Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...glass of beer on his head. Then, as Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) and Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson) look on,..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

That Wild Man

Gary Cartwright: The mad, mad, mad life of a Texas wordsmith

"...an ill-advised stretch in advertising, Cartwright landed under Sherrod's guidance as part of what would become an all-star sportswriting..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Shape of Water

An unconventional love story from one of the best fabulists

"...Toro. Starring: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones, David Hewlett and Nick Searcy...."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sports Illustrated: The Football Book Expanded Edition

This almost 5-pound tome is a must for any serious NFL fan

"...sportswriters in the field (George Plimpton, Peter King, and Dan Jenkins, to name a few). What initially catches the..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Books Feature by Mark Fagan

Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...through my Facebook feed Friday night when I spotted Dan Solomon’s Texas Monthly blog post, “Why Professor Dumpster’s Gimmicks..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...tough new Texas writers including Peter Gent, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and the guiding shadow of Billy Lee Brammer...."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

2001 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...Suzanne Frank, Rick Riordan, Jim Sanderson, Moderator: TBA..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...group of Fort Worth and Dallas sportswriters that included Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake. The early Sixties were a..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...the alleged child sex abuse case against Fran and Dan Keller, the drug running brothers Lee and Joe Chagra,..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Summer Reading

Also Recommended

"...Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent – collected, disseminated, criticized, and..."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Media Clips

"...4. Semi-Tough, Dan Jenkins..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Column

Checking In: A Texas Gentleman Turns to Video

“Reality is the music business has been changing for a long time”

"...Riding out of Dallas, Butch (Dan Creamer) and Sundance (Nik Lee) – and current Hole..."

Sept. 30, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Joe O'Connell's Top Reads of 2015

Paradise Sky and The Best I Recall head a list of stellar Lone Star books

"...Worth, reporting sports alongside Bud Shrake, Blackie Sherrod, and Dan Jenkins, to drug-addled Seventies Austin and his days at..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Cue the Underdog QB Fantasy

Texas State finds reality in season-ending loss

"...you gave up on. He’s the wild buddy from Dan Jenkins’ classic football satire Semi-Tough (the book, not the..."

Dec. 2, 2013 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Willie Nelson

In box

"...of Willie and Family entertaining, as Fort Worth scribe Dan Jenkins once wrote, "from nine 'til overdose." Even after..."

June 23, 2006 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Coach's Corner

Coach's visit to Golf School -- with the wife -- yields unexpected results.

"...in Texas for 35 years. I've read enough of Dan Jenkins to know to avoid these good-natured guys on..."

July 27, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Blessed Deliverance

The Borderland, Bud Shrake's Latest Tall Tale

"...soulful sister Cullasaja, and Ranger Captain Matthew Caldwell, a confidant to everyone in a position of power in the..."

March 31, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...mentalists, pickpockets -- we even had a beautiful exotic dancer, Katlyn "Le Strange," who doubled as a practicing witch...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...way, Merle enlists Tex-Ann, a busty and blustery exotic dancer, to entice a reluctant landowner into signing the drilling..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Making Lists

"...as we slouch toward the millennium we are in danger of being listed to death. Earlier this year the..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Texas Book Festival Wrap-Up

"...he could risk attempting love poetry, given love poetry's often-attendant sentimentality and its overall degree-of-difficulty rating...."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Feature

Postscripts

Coming Up

"...Dan Jenkins reads from Rude Behavior at Book People Monday,..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Just Can't Get Enough

More Summer Reading

"..."reality covered more than a single dimension." Dennis Hopper, Dan Jenkins, and Abe Rosenthal all make appearances in this..."

June 12, 1998 Books Feature

Pages for Presents

Helpful and Not-So-Helpful Book Ideas

"...politics? It seems that way, what with essays from Dan Jenkins, Blackie Sherrod, Turk Pipkin, Harvey Penick, and Gary..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Postscripts

"...Darrell Royal, Doak Walker, and John David Crow discussing Dan Jenkins' Texas College Football Legends......"

Nov. 14, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Lowe's Loses Again

The Brodie Lane big-box project remains shut down until a September trial

"...the home improvement giant hired the judge's husband, attorney Dan Byrne, to represent the retailer in its next round..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Armchair Adventures

"Good adventure books do the same thing as a good adventure," Chronicle writer Dan Oko writes in this roundup of recently published adventure books.

"...Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zoneby McKay Jenkins Random House, 216 pp., $23.95..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Last Day of Summer

White Denim pours 'Corsicana Lemonade'

"...In came Austin Jenkins, a nimble-fingered Brazos bandmate of Block's who'd been coming..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...Morales, brother of former attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Dan Morales, is under investigation by federal agents for an..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...a Tuesday night in Austin. - Thomas Fawcett Cassandra Jenkins Gently Commands..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

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