Page Two: New Jersey Reverie

Autumn rain, returning memories

"...second time, as though Mom had won a long-distance desert race or managed to win a Guinness World Record...."

Sept. 24, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Praying for an Early Death

Louis Black sucks, and he makes SXSW suck

"...to anyone and any usefulness associated with it a desert mirage. I responded if that was the case, why..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...for plenty of dance-floor two-stepping and belly-rubbing that defies culture and invites bilingualism. Latest CD No Boundaries makes a..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...party early. Austin's Headdress, now a quartet, gets its desert jam on before Kelley Stoltz's 1960s love letter Sonny..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

On His Mark

Richard Linklater explores the rich contradictions of artifice and reality, theatre and film, love and desire in Me and Orson Welles

"...him. He loves sports and is interested in how culture makes meaning for different people in different ways. There..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Off the Record

Casting the annual ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and paying tribute to poster artist extraordinaire Bill Narum

"...of the artist essence of ZZ Top ... cactus, desert sand, rattlesnakes and javalenas, jalapenos, hot sauce and hot..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Showcases

Thursday

"...meanwhile, headed out of the Valley and into the desert with Scott Reeder (Kyuss) for its April initializer, Wyllt...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

It Came From Down Under

Aussie films swarm SXSW 09

"...the rampage (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), and, of course, hard men with big hearts (Crocodile..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Page Two: Grand Schemes and Enthralling Documents

Film, conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories on film coalesce as SXSW looms

"...play instruments, cook, drink, and eat. This style, the culture, the food, and the music all seem to come..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...activity, then detains "hundreds ... in his 'Tent City' desert jail," according to the report. "The statute requires that..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature

Creative Research Laboratory

This exhibition exploring cultural modification will keep evolving over time

"...focuses on the basin of the Great Salt Lake Desert, using drawings and photographs to make connections between its..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Workingman's Blues

The real history of labor and union organizing is ignored and largely unknown

"...deal with the general perception as shaped by the culture; film, television, and books have provided the framing. Consider..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Great Crusader

Nobody's safe from man-with-a-camera Alex Gibney

"...land, that you could almost by willpower change the culture around you, and all the square, old, repressive conditions..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything

What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!

"...surveyed a sea of more than 50,000 in the desert night, stole a glance at one another, and uttered..."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Day Trips

The Chinati Foundation's museum in Marfa offers world-class art in the middle of nowhere

"...museum in Texas. The Big Bend sky and the desert landscape fading into the Chinati Mountains on the horizon..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Ball of Illusion

At the Krewe of Illusions Mardi Gras Ball in Lake Charles, just try to figure out where the queens end and the back-pieces begin...

"...satire, as much reaction to the dominant white male culture as anything else. Since their inception, these groups have..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...takes three to five years to change a school's culture, Estrada-Thomas told the group. Johnston is in year three,..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

"...permanent Republican majority? It crawled out into the Iraqi desert, rolled onto its bristly back, and died." – Salon.com's..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature

ACL Music Fest Preview

"...Ore., quartet played ACL, the group has exploded in pop-culture consciousness thanks to their appearance on the Garden State..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

Open Festival Season

Taking aim at Banff and Blowin' Up a Spot

"...Spotlighting "mountain culture" (i.e., climbing, snowboarding, kayaking, and "desert crack climbing") Banff's..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Views of Majority of Conservative Christians Oversimplified

"...agenda of those with much to gain from this culture of greed and disdain, I disagree that this is..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Postmarks

Really Over There

The Texas Documentary Tour: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds' 'Occupation: Dreamland'

"...drive on a straight superhighway, mostly through the western desert of Iraq. It was crazy. There were lots of..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Almost Grown

Ana Egge and Adam Carroll reflect over their songwriting adolescence

"...Ana Egge is on the phone from the desert somewhere in Arizona...."

June 10, 2005 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Letters at 3AM

No country gets two centuries anymore. The 21st will be China's century. That's what $4-plus a gallon means, and nothing can stop it. We're heading for a modern Dust Bowl.

"...faucet-drips will be "the new normal" everywhere). In the desert cities, real estate will plunge, thousands will be ruined,..."

April 29, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...cowpokes of the song, posed in front of a desert sunset that may well be a phony painted backdrop...."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Austin @ Large: Lesson Planners

All I need to know about cities, I learned in kindergarten

"...is so dear that the choice between greenfield and desert can be made by one entity with its hand..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Dog Fighter

Beware: As recommended as this debut novel comes, if it were a movie, they could not honestly put the disclaimer in the credits that 'no animals were hurt'

"...to set his scenes of baroque slaughter in a culture where no bourgeois compunction sullies the lurid aesthetic: Mexico...."

July 23, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...dying, try living somewhere else for awhile. It's a desert out there. What makes Austin great is its outstanding..."

April 23, 2004 Column

'Chronicle,' Stop the Doom and Gloom

"...dying, try living somewhere else for awhile. It's a desert out there. What makes Austin great is its outstanding..."

April 16, 2004 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...cares more about preserving our precious environment and local culture than about lining his own pockets? I have known..."

April 25, 2003 Column

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