If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...of native Mexicans moved north across the Rio Grande, many settling around San Antonio. With them came a curious..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

"...one and only walk down the aisle with another woman. "I was losing the man that I loved," she..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

1999 Austin Film Releases

A complete list of all films released for theatrical runs in Austin in the calendar year 1999 and eligible for consideration in the Top Ten.

"...SHAGGED ME3.5(M.S.)6/11/99 AUTUMN TALE3.0(M.B.)8/27/99 BABY GENIUSES0(S.D.)3/19/99 THE BACHELOR1.0(S.D.)11/12/99 BAD MANNERS3.5(R.S.)2/5/99 BANDITS4.0(M.B.)10/15/99 BATS0(M.S.)10/29/99 BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS3.0(M.B.)9/24/99 BEING JOHN MALKOVICH4.5(M.B.)11/5/99 BESIEGED3.5(M.B.)7/16/99..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Book Reviews

"...and unbuttoned bodices, long, flowing hair, fiery-eyed women, and commanding muscular men, but she writes love stories, not romances...."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...his descendants reminisced about growing up under the old man's thumb. One is Melinda Marshall. Today a resident of..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...local talk radio show and bringing reactions from as many as seven people. Some acquaintances, after swearing me to..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Book Reviews

"...took. Barrett's latest mystery, Skinny Annie Blues, is in many ways his most off-beat, outrageous yet. And, coming on..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature

Owen Egerton Gets Physical for Mercy Black

Childhood trauma lingers in this Netflix horror

"...this week on Netflix, is the story of a woman (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's Daniella Pineda) released after a..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...do, or something that we allow to happen? In German morality tale Nothing Bad Can Happen (Drafthouse Films), it's..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Got My Mojo Workin'

Paul Oscher used to blow harps for Muddy Waters

"...pulling jagged electric guitar lines from an old Harmony hollow-body. Then thick-toned Little Walter lines from a rack-mounted harmonica...."

June 27, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...the night with giant wheeled butterflies and a ghost-pale, many-ridered rattlesnake that stretches almost a city block; about the..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Another Shadow-Day Knight

The Harry Ransom Center uncasks the curious life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

"...The man was a literary wonder: That's why we know about..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...annual open house each October. I was one of many New York kids who flew out for this year's..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...design clear into the squinting eye of the original man in the moon way back in 1914. That pioneering..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...we have Barton Springs, Town Lake, the bats, Hippie Hollow, the Sixth Street pseudo-Bourbon Street mess, overpriced musical events,..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...our legal efforts to protect the endangered Barton Springs salamander, though its help could be enormously beneficial...."

June 14, 2002 Column

Live Shots

The Barkers

"...Hill. But the spirit lives on, and has lately manifested itself Tuesday nights at the Continental Club under a..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature

8

Third-place winner

"...what she's having, and then she slips away, a hollow left underneath my canopied palms. Only an instant passes,..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Andy Steinberg

Blood, Sweat & Murder

Redemption for Austin's definitive one-man band? Just don't ask Scott H. Biram what the 'H' stands for.

"...on a wall of amplifiers with his 1959 Gibson hollow body guitar – cracked earth below, expansive blue sky..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...Nineties, BVSC is an endearing Cinderella story in which journeyman guitarist Ry Cooder and producer Nick Gold go treasure..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...credit. In the deluge of female singer-songwriters, she has managed to find some unoccupied vocal dry land. Of course,..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

Postmarks

Nofziger Responds

"...I am disappointed in your treatment of my father, Manuel Zuniga, who is running for the Austin City Council,..."

April 25, 1997 Column

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...tanned from a day of sunbathing naked at Hippie Hollow, the women glide out from the pink, graffiti-covered stalls,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...debut novelists discussed their creations as they posed in Armani and Ralph Lauren duds, mugging for the camera as..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Blue Monday

Antone's Blue Mondays continues, 25 years later.

"..."George Rains on drums, Sarah Brown on bass, Denny Freeman on guitar, Mel Brown on organ, me -- and..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...town and public nudity? Whether it's excursions to Hippie Hollow, frat-boy streaking hijinks, clothing-optional apartment complexes, the abundance of..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

1999 Film Critics Poll

"...Office Space, Man of the Century, In Dreams..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Against the Grain

A profile of Bad Livers bassist Mark Rubin

"...alt.country, film, public radio, and non-commercial television. Part Renaissance man, part neurotic outsider, he's definitely the only tattooed, 330-pound..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

November Previews

"...this gentle, funny, passionate, and focused study of a man in Wisconsin pursuing his American Dream. The movie's subject,..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Justice Denied

"...you have the environmental political machine deciding when, how many, and which minorities will be elected. That political machine,..."

June 6, 1997 Column

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