Luv Doc Recommends: Carnaval Brasilero

Palmer Events Center, Saturday, February 5, 2005

"...in piddling amounts just sufficient enough to get you hooked (thanks for getting our back, Glaxo). Sure there are..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Lost & Found

John Schooley's Hard Feelings stay hard with Rebels Against the Future

"...This was also the time and place where Schooley hooked up with his first band, the Revelators, a gritty..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...deal that put Austin blues on the map? Who hooked up Stevie Vaughan with manager Alex Hodges? Who brought..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Jimmie and Georgia

At their Southern Dinette, family-style soul food took on a whole new meaning.

"...a good recommendation: The first taste and we were hooked. Soon, we became regulars, as did a retinue of..."

July 4, 2003 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Hottest Commodity

Once green with envy, Texas now joins New Mexico in championing the chile … just in time for the 12th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival!

"...Rylander's another Austinite who found himself hooked on chile while visiting New Mexico. Six years ago,..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Food Feature by Sandy Szwarc

Halley

Texas Platters

"...HalleyForget the Leaves, Autumn Will Change Us (Hooked on Sonics!) The latest bright hope to come streaking..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Never Too Much Coffee Man

What happens when you drink a li'l too much java? Ask Too Much Coffeeman.

"...in the vicinity of my 10th year. I got hooked young, and it messed me up. Shit happens, but..."

May 17, 2002 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Pop Beloved

Revisting the Reivers

"...likes of Spoon, the Damnations, and Guided by Voices, hooked up with University of Texas Music major and Bay..."

April 26, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Mind Wide Open

D: Fuse, one of the world's biggest emerging DJs, hails from A-town.

"...DJ came and went throughout the Nineties, until he hooked up with another Austinite by the name of Shane..."

April 12, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Panic Room

"...doesn't bother to get the phone line in there hooked up on their first night in the house --..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Literature Corner

"..."Jerry Williams: 'We hooked up with MDC when we got to Austin. We..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Enlightenment Guaranteed

"...certainly deliberate and daring but may lose viewers hitherto hooked by the accessibility of the plot. To some, these..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...western lout. Nine years old, and I was already hooked on weirdo lit. But in the best possible way,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Teen Angst Turns a Page

Director Terry Zwigoff's darkly comic 'Ghost World'

"...Austin Chronicle: How was it that you first hooked up with Daniel Clowes? Had you been familiar with..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Lowdown

Bush and children, Bush and Big Oil, & the Inventor of the Slim Jim

"...stores. Years ago (before I discovered nutrition), I was hooked on Slim Jims, and lots of folks still are..."

May 18, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Last Days Of The Beach, the Beach, September 26 & 27, 1986

"...back another night. And another. Pretty soon I was hooked and, I suspect this is how many other people..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Review by Steve Johnson

Croupier

"...“A wave of emotion came over him. He was hooked again: watching people lose.” That's how Jack Manfred (Owen),..."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...she explained the basic idea of it, we were hooked. It's changed wildly since then, but we're still hooked...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Green Mile

"...money we all could have saved had Frank Darabont hooked up with Stephen King long ago. The director who..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Muppets From Space

"...of this furry, oddball outing: Gonzo's lineage. With his hooked proboscis and off-blue body, Gonzo's the one Muppet who..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Inklings

"...Perhaps the oddest experience in reading Windfall is getting hooked on the book while simultaneously acknowledging that its plot..."

April 30, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Pleasantville

"...that its modern protagonists long for. David (Maguire) is hooked on reruns of his favorite Fifties TV show, Pleasantville,..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Antique Thang

TV Eye

"...in some hidden corner of our land. You get hooked on the history. This curio is brought in —..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Screens Column by Barbara Chisholm

The Truman Show

Life is a 'round-the-clock “reality” TV program in this prescient film, and Truman Burbank (Carrey) is its unwitting subject/hero/leading man.

"...sense of veracity in action that keeps the world hooked on the soap opera of his life. Of course,..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love and Death on Long Island

"...him to his seat. From that moment on he's hooked: He's buying teen magazines as though they were porn..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How the West Was Sung

The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History

"...transform into something that wasn't wholly nostalgic-sounding. Before we hooked up with Mark, we were getting ideas for boppish..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Only the Beginning

Wednesday Night SXSW "Sleepers"

"...break during SXSW - without playing the conference. They hooked up with a small label after playing at a..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature

Ally McBeal — Going Through Motions

"...Fait accompli. I was officially hooked. Not by my own planning — the show was..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Butch Camp

"...in a world of crass, boisterous breeders. Grabowski is hooked on the notion of true love yet disdainful of..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Shots

"...distance, such emotional exhaustion, these barbs might not have hooked as bloodily: "Fucked up people. Bad attitude. Schizo friends...."

May 2, 1997 Music Feature

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