Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...almost entirely using Macs, and the interns using them don't know what an X-acto knife or stat camera are...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.

"...Stewart Scruggs..."

March 24, 2000 Column

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...I don't know whether Sterling was aware of what Lou was..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Why Should Anyone Care Now?

"...Doctor's Mob circa 1987 (l-r): Don Lamb, Glen Benavides, Steve Collier, and Tim Swingle..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Kent H. Benjamin

Postmarks

Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...dollars in taxes and revenues. We do want something done about the homeless situation in Austin, but you can..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Home Is Where the Tax Credits Are

"...and lesbian communities and other underserved communities that we don't belong in KOOP...."

Aug. 28, 1998 Column

Texas Platters

"...Strange, I don't remember doing any acid in the Eighties. Still, Obsessive..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Review

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"...was that Deguello was almost out," Ward recalls. "I don't want to put him down for it, but he..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

This Magic Moment

15 Years of the Austin Music Awards

"...too good a time at the Awards show, and don't remember many specifics about the shows they attended. For..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Conventional Wisdom

Why There's No Oldies Country Radio

"...Thankfully, there are some stations that don't require a bus schedule to figure out when the..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

P.G. Moreno Can’t Get Enough “Adventurous Music” and Austin’s More Interesting For It

Epistrophy Arts leader talks past, present, and holy grail bookings

"...buoyed by the fact that in this town, you don’t have to tell people who Andrew Cyrille or Billy..."

Aug. 29, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Boys Club

Female employees say gender discrimination persists at City Hall. Could a new resolution fix the broken system?

"...Council dais. The talk was led by Dr. Miya Burt-Stewart, head of a business development and marketing firm, and..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Guitar Pedals

Gas prices are down, so the boutique guitar pedal boom is up

"...Hut, Nashville, 1961: Marty Robbins cuts a bluesy shuffle, "Don't Worry." Ace session guitarist Grady Martin comes in to..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter, which the London native released in January...."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Radio On

'Austin Music Minute' maven Laurie Gallardo takes her time on KUTX

"..."Yes, ma'am, but I don't see that information posted yet."..."

June 28, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Playback: Lights Out for Jovita's

Run-ins at Jovita's, thieves in the night at Mohawk, and Lickona's feeds off of 'Austin City Limits'

"...bottles over the creek that runs behind the venue. "Don't do that," a Jovita's staff member told us. "The..."

June 29, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Clouds Over Campus

With less funding, more competition, and a wavering vision, UT-Austin faces an uncertain future

"...its flagship university. House Higher Education Committee member Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, said: "I would love to tell you..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

In Your Facebook

Do social networking sites strengthen communities or the class divide?

"...to prefer Facebook – and the various others who don't fit the "dominant high school popularity paradigm" (e.g., "Latino/Hispanic..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Let Open Gays in Military

Small, local effort to call attention to discrimination against gays in military recruiting under way with sit-in

"...people have been kicked out of the military under Don't Ask Don't Tell, and there are currently approximately 64,000..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Don Toner, The Mystery of Edwin Drood..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

"...this was something specifically out of my parents I don't know, but I sure watched a lot of those..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the facts right when those who call themselves journalists don't bother to interview those they are making outrageous allegations..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...So station manager (and relative newcomer) Stewart Vanderwilt says re: drastic KUT programming changes, "... initially..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column

Laying It All Out

Novelist Shelby Hearon has made an art of the little white lie.

"...directly across from the mirrored wall that reads "MIRRORS DON'T LIE." The place is pretty cleared out, but who..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Elephants and Pygmies

A profile of rising Austin honky-tonker Roger Wallace.

"...city with a rich history. Here, in Austin, we don't think about places like Knoxville much, but according to..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Thanks!

"...at KLRU," from Monte Carter ["Postmarks," Vol.18, No.18]: I don't know what his motives are for spreading spurious allegations..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Column

Postmarks

"...features, like Paul Harvey, Dan Rather, Charles Osgood, Martha Stewart, and even David Letterman's Top 10 list. This came..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column

The Great Roots-Rock Scare of '96

The Americana Chart, Alternative Country, and Austin

"...acts like the Derailers, Dale Watson, Kelly Willis, and Don Walser, as well as lots of singer-songwriter types: Greg..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature

Here Comes the Judge

Beavis and Butt-head's Hollywood Score

"...conform to that fact. When you have braces, you don't want your cheeks to scrape against those metal wires,..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Geek Love

Protector of Cyberspace Mike Godwin

"...Communications Decency Act [ACLU v. Reno]. What did Judge Stewart Dalzell mean when he said that the Internet deserved..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

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