Something Completely Different

Comedy writers Bob Odenkirk and David Cross took everything they’d learned from past comic masters and made their Mr. Show variety show into something completely different.

"...borrowed, and stole from radio and vaudeville the elements of sketch comedy and turned it into something uniquely television...."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Ron Deutsch

Day Trips

"...The Frontier Time Museum. Saddles and chaps. A turn-of-the-century dentist's chair. A shrunken head from Ecuador. What do..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

Our picks for the Nov. 7 election

"...our custom, the Chronicle editorial board (a moveable feast of the news staff and editors) consults on the Travis..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature

The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

Our picks for the Nov. 7 election

"...our custom, the Chronicle editorial board (a moveable feast of the news staff and editors) consults on the Travis..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature

The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

Our picks for the Nov. 7 election

"...our custom, the Chronicle editorial board (a moveable feast of the news staff and editors) consults on the Travis..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

Under the Big Top

TV Eye

"...imagination business, Hollywood has always been fascinated with the circus. What else is so often cited, even in the..."

April 17, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Animal Abuse Is Not Entertainment

"...Dear Editor, I applaud circus acrobats like the Flying Wallendas walking the tight rope..."

Aug. 26, 2008 Postmarks

The Truth Shall Set Some Free

"...to stifle speech and thought” [Postmarks, Sept. 5]? Freedom of speech is every man's (and woman's) God-given right, and..."

Sept. 7, 2008 Postmarks

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Included here are more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

FronteraFest: The Place to Start

Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' annual performance festival keeps giving artists a spot to launch a stage career in Austin

"...For years, Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' unjuried jamboree of performances has followed the same format: a Short Fringe..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...his newest film fits more squarely into the category of science fiction than that of fantasy, his quirky, disquieting,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THE PLUTONIUM CIRCUSD: George Ratliff. This is a reprint of the Austin..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Exhibitionism

Tlamatcanemilitzli Trilogy: Brutal Search for Peace

"...battle, to fight for another faceless cause. The drums of war are sounding, and the battle won't be long..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Arts Review

Postmarks

Raves for Marc Savlov's recent article on Ecstasy.

"...June 9]. I am by no means an abuser of drugs, but I was there in the Eighties at..."

June 23, 2000 Column

Truckstop Girl

Ana Egge's Travels

"...what pancakes and eggs are to truckstops: stock tools of the trade, or staple menu items, if you will,..."

May 16, 1997 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Day Trips

Frank Buck's Zoo in Gainesville may not be as well known as its larger-than-life namesake, but it is impressive nonetheless

"...Texas, doesn't have a lot in common with its larger-than-life namesake. That doesn't mean that the small-town zoo isn't..."

May 2, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

La Putain Avec Les Fleurs

A review of Roho Productions' "junk melodrama."

"...clown. Make-up not masking his frown, he feels out of place amongst the comedians of a jovial circus. He..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...so! Not right there in Austin, the very home of our beloved Roky Erickson and his Sixties band the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Column

Circus Maximus

The UT Wind Ensemble's premiere of John Corigliano's Circus Maximus' was more than a concert; it was an event

"...Circus Maximus..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Let It Rock

Rock & Roll Books Spring 2000

"...Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry Jamesby Peter J. Levinson..."

March 17, 2000 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Summer Camp Guide

"...same among most people I know, the crowning achievement of those I surveyed being that one dated the "hottest..."

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...April 30, 2005, were assembled by an informal affiliation of arts writers, consisting of the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...Darling." Okay, so it is brilliant hearing side two of Abbey Road germinating, and to finally have "The Long..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Review

Gay Place

Pride Week has arrived!

"...Austin Pride Week has arrived! Come Saturday thousands of queers will descend on Fiesta Gardens and flood Congress..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place: MO FLOAT

Get'cher gay on with AGLCC and AGLPF this week

"...noshies from gay chamber members, plus the searing sounds of sassy songstress Jacinta and some saturnalian spins from DJs..."

June 22, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Dec. 23-30

"...the giant, abstract "350" landscaped into a field north of the airport. The project – from farmer Brenton Johnson..."

Dec. 24, 2010 News Feature

Hole in the Wall, Tuesday 14

Wednesday Night

"...Swollen CircusHole in the Wall, Tuesday 14 For the past five..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Painting Race

Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images

"...Michael Ray Charles on his Liberty Bros. Permanent Daily Circus poster-style painting. What could happen? HANDINI'S GREAT ESCAPE WILL..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

A Bird in the Hand

"...the hand is worth two in the bush. Proponents of the Davenport Ranch MUD sewer contract seem to be..."

April 4, 1997 Column

His Name Was Gary Poulter

Meet the homeless man who became a movie star

"...He was a smart kid from California who dreamed of joining the circus. He was a Navy man and..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

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