Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...testament to that fact. Rock & roll may never again have an avant gardist with so much funk, or..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...and you'll never have to go through the program again. It sounded a little incomplete to me. It seems..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Dancing About Architecture

Ely Come, Ely Go

"...Cowan of rampant rumors that after 20 years, Ely's on-again, off-again (but mostly on-again) career with MCA Records was..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

How the West Was Sung

The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History

"...Kris McKay: vocalist, "After You've Gone"..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sleeping With the Television On

Teething Problems at the Austin Music Network

"...switch it on and to think, `Goddamn, this shit again?'" And Kent Benjamin, former head of programming at AMN..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...I'd met the legendary ex-local twice, once backstage and again the following night upstairs in a roomful of very..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The East

Colonial ambitions implode in this brutal recounting of Dutch folly

"...muggy miasma of a superior armed force being routed again and again by a cunningly efficient guerrilla army...."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...As festivals have gone digital during the pandemic, many have experimented with some..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Dickens’ hero gets a lively and innovative new interpretation

"...conquer evil. But lest you think the filmmaker has gone soft, his trademark rapid-fire wit remains intact, albeit with..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Brandon Cash Says He's a Clown. His Critics Say He's a Bigot. Will His Customers Keep Coming Back?

The show must (?) go on

"...violators of state COVID-19 restrictions. Gov. Greg Abbott then again shut down all Texas bars on June 26; in..."

Aug. 14, 2020 News Feature by Lee Ackerley

The Irishman

Scorsese's filmmaking excellence can't mask a flawed retreading of mob history

"...as anything other than Nazi propaganda. Sometimes, as with Gone With the Wind's Confederate apologia, it earns a film..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Problem With K2, Downtown Austin’s Most Dangerous Drug

APD cannot depend on big busts alone to solve the problem

"...goodbye to the hospital staff, he was sparking up again, naturally with the same results: The man was back..."

March 16, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Nic Cage Plays Happy Families in Mom and Dad

The Oscar winner on parental love, and the calm before the storm

"...a pool table with a sledge hammer, but I've gone online and gone, 'I remember that toy I had..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

A stellar entry into the beloved franchise

"...out why the man who felled the Empire has gone into seclusion. Meanwhile, the team is split further, with..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived

The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism

"...a thumbnail history of the Texas environmental movement – against nukes, to protect local resources, and to fight climate..."

Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Standing Witness

On living through the history of AIDS, and seeing a rising rate of infection

"...of the virus, survived a nightmare, and are once again seeing its return. Though many have chosen to leave..."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Risen

A Roman soldier is sent to track a rumor about the Christ's resurrection

"...more soul-shaking events: abundant fishing, a leper cured, and here-one-moment-gone-the-next Yeshua. Meanwhile, Pilate has dispatched a mounted cohort of..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: It's Always Twine Time

Follow the music

"...Yes. The Stallion is gone, the Dobie closed. Raul's, Liberty Lunch, and the Cannibal..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Beethoven to Beyoncé

SXSW Music panels – topics over talent. Except they're also star-studded.

"...corporate response, but if you keep on driving, asking again and again, you'll eventually wear down their defenses and..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Reclaiming 'The Corner'

Neighbors, police, and prosecutors applaud the 'Drug Market Intervention' at 12th and Chicon

"...the alley that parallels 12th Street, and that butts against the third of Bard's three houses, and up and..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...AA: He was an incredible performer. But then, again, in France he’s like Elvis. In France, he and..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

'Better This Way'

The first-place story

"...bowl, I discovered the water had been shut off. Again. I grabbed your monkey wrench and walked to the..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Benjamin Reed

Billy Friedkin Kills It

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

"...lot of what goes on and what has always gone on in pockets of the universe as being not..."

Aug. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lee Leffingwell: 'Think Long-Range'

The incumbent mayor defends his record

"...the price of gasoline was $1.11. So things have gone up since then. And as I said before, we..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...this conversation is a good idea. We will meet again, very soon...."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Dramatic Turn

Actress Meredith McCall is about much more than musicals

"...plant victim Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Suzy Homemaker-gone-Broadway-bitch Judy in Ruthless!: The Musical) to the sublime (Salvation..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

A look back at a 50-year career and Steven Tyler's big, fat lips

"...fart. Thank God Cowell and his man titties are gone. And Randy Jackson? The less said, the better. But..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Kicking the Tires at Fleet

City whistle-blower confirms that the trouble at Fleet Services has been much worse than scrap tires and bad record-keeping. And nobody in charge wanted to hear it.

"...spring of 2009, and he filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against the city alleging that instead of looking into the..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Splice

Splice is a twisted little update of the Frankenstein story, as well as a thriller, love story, and meditation on the possibilities of science.

"...reason that Shelley's original literary template has metastasized and gone viral, again and again, over the past two centuries...."

June 4, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Running in Place

Movie-serial style coverage plagues the most thrilling, genuine, and troubling Democratic contest in decades

"...I'll probably feel a whole lot better when you're gone..."

May 30, 2008 Column by Louis Black

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