Luv Doc: She Talks Too Much

Conversation is how we flush stupidity into the open so we can kill it

"...but we have been going out for several months and she just keeps chattering away. When I talk, I..."

April 26, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Settling in but Never Settling at the Old Settler's Music Fest

Executive Director Jean Spivey looks back at three decades of roots music

"...Jean Spivey throws a 4x4 utility vehicle into gear and accelerates down the dusty path that'll soon act as..."

April 12, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Richard Stanley, Cinema's Lost Soul

Director on new documentary about the Dr. Moreau disaster

"...His debut feature, Hardware, is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk skullshock: and while sophomore endeavor Dust Devil suffered a miserable re-editing..."

Feb. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Society Pages

Reading the next chapter of the Austin Film Society's playbook

"...He said, "I always felt like I was in debt to AFS for everything they had done for me."..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Playback: The Boxing Lesson Goes Rambo

Boxing Lesson's not afraid of 'Big Hits'

"...frontman for the local psychedelic synth-rock trio. When he and keyboardist Jaylinn Davidson began writing the band's second LP..."

May 10, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 3AM: A Century Since 'The Water Nymph'

On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand

"...1912: an important date in the history of cinema and the cultural heritage of America...."

Sept. 21, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'

"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America

"...pans west to reveal a not-yet-gigantic university, its tower, and a few buildings along the Drag. The rest is..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

It's Nice To Car Share

The more hands on the wheel, the merrier

"...a solid tank of petrochemical putrefaction, just to witness and shake my head at the rape, pillage, havoc, and..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy

Consequences of perception

"...To get up and take another shot..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Louis Black

A Capitol Idea? The Capitol Complex Meets the Downtown Austin Plan.

Texas Facilities Commission takes another look at Capitol redevelopment

"...Plan. Today a bleak government monoculture of office buildings and parking garages – with nary a coffee shop or..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Slanted & Enchanted

Matador Records magnate Gerard Cosloy turns the 'live music capital' into a Casual Victim Pile

"...the communal support that surfaced in its wake. He and his roommate lost everything, including a pet ferret and..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Eye of the Media Storm

On the block, the Statesman fiddles while the industry burns

"...He's only been on the job for five months, and the paper has been for sale the entire time,..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Papa Brasilia

Nelson Pereira dos Santos Retrospective

"...It's always a dicey proposition, mixing film and politics – a tightrope act, a thin wire separating..."

April 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Naked City

"...Bradley transferred assets to the [Lazarus Exempt] Trust ... and concealed his secret ownership interest in those assets with..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...As usual, this president is dead certain, and dead wrong. What he seeks is war without limits..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature

Letters @ 3AM

The widespread and richly deserved condemnation of President Bush's new Iraq "plan" has been high on rhetoric and low on specificity

"...The widespread and richly deserved condemnation of President Bush's new Iraq "plan"..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

School Days

"...Austin Police Academy instructor Sgt. Fred Fletcher was wiry and energetic with dark eyes and high cheekbones. He spoke..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...4's controversial site-selection in the Cortaña tract of Balcones Canyonlands Preserve. Among other things, the whistle-blower-fueled report concludes a..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the screw-the-rich rhetoric of the McMansion proponents [Best New and Potentially Sexy Zoning Ordinance in Austin, "Best of Austin,"..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond.

"...policy. … I think by any … measurement, any standard you apply to this, we're not winning." – Sen...."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM

As the semester begins, I present my high school seniors with the words of our great American authors and hope they provide a road map or the bread crumbs that can lead them through the journey of their lives

"...Stephen Crane ... his 1898 story The Open Boat, and how its first sentence about the sky keyed the..."

May 13, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The following examples of government mismanagement ought to be April Fools' jokes, but they're not

"...That's not an April Fools' joke. And it's not the only fundamental shift. Something else has..."

April 1, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letter at 3AM

Donating money to causes is fine and necessary, but it doesn't get you off the hook; active human energy is what generates change. Bite off a chunk of trouble for yourself. There is no hope or solution without you.

"...There's a lot of fear going around, and with good reason. And a lot of paralysis –..."

March 18, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin @ Large: Wheels Down

The Great Big Mueller Deal finally hits the runway

"...it will still be warm from the copy machine, and the council will be asked to vote on it..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Hard Luck in Heritage Heights

Renters in Eastside housing project feel misled, misused by the city.

"...March 1994 with a vision of home ownership. She and her four children were the first people to live..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Jessica Chapman

Page Two

The Republican right's hypocritical rhetoric machine has become so dazzling and effective it can only be viewed as (highly successful) conceptual art.

"...as art: a dazzling combination of conceptual, surrealist, Dada, and impressionist ideas with nary a nod to realism. (Ironically,..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Let Them Entertain You

The story of Austin Musical Theatre is itself a musical, complete with kids-with-a-dream beginnings, against-all-odds successes, and nail-chewing jams. Well, now comes the big-belting, high-kicking, pull-out-the-stops showstopper: a revue revisiting AMT's greatest song-and-dance numbers, Celebrate Austin Musical Theatre.

"...OK, we're deep into the second act, and we need that rock-'em, sock-'em number that electrifies the..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...which forecasts the need for a second terminal building and other expensive enhancements that look a little daunting given..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Enron's Masters of the Universe

A Conversation with Robert Bryce

"...key event in the last four years of Enron's life as a company occurred in late 1996, when former..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Beveridge Man

How a little Austin distillery caught the attention of worldwide vodka drinkers.

"...suits at Smirnoff or Absolut or Stoli sitting back and laughing over the prospect. 'Texas vodka? Who the hell..."

April 19, 2002 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

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