Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...he was a barbed thorn in the government's side, outspoken about the hypocrisy, theft, and violence that has plagued..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...trying to subvert the system but you brought it out of us. Every one of our sketches has an..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...our 12-Step programs as a sustaining member. The remark about his heavy drinking was just a little uncalled for!..."

June 30, 2000 Column

One Man Talking

In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.

"...memory. "So I got up and told a story about how my family came to visit me when I..."

March 31, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.

"...in the Circle C stories? Have they even driven out into that area to see what's going on? Do..."

March 31, 2000 Column

A Place of Her Own

In her two short story collections, Lasting Attachments and Crossing Shattuck Bridge, Annette Sanford can be laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, and tragic, sometimes in the same breath. But she couldn't do it if she lived in the city. The country is indelibly her metier.

"...have been persuaded to transform Ganado, Texas, her little outpost of a town 90 miles southwest of Houston, into..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Book Reviews

My Grandfather's Finger

"...of their children and closest friends, are no longer living." Swfit tickles and is tickled, though, by displaying Camp..."

May 21, 1999 Books Review

Mule Conversations

"...at Austin's Paramount Theatre two weeks later for his South by Southwest performance, and is clean-shaven except for a..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Postmarks

"...developer Robert Knight said in the Waller Creek article about the Austin Convention Center ["All That Glitters," Vol. 18,..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Column

The News From Here

"...autobiography. For instance, we were there, feeling a bit out-of-place perhaps, as he dated his way through his Southern..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dancing About Architecture

Arista out of Austin?

"...U.S. arm of the Latin division." As Randle points out, most major labels have yet to tap into the..."

April 17, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

"...While "Lighten Up It's Christmas" won't make you laugh out loud like "Help, I'm White and I Can't Get..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Review

A Life of Destinations

"...illustration by Jason Stout For years I thought he was taller than I...."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Elvis Lives!

Detective and Then Some...

"...rote (Voodoo River) and unexceptional (Sunset Express). This time out, he delivers the goods in his best-crafted thriller to..."

July 25, 1997 Books Feature

Ticket to Ride

The Daytrippers' Filmmaker Greg Mottola

"...is meaningless, since it apparently pertains to almost every living human (and probably should be expelled from the English..."

April 25, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rocky Mountain High

Austin Brewers at the Great American Beer Festival

"...candy store. "Damn, these things are exciting. I'm just about jet-lagged out, and I don't even care." Fresh off..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

The Things You Leave Behind

"...both Little Black Sambo and Br'er Rabbit? And what about my collection of yellow pitchers and my weird aluminum..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Reasonably Offensive

Two civil suits against live music venues downtown call into question Austin's sound ordinance.

"...have great stereo equipment. Then he tried to drown out the noise coming from one of his neighbors...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

There Are No Guidelines

The Sixth Street Sound Ordinance

"...Steamboat's Danny Crooks leans over a speaker blaring music out over Sixth Street. photograph by Jana Birchum It wasn't..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...sense of the word. Kidron's (Used People) latest film outdrags, outdresses, and generally outdoes last year's Australian hit about..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...After the shockingly on-target coitus during which the practiced youth assuages his young lover's fears with hollow promises of..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...by sheer, dumb luck, and when they leave your mouth hanging open, they're the very definition of South by..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...saving every penny to try to get his family out of the projects and away to a better place,..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Strange but True

Jad Fair making art out in Manor with monsters, aliens, and dead dogs

"...sit and gossip. It looks like a UFO straight out of Plan 9 From Outer Space has landed in..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...and any other sort of rock & roll kabuki accouterments, PZ is cartoon punk for a SXSW Saturday night...."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

The Natural

"...Minutemen's lead singer used to play in his seminal Southern California punk rock trio prior to his death in..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...unspooled lyricism, and farcical aliases; among all the silly accouterments that gush forth when the name Beefheart is evoked,..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Where's the Party?

"...before the audition. It was the way you found out whether you were ready to go on a real..."

May 21, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Sxsw

"...if there are over 700 bands playing this year's South by Southwest conference? You are only one person, with..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

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