What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...Saturday evening, September 4, magician turned sitcom star (and former Austinite)..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...even if he is an aficionado, one for whom the beat and the noise and fury was All, punk..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM: A View From the St. James Hotel

The St. James: It's an infirmary, it's a morgue, and it's a hotel where we each share a room with the dead

"...When Blind Willie McTell sings that, I don't know if the..."

May 18, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Beacon Blues

Since 1970 at the One Knite, Jimmie Vaughan's worn the smile of a blues savior

"...The One Knite was an oasis of soul. The room..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Jackie Venson Strips Off Her Blues Band and Becomes Her Own "DJ"

Austin's reigning Best Guitarist scales the ladder to the roof

"...Jackie Venson intersperses casual munching, humorous sarcasm, and smacking her hand on..."

July 26, 2019 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Off the Record

Sign of the Times: Emo's partners with Antone's as the Cactus Cafe's iconic years draw to a close and Daytrotter moves to town

"...Buckskin Stallion Blues..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

A Double Shot of Wry

Author Neal Barrett, Jr.

"...by Kenny Braun Neal Barrett, Jr. lives and works in a purple house. A very purple house. And he..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Books Feature by Mike Shea

The Drifter

Mike Flanigin's accidental (and all-star) organ-grinding

"...Who's Mike Flanigin? Singer Kat Edmonson, executive producer of Flanigin's The Drifter,..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

Adventures with Charlie (Faye) and Up Close with Eric Johnson

"...to be considered for a Grammy," says Will Sheff, the day after being nominated for Best Album Notes for..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Year That Slipped Away

The 6,000 Albums of 1995

"...I dreamt that Mick Jagger died. I was, pardon the pun, shattered. I couldn't believe it, and I spent..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Music Feature

Readings From the Fringe

"...Mystery and science fiction sometimes go hand in hand. They've spent a lot of time together in..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Books Review by Mike Shea

311 Story in Error

"..."...The 311 club, which the Austin Police department says may..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column

'The Territory' Schedule

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...The Territory airs Wednesdays on PBS at 10:30pm, beginning Feb...."

Feb. 1, 2002 Screens Column

Montana Blues

Great-grandmother Marie died of a broken heart in Billings, Mont.

"...Last we heard from great-grandmother Marie, she was running a whorehouse in Billings, Mont...."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Latin Flare

2002-03 AMA Band of the Year winners Del Castillo ride a wave of Latinization.

"...When Del Castillo won Band of the Year at this year's Austin Music Awards, no..."

April 11, 2003 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Wiz

The whole ROYGBIV takes center stage in Austin Community College's brightly colored and dazzlingly designed Oz musical

"...Austin Community College Mainstage Theater, 1212 Rio Grande, 512/223-3245 www.austincc.edu/drama..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

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

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Defiant Deviant

The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more

"...The Takashi Miike Drinking Game goes something like this: one..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Ac/dc, the Poor

"...Erwin Center, Friday 26 Once upon a time, back in..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Music Feature

Wade in the Water

Geto Boy rap icon keeps Austin in 'Checks & Balances'

"...sole black, one-eyed midget. Gordie Johnson didn't need a reminder...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Are We All Ghosts in the Machine?

Rodney Ascher explores simulation theory in A Glitch in the Matrix

"...A few hundred days into the most digitized era of our lives, and it's..."

Feb. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Dancing at the Revolution With the Radio On!

Louis Black recalls the joys of driving around and falling in love with pop songs

"...In these politically dark times, writing about what brings us..."

June 16, 2017 Column by Louis Black

God Save the Queenie

Duke Ellington's almost lost opera of a Harlem beautician gets rescued and a makeover

"...Leave it to the Duke to put the "opera" in "beauty operator."..."

April 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Barreling down the Big State Festival and going to 11 with the Paul Green School of Rock Music

"...Put in terms of the Fox Sunday night lineup, the inaugural..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...It was the height of spring, mid-May, and already hot. The old..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Whirled of Sound

Tracking down Rob Halverson and Robinson Ear's Little Whirled of Sound.

"...Rob Halverson is something of a mad scientist. Positioned in front of a..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

A Joycean Riff of Race

Juneteenth

"...Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is probably the most important and influential American..."

June 18, 1999 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Mind the Bullock

"...Re: Robert Bryce's article about Bob Bullock ["The Last Don," Vol. 16, No. 22]...."

March 28, 1997 Column

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...Second, Taylor, 512/352-6206 Mon-Thu, 9am-8pm; Fri, 9am-5pm; Sat, 9am-'til they run outta food...."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

'Honeydripper' Blues

Next-generation Austin bluesman Gary Clark Jr. relives 1950 with John Sayles' big-screen blues, Honeydripper

"...presented Gary Clark Jr. with a plaque for Best Blues Band at the 2006-07 Austin Music Awards, the three..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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