Review: Rapper Billy Woods Has the Most Intense Lyrics at an Extreme Music Festival

His lines read like a poetry book bound in human flesh

"...Three minutes later, many of the several hundred fans were shouting a hook: “Cannibal tours, they came..."

May 14, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...couldn't seem to return with more than a few hundred dollars. Between exhaustion and defeat, the band dissolved in..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn

Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth

"...Ba Yah' – we had community folks, a couple hundred folks in the conference room in this building we..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Bruno Dumont France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Same as It Ever Was

Massacres, mass shootings, lynchings, and other forms of social interaction

"...miners decided to organize themselves near Hazleton, Pa. Several hundred unarmed miners were fired on by an armed sheriff's..."

June 24, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: I Am Trump, You Are Trump

The dangerous cancer of a charismatic populist demagogue leader

"...to their constituency is remarkably intimate. Offering profound maverick visions, when they encounter the purposefully difficult legislative process they..."

June 3, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Is the Hideout’s Improvised Play Festival Just Too Much to Deal With?

Three nights of shows from across the city, the nation, and … London?

"...in & you’re laid out on the couch with visions of Del Close’s skull dancing behind your twitching eyelids...."

April 14, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Hip-Hop at Home With the Armadillo

Weird City Hip-Hop takes another strike, but Austin City Limits hits a home run in landing Kendrick Lamar taping

"..."Hearing him talk – his visions, his ideas, what he wanted to do for the..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 3am: Oligarchy Blues

Without fair elections and a viable legislative process at federal and state levels, the republic no longer exists

"...do some good. But liberals of old had lefty visions that changed society's structure – FDR's New Deal, Harry..."

June 27, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

One-Two Punch

Gene Luen Yang's 'Boxers' and 'Saints' duo takes on the Boxer Rebellion

"...was killed during the Boxer Rebellion, and then a hundred years later, he was canonized. As far as I..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview: Austin in the House

"...Hundred Visions (Sun., Orange stage, 11:50am) Intricate guitars, funk back-beats, and..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Seeing Is Believing

'The Rep' charts the slow death of cinema-going

"...projection systems run by servers that can cost a hundred thousand dollars apiece. (These servers have a tendency to..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Toros Lose Nail-Biter but Remain Best in D-League

Austin holds best-ever NBDL record!

"...the clock as Austin marches toward the playoffs with visions of a championship dancing suggestively in our heads...."

Jan. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

Jerry's Kids

A new generation dances Jerome Robbins' 'ballet in sneakers' to the big screen

"...is impossible, we generally don't listen. Not the first hundred times, anyway. NY Export: Opus Jazz..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...to be close kin to the most profoundly warped visions of the surrealists and the dadaists. It makes the..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Rapture: A Novel

Given the rather apocalyptic summer we're having, it's hard not to appreciate the opening lines of this eco-disaster thriller: "June seemed to last for a thousand years"

"...years. The temperature was merciless: ninety-eight, ninety-nine, then a hundred in the shade. It was heat to die in,..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Books Review by Nora Ankrum

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...dance and theatre works, soundtracks for films – several hundred over the past decade, and they keep coming. This..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Toros Tryouts: Day One, Part Two

"...distinguish oneself in a situation like this: nearly a hundred guys vying for four spots? Three coaches? One day..."

Oct. 22, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Summer of Solo Shows: The Second Wave

In Austin theatre, solo shows sometimes come in waves, as in the second half of August, which has four one-person theatrical vehicles opening the same weekend

"...but sometimes they just come in waves, like those hundred-degree thermometer-busters in the dog days. July saw a trio..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Idiotic Neo-Leftist Mortal Coward

"...use in your cynical prose to display True American Visions: Right Wing Poetry, I challenge you to directly address..."

Jan. 30, 2006 Postmarks

Sparking a Prairie Fire: Cindy Sheehan at City Hall

The founder of Camp Casey and her "Bring Them Home Now" Tour arrives to a big Austin welcome

"...small battalion of Austin police, the ranks of several hundred protesters stretched more than three city blocks as they..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...motivated by a wild urgency to express their unique visions. Their work was hailed for its rawness and purity...."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Nukes Are Back!

The Bush administration plans for the next (little) nuclear wars

"...aplomb, between high heels and a silver tiara. Several hundred conferees are mingling and mixing over cocktails and hors..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Rasputin, War, Radiation, and Divorce

The holidays have never been happier.

"...-- or in this case, an art book. One hundred explosive black-and-white and full-color photographs of America's favorite megaton..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Books Feature by Taylor Holland

Letters at 3AM

The gargoyles guarding the great cathedrals are a part of religion, a part of humanity, even a part of God. You come to be redeemed, but it's possible you'll be devoured.

"...repulsed every English attempt to capture it during the Hundred Years War. They were so important ... yet we..."

May 3, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...For the couple hundred people assembled at a nightclub in the spring of..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

The Road to Rail

Can light rail in Austin work well with Smart Growth?

"...be surrounded (and surmounted) by a 43-story office tower, hundreds of apartments, and retail, including the inevitable arthouse theatre...."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...worm swallowing. "Mess-kins say eatin' the worm'll give you visions," his ex-con rodeo rider Wes Hightower says, repeating a..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Playing on the Past

"...who worked on early games obviously followed their own visions. Chris Crawford had a strong interest in linguistics, and..."

June 11, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

Picks to Snicker

Rich Man, Poor Man, Funny Man, Stephen Root

"...which he's involved. He speaks enthusiastically about the creative visions driving both shows, the pleasure of the work, and..."

April 2, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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