Crackin' Up

The Arm muscles up to 'Call You Out'

"...The Arm boys are giggly and dirty-minded, like four 16-year-olds skipping class, sneaking cigarettes in front..."

April 14, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

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"...private lives who peek out just long enough like dirty old men who shout out something obscene or like..."

March 24, 2006 Column

Winsome & Thensome

The Moaners incite small, sweet noises from the back of the throat

"...worth it." The two still have their "crappy part-time jobs," but even when they're not on the road, they're..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

The Home School

Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.

"...least for doc filmmakers, it seems like to get jobs producing or shooting, you have to be in New..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...PET AND ANIMAL CARE Austin's own Dirty Dog pet salon is accepting doggie donations for New..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Bigger Stakes

Richard Linklater on remixing 'The Bad News Bears'

"...just threw away everything and wrote a down and dirty version that would have cost about $10 million. The..."

July 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...their L.A. effects guys out here. That means more jobs for Austinites, too."..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

State Energy Plan: Dependent and Dirty

The Texas Energy Policy Council goes backward into the energy future

"...instead of investing in local resources and creating local jobs when we have safe and economic energy resources here..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Controlling Their Own Destiny

So many questions for the gaming industry, so many Austin game developers to answer them

"...and one that cost some 120 Austin employees their jobs. That said, there's plenty of action going on right..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

One Night on Red River

Darcie Stevens returns to the live music beat – for just one night – on Red River

"...chill, while regulars count their pennies. Tumbleweeds bounce off dirty marquees promising nights of rock – mostly from last..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

'He's Forked Himself'

Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about 'The Hammer'

"...$300,000 job" – which Ornstein called "mid-level" or "low-level" jobs – by our pay scale, good level – and..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Get ready for the sweatshop tsunami; and Congress gives itself a raise

"...in Geneva, has established global corporate rule over our jobs, farms, environment, food ... and even our laws...."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Jack Stick attacks his opponent's supporters as 'anti-business'

"...list, warning them not to fall for his challenger's dirty tricks. "That fundraising letter," Stick pointed out, was "signed..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: The Metro Message

It’s not a ‘campaign,’ exactly, but what is the transit authority’s tune?

"...than a maybe-someday bright future without traffic jams and dirty air. Or something...."

June 25, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Walk Like Cleto

H-town's Chingo Bling slings tamale beats

"...side Houston, the H-town underground, hip-hop epicenter of the Dirty South. So are the tracks full of chopped beats,..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

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"...off 48 hours to rest or work on other jobs, which many do...."

May 14, 2004 Column

Austin @ Large: A Bad Precedent

The courthouse deal is another chapter in Austin's same old sad Downtown saga

"...paranoia of our type and era has detonated a dirty bomb amid what was starting to become, and could..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...I'd come back, if only there were some paying jobs...."

Jan. 16, 2004 Column

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...and the new. He did Greendale differently. Switched people's jobs, rethought the process, he wanted to have fun, to..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Doubt and Caution at All Times

An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together

"...it is a satire -- and DBC Pierre, the "Dirty But Clean" pseudonym for Peter Finlay, the author, the..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Dirty Pretty Things

Stephen Frears’ low-key thriller casts its eye toward the furtive lives of London’s illegal immigrants.

"...Tautou, Sergi López, Sophie Okonedo and Benedict Wong. With Dirty Pretty Things, the estimable filmmaker Stephen Frears (The Grifters,..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Another Austin boom is pointless unless it improves the quality of life.

"...thousands of words about the loss of high-wage manufacturing jobs in Central Texas without once mentioning the slightly obvious..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...Some of us have served our country, worked underpaying jobs, and worked extremely hard to get where we are..."

July 18, 2003 Column

Fixing Up the Fringe

Do it yourself? No way. This is the second in a series of articles by Josh Medsker as he attempts to re-establish a zine library in Austin.

"...me, never mind the fact that I have two jobs and other writing projects on the side. Still, I..."

June 13, 2003 Books Feature by Josh Medsker

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"...should be expelled from your great state. What a dirty trick to delay legislative agenda. G.I.s are fighting for..."

May 23, 2003 Column

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"...people in Austin, they may go elsewhere, too, taking jobs with them...."

April 25, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

Winning the war in Iraq is not a measure of our country's morality.

"...On the sandstorm from hell: Two dirty words remain largely unspoken on television and unwritten in..."

April 18, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Entertainment Economy

As the Austin film, music, and gaming scenes become a "cluster," civic leaders are looking for industrial-strength creativity

"...but also to "foster the continued growth of creative jobs." In his mayoral campaign, Wynn has targeted "the creative..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Washdown takes garage punk and combines it with the dirty grind of Jon Spencer and Mick Taylor-era Stones. The..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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"...less would be risking global catastrophe. A nuclear or dirty bomb could be leaving an Iraqi port as you..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

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