The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Reprints the finest fiction, essays, poetry, and other oddities from the zine's first decade

"...best and brightest before they were well-known: Ray Bradbury, Greil Marcus, Robert Crumb, and Bruce Sterling, among others. The..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

'Baseball Films From the Silent Era' and 'Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show'

The old, weird America and the old, weird comedian

"...game and the old, weird America (with apologies to Greil Marcus) in your heart, you'll want to have this..."

March 30, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Best Books of 2006

"...Prophecy and the American Voice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Greil Marcus; Beneath the Shadow of the Capitol (ECPrinting), Ramon..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Johnny Cash

CD/DVD

"...studio tape boxes, with magnificent new liner notes by Greil Marcus, Personal File is a class act and a..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...roll died when Elvis went down for his physical."), Greil Marcus, Jim DeRogatis, and has an especially gnarly thorn..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Momentum and the Mountainside Sound

Dylan's bottler of magic, Bob Johnston, on the nicest guy ever, plus Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Michael Martin Murphey, and more

"...– Greil Marcus on the differences between Dylan's first producer Tom..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Judges

"...of the theatre collective Rude Mechanicals. His adaptation of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature

Rock & Roll Books

Gift guide

"...reprinted or previously unpublished contributions from the likes of Greil Marcus, Hendrik Hertzberg, Camille Paglia, Johnny Cash (the winking..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Termite King

AMOA hosts Manny Farber at the Movies

"...writers as diverse as Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael, Greil Marcus and Jonathan Rosenbaum, William Gibson and Paul Schrader...."

July 2, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playing Around With the Evil Empire

The Rude Mechanicals go Russian with a play -- well, a performance piece -- umm -- a performance collage -- well, '300 Plays About Vladimir Putin.'

"...their original stage adaptation of Lipstick Traces, based on Greil Marcus' groundbreaking history of punk, around the entire country..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Sid & Nancy

This film rendering of the sordid junkie degradation and deaths of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious and girlfriend Nancy Spungen bleeds through with a tad too much MTV, but few music biopics can top Gary Oldman in Sid & Nancy.

"...(eBay, $50; Vulcan Video, $2), admittedly pompous "cultural historian" Greil Marcus marvels at the grittiness of Alex Cox's punk..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Screens Review

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...all, but Edward Swift isn't after comfort. Something that Greil Marcus wrote in Mystery Train comes to mind: "The..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Last Waltz

DVDisc

"...self-aggrandizing Robbie Robertson vs. funny, eloquent, revealing Dr. John, Greil Marcus, Garth Hudson, and a heartbreaking, throat-cancer-ravaged Helm --..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...THE HISSYFITS: When Greil Marcus calls your music "perfect," you distinguish yourself at..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

Politics

"...With his folk and blues synthesis, he represents, as Greil Marcus puts it in his book Invisible Republic, "old,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Summer Reading

"...appeared in places like GQ magazine. Vowell, who idolizes Greil Marcus -- arguably the finest pop-music historian alive --..."

June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

Articulations

Arts Center Stage got a new lease on life -- or at least a new lease on Palmer Auditorium; the Bad Dog Comedy Theatre offers last call, and the Rude Mechanicals gets their second plug of the year in The New York Times.

"...recounts the play's creation and the reaction of author Greil Marcus, and boasts a fetching photo of director Shawn..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

"...You recall how Austin's Rude Mechanicals took Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces and turned it into a riveting..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

More Austin theatre turning up in New York: Despair’s Book of Dreams and Lipstick Traces set for spring 2001 runs.

"...Then Lipstick Traces, the Rude Mechanicals' adaptation of the Greil Marcus book, will run for six weeks at the..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Everyone's a Critic

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

"...the Austin Critics Table for his spirited translation of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces. He is also one of the..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Straight Out the Trailer

Examining the current overwhelming white trash influence in popular culture

"...more scholastically minded rock writers like Robert Christgau or Greil Marcus, spends most of the piece riffing extensively on..."

July 28, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals) In getting their version of Greil Marcus' massive social history to the stage, the Rude..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...to see. Loud, funny, and irreverent, this adaptation of Greil Marcus' famously un-adaptable tome was strangely, wonderfully comprehensible. It..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Lipstick Traces: It's Only Rock & Roll ...

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...Lipstick Traces, as adapted by the Rude Mechanicals from Greil Marcus' social history, lets us glimpse the origins --..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Working Vacations

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...with their new literary adaptation/deconstruction, Lipstick Traces, based on Greil Marcus' "secret history of the 20th century." As with..."

July 9, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"..."hopelessly seductive" (Spin), "a sonic version of X-Ray vision" (Greil Marcus), and "indubitably fresh" (Robert Christgau). (Electric Lounge, 1am)..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Old Hollywood Tales

"...good place for me to rail about the esteemed Greil Marcus, who recently decided to announce that Counting Crows..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

"...maybe you're waiting for the lecture by Rolling Stone's Greil Marcus on March 18. Considering the touring exhibit features..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Pointed Remembrances, Pointless Arguments

Letters at 3AM

"...1965-67, and Dylan did it. And no critic (until Greil Marcus, in his new stupendous Invisible Republic) took the..."

May 9, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

The Texas Book Festival: Who's Out, Who's In?

The lineup changes slightly as big event draws nigh; schedule now live

"...Legendarily a difficult thing to reach the holy Greil, and so that Mr. Marcus of the Lipstick Traces..."

Oct. 1, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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