Off the Record

Reviewing the three-ring circus of Fun Fun Fun Fest and flashing back to the Armadillo World Headquarters with Dweezil Zappa

"...complete." Thus far the bill includes locals Trail of Dead and Iron & Wine, along with Dinosaur Jr., Broken..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Graham Williams of Transmission Entertainment breaks down this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, while Ian McLagan and the Chronicle music staff sound off on the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot

"...Boomerang's, Daily Juice, the Parlor, Brave New Books, and Birds Barbershop...."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

NFL Preview

"...… ah, forget it. This team will stink like dead fish. That is all that needs to be said...."

Sept. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

love conjure/blues

Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us

"...existence, often as if by magic; "she conjured wild birds in the air"; "he conjured spirits from the mountain"..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Abe Louise Young

Naked City

"...continued into his June 3 death. Brown was shot dead by Austin Police Department Sgt. Michael Olsen near Chester's..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature

Kick the Can and Bag the Bag

A guide to preparing homemade pet food

"...foods for the past 35 years for dogs, cats, birds, and cattle...."

May 11, 2007 Food Feature by Fran Moody

Le Draft 2007

"...still boo their man. Buffalo In honor of the dead and injured in the VT killings, former No. 1..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

'NFL Analysis 101': Fiendish Fish, Frolicking Amphibians, and the Fancy Lads of Fitzgerald

"...pleasurable. Prognosis: McNabb needs a weapon, but the Green Birds need to stop the opposition. Defensive end Charles Johnson..."

March 19, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

"...4) Get some rest. Yes, you'll sleep when you're dead, but if you skip your beauty sleep too often,..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

15th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

The winners, the judges, and the reasons why

"...generally helpful people, fur trappers, Satanists, track stars, free birds, experts in fields, collectors of Precious Moments figurines in..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Possession Arrow: Badgley->Razook

"...Lawrence, where the über-talented yet strangely always-underachieving Jayhawks – birds of prey if ever there were – lie in..."

Jan. 9, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

TCB

Halloween tricks and treats from the Rolling Stones, Pet Shop Boys, White Ghost Shivers, and Palm School Choir, while yet another Austin outdoor festival is born

"...whatever disbelief they may have harbored, and a band dead-set on making a favorable impression for its first time..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...understand that the detective is in love with the dead girl, her painting. On one of two Laura DVD..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Buried Alive in the Blues

The night Austin's Godfather of the blues granted Ed Ward a favor he'll never forget

"...frequent visitors and the house band was the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Actually, when I moved to Austin in October, 1979,..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...covers resemble the accessory no girl would be caught dead without: the powder compact, complete with foil mirrors. The..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

Persistence of memory

"...my friend Steven's girlfriend Henri's ex. They seemed quite deadly, boasting greased-back hair, fast cars, and a first-name acquaintanceship..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...("Get your Rag! Get your Rag! Why do the birds go cheep, cheep, cheep? Because The Rag is so..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Your Tongue Is Deceptive

"...$130,000 in tax money, and the snake is already dead. APD as "holistic land-management stewards and public art custodians"?..."

June 7, 2005 Postmarks

Elevated Prairie

Like the police forensics center they stand before, the flora and fauna of Art in Public Places' Elevated Prairie deal with the inevitable: the life / death / life cycle

"...Police Department Forensics Center and Central East Substation appeared dead...."

June 3, 2005 Arts Review by Benné Rockett

The Art of the Business of Art

Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art

"...a sneaker's throw from both Waterloo Records and the gnarled-but-not-dead-yet Treaty Oak, the first thing you see is Clark..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...mines a sharper, more nervous sound on its debut, Birds at Home (Excelsior). If you had any doubts about..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Gathered Treasures

'Collected Response,' the first joint exhibition of artists Steve Wiman and Marjorie Moore, is an extension of their shared passion for collecting

"...Moore's paintings, drawings, and assemblages of frogs and birds, among other things, are accomplished, attractive, thoughtful, and kinda..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...the Canary Islands didn't get their name from the birds who share their name, but from the dogs that..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Kids Are All Right

Not your parent's summer camp, rock & roll camp!

"...silly songs I still remember, and learned to identify birds. At the more sophisticated Jewish Community Center camp the..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Designated Drummer

Drummer Ernie Durawa's Way of Knowledge.

"...a 100-mile radius of Austin needs a professional sitting dead center behind the bass drum, like a wisened Buddha..."

May 23, 2003 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Reel Austin Vol. 2

DVDisc

"...collectable, at least until Spoon ("Small Stakes"), Trail of Dead ("Relative Ways"), and Li'l Cap'n Travis ("The Mittens") --..."

May 9, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Cat and Mouse, Confined to a Kiosk

Director Joel Schumacher discusses his new thriller, Phone Booth.

"...booth really echoes the phone booth used in The Birds. Is what's onscreen more or less what Cohen had..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Songs: Ohia

SXSW Records

"...insert, tension between life and destruction spelled out in birds, skulls, flowers, and a broken heart. One could make..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern RockLynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock

Sheet Music

"...Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rockby Gene Odom with Frank Dorman..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

"...sea itself is ill; that the seals and sea birds are fewer, and dying of unnamed diseases; and that..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

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