Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...Perez was sound asleep when the officers arrived, bearing a warrant signed..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Wednesday Sleepers

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts directly afterwards

"...voice punctuates the playful cool of the band's hypno-indie sound. – Michael Bertin Praise the Twilight Sparrow..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Joe Doucet/Texas Southside Kings

"..."Just a Little Bit"), many with a heavy zydeco sound. That's hardly a surprise given that Doucet's French Creole..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Depeche Mode / The Cure / The Jesus & Mary Chain

Record review

"...the prefab industrial town of Basildon with a synth-driven sound that couldn't quite throw off the reins of disco..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Snake Charmer

Ray Wylie Hubbard survived the crash, recovered the black box, and continues to fly high and get lowdown with 'Snake Farm.'

"...bassist. We got there as Muddy was doing his soundcheck, so we stood around waiting. Then Muddy comes by..."

June 23, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Are You Decent?

Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture

"...And she's hardly alone. Trying to guess what may anger the FCC,..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

TCB

Closing out a turbulent year

"...Generic Bar owner Joe Bates' still-unsolved October murder also sounded the death knell for live blues on Sixth Street...."

Jan. 7, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

TCB

Closing out the year by considering the persistent question: Are there too many bands in Austin?

"...Los Lonely Boys last year. But watch out for Sound Team in 2005. Austin's answer to the Walkmen could..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...to play, and like Crow, he too wore glasses, hardly a hallmark of rebel lifestyle. Yet when he exploded..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...You'd hardly know skill or work (or anything more than goofing..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Haven

Exploring the grounds and sounds at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top

"...hall possesses a warm reverberation that makes the instruments sound full and rich. Under the floor near the wall..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...indie labels continues to distribute a diverse array of sound from its Chicago home. Texas is home to Bedheaders..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Texas in the Title

"...about brightly feathered Negroes and blues-rock bloat. This is hardly the high point of L.A. Woman, the Doors' last..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in the middle) and T-shirts sporting the latest media sound bite, "Don't mess with textbooks." The only people who..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Column

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Austin music scene. Smitten with an archaic, hip regional sound called Western swing, they had the good fortune of..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Page Two

More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

"...food. The war on terror can't be fought by sound bite...."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

The Social Agenda

"...two-week gestational periods. This thoughtful gesture at patient education (hardly a Lege priority where other public health issues, like..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

Page Two

Denuded of ideological trimmings and vicious rhetoric, much of the agenda that motivates talk radio hosts is common to most of us.

"...a significant percentage of the Chronicle readership agrees with hardly a word we publish. In the same vein, I've..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...It is sound reasoning by Mr. Cobb that Gov. Perry did not..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"...of history, the tidal grind of change. It's the sound of incoming obsolescence, skimming low over the present, scything..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Home Grown

Why Chef Louis Lambert's Palate Is a Product of his Texas Roots

"...would get from the shells, the finished product will hardly lack for taste, as he'll also have jumbo shrimp..."

April 26, 2002 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...8. Tuckin' it in tightly will be the manly sounds of Jad Fair's new pop thang, Strobe Talbot, while..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The local music community holds its breath as it waits for the music-industry target-study set to go before the City Council's budget meetings.

"...SWT. Another popular topic was the current battles over sound levels downtown (see below), AMC chair Kevin Connor repeatedly..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone is dead

"...go figure." Rest assured, Billy, that 30 minutes was hardly too much Ramones for many people around town to..."

April 20, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Jimmy Smith

"...name Jimmy Smith has been synonymous with the funky sounds of the Hammond B-3 organ ever since he exploded..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Final Flowering

With Cold Sassy Tree, distinguished composer Carlisle Floyd crafts an opera to crown his lengthy career.

"...ears so that you can hear all the sweet sounds on this earth, like the laughter of children or..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big River

How healthy is Austin's Colorado River?

"...-- a concept that makes this wide-ranging ecological region sound like so much indoor plumbing -- can be linked..."

June 16, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...a more polished, fully realized, straight-ahead rock & roll sound. The band was definitely maturing in its songwriting and..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Ah, Laughter's Sweet Release!

"...months. What he doesn't know is that Isabella is hardly the innocent he imagines her to be and that..."

April 9, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blood and Memories

"...had once been radio's territory, and while Vaughan was hardly the moussed-up pretty boy wearing spandex the video channel..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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