Southern Soap Opera

The Drive-by Truckers' two-night stand.

"...down this week at Antone’s as part of their Dirt Underneath tour, except they were a very different band..."

May 4, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

In the Frigid Cold of a Surging Pandemic, Tear Dungeon’s Blood-Spewing Chaos Made Us Feel Alive

Finally, a band that wears masks on stage – oh wait

"...fleeing the makeshift stage (a cleared out patch of dirt underneath a nondescript canopy tent) after aptly-named opener “I..."

Jan. 8, 2022 Music Post by David Brendan Hall

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...out dressed as Satan, kicked the barstool out from underneath Wallace, and began pulling him up and down while..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Where the Sidewalks End

Austin's patchwork sidewalk system has a history – and just maybe a better future

"...in front of one house, but not its neighbor's. Dirt tracks by major roads. Nothing at all in many..."

July 11, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Stripping Out the Propaganda: Dominic Cooke on The Courier

The director pays tribute to forgotten heroes of the Cold War

"...DC: Penkovsky's name was dirt in the Soviet Union. He became a symbol of..."

March 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It's a Ron-derful Life

Wherein Moontower star Ron White reveals the keys to happiness

"...first time I saw her she had me sign underneath it and she had that tattooed underneath the picture...."

April 16, 2015 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

'You Were Our Father, A Veteran and So Full of Desperation'

Short Story Contest: Third place

"...when their leader asked to be told the latest dirty joke. An old standby was in fashion for the..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Kyle R M

Sterling's Creed

In 1971, it was unusual to hear a six year old use the "F" word. Especially in the context in which Sterling had used it.

"...It swung off her neck and landed in the dirt. A glint of sunlight on the chain attracted the..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Steven M. Salzman

Rock, They Wrote

Writing From Both Sides of the Musical Fence

"...rhythm of language, and some kind of subtle melody underneath." But prose demands more than a sense of flow..."

June 21, 1996 Books Feature

Work Stops on Ghost Town

Meadows Housing Project Shuts Down

"...has the steel beams used to relocate the house underneath it. A block away, several homes are partially covered..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Austin At Large: Blinking in the Bright Light

Austinites stagger into the post(?)-pandemic streets, waving at the new neighbors

"...writing this column at my desk, at the Chronicle, underneath our old friend the I-35 upper deck, for the..."

Dec. 3, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

On Holy Ground With The Green Knight

David Lowery on the weight of carrying a mythic legacy

"...of architectural palimpsests, where you have an original structure underneath something that otherwise feels brand new. I love the..."

July 31, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Lace Crater

Ghostly romance reinvented, plus more DVD and VOD releases

"..."dark and obscure sexuality." Their low-water mark is eating dirt, but kinks get stranger from there...."

Aug. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Review

"...riffage, shoots for Nirvana yet generates Nickelback. Conversely, pay dirt arrives in the ambitiously produced slow rock of "Underneath..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...an emerging Americana star. The Oklahoma songwriter can kick red-dirt country and blues behind a pounding grit, yet also..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

8

Third-place winner

"...having, and then she slips away, a hollow left underneath my canopied palms. Only an instant passes, the memory..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Andy Steinberg

DVDanger: 'Crimewave'

Sam Raimi's weirdest, plus nunsploitation and swinging sleazy London

"...that every decision is a bizarre one. The Coens, underneath it, wrote somthing that seems to be a first..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Return to Bed Station Alpha

Comics, all systems go

"...4 months between books: I love this story dearly. Underneath that is Fantastic Four #600, surprisingly fantastic for junk..."

Dec. 12, 2011 Books Post by Jason Stout

Arms on Brazos

As it nears completion of an extended 'Great Streets' rehab project, has Austin learned any lessons?

"...to the contract as engineers hand-tunneled a storm drain underneath it. Add on 50 days for extra street furniture,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Heavy Metal

Even in blazing summer, Austin's welders and forgers fire it up and make like rock & rollers

"...will do the trick -- with an electric fan underneath that acts as a bellows. AMA buys coal locally..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Letters @ 3AM

The craziness of this country is that our public and private discussions have almost nothing to do with each other

"...what I'm doing, I should be doing something else." Underneath America's manic activity, that's the saddest song on the..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...He's pulling on a beer and grinning out from underneath the uncracked nylon brim. The hat's brown and actually..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Honky-Tonkers Don't Cry

Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore

"...The Lonestars are old Ford pickups, buzzing cicadas, and dirt roads. Hot summer days spent inside drinking sweet tea..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

The Black

Record review

"...bop to it. The jazzy piano line on "Disrespecting Dirt" and its equally infectious stompy guitar flows into the..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Letters at 3AM

Happiness costs. I know better now than to indulge this happiness, but still I drive on and I can't or won't stop. It isn't right that I and my Chevy, and you and your car, eat up the world's resources at the rate we do. We're driving in sin.

"...immature, but, immature or not, it's been my life. Underneath it all, even when I've stayed in one place..."

May 27, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

A Different Kind of World

Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about his life as it was and as it might have been

"...the picture look good. It's the basics, it's the underneath part, it's the skeleton of putting a drawing together..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...ok, it's 1850, I'd be up to here in dirt." He holds a hand to waist height. "That's all..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

'Lost Ark,' Resurrected

Three boys, seven years TK, and one heck of an homage -- a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark that earned the blessing of their hero.

"...summer days, a basement became a sound stage, a dirt mound the Sahara Desert. In the boggy and unsupervised..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Transforming a Neighborhood Near You

Since 1985, Austin's Art in Public Places program has placed more than 100 works in 57 facilities, transforming not only the look of the city but neighborhoods and the lives of people in them.

"...San Antonio artist Twyla Arthur wedge slabs of wood underneath the rusty metal contraption. Once it is balanced, Peters..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Groover's Paradise

Those were the days …

"...godforsaken stretch of Bee Caves Road, and the rutted dirt trail that led to it was even more notorious...."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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