Australian Cattle God

Who Let the Gods Out?

"...band. They were going to pop up out of coffins," Brooks says...."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets

What About a Car-Free Nation?

"...it very easy to restrict the entry of these "coffins." The car-free could then live their lives free from..."

Oct. 1, 2007 Postmarks

Bicycling Is Better

"...I almost feel sorry for them, enclosed in their coffins, caught in a void. For me bicycling is better..."

Sept. 20, 2007 Postmarks

Naked City

"...group blocked the entrance to the recruiting office with coffins draped in American and Iraqi flags, taped posters on..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature

A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box

"...and the Bauhaus family have all emerged from their coffins into the Top 40 at some point. Others, such..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Naked City

A traveling memorial honors American and Iraqi war dead alike

"...the Vietnam War, television news often featured the flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers, not to mention the notorious body..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jeff Tonn

Alone in the Dark

There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.

"...some deliciously clichéd dialogue, performances as wooden as pine coffins, and, bad news for Reid fans, zero nude scenes,..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stand by Us

"...for an entire week, when more than 800 flag-draped coffins, and counting, have come home over the last year,..."

June 15, 2004 Postmarks

Tokyo Godfathers

A homeless drag queen adopts an orphan in what is, but for some violence and harsh language, old-fashioned, big-hearted entertainment in high animé style.

"...in starkly beautiful, photorealistic detail: moonlit exteriors of cardboard coffins and dilapidated alleyways where snow and broken syringes crunch..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Forsaken

"...finally be ripe to leave the bloodsuckers to their coffins and move on to less familiar terrors...."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Interactive Festival

The young and the geek-chic

"...Net. As the VCs retreat to their crypts and coffins, maybe the lack of undead money will bring about..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Texas Treasures

Moody Anderson and His Western Warehouse

"...like it won the battle but lost the war. Coffins, stacked three high, some little more than pine boxes,..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Grave Importance

Meiling Guentzel explores her fascination with small local graveyards and death and learns about life in the process.

"...feet around the fence. (Grave sinks form when wooden coffins decay and the soil above them falls downward. One..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Features Feature by Meiling Guentzel

Feasts That Define the Millennium

Food, the Original Commodity

"...And the guests ate them from their own open coffins, while spectators strolled through the room to watch the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Day Trips

There is an immense, hairy creature lurking in the woods outside of the small Texas town of Hamilton, and no, it's not your brother-in-law.

"...Walk into "the creepiest river parade ever" when the Coffins on Parade floats by. Also, food and free music,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Fashion Gets Grave

Austin's Caskets by Design can insure that death will become you.

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Why I Moved Back

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To Be

"...that, everybody's stacked on top of each other like coffins in those newfangled filing cabinet mausoleum things. It's just..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature by Gretchen Phillips

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the trappings of street theatre, with tambourine playing, baby-sized coffins piled under ornamental trees on the sidewalk, and protestor..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Feature

Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets

"...Russell opens her mouth. You could build 100 discount coffins out of her wooden line readings and still have..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death Be Not Cheap

Austin's Largest Death Care Provider May Not Provide Best Deal

"...By buying in quantity and warehousing commodities -- like coffins and embalming fluid -- needed by the various outlets,..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Day Trips

"...newest additions to the collection are the 12 fantasy coffins from Africa. After touring folk art museums around the..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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