To Have and Have Not

Five-year Austinite Joe Pug is paying off

"...once wore similar footwear, their workingman's weight fortifying his blue-collar persona. During the four years Pug lived in Chicago,..."

May 1, 2015 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

The Dead Climb on Top of You

Third Place winner

"...kind of undarkness we get in city apartments: the blue-black light-touched dark, like sleeping inside a wine bottle. I..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by P. Tyson Midkiff

The Good Eye: Killer Outfits - Julia Cotton's Armani Suit

You would kill for this suit

"...a drag from his now-spoiled cigarette and blows the smoke in his face. Cut to the next scene, in..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Wednesday SXSW 2014 Showcases

Stay planted for an evening

"...Fallon leads his rock & roll Bandits through the smoke and incense via songs from last year's Still Legal...."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...Cameron in waiting. And then something went wrong. Deep Blue Sea was inane, while Exorcist: The Covenant was a..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Austin Barbecue Joints

"...thrust his head high, with great sausage and amazing smoked meats at his new Eastside digs...."

Jan. 3, 2014 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Street Lighter

Andy Coolquitt gives urban waste a second life as art

"...lighters found in such abundance where addicts gather to smoke crack. The color, the texture, the shape – there..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One Way or Another

Dikes of Holland, Austin's Red Devil detonators

"...She throws that one at the hood of a blue Honda...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

'To Need, the Women Say'

Short Story Contest first-place winner

"...Soap and smoked meat on her skin, my mother sweeps the layers..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Mary Terrier

'The Butcher's Hands'

Short Story Contest second-place winner

"...on white beans and cured meat. Afterwards, he chain smoked until he was the last customer, until Cornelia finished..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Dana De Greff

Downtown Dining & Bites of Austin

"...Blue Ribbon Barbecue (120 E. Fourth, 369-3119, www.brbbq.com) So how..."

March 11, 2011 Food Feature

Monkeys Gone to Heaven

The Pixies aren't a family and that's a good thing, according to Kim Deal

"...with her on a porch in Dayton, Ohio, and smoke a pack of Pall Malls...."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Cast Away

Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood

"...taxes, kept up with their permits, and provided regular blue-collar jobs – all very conventional public virtues in 1968...."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wish List

Here's your chance to give back to the areas of our community that need it the most

"...Visual smoke alarms..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Wednesday Picks

"...is the poster child for clip-art pop. His debut, Smoke (Tigerbeat6), recorded on a laptop over the course of..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

King Tears

A decade after the ValuJet crash claimed Walter Hyatt's life, his posthumous archive celebrates his tender abilities once again

"...Fire had broken out in the cargo hold, and smoke began to fill the cockpit and cabin. The plane..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

This Town

The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine takes the Zilker Park train back to her Austin upbringing

"...Her interim bands, such as the Delphines and the Blue Bonnets, added to her résumé, yet here she came,..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Willie Nelson

"...that one can almost smell the clouds of pungent smoke hanging over the studio on lackadaisical opener "Rainy Day..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Dream Story

Boy with a horn returns from the Big Apple

"...the trio proceeded to jam on the Charlie Parker-associated blues. Next, standard "Stablemates" featured Marsalis on piano. At one..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar goes back to his youth and gets all horny (and toady)

"...spring of 1970, I brought home four of them (blue, green, pink, and yellow), which I precociously and permissively..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...Zutons. A careening mix of Seventies styles and British blues 'n' boogie, with a nod toward prog-rock, the quintet..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...the din like a saber from the Napoleonic Wars. Smoke and sulfur clear, momentarily, Brian Downey appearing once again..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Realms of Inspiration

Erik Hokkanen, Finnish and fiddling in Austin

"...always mirrored American music with a twist. Think Shocking Blue, ABBA, the Cardigans, Bettie Serveert, even Björk from neighboring..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Nuts to You

The Food writers reveal their favorite pecan recipes

"...until they become dark red and just begin to smoke. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Food Feature

Spotlight: Blowfly

1am, Emo's Main

"...a Blowfly administration, it would be a deep, ribald blue...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Down at the Jinn Mill

Austin's dirigo group prepare to premiere the best new play one could wish for

"...that. And there's a tape recorder that's supposed to smoke, too." She shakes her head ruefully, but you can..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...there were a few other Texas counties that voted blue]...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column

Echo & the Bunnymen

Phases and Stages

"...some to wonder if the whole thing was all smoke and mirrors. Others still will recognize the Liverpudlians' progression..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

The Earth Moves

For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go 'round

"...Brenda Meets Barbara, performed at the Blue Theater, stunned the audience with its tightly synchronized movement,..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Top 40

Ranking the best Tex-Centric Billboard Top 40 hits of the last 50 years.

"...Top (#20, 1975) "Tush" combines the Top's adrenal electric blues boogie with an undeniably hooky lyric that found master..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Music Feature

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