Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...fellow Pulitzer winner Egan will introduce her novel Manhattan Beach, fresh off the presses. Houston native Attica Locke, a..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Playback – Omnibus: Destination Unknown

Vetting City Hall's recommendations to Mayor Adler's arts Omnibus and unveiling Sound on Sound Fest's Renaissance location and debut lineup

"...pop, hip-hop, electro, punk, metal, and indie rock headlines Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Courtney Barnett, Phantogram, Purity..."

July 1, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...Darkness may be named after a foreboding song by George Harrison, but the L.A. power trio doesn't sound ready..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM: 'I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing'

"Route 66" taught me that I did not want to be rooted again

"...November a TV show premiered: Route 66. An actor, George Maharis, in the role of Buz Murdock, spoke in..."

June 29, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday SXSW can't escape the blurbs!

"...7pm, Auditorium Shores Brooklyn's George Lewis Jr. no doubt listened to a lot of..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Fat Possum Party

"...With Therapies Son's inverted George Harrison guitar licks and Beach Fossils' one-manned drones serving..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...A-side: "In My Room," the Beach Boys..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Boys Are Back

Clive Owen is a widower in Australia who learns to become a hands-on dad to his sons.

"...Directed by: Scott Hicks. Starring: Clive Owen, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Emma Booth, Nicholas McAnulty and Julia Blake. Were..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It Is What It Is

The year in books

"...Ian McEwan's slim meditation on sexual repression, On Chesil Beach (Nan A. Talese), was elegantly crafted but felt like..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Psycho Beach Party, Naughty Austin..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pleased by Galveston Coverage

"...of what makes Galveston unique is that, unlike other beach communities, it has much more to offer than just..."

May 20, 2004 Postmarks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...are links to a talking points (propaganda) page from George Bush's re-election Web site and a letter printed by..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...disc, but no members of Keen's biggest fans, the George W. Bush clan. It's a shame that Keen didn't..."

July 27, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Doo Wop Box III (Rhino)

"..."Modern Doo Wop." With doo wop aficionados such as George Carlin, two Neville brothers (Art and Aaron), Frank Zappa..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Public Notice

Public Notice notes a few great ways to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend by helping a good cause.

"...environment, living miles from the salty air makes this beach bunny transplant positively claustrophobic. Knowing that a clear horizon..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

A Sound Salvation

Austin's Class of 2000

"...Dexter Freebish: The Beatles, Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, and Now Dexter Freebish..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Lipstick Traces

Pretenders

"...outlets, and yeah, it's catchy in a late-night, South Beach kind of way, but if anything, Lopez hits her..."

July 16, 1999 Music Review

A League of Their Own

"...create, write, and executive-produce the award-winning TV series China Beach. Harrigan and Wright have about a dozen books between..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Thin Red Line

Malick's return to filmmakng after a 20-year absence is this WWII story based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel. The film is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature.

"...Starring: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Adrien Brody, John Travolta, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, John..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...been able to show why it has closed the beach and fissures areas of the pool. (Under the proposed..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature

Reissues

"...rhythm section. The incomparable Eric Dolphy, who appeared as "George Lane" on the Ole sessions (released earlier that year),..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

The Evening Star

"...Richardson, Marion Ross, Juliette Lewis, Donald Moffat, Ben Johnson, George Newbern, Mackenzie Astin, Scott Wolf and Jack Nicholson. She's..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Reissues

"...heroin addiction), Davis was signed to Columbia Records by George Avakian. Shortly thereafter, Avakian proposed to Davis a project..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...the entire mag was taken over by "Mutant Monster Beach Party," a hysterical photocomic salute to the Roger Corman..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Invasion of the Lit Flix

Literary Classics Rush the Screen

"...undemanding fare -- the silver screen equivalent of lightweight beach books. But as the days grow increasingly shorter and..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips: Brackenridge Park, San Antonio

Alamo City park is more than a picnic spot

"...has seen human occupation for 12,000 years. In 1899, George Brackenridge donated 199 acres to the city...."

May 30, 2025 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Lemon Twigs, Trouble in the Streets, Enslaved, and more local shows worth the decibels

"...With Beach Boys harmonies, Todd Rundgren melodies, and Sweet riffola, Long..."

April 21, 2023 Music Column by Tim Stegall

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...Blood author and his friend, The Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton...."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: The Good Songs We Need to Sing Together and Loud

Celebrating love and resistance at Terry and Jo Harvey Allen's 55th wedding anniversary

"...as the waves roll in, quietly crashing on the beach. It is a different world with different ways, but..."

July 14, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Titan of the Telecaster Bill Kirchen

The guitarist settles in Austin but flies Transatlanticana

"...I hitchhiked from Ann Arbor and slept on the beach with a banjo my mom had in the attic...."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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