Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...As Rag co-founder Jeff Nightbyrd puts it, "It was very anarchistic back then."..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...was more or less living at the paper, and Jeff Whittington had a job at a television station as..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...Observer, The Austin Sun, The Rag, Free & Easy, Jeff Nightbyrd, Michael Ventura, Dave Moriaty, Sara Clark, Ginger Varney,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Abandoning the Nest

Hurt by the state's inadequate incentives program, Texas film crews take flight

"...Jeff Nightbyrd glimpsed the film industry's Louisiana future and opened..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Look Ma, No Hands!

How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.

"...an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) organizer named Jeff Shero, was the very same man who approved of..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Chapter 3: Crazy Weekly

September 1988-August 1991

"...in front of the hotel that year and saw Jefferson Holt, REM's manager. "What are you doing?" Tony asked...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Back Door Man

A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence

"...were hanging out one day and [Austin Sun editor] Jeff Nightbyrd drove up in a Mercury and [Sun publisher]..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Roadie

The shot about midway through 'Roadie' that travels from her sparkling shoes slowly up to her beaming face – that's Margaret Moser.

"...at 3AM: 'Roadie': 30 Years Later," March 26, 2010). Jeff Nightbyrd landed a job as location manager. Ginger Varney..."

March 2, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...the University of Texas at Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd, who, along with proto-feminist Casey Hayden, were..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: The Sum Is Greater Than the Whole of Its Parts

Thirty-five years later, only who's doing the clutching has changed

"...The biweekly publication bore radical chic bloodlines in Editor Jeff Nightbyrd, who'd been deposed by feminists as editor of..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...Jeff Nightbyrd was known as Jeff Shero in the Sixties,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung

Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum

"...Sun editor and instigator Jeff Nightbyrd asked, "Can you write?"..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Neighborly Concern

As the Texas film industry tries to keep up with New Mexico's and Louisiana's, the Lege approves an incentive program tall on talk but short on funding sources

"...But for now, folks are flocking. Occasional Chronicle contributor Jeff Nightbyrd recently opened a New Orleans branch of his..."

June 3, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Short Cuts

News and events of interest to local filmmakers.

"...Landmark's Dobie Theatre. Garvy, along with longtime Austin activists Jeff Nightbyrd, Alice Embree, and Robert Pardun, will be in..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Framed

"...About 20 of the staff (including my then-editor Jeff Nightbyrd, columnist Michael Ventura, and sportswriter Bigboy Medlin) went..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill

Hollywood is an electric dragon

"...sunken Austin Sun – Ginger Varney, James BigBoy Medlin, Jeff Nightbyrd, and me. We'd come to work the Los..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Friends and Family Gather to Honor Activist Nadine Eckhardt

Eulogies and memories at Saengerrunde Hall

"...husbands (and other dalliances), “I was attracted to weirdness.” Jeff Nightbyrd, who arrived late and still wearing hospital wristbands..."

Jan. 23, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Family and Friends Honor Activist/Writer Nadine Eckhardt

Farewell to the Duchess of Palms

"...former Texas State Representative Curtis Graves, Austin Sun Founder Jeff Nightbyrd, and Susan Walker...."

Jan. 14, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: A Long Goodbye

In the first of four parting columns, Michael Ventura announces his decision to end his bieweekly column

"...At The Austin Sun: Jeff Nightbyrd, who gave me my start – and Paula..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Inner Sanctums, Outer Orbits

The intertwined legacies of indie music and the alternative press

"...Ventura, Big Boy Medlin, Margaret Moser, Ginger Varney, and Jeff Nightbyrd...."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: 'Roadie': 30 Years Later

The screenwriter of Roadie visits his younger, more serious self

"...with our friends. Ginger Varney, Ray Benson, Margaret Moser, Jeff Nightbyrd, Katherine Lyons, James Lewis (who went by "Little..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Film News

The Legislature's $20 million in proposed incentives to lure more film projects to Texas is emphasizing jobs and aiming to boost rural areas as well as larger cities like Austin; plus, Wes Anderson's next movie

"...highlighted recently when one of Austin's largest talent agencies, Jeff Nightbyrd's Acclaim, opened a New Orleans office. Film folk..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Groover's Paradise

Those were the days …

"...as Austin Sun staffers Bigboy Medlin, Michael Ventura, and Jeff Nightbyrd looked on. The jukebox with Roky Erickson and..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Politics

"...the mayor endorse a convicted drug dealer," quipped writer/activist/entrepreneur Jeff Nightbyrd...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Married to the Mob

"...before SXSW '88, I'd heard former Austin Sun publisher Jeff Nightbyrd talking to Louis about a hot new writer..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...male-to-female transsexual for the old Austin Sun, for which Jeff 'Nightbyrd' stiffed me." In graduate school at UT, Bird..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...May 1976, I was single again. The week before Jeff Nightbyrd hired me at the Austin Sun to clean..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

Whither downtown shopping?

"...affair attracting the likes of Austin-expatriate designer Liv Wildz, Jeff Nightbyrd and Jimmy Bruch of Acclaim Modeling Agency, Jeanette..."

July 21, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Slow Burn

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

"...be the subject of teach-ins," former Vietnam protest leader Jeff Nightbyrd of Austin told me a couple of years..."

May 2, 1997 Screens Feature by Dick J. Reavis

Place 2 Contribution & Expenditure Reports

"...prospect Eliza May, $50; Bishop John McCarthy, $25; journalist/raconteur Jeff Nightbyrd, $100; Mexic-Arte curator Sylvia Orozco, $25; UT administrator..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature

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