Shoot Out the Lights

Bare buzz, bare butts: The Bright Light Social Hour shakes it

"...They're a handsome bunch, jazzed to be playing this Friday night in January, though..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...Zipper" b/w "Clock Wise," an instrumental torrent of psychotic free-jazz precision and abrasive surf velocity. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...to India and back, I had studied ballet, tap, jazz, and Kathak, a form of dance from Northern India...."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

"...strapless white evening gown, a blond wig, and a cigarette-girl-type box on which he set some microphones. Well, that..."

July 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lizzy Wetzel, Bradley Brown & Edward Setina: Agent on the Road

This first part of the artist exchange between Dallas' Road Agent Gallery and Austin's Art Palace brings a stylistically different perspective to our town

"...rolled advertisements within gel capsules; a few shelves hold cigarette packaging, gum, and its packaging reconstructed into a pack..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

Thursday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...for the line, "I'm more in love with this cigarette than I'll ever be with you." – Michael Bertin..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Medicine Man

Up a Tree With Greg Ashley

"...Greg Ashley sits across the table smoking a cigarette...."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Smoking Ban Kicks Off as Katrina Kicks In

Cigarettes are out at Austin’s clubs, but New Orleans musicians could be in

"...Club to catch part of a set by the jazz band White Ghost Shivers. "Having no [smoking] problems today..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...cut property taxes and replace them with sales taxes, cigarette taxes, and a more inclusive franchise tax. That's just..."

July 8, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Wammo / Shorty Long

"...raunchy rawk are combined throughout with unique instrumentation, like cigarette-sized amplifiers and cellos driving Marshall stacks, both to great..."

April 15, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch

Creative Capital?

In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.

"...deli, a rock keyboardist wheeling boxes of beer, a jazz drummer picking up a paycheck, and a visual artist..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael Erard

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana can..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Column

Victrola

Texas Platters

"...relationship. Both songs make good use of the singer's light-jazz vocals, which blow smoky rather than torchy, cool rather..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Short Third-Degree Sessions

Jesse Sublett gets personal with four of Bouchercon 2002's featured authors.

"...AC: You play baritone saxophone and you're addicted to jazz. How does that relate to your writing?..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Insider: Eddie Kramer

Brief Interviews With Important People

"...in the morning, we'd have a 60-piece orchestra, a jazz group in the afternoon, and the Rolling Stones in..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Node Exit

What ails singers

"...are almost always filled with an omnipresent haze of cigarette smoke, while improper levels in the stage monitors often..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Christopher Paul Curtis

From Assembly Line to Literary Award Mill

"...spend the time getting a Coke or smoking a cigarette. But not Curtis -- he used his time to..."

April 7, 2000 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Postmarks

Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...article on the Blue Noise Band ["Picks to Click: Jazz Out the Door," March 3]. From a musical critique,..."

March 17, 2000 Column

Don't Ash, Don't Tell

The city’s smoking ordinance is rather lax in bars and restaurants, but hardly anyone’s complaining

"...on. Zuliani asked the couple to put out their cigarettes, but it wasn't enough to free him of a..."

Oct. 8, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

Dancing About Architecture

"...temptation Graham must've had to dump two tons of cigarette butts on France's lawn! My guess is that the..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live Shots

"...No one in the audience tried to sneak a cigarette and there was enough tartan visible in the seats..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Feature

A Word From Our Sponsor

Jingles All the Way

"...musical axioms that defined the "Winston tastes good/Like a cigarette should" era. "The word `jingle' is kind of a..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Postscripts

Shuttle Carnage Looms

"...health, the Chronicle devotes many full pages to lucrative cigarette ads. Profit promoting a deadly, addictive product. Really, is..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Column

The Ruta Java

Where to Go for a Cup of Joe

"...complete the menu, and an artful assortment of music (jazz, blues, opera) played inside and piped out to the..."

March 14, 1997 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Sleazy Listening

Scamping Through the Cocktail Revolution

"...or blood, sweat, and tears their respective places in jazz, country, and blues. Oh, alcohol...."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...view of the world from his obsessive collecting of jazz records to the day job he's maintained all these..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Art is a put-up-or-

"...birthday and the Beatles Anthology. The biggest news for jazz was how Lincoln Center finally admitted that America's greatest..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...performance as a man about to smoke his final cigarette is brilliant, as are the cutaways to longtime New..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...performance as a man about to smoke his final cigarette is brilliant, as are the cutaways to longtime New..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...darkness and later melt it down at the local cigarette plant and export it. All goes well until Toivo's..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

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