Tycoon Cowgirl

Terri Hendrix

"...dozens of similar gigs, stacked two or three a day. In fact, it wasn't unusual for Hendrix to jump..."

May 8, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Inside Agitator

Fulani Follower Stokes Fires of Resentment and Reform

"...mayoral candidate Reynolds -- Curtis showed up the next day at Reynolds' office carrying a plastic rat and making..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Live Shots

"...the motions. The non-Austin highlight of the weekend came Friday and made me think that maybe Roppolo's on Sixth..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Feature

Let It Sno, Let It Sno

Cool and Colorful 'Cones

"...time to compete with ice cream shops during the dog days. Snowball stands are usually bare-bones affairs: a trailer..."

May 23, 1997 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"...he found Houston unbearably boring. They took a few day trips -- Gibbons treated Lester to a disastrous weekend..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

"...Thursday 18, Umlauf Sculpture Garden..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette, BigXthaPlug, and More Highlights From Saturday at ACL Fest

From Rina Sawayama's avant-pop to Die Spitz's morning mosh

"...getting a bunch of artists together in a field, Saturday of Austin City Limits Music Festival generated notable crossovers...."

Oct. 8, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...The next day, Chas Moore of the Austin Justice Coalition canceled his..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Bee Tree Farm’s Owner Shares Life on a Busy Goat Dairy Farm

One woman’s farm and education mission

"...its human mama, she introduced them: "This is Ruby Tuesday, this is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this is Emmylou Harris."..."

April 17, 2020 Food Feature by Zelly Martin

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...thorny history (Life is Beautiful, anyone? How about The Day the Clown Cried?), but FF audiences will get their..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The San Marcos Music Scene Runs Deep

ACL Fest hip-hop headliners Brockhampton might just be the tip of the iceberg from our neighbors south on I-35

"...into a house on Sarah Street and started organizing afternoon jams and evening gigs. Business bustled. The party soon..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Music Feature by Jeremy Steinberger

Playback: Does Size Matter at SXSW?

A smaller SXSW Music week still satisfies

"...less Brooklyn hipsters and College Station spring breakers. On Saturday, "Playback" ran into local Brownout/Echocentrics guitarist Adrian Quesada, whose..."

March 23, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Council: Hush Please … We’re Hiring a City Manager

City requests A.G. ruling to keep search confidential

"...Although City Council will meet today (Thurs­day, Nov. 2), the 21-Item agenda is sufficiently perfunctory..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Gay Place: HalloQueen

Halloween y Día de los Muertos, queered

"...Erica Nix will help facilitate your process of change. Thursdays, 6:45pm. The Center Spot, 213 W. North Loop. $10-15,..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...apiece, have been expanded to ten films each. While today’s press release doesn’t explicitly spell out the reasons for..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Jon Pettis Rising

One man's life touches so many others

"...Last Thursday, Jesse Moore woke in the middle of the night..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Good, Good, Good, Good Vibrations: A Contest

ACL Sunday may have canceled, but we've got vibrators for you

"...18-year-old daughter to the Trojan Vibrations Pleasure Cart this Saturday just outside the ACL gates...."

Oct. 14, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

How the One Percent Lives

Exclusivity has its perks – and its price – at ACL's VIP Grove

"...many are willing to forgo the music in the afternoon, choosing to stick around for the gourmet happy hours..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Bobby Jealousy Moving?

Playback’s Monday music news

"...condom-filled piñata I detonated during Cunto!’s set there on Saturday night. I didn’t foresee the combination of corn chip..."

April 1, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Gay Place: Howdy, Sailor

Gayest. South by. Ever.

"...focus on chi rather than he or she. Queerdalini, Mondays, 7:30pm; Hatha, Thursdays. 7:30pm. Soma Vida, 1210 Rosewood, 628-1580...."

March 15, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: Wholly Holy Holey

Mo' gifts fo 'mos

"...TRILLIANT THURSDAY Procbaborgany Collective throws it two Thursdays in a row,..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Off the Record

Snapshots from Free Week on Red River

"...notes not accounted for in this week's "Live Shots." Saturday, Jan. 1..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel's Top 40

"...Mastodon, MGMT, RJD2, Bad Religion, the Hold Steady, and Friday night kick-off "Weird Al" Yankovic, plus last-minute adds Cults,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

South by So Real 2010

Checking in with SXSW's hip-hop head

"...a timely fashion, across the city, for four straight days...."

March 15, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Off the Record

A fond send-off for D-Madness, stuffing the piñata for the second annual Pachanga Latino Music Festival, Hayes Carll helps rebuild the Crystal Beach, and roaming the Flatladers' Hills and Valleys

"...annual Pachanga Latino Music Festival at Fiesta Gardens on Saturday, but that doesn't mean that organizer Alex Vallejo has..."

May 29, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

"...in Austin were much more limited than they are today – basically a handful of college productions, community productions..."

July 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...On the day after the project's opening gala, 360's sales center on..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Ciao Lolla

"...Nine jet-lag dog years from Amsterdam ain't exactly a "space cake" wake-up..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature

Split Parties

Away from the table, several sides to the tipping story

"...At the beginning of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, the lovable gang of robbers is seated in a..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...large corporations, and I thus have huge differences with today's Texas Republican Party. But I do support Justice Bob..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column

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