Rancho Alegre Fights to Be the Cadillac of Conjunto Festivals

The music fest returns the native Texas genre Downtown where it once flourished

"...When the 83-year-old accordion king takes the stage at Stubb's during day..."

May 3, 2019 Music Feature by César E. López Linares

Entertaining made easy with Cocktail Combo Packs!

You can create unique and inspiring cocktails at home.

"...cocktails. From the trendy Aperol Spritz to the classic Cadillac Margarita, you are sure to find one you will..."

Dec. 9, 2021 Events Post

Springsteen Takes Dallas to The River

Epic stand once again reiterates who’s the boss

"...At the 3:20 mark – hours, not minutes – Bruce Springsteen could..."

April 6, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Ray Wylie Hubbard Heard You Shout Freebird

Wimberley bard misses his band and maybe even that heckler

"...Slaid, Tyler Bryant, Larkin Poe, Ronnie Dunn, Pam Tillis, Cadillac 3, McMurtry, and roots blues – Lightnin’, Muddy, Mance...."

April 12, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips: The Giant Legs of Amarillo

Mock tribute to Ozymandias adds quirky character to the Panhandle

"...the late billionaire, philanthropist, and art patron Stanley Marsh 3, who also brought us the Texas icons of Cadillac..."

July 16, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...e-mail to our intimate music geek cell on August 31, 2010. It led with a URL (www.andvinyly.com) and punch..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips: Best of Texas

Five best roadside attractions around Texas

"...CADILLAC CARNIVAL: In a cotton field west of Amarillo is..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

National Top 10s

National Top 10s of 2006

"...Greg Beets..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature

Day Trips

Cadillac Ranch is the most popular art installation in the Texas Panhandle

"...Cadillac Ranch off I-40 west of Amarillo is the most..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Unclothed for Business

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang keeps burlesque alive in Austin

"...Herding Kitties "The main thing I was looking for..."

July 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

15 Breakfast Sandwiches in Austin Worth Waking Up For

Fuel your mornings without emptying your pockets

"...The humble breakfast sandwich fuels this nation. They're blue..."

July 2, 2021 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Day Trips

Enjoy a tour through the best weird places around Texas

"...Best Fins in the Sky: The Cadillac Ranch doesn't ask you to understand art, just to..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Grave Matters

The Cost of the Longest Vacation You'll Ever Take

"......"

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

High Plains Chamber

The Harrington String Quartet, which makes its third appearance with the Austin Chamber Music Center's annual summer festival in July, is based in Amarillo, and though that may not seem like a likely spot for a chamber music ensemble, the members of the Harrington Quartet feel quite at home on the range.

"...culture: Georgia O'Keeffe taught at Amarillo High; Stanley Marsh 3's Cadillac Ranch (part artwork, part roadside attraction) is the..."

July 11, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

On the Nightshift: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Keep Running

At Moody "with the white-hot light of the oncoming train”

"...dust off “Growin’ Up” or anything else off Springsteen’s 1973 debut, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., an album recorded..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips: History of the Frozen Margarita

We’re all going to need a frozen margarita when this is all over

"...I prefer the legend that it originated at the Cadillac Bar in Nuevo Laredo...."

April 3, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education

"..."For the show in Austin, we've invited [harmonica great]..."

July 22, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Old Soul

Bill Maddox died violently under bizarre circumstances – and left a legacy of music, love, and friendship

"...eventually be best known as a drummer, was just 13 when he began playing drums in his first band,..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Day Trips

The Texas Panhandle has many treasures to behold

"...While you're in the neighborhood of Amarillo, don't miss Cadillac Ranch off I-40 west of town. Have your picture..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Central Texas rodeos feature some of the finest live-action entertainment in the Lone Star State

"...don't know why it is," says Johnny Hoyle of Cadillac Rodeo Co. in Mexia. "Maybe people are just staying..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

King of Bongo

Tracking Spain/France's illusive King of Latin punk rock, Manu Chao

"..."He uses a lot of slang," says Fran31;oise. "But the lyrics are great, the rhyming."..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

"...Map lists both Laredo and Del Rio as being 232 miles from Austin. Travel time to Laredo is a..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two

An exhilarating account of how the Zephyr Skating team changed skateboarding forever, Dogtown and Z-Boys finally opens at Dobie on Friday; in a summer of some truly great movies, it's a ripping piece of street storytelling not to be missed, even if you don't care about the sport.

"...who grew up reading Spider-Man, starting with probably No. 3 or No. 4, I thought it captured the angst..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Making Lists

"...Porter to Winston Bode in The Texas Observer, October 31, 1958...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

An Amarillo State of Mind

The Plutonium Circus Comes to Town

"...relish in the film by local eccentric-cum-millionaire Stanley Marsh 3, creator of the famed Cadillac Ranch and an irascible,..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Arts Feature

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Movie Titles for 1997

"...A DUFFEL BAG BOMB (M.S.) 4/18/97 A ABSOLUTE POWER 3.0 (M.S.) 2/14/97 ADDICTED TO LOVE 3.0 (M.S.) 5/23/97 ADRENALIN:..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"......"

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...and Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993 and also having a cult repu tation as one..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...just outside of Amarillo. In fact, much of this 73-minute documentary has a pedestrian look to it: relatively static..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

National Top Nines

"...MICHAEL BERTIN..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Feature

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