Born on the Fourth of July

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

"...pause presages a shimmering double helix of intertwining guitar lines that mark an onrushing flood of memories...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

TCB

Career advice from Ian McLagan and political counsel from Andrew WK

"...merchandising areas, and that one project already on the drawing board is bringing ACL to HDTV. Meanwhile, longtime ACL..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...method: Have the students perform the plays. Speaking the lines and inhabiting the characters themselves helped them develop a..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Another festival weekend, this time jazz; plus Mars Music not going under, and Bill Hicks -- still dead, more CDs.

"...and Supper Club recently opened out there and is drawing thumbs-ups for fans of sax and syncopation... Those who..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

"Austin City Limits" Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...GRUPO FANTASMA: Drawing its members from as far as NYC and as..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Book Reviews

"...gulped my drink and stammered something about a text drawing attention to its own artifice, exposing the creative process..."

July 5, 2002 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Hiiiiiiiii-Yah!

Austin foley artist Buzz Moran strips the sound out of a forgotten kung fu flick and redubs it live at the Drafthouse. The result? Something to chop about it.

"...Chad Nicols, and Chris Meister reverentially intone such awkward lines as "He won't escape, not after I blast him..."

May 17, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Keeping the Peace

Andy Langer examines round one of trying to establish a new city noise ordinance for Austin.

"..."Unlike Stubb's, those venues have only imaginary property lines," says Piatt. "At Auditorium Shores, I guess it's valid..."

May 3, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Naked City

News from around Austin

"...Carruth administration complex, 1111 W. Sixth. Immediately following, a drawing will be held to determine the order in which..."

March 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...of Green's jazz 'n' paste wonderland of funky .007 basslines and sampled white-noise loops. (Le Privilege, 9pm) -- Michael..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...now spends most of his time playing guitar or drawing comics...."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Far more readable than the majority of critical studies of pop-culture grue, David Skal's The Monster Show is a landmark work and nearly as entertaining as that dead clown underneath your bed.

"...with -- we kid you not -- Diane Arbus, drawing an equation between her transgressive photography and Tod Browning's..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...wine and ounces of cocaine are common. The battle lines between pro-environment and pro-development forces are drawn with the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Sensational Saga of Mr. Sinus

Picking up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000 skewers the movies of our childhood to sold-out crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...performers play the audience and the audience occasionally performs. Lines for the weekly show snake around the block, and..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...to present some improvement ideas to Wynn. "I am drawing up a proposal," he said. "Kind of just from..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Play On!

In the backstage comedy Anton in Show Business, playwright Jane Martin wittily paints the contemporary stage as a madhouse overrun by loons and lunatics so preoccupied with money, image, and themselves that they can hardly be bothered to create art. And the State Theater Company's production takes us inside the insanity with an air of playfulness that keeps the audience primed for a good time.

"...personal experience. You get the feeling these artists are drawing on their own encounters with directors who babble nonstop..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...on the jazz fusion ensemble Weather Report, probably even drawing parallels between the demise of Jaco Pastorius with other..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

Killer Reputation

Murders from Austin's not quite forgotten past

"...if he was insane. That trial, in 1898, shared headlines with the rumblings of America's impending war with Spain...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

Council adopts the four-years-in-the-making Mueller redevelopment plan.

"...city had to take the plan back to the drawing board after the state backed out in 1999, but..."

Dec. 8, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...departments don't necessarily mean bringing the kids in for drawing classes on Saturday morning. It's the whole spectrum of..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Southern Exposure

The 'Renaissance' of Far South Austin Pushes Upscale Development South of Stassney

"...The venture turned out to be a huge hit, drawing weekend crowds from as far as Dripping Springs and..."

Sept. 8, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, July 26

"...sound that might be termed an opium dream: narcotic. Drawing from his addictive 1998 World Circuit/Nonesuch debut Alkibar (meaning..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Nailing the Market

The next time you go out to eat, keep an eye out for the work of Austin artist Elizabeth Guenthner. She's showing in almost every cafe where it's possible to display art, and her works' precise, distinctly disturbing beauty is simply transcendent.

"...Miller or Istvan Banyai. It's a way of rendering lines and shadows, a particular attention to the details of..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Boy Raises Man

Yes, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" often sidesteps grief and even undermines its critics by slyly layering the self-deprecation. Chronicle contributor Stuart Wade explains why, In Eggers' hands, it works.

"...5. Please Enjoy This Original Eggers Drawing:..."

March 3, 2000 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, Battleground

William Wellman's larger-than-life legacy: Reviews of Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and Battleground.

"...The Americans there were freezing, cut off from supply lines, encircled by Nazi troops, and running low on fuel,..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Clay Moore, Elephant Room, January 6

"...and compelling evening of jazz at the Elephant Room. Drawing largely from his release of last year, Meeting Standards,..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Naked City

North American Properties pulls out of Triangle project; Charlie Jones of Middleman Music heads up New Year's Eve celebration downtown, Bernice Butler leaves her directors post at the ARA, Darlene Byrne runs for judges seat, Dawnna Dukes has an opponent.

"...central city environment. Now it's apparently back to the drawing board ......"

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Amy Smith

Whenever We're Opened

Mortician-for-a-night, Wayne Alan Brenner ponders life as he faces death.

"...the walls were a monotonous white broken only by lines of stainless steel. Stainless steel shelves, stainless steel tables,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...recent release doesn't offer its own rewards. The simple, line-drawing tunes that drift together like leaves in a pool..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

A Change of Scenery

What It Looks Like

"...proposed row houses, almost zero-lot-line, within the existing lot lines [of their parcel] at the south end of [the..."

July 16, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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