Take Two Aspirin and Ping Me in the Morning

Heath care: an oral future

"...or bring along all sorts of complicated documents and pieces of paper, and it's a pain. It's a hassle...."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Inaguration Day

Five lip-syncing gaffes worse than Beyonce’s alleged fakery

"...but it doesn’t mean it’s always excusable. Here are five lip-syncing gaffes that should make you angry...."

Jan. 25, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Think 'New' Music

eighth blackbird helps Texas Performing Arts change how we regard classical

"...are fought through two dozen art songs performed by five singers playing 30 roles in composer Ricky Ian Gordon..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Texas Monthly BBQ Festival: Last-Minute Guide & Judging Primer

Can Dallas's new darling joint end Central Texas' brisket dominance?

"...3) let smoke and sauce fly for five intoxicating hours; and finally..."

Sept. 22, 2012 Food Post by Kenny Pailes

Making It Personal

Lynn Shelton on the creative process behind 'Your Sister's Sister'

"...all those years ago is cut up into tiny pieces easy enough for a 14-year-old boy to digest. Later,..."

June 29, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Preaching to the Choir

Quiet Company high priest Taylor Muse still has faith all right. It's called trust.

"...On "The Easy Confidence," he sings that "If Jesus Christ ever reached..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Walking the No-Kill Tightrope

As Austin's animal welfare center moves to a new building, will the delicate balance of 'no-kill' and resources be maintained?

"...on euthanasia lists," says Jefferson. "And they're really nice, easy animals to adopt, too. Now that Austin is doing..."

Nov. 4, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Presto con Fuoco

For violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, life is best played fast and fiery

"...CD, Seasons ... dreams, and hit the road for five weeks of touring dates that had her zig-zagging cross-country..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Man With Two Brains

Ghostland Observatory pulls back the curtain

"...with Turner cast as the mad electronics genius. It's easy to picture his lanky frame haunting the studio in..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Tipping Point

Austin and Travis County fail to deliver mental health care

"...frustrations that go with it. In "Breakdown," Smith also pieces together Demps' final hours and his futile attempts to..."

June 4, 2010 News Feature by Amy Smith

But Is It Art?

Austin Kleon gets creative with poetry in his new collection, Newspaper Blackout

"...That sense of play infuses the poems –short pieces that touch on first sex and outer space, in..."

April 9, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

I Write the Folk Songs

From 1980s MTV Robert Plant look-alike to New Age icon, Marshall Styler knows his way around an eBay melody

"...New Age music is an easy target, second only to disco for the negative reactions..."

July 3, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Playing for the People

More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

"...for Spin in '95, I took maybe four or five rolls of film at the end of the day...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Postwar Kurosawa

Five underappreciated films from the Japanese master

"...Beginning with No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), this five-film set registers most dated at its chronological extremes, which..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Along the Bias

Lack of media objectivity cuts all ways

"...reporter might talk to each driver for three to five minutes, with maybe one sentence from each ending up..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Summer Chores

Summer blockbusters become video games, and fun is lost in translation

"...chile peppers, fight Easter chicks, help a rat make five-star dinners. Despite its almost-confrontational degree of unoriginality, Ratatouille is..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Feature by Jeremy Martin

Desk Set

Its inaugural class – equipped with cameras, computers, and expert instruction – wades into a sea of possibility

"...write, shoot, edit, and even score their own Super-8 masterpieces. The kudos and awards began to roll in, with..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...our roots going back to the 1350s in France. Five years ago, my parents and grandmother made their own..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Todd Potter

Plays the guitar like ringing 'The Bell'

"...Potter's return to music began five years ago when the Fabulous Chevelles asked him to..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Down at the Jinn Mill

Austin's dirigo group prepare to premiere the best new play one could wish for

"...a lot of impressive work in this town in five years, though its roster has weathered many changes since..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...a power distribution problem. DeBeauvoir said that of 2,296 pieces of voting equipment, only one machine failed to work..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...when he defeated a Republican who had outspent him five to one – and then I worked for Ken..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Holy Ghost

Austin's Revenant Records follows up its Grammy-winning Charley Patton box set with free jazzman Albert Ayler's 9-CD 'Holy Ghost'

"...in the chorus. Treading that line steadily is not easy...."

Oct. 8, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Backward 'Spin'

Catherine Berry explains how to reverse engineer your very own musical

"...were four kids, and we were all four and five years apart. Ron got into theatre after I was..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...city isn't in on it to get its 30 pieces of silver, so of course it cannot be allowed..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column

Only Natural

The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.

"...kerosene; various military objects; boot-making and shoe-repair tools; 340 timepieces of various sorts; 877 U.S. patent models; tools; ranching..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to "Dancing About Architecture" and chart a new course, a bit.

"...end up in Texas in the first place? An easy way to reinforce conservative credentials will be to take..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Bradley ["Can Lazarus Rise Again?" Oct. 11] put the pieces together again?..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

Short Cuts

More festival fever.

"...you can even shower in peace (as opposed to pieces). Ahem. This year's crop of incoming talent includes Darren..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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Our readers talk back.

"...low-grade college radio. The stories are dull and obvious pieces with no thought or journalistic insight. The on-air talent..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Column

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