Letters @ 3AM

Excerpts from Cassavetes Directs, Ventura's forthcoming book about the making of the film Love Streams

"...that same material as a child plays in fresh-fallen snow, totally involved, utterly captivating. What I remembered most painfully,..."

June 8, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Blank Generation

Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'

"...script. They sent it to me, and I played Snow White and I memorized the lines and everything. When..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Record review

"...(the younger Gilmore's namesake), Harlan Howard, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, and others. Gilmore has consistently been a..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

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?

"...Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico were Johnny Depp's left and right eyeballs, or the lack thereof,..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...playing their brand of garage rock when the current Johnny-come-latelies were still in preschool. Their Pittsburgh roots have no..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Short Cuts

The tall, dark, and handsome knight returns: Adam West on the record, in Austin.

"...on such shows as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Johnny Bravo to appearing in CBS's recent Batman reunion show,..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW begins

"...on Saturday at the Texicalli Grille: Cornell Hurd Band, Johnny Bush, Don Walser, Marti Brom, Wayne Hancock, Sisters Morales,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Letters at 3AM

The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...Perhaps I would endure into January 1964, and hear Johnny Hodges play that majestic "Passion Flower" solo with Ellington..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Dancing About Architecture

Bush's balls drop.

"...in D.C. to find himself surrounded by "nothing but snow and Republicans -- two of my least favorite things."..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Letters at 3AM

Let's Get Drunk and Read Poetry

"...The Tonight Show/who imitates the Vice President/and cracks up Johnny Carson/and delays sleep for millions/of bedfellows watching between their..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

More tributes to Doug Sahm

"...Bobby Fuller, Buddy Holly, Little Jr. Parker, Lightning Hopkins, Johnny Copeland --"..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Webber; Cast: Mary Sheridan, Judson Mills, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Johnny Strong, Thom Rachford, Sandra Tucker, Victor Raider-Wexler, Geraldine Allen...."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...Phantom From Space, Man Without a Body, and The Snow Creature? Out of all of W. Lee Wilder's films,..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Dancing About Architecture

Whither Austin or: Funny, It Looks Bigger on TV

"...the MTV crew, as they shovelled tons of faux snow in the blazing Texas heat, grumbling "Why the fuck..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Bonus Tracks

"...P-Funk bottom, this four-song tape makes Jamiroquai look like Snow fronting NKOTB. They can slow jam, too, so get'cha..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Feature

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...a man by the color of his hat. From "Johnny Lonesome Come to Town," first published in 1956, to..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Closer Than You Think

"...Yep, time marches on, and as the snow and ice subsides, what's revealed isn't a frozen woolly..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Music Column

Fiddles, Not Violins

The Secret to Ray Price and San Antonio Rose

"...because he'd handled Eddy Arnold, and I think Hank Snow. But I'm talking about the big money way. Tom..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Live Shots

"...humor and stage clowning with sax man and Texan Johnny Reno (drummer Kenny Dale Johnson is also from here),..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Feature

food-o-file

"...Sauce Microbrewery and live music from Leeann Atherton & Johnny Mac, The Devils & the Dames, Erik Hokkanen &..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Arts Feature

Austin's Comic Strippers: Part of the Big Picture

Divya Srinivasan

"...like your fave sensitive teen idol - Ethan Hawke? Johnny Depp? - with a striped knit top and stocking..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature

Live Shots

The King's Singers

"...sort of divine intervention. The less cheerful guitar player's (Johnny, a Sagittarius) vocals were dead on, nailing the high..."

May 5, 1995 Music Review by Jeff Parker Knight

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