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"...Revolutionary Girl Utena is the best anime of all time. I’ll accept arguments otherwise –..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Solitary at 11, Dead at 16: One Kid’s Path to Adult Prison

Texas may pass a bill that would put more teenagers in prison with adults

"...a chance, and only if they have enough money to pay for it. There is no voicemail. You either..."

May 23, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Standing Next to a Mountain

Examining the 3-CD Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble box set.

"...box set laid in front of them, the wood-grain photo on its hardcover jacket blending with the outdoor furniture..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Wanna Be a Paperback Writer

Perusing the Texas Book Festival Panels

"...the Texas Book Festival sponsored some 21 panels whose topics spanned from the mildly titillating (Footnotes) to the wildly..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Books Feature

It's the Thoughts That Count

Franzen after the frenzy

"...and Susan Sontag are a few names that come to mind -- are also part of an endangered American..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Russell Cobb

Bedside Manner: Hide the Schlock!

Depressing real stuff and trashy TV

"...Preparing to write my version of the Bedside Manner, I came..."

Feb. 20, 2011 Books Post by Jordan Smith

Letters @ 3AM

Samuel Adams gave Americans a vocabulary both for revolution and for the building of a republic

"...He didn't brew beer – that is, not enthusiastically and not for long...."

July 4, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Demagoguery Disguised as Documentary

What is the difference between Dinesh D'Souza and Michael Moore?

"...The following was originally written as a 500-word introduction to my review of Dinesh D'Souza’s new movie America: Imagine..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Louis Black

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...In 2017, Sarah Jarosz became the second recipient of the FreshGrass Composition Commission, a..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"...of Aztlan is contestable. Some say this ancestral homeland to the Aztec people is an imaginary place, while others..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

On Writers and Con Men

James Magnuson's roman à clef about a creative writing program in Texas is in many ways a loving tribute to James Michener

"...like a far cry from Magnuson's current job as director of the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers,..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Educators Hate It, So Why Is Texas Keeping the STAAR Test Alive?

Behind efforts to eliminate the state test that stresses kids out and shuts schools down

"...and principals. Austin state representative Gina Hinojosa has a story she tells to demonstrate her feelings about STAAR...."

May 23, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Friday

A Margo Price keynote, Koffee's evolution, & Obongjayar's rising star

"...With a day of official festing still to come, Friday wrapped a number of South by Southwest..."

March 18, 2023 SXSW Post by Abby Johnston

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...Grown Up All Wrong by Robert Christgau Harvard University Press, $29.95 hard Pop culture aesthete/connoisseur..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes

"...a collection of cinematic madeleines, you couldn't get a better title than Don't You Forget About Me. Then again,..."

July 20, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Postmarks

A point-counterpoint on Long Park development; Austin Music Network's bad move; and a call for a car-free council member.

"...at the park is down. This may have something to do with the fact that the septic system for..."

April 7, 2000 Column

The News From Here

"...Ross McElwee is a "personal" documentary maker, that self-described obsessed guy with a camera on his shoulder, who..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Of Mercy and Mississippi

On the Bookshelf

"...The first novel by Houston writer Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy (Farrar Straus..."

July 18, 1997 Books Review

Making Lists

"...serious writer Texas has produced." -- Katherine Anne Porter to Winston Bode in The Texas Observer, October 31, 1958...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Texas Tropes

Is Don Graham Really Texas' Literary Curmudgeon?

"...photograph by John Anderson..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...It was one of those days when Dagoberto Gilb was about to start a scandal, and he..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...Reviews by: Jim Hightower | D. Marion Wilkinson | Jan Grape | Tom..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...1995. It wasn't the best year in book publishing: Martin Amis - genius or..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

In Person

Roger Gathman, Belinda Acosta, and Maria Hong recap three of the Texas Book Festival's finest panels.

"...Saturday, Nov. 16, Auditorium Capitol Extension Room E1.004..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

In Person

Roger Gathman, Belinda Acosta, and Maria Hong recap three of the Texas Book Festival's finest panels.

"...Saturday, Nov. 16, Auditorium Capitol Extension Room E1.004..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Rock This Way

The Semi-Annual, Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Rock & Roll Books Section

"...Catherine Denueve. Une object d'arte. She should be in the Louvre; if she had been one of..."

March 20, 1998 Books Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...To your average American, even if he is an aficionado,..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...cold days, alone with his dachshund Watty. He wanted to visit for a final time certain cherished places of..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half of the Nineties..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Texas Platters

"...DANIEL JOHNSTON..."

June 5, 1998 Music Review

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