Something the Grackles Made
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"...Speedway, my girlfriend and her roommate were dive-bombed by grackles. There was bird crap everywhere. I escaped unscathed. I..."
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Sept. 19, 2008 Features Feature by Cindy Widner
What Are the Birds Telling Us About Climate Change?
Reading the signs from our friends up in the sky
"...was 7am, and we were there to count the grackles. You know the grackles; they dot telephone wires around..."
Feb. 23, 2018 News Feature by Melany Jean
Elizabeth McCracken and Edward Carey's Write Balance
The local literary duo discusses being a creative couple and how it affects their work and process
"...And I said, "Could you just draw ... 20 grackles?" And in a single night, Edward drew me 20..."
Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
After a Fashion
Stephen explores the melting pot that is ... HEB?
"...what I think of as the Arbor of the Grackles, a virtual theme park dedicated to bird shit. On..."
April 21, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
The Luv Doc: America’s 40th-Best City
Because Ted Cruz is the Rat King
"...we were riding our pre-pandemic boomtown high. For instance: grackles. There's a lot of swoony prose about the majesty..."
July 28, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc
Live Music Illustrator Amitai Plasse Captures the Energy Onstage
The artist behind the grackle-packed 2022/23 Austin Music Awards poster
"...Further, Plasse drew grackles as performers, seeing them as the epitome of Austin...."
March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Katie Karp
25 Years of Mr. Smarty Pants for R. U. Steinberg
Austin's favorite factoid-man celebrates a quarter-century.
"...said, "This is terrible! Why are there so many grackles here?" And so I researched it, talked to some..."
Sept. 23, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Sandra Bernhard ♥ America
Sandra Bernhard returns to Austin for We're Still Queer Honey!
"...even been this past March, when she sparred with grackles at her surprise South by Southwest show in the..."
June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner
UT Visual Arts Center
David Ellis creates a 'motion painting' – or is it several? – for the university
"...and became – what are all these little blackbirds? Grackles? He turned into a grackle. I'm looking for opportunities..."
April 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
TCB
Arclight Records, an ailing Octopus, ACL leaks, and indie-rock hits the beach
"...BC: I think it was the grackles. I'd sort of run out of places to go...."
April 29, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray
A Colossal Wreck
The Intel Building and its discontents
"...Gripes and grackles love the Intel building, but the grackles know something..."
Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard
Songs of Innocence and Experience
From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.
"...Shreveport named Ron Byrd in a duo called the Grackles. Mostly they played Sixth Street's long-gone home for singer-songwriters,..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
Stage Frights
"...buckets of blood, and even a Greek chorus of grackles. And setting the show in the post-apocalyptic confines of..."
Oct. 30, 1998 Arts Feature
Point Austin: Trials of Our Would-Be Rulers Highlight the Limits of American Justice
In Trump and Paxton trials, the rules don’t apply
"...any Republican who dared to oppose him. Like boat-tailed grackles squawking and flailing at smaller birds, they presume they..."
April 19, 2024 News Post by Michael King
We Have an Issue: This Is Austin, Sometimes Pretty Swell
A good issue for the reading, and a great Austin Music Awards on the horizon
"...issue). I'm so charmed by his perfect melding of grackles and live music – two things essential to the..."
Feb. 24, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones
The Luv Doc: Already Failing
The Luv Doc's hawt tipz for #backtoskool
"...scores of freshman classes descend on Austin like wintertime grackles on an H-E-B parking lot, and I think I..."
Aug. 19, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc
James Beard Awards for Local Chefs, the Return of Bufalina, Father's Day Dining, and You Won’t Believe the Food Trucks We’ve Recommended
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...quite what it used to be, sure, but the grackles don’t care...."
June 15, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
10 Great Birds to Peep in Austin
Austin’s birds are as eclectic as the city itself
"...whole year at the tower and Downtown, feeding on grackles and other more common Austin birds. She is visited..."
Aug. 6, 2021 Chronolog Post by Ramón Rodriguez
It's Time to Decide Austin FC's Nickname
Cast your vote for what you want to drunkenly shout at Austin's new MLS team
"...association with Austin FC supporters’ groups: Los Verdes, The Grackles [Los Zanates], and Oak Army.) This week, fans can..."
June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Eric Goodman
The Luv Doc: That’s What We Do
Earth has pretty much always been a shitshow
"...unbridled optimism and unrestrained economic growth? Unlikely. The scruffy grackles of this dormant economy are going to come home..."
Jan. 1, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...into the arrangements that tracks like "Dance of the Grackles" and "Twice at Once" never become as obvious as..."
Jan. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Austin Chronicle Halloween Costume Contest
"...: Alex Moreland - Gralex and Grakevin the HEB grackles..."
Oct. 29, 2020 Photo Gallery
Graphic Designers Tout the Tastiest Beverage Packaging in Town
Local beverage packaging designs quench our thirst for tasty graphics
"...and Keith Davis Young. They've used hand-drawn illustrations of grackles, dogs, backroads, and even Ann Richards with a shotgun,..."
July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
This Is Who We Are #8: Performance Encounters' Home Entertainment 2009
A daily affirmation of Austin’s creativity from the Chronicle archive
"...Family Stone underscored by the hum of neighborhood traffic. Grackles screeching. And, curiously in this backyard, a front porch..."
May 15, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires
In 1990, We Predicted What 2020 Would Look Like. Did We Get Anything Right?
And since we're here, why not place some bets on 2050?
"...surrendering yourself to the parking lot's resident horde of grackles – their beating wings taking you closer to Austin's..."
Jan. 10, 2020 Features Feature by Kimberley Jones
"Kate Breakey: Ornithology" at Stephen L. Clark Gallery
Where late the sweet birds sang, where now resides the egg and eye
"...reside inside our heads like a frenzy of diseased grackles, insinuated there mainly by the internet and its ceaseless..."
Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
A New Generation Brings Heloise Gold's "Bird Dream Dances" to Life
Taking wing with the bird dances Gold has been making for 40 years
"...shells, rattles, and a flute – some actual recorded grackles, and some a human-concocted essence of a grackle call...."
May 31, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Shinyribs Frontman Kevin Russell Will Perform Gourds Set for Electric Lounge Reunion
Reliving the wild and woolly Nineties music scene downtown
"...he first got to town. We were called the Grackles. Ed was there and Jimmy LaFave, and Beaver [Nelson]...."
April 11, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland
Bird’s the Word
"...wires outside of the H-E-B every night are called “grackles,” and that every year a group of bird-watchers gathers..."
March 25, 2019 Postmarks
SXSW Music Review: Lonnie Holley/Mary Lattimore
Instant poetry by Holley and golden harp from Lattimore
"...reflections. The wind kicked up and blew leaves east, grackles flew between blue sky and green grass – things..."
