Film News

Jeff Nichols' Shotgun Stories wins the Narrative Jury Award at AFF; plus, Pras, NAMAC, and Willem Dafoe

"...Telly Award winner, Sniper '66, a doc about the Charles Whitman murders at the University of Texas Tower is..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Texas Monthly on ... Texas True Crime

We Texans tend to believe that everything about us is special. When it comes to our criminals, we don't have to get too subjective to substantiate that belief.

"...robbers. A caveat: All-star players like Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Whitman, and Lee Harvey Oswald already were collected in..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Books Review by Ken Lieck

Film News

Incentives (except for any production that "portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion")!

"...grad student Whitney Milam's doc, Sniper '66, about the Charles Whitman shootings, was honored as outstanding historical television documentary..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Kinky Friedman

Record review

"...this is the guy who penned an ode to Charles Whitman, told feminists to "Get Your Biscuits in the..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Review by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...police officer who was the first to confront sniper Charles Whitman at the top of the University of Texas..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature

Conspirare

For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 has seen concerts here and far away and the release of a new and most comforting CD

"...Grantham, one which was inspired by the victims of Charles Whitman's shooting spree but that seems to take in..."

April 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kinky Friedman

Texas Platters

"...both rednecks and radicals. Even today, "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," Friedman's freewheeling take on the UT Tower shootings,..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...the unreal, but the horrors in society were changing. Charles Whitman, Richard Speck, Charlie Manson, and others became famous...."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...the unreal, but the horrors in society were changing. Charles Whitman, Richard Speck, Charlie Manson, and others became famous...."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...people killed and 31 wounded on campus by sniper Charles Whitman in 1966. The memorial, crafted by landscape architect..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature

Wammo

Record Review

"...subculture -- check out "Duran Sirhan," "Happy Hardcore Mood," "Charles Whitman's Sampler," "Nero Fiddles While Tom Waits." If the..."

April 26, 2002 Music Review by Ken Lieck

SXSW News

"...much wound down. Come Monday, it's gonna take another Charles Whitman to get 'em to pay any attention to..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Girls and Cats this week: Schrödinger's Cat, Libbi Bosworth, Lucinda Williams, Dixie Chicks, Shawn Colvin

"...department, who came into being thanks to UT headline-maker Charles Whitman. This time, they're putting their future into the..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...film's Old Anarchist] says he's treated as a one-man Charles Whitman fan club. I've doomed all these people. Everyone..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Esther's All-Stars

"...big splash playing the hick sheriff who finally nails Charles Whitman in The Tower Massacre Musical. At Esther's, he..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Momfest: the Schedule

"...mind of Chase Staggs, retracing the deadly footsteps of Charles Whitman 32 years ago -- in song.)..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature

North on Evers

"...It was from 1966. The cover story was about Charles Whitman. A map marked the spots where he had..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Richard Linklater

Handicapper's Guide

Slam-O-Rama

"...Oh, do you think the Austin team is stockpiling Charles Whitman poems? Huh? Do you? Actually, regional sensibilities and..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature by Michael Bertin

The Year in Books

What New Book Brought You the Most Enjoyment in 1997 and Why?

"...own in recent months. When local performance poet Vicky Charleston was struck with temporary blindness this fall, making her..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West

1997 Violet Crown Winners Announced

"...Cedar Park for A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders (University of North Texas Press) and Eddie..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Books Feature

The Classmate: Jim Grigsby

"...of Transportation based in Austin, went to school with Charles Whitman...."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The Rockets' Red Glare...

"...in point: the mock UT tower, replete with mock Charles Whitman. Great idea, but basically, all it did was..."

April 4, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Mixed Signals

Behind the Glass at KUT Radio

"...the Oval Office, and it was two years before Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower. Still, in '64, Austin..."

July 19, 1996 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Bambi, the Buck Stops Here

"...famous deer hunters -- the sportsmen who pinned down Charles Whitman in 1966." (We couldn't make that up if..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Column by Kate X Messer

Scanlines

"...first film, Targets with Boris Karloff (based loosely on Charles Whitman's horrific shooting spree) had become a cult movie...."

Oct. 27, 1995 Screens Feature

Scanlines

"...first film, Targets with Boris Karloff (based loosely on Charles Whitman's horrific shooting spree) had become a cult movie...."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

Readings All Over

"...played by John Hinckley, Jr., Lee Harvey Oswald, and Charles Whitman. It will be read May 7, Sun, 6pm,..."

May 5, 1995 Books Feature

bobrauschenbergamerica

This theatrical tribute to the artist is a glorious jumble, an exuberant hodgepodge

"...so it is with bobrauschenbergamerica, the play penned by Charles L. Mee and produced at the Mary Moody Northen..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Back to a Shadow in the Night

Collected works of Jonathan Cott takes music criticism into deep territories

"...Glenn Gould, or discussing the work of Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives, and Kurt Weill. Yet Cott's education allows him..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...ranks Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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