage..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...far right. Any raised eyebrows over the band’s “ecstatic black metal” ID were completely blown off in the cohesion..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Animals, Society, and Race at Huston-Tillotson

New course tackles how animal welfare work intersects with racism

"...they've got to evacuate … If they're at the mercy of the government their animals may not be accounted..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"..."Dare" and the dark, swanky strings and growl of "Black Cat." Otherwise, Tucker Martine's production keeps things light and..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Linklater's Lunar Latest Coming to Netflix

Apollo 10 1/2 to be animated by Austin's Minnow Mountain

"...his The School of Rock and Bernie star Jack Black, Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!!), and Bill Wise (Boyhood),..."

July 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Renee Davis' 25 Years as Harriet Tubman in Sister Moses

The dancer talks about her quarter-century of walking in the footsteps of this legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad

"...1993 – "We affectionately call it our 'Nutcracker of Black History Month'" – with Davis faithfully reprising her performance,..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Richard Whittaker’s Top 10 Films of 2019

"...A pitch-black satire about social climbing that has no mercy for..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Getting to Know Austin Pride

With new goals and new leadership, the people behind Pride start fresh

"...for the date. Andress says Pride is at the “mercy of the city.” Some queers might remember a few..."

June 26, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...Sat. 17, Blackheart, 12mid If Australia had a native tongue other than..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Playback: The 2016/17 Austin Music Awards Reveal

"...ideas to life and herding cats like …; Louis Black – the boss of big-picture brilliance; and Raoul Hernandez..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...an Iraqi city where the burned bodies of ambushed Blackwater contractors got strung up for the whole world to..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...understand how film and lenses worked. His shadows were black, his whites scorching, his framing impeccable. He understood that..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nights in White Satin

Streaming Spotify all the way back to the reel-to-reel

"...3) "Mercy," Duffy..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

This Way to the Big Top!

From budget disaster to hysterical bloodletting, the legislative circus is back in town

"...and James White from Hillister join the Texas Legislative Black Cauc­us, while the Mexican-American Legis­lative Caucus absorbs four new..."

Jan. 14, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Counting Water'

Third-Place Winner

"...so much Diet Coke or watch the shopping network. Mercy, the shopping network...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Carolyn Lindell

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...his team of supporters – Lubbock criminal attorney Jeff Blackburn – Reyos may at last be on a road..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Mr. Black:..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

Naked City

"...clemency, 25; a stay of execution, 5. (Beseeching God's mercy only merits one point.) You lose 10 points if..."

June 14, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...Taos Pueblo; go-go dancer in Tokyo; psychiatric aide at Mercy Hospital, San Diego; receptionist at Albuquerque Paint and Body..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Thou Shalt Not ...

Each one of Krzysztof Kieslowski's 10-part Decalogue is constructed carefully enough to be seen on its own. But together, they are a jigsaw puzzle of color, texture, emotion, and meaning. We take a look at this extraordinary series, which the Austin Film Society will screen at the Alamo Drafthouse on Saturdays through March 3.

"...while word-of-mouth generated a demand for bad dubs of black-market PAL copies from Europe. The release of DVD versions..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Postmarks

We're sorry you feel that way.

"...and for the group's first album, Creatures From the Black Saloon. When Tim left in 1985 to join Special..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column

Dylan Plays Vegas

"...sphinx half again as large as Egypt's; a 45-story black pyramid with a light that shines straight up at..."

July 9, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

The Texas Book Festival

Chapter Three

"...as this relationship motors at full speed into a black cavern...."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

Live Shots

"...Haley & the Comets' pianist Joey Welz, accompanying a pink-and-black-suited Amy Beth, who was quite credibly "channeling" (not impersonating)..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature

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