Coach's Corner

Year-end columns stink. Coach tells you why in 2002 sports will stink, too.

"...Bowl rivals the slumberous sports writing between Christmas and New Year's. Even the best newspapers and their top writers..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Dancing About Architecture

Terrorist attacks rock America while Frank Kozik drops his own bomb.

"...out, but it's safe to say that after the new millennium's very own "Day of Infamy," even the greater..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Ur-Beat

Before Kerouac and Ginsberg

"...homosexual long before William Burroughs became part of the New York beat scene, and, if you believe him, was..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...money to keep the organization afloat and find a new home in the process, since its current location is..."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature

The Cable Guise

Carrey, Quaid, and the IFC

"...show-and-tell time for Carrey. Can he manage to find new ways of delighting his fans without abandoning the methods..."

June 14, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Alejandro Puyana Explores the Humanity and Hardship of Venezuela With His Debut Novel

You can’t go home again

"...were to give themselves up or die trying to escape...."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Film Review: We Can Be Heroes

Cheering doc about summer camp for the awkward and adventurous

"...The special thing about We Can Be Heroes, from directors Carina Mia Wong and Alex Simmons, is that..."

March 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

Last One Down the Mountain: Belated Thoughts on the Sundance Film Festival

Even virtually, the 2024 fest felt revitalized

"...Film reviews are already coming in from Berlin, which is the next major film festival on..."

Feb. 21, 2024 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 25-31

"...(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I suspect you are about to escape the stuffy labyrinth. There may be a short adjustment..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Three Pint-Sized Specialty Food Stores Sprout in Austin

Hold me closer tiny grocer

"...options – plus a laundry list of other items, from socks to notary stamps – offer a unique opportunity..."

April 9, 2021 Food Feature by Andrew Turner

Bob Byington and Kaley Wheless Go to Nebraska in Frances Ferguson

Small-town sins follow an unlikeable person in this likable film

"...was very blasé. Then I remember Bob seeing a New York Post article about one of these female teachers..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Announces 2018 Grant Winners

Recipients show strength and diversity of Texas filmmakers

"...know the filmmakers who are telling these critical stories from an inside perspective.”..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Saturday ACL Fest Picks

"...remains intact. Pastor Cedric B. West takes the reins from his late father, Rev. Gean West, who led the..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature

Praying for The Overnighters

Director Jesse Moss stands and rests with the fracking migrants

"...Jesse Moss' new documentary, released by Drafthouse Films, centers on Reinke's Concordia..."

Oct. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Hitting the Street

Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most

"...hanging out in the background, alert as cats – fire-escape kids, rooftop kids, alley kids who knew how to..."

May 30, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...indie-rapper Macklemore to thousands of young spectators. "We went from playing to 13 people at South by Southwest to..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Two Sides to His Story

Manuel Gonzales leads the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave into uncharted territory while readying for a rapid literary ascent of his own

"...Gonzales first made his name in pastry. After graduating from the University of Texas in 1996, he joined his..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Down By Law

Criterion releases Jim Jarmusch's jailbird gem on Blu-ray.

"...years prior, Jarmusch – an Akron native, but born from the same New York City punk/no wave art-squall that..."

July 20, 2012 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Overthinking Man's Fighter

Floyd Patterson biographer W.K. Stratton explains the appeal of boxing's gentleman eccentric

"...in Chicago. When he'd arrived at the airport in New York, he didn't know where he was going; he..."

July 6, 2012 Books Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...me removing a Blue Öyster Cult tape, $8.99 list, from my sock on the sidewalk outside a record store..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Static Between Stations

The American Analog Set at 10: end of part one

"...the strings of his guitar as he coaxes lyrics from the microphone with a voice so calming it opiates...."

Sept. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Value Appreciation

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards enters its fourth year

"...did not repeat certain awards categories and brought in new ones. That, asserts founding committee co-chair Evan Smith, is..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

Speaking of Queer Eyes: Hey, don't look at us … everybody calls it SoCo. And everybody seems to love the new Nordstrom … including our Style Avatar.

"...was pretty amazing. Where did all those people come from? It looked like at least 2,000 people strolling the..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Condemned Banks Looks to Supreme Court

Delma Banks death row appeal reads like a laundry list of everything wrong with Texas capital punishment.

"...Banks' case "has it all," said George Kendall, a New York attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Hightower Report

Awash in Money; Fighting FrankenFish

"...out 60 one-hundred-dollar bills for a shower curtain. A New York decorator of luxury apartments explains that, after all,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

TV Eye

"Down There" gets its proper due on HBO.

"...in my house. Ever. I don't think I even knew I had one until junior high. It was always..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Day Trips

The Amon Carter Museum has a new, modern look, but it's still the same old great place to get culture.

"...The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth has a new, modern look. After a demolition, construction, and remodeling project..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dancing About Architecture

Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.

"...Bastrop County -- The New Home of the Blues..."

June 2, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Harry Chapin Story of a Life (Elektra/Rhino)

Box Sets

"...Growing up in the Seventies, it seemed impossible to escape the music of Harry Chapin. A New York City..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Deepwater

"...wife Iris. Nat accepts a job repainting the upstate New York motor lodge -- harmless enough -- but he..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Books Review by Mike Shea

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