Coach's Corner

The mid-summer drought in traditional sports is on (the Olympics don't count). Also, Monday Night Football will try not to suck so bad; Mike Tyson's a bore, and Sampras and Agassi may be getting too old.

"...from a sultan's feast of hockey and basketball playoff games to nothing at all is jarringly abrupt. Today the..."

June 30, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

I Am the Jellyfish That Walks Upon the Land

The Mother of all pop bands

"..."I kept looking at you, because it sounded funny at some times," Audy says, "but sometimes it sounded..."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Tailgating Teasips

Mick Vann makes a foray into the curious and often elaborate rite of University of Texas fandom known as "tailgating" and discovers some intriguing practices.

"...surrounding Royal Memorial Stadium the nights before UT home games. I had heard rumors of this happening from folks..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Dungeons and Draggin's

My Short Vacation in Sunny Brittania

"...virtual, it has critics... lots and lots of 'em. Funny thing, though, is that while they complain, they just..."

March 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...nuclear fiction like death from above. Highly combustible, explosively funny -- an apocalypse in the Piney Woods. -- Mike..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

Horror Director Larry Fessenden Gets Depraved

Indie cinema's king of fear on creating a very modern Prometheus

"...you had it on cereal boxes and toys and games. You had The Munsters on television. But to be..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Esther's All-Stars

"...2 League Honors: Hit by Pitch in 13 Consecutive Games..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

A Redhead, Pink Pony, and Kaleidoscope in This Weekend’s Events

Arts and culture to keep you entertained

"...Saturday 3, Austin Books & Comics, Bat City Games & Comics, Rogues Gallery Comics & Games, Dragon’s Lair,..."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin's Aaron Moten's Trip From Batboy to Fallout

How one St. Ed's actor became part of the new Prime series

"...Fallout game debuted on PCs, the mood of the games has changed, and establishing exactly what kind of Fallout..."

April 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What’cha Watchin’?

Web Editor James Renovich loves the sweet abominations of Polygon's Monster Factory

"...Decades of playing video games have ruined me for noninteractive entertainment. My Netflix, Amazon,..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Screens Column

Pick Your Team: The Honky Tonk Heartbreakers

The history and the future of Texas derby, according to Devil Grrl

"...of the year, we've had about four or five games worth of experience with this new group, and then..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

What Are You Looking At?

The year in pop-culture fixations

"...child-encumbered – another way of being difficult. It's sweet, funny, and the most womanist makeover show I've seen. In..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Screens Feature

Soccer Watch

World Cup preview, Aztex homestand continues

"...with a goal in each of the last two games... The Aztex are now one-third of the way through..."

June 11, 2010 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Day Trips

The Sherwood Forest Faire takes visitors back in time to a place where men jousted to resolve disputes and women let their cleavage bask in the sunlight

"...Sherwood Forest Faire outside of McDade has food, games, and shows – all the things needed to make..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Trouble at Station 15

Austin firefighter sues city after officials stonewall unequal treatment

"...vending machines, and the station library of books and games. Other than lockers, the women's room was bare...."

Jan. 16, 2009 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith

Coach's Corner

"Cub Fans Dare to Believe,"says the headline. "Hah!" says Coach. Also: odds and ends about football, Tiger Woods, and Andy Roddick.

"...(from Jack Griffin to Jerome Holtzman), and attending uncounted games in person, then you'd understand the massive aggregate of..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

TV Eye

"TV Eye" delivers the skinny on the (mostly unimpressive) summer season debuts.

"...city" comedy, only this one isn't as charming or funny as its namesake or some of its predecessors. Kristin..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Philadelphia Freedom

Hockey, My Brother, the '74 Flyers, and Me …

"...scrapple ketchup white bread creation. I find this pants-wettingly funny...."

March 23, 2001 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Postmarks

Readers respond to Zero Tolerance, the Longhorn Pipeline, and Being John Malkovich.

"...the software that all Mac programmers use to write games. He also mentions Bungie Software: "The odds of Bungie..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column

Scanlines

Air Force One

"...of plot holes, and, intentional or not, is outrageously funny. And it may be a sign of my dementia,..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Screens Feature

Online Hit

Instant Sports Patents a Pastime

"...team without a trip to the ballpark. "In a funny sense, we're just re-creating the re-creation days today," says..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

At Wit’s End: Bob Byington on His Dry New Comedy, Lousy Carter

“My career puzzles people, including myself”

"...improv I can't use, for example. Also David is funny, which isn't easy. He said something interesting to me:..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Shawn Badgley

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...rebuttal to the swathe of documentaries that claimed the Gamestop movement was a cool lark, and more of a..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Joel Hodgson on MST30K

Reflecting on 30 years on the Satellite of Love

"...figuring out where to throw in the wisecrack, the funny joke.”..."

Oct. 31, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Playing Townes

Charlie Sexton and Richard Linklater talk about the role of a lifetime

"...the hitchhiker. The Brad Pitt part. Which was pretty funny...."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Ethan Hawke

Ella Gale & Katie Stone: Naughty Bits

Who says sex is no laughing matter?

"...Female Lead rocking the New Movement boards) aren’t already funny enough by themselves. Because they are, they totally are...."

Feb. 8, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Billy Friedkin Kills It

Extended Q&A with the man behind 'The Exorcist,' 'French Connection'

"...by Hollywood conventions. And when you’re considered good-looking, or funny-looking, or strange-looking, or whatever it may be, sinister-looking, that’s..."

Aug. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everybody Must Get 'Stoned'

Improv Guru Keith Johnstone brings his Maestro to the Long Center

"...and beyond – to play a variety of short games chosen and tweaked by a director. But do all..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Brooklyn's Answer to Bristol

Will Leitch, World Wide Web leader in sports

"...home drunk after the game; it's the way the games are experienced by someone who finds fulfillment in paying..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"...– he's also soft-spoken and sensitive, courteous, classy, and funny. He's a man of few words – "the biggest..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

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