Estate Sale Roundup: May 8-11

So many options, so little time.

"...Jim & Rhoda Burkett Sale Gold and silver jewelry, large..."

May 8, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Michael Madsen, Last of the Warrior Poets

Mr. Blonde on poetry, hats, and 'Reservoir Dogs'

"...new volume called Expecting Rain, with a forward by Jim Morrison's biographer Jerry Hopkins. Madsen chuckled. "I think I..."

Dec. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Portraits of Presidential Losers All Over the Walls

SVT Gallery goes national with its newest exhibition

"...in pixels, on paper, on canvas, on wood, on sheets of plastic, in a diversity of styles sufficient to..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

On 'Staplegate'

"...when I was no longer able to pull single sheets out to use it. But it honestly never occurred..."

March 26, 2012 Postmarks

Emily Hagins' Unsucky Movie Career

Austin's zombie girl taps into vamps for her third feature

"...walls backgrounding Hagins are covered with readily identifiable movie one-sheets – Sin City, Team America: World Police, Land of..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Coming to America

Native Nigerian filmmaker Joy Dickson on getting the job done

"...Johnson was recommended to me by a casting agent. Jim Iyake, who was playing the womanizer, is well-known all..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: And So It Begins

International spectacles of darkness and light

"...varied lineup includes the Texas Sheiks with Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Bruce Hughes, Cindy Cashdollar, and Johnny Nicholas; Will..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

"...cross-legged atop a bed of brown and gold silk sheets in his living room. Unpacked boxes surround him, only..."

July 24, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Not So Cool

Austin's 2009 Climate Protection Program update confirms progress on energy – but reflects a feeble citywide effort

"...barely fleshed out. It now fits on two double-sided sheets, and it's still just a list of goals and..."

June 19, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Several vignettes combine to create a between-the-sheets peek at black love and sexuality...."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Travis Co. Jail Immigration Fracas Hits Commissioners Court

County officials claim they never dreamed jail arrangement with feds would cause such a fuss

"...agents have visited the jail daily, to check booking sheets for inmates who self-report that they were not born..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Dreamsville

16 Magazine and the birth of music journalism

"...first issue resembles one of those 1950s Hollywood scandal sheets minus the dirt. Plenty of Elvis coverage, snaps of..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TCB

TCB scales the Wall of Sound festival at Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater

"...their post-SXSW tour (and recording new songs with Spoon's Jim Eno), What Made Milwaukee Famous was as bright and..."

April 14, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Liquid Assets

Texas wines with a little something extra

"...tasting, I'd also offer a set of preprinted tasting sheets with scoring areas for looks, aromas, flavors, and overall..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Food Column

People Get Ready

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

"...reforms since Reconstruction. Poll taxes and other vestiges of Jim Crow law crumbled overnight, leaving segregationists terrified they'd face..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Kevin Phinney

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...can be seen in photos, like ladders and 4-by-8 sheets of plywood – has estimated that it rises at..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two

Prelude to a column on cinematographer Haskell Wexler – by way of defending the ideological, political, and philosophical passions of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi against the intellectual bankruptcy of most current film criticism

"...Carlson, filmmaker Michele Stephenson, and longtime media activist Lillian Jiménez in a discussion of political filmmaking. This reception was..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...get inside, and you see all the framed Japanese one-sheets from Rodriguez's back catalog, the props that dominate every..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

This week: Burnt Orange, Blood Shots, and 'Slacker'; plus, Travis the Dancin' Fool

"...on this final show, viewers can catch footage of Jim Henson on The Orson Welles Show and Ed McMahon..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...Brown. Richard Wright. Morris. Tartt. Thomas Harris. Ellen Gilchrist. Jim Harrison. Richard Ford. Even Fat Possum Records -- which,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Image-Maker

Former Chronicle "Cover Master" and legendary tattoo artist Michael Malone's aka Rollo Banks' career has always on been in ink; now it's on paper.

"...making tattoo machines and drawing "flash," the name for sheets of tattoo design, as it was on his tattoos...."

Dec. 13, 2002 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

The Smell of Success

Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.

"...Lindsey Kuhn and dozens more in between: Micael Priest, Jim Franklin, Kerry Awn. How could it have happened? What..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Hottest Commodity

Once green with envy, Texas now joins New Mexico in championing the chile … just in time for the 12th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival!

"...three-pound sampler bags at the Market, along with information sheets and recipes gathered from the best local chile cooks...."

Aug. 23, 2002 Food Feature by Sandy Szwarc

Naked City

"...sponsor the "Soul of the City" concert featuring musicians Jimmy LaFave, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Slaid Cleaves. The celebration..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...around an entertainment rag called Rumours, where I met Jim Shahin, but it went under not long after. In..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Hightower Lowdown

The Army cares about residents near its waste incinerator, the post office is watching you, and Americans are overworked.

"...Guess what the protective equipment is? Sheets of plastic and a big ol' roll of duct..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Killer Reputation

Murders from Austin's not quite forgotten past

"...of Burt's crime. A bloody hatchet lay alongside blankets, sheets, and clothing sopped in blood and spattered with brains...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...of Bible verses to memorize, with corresponding readings and worksheets with cartoon illustrations. The same exercises, though not necessarily..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

At the Drive-In, Emo's, October 9

"...the band had played their first song, actually, guitarist Jim Ward exhorting the crowd to keep the moshing and..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Dancing About Architecture

Jump on It skips a beat but keeps on keepin' on; Solid Gold 40 gives up the ghost.

"...UK, to be called Love Ways. Daniel and drummer Jim Eno recorded the material at Eno's home (using Zarbo's..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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