ACL Review: Tameca Jones

Native Austin soul singer brings some Sunday to Friday

"...hawk of wild curls, local soul singer Tameca Jones made a grand entrance...."

Oct. 10, 2015 Music Post by Neph Basedow

Counterculture Time Capsule

Forty years later, Les Blank's Leon Russell rock doc sees the light of day

"...folk music collector/scholars John and Alan Lomax. Though he made all kinds of documentaries, Blank's music films are deep,..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Lars Nilsen

The Hightower Report

Do-nothing Congress takes a vacation

"...us a five-week break from the spectacle of right-wing mad dogs in the House yapping, foaming at the mouth,..."

Aug. 1, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Thorn in My Pride

The Black Crowes take the Moody Theater back to 1970

"...for his work on the deluxe edition of Derek & Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. That meant..."

Sept. 30, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

(Tom) Petty Fest

‘Southern Accents’ pack the Mohawk

"...James, and Slowtrain, then March’s replay of Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen gathered Nakia, Daniel James, some Band..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Column Confirms Need for Death Penalty

"...system, does life imprisonment make sense? Police will shoot mad dogs on sight, so why should this be any..."

Jan. 28, 2013 Postmarks

A Death Row Inmate's 'Last 40 Miles'

Fundraising party and trailer debut to happen Wednesday night

"...silent auction to live music from alt-country rockers These Mad Dogs of Glory and aggressive folkies Hello Wheels...."

Dec. 11, 2012 Screens Post by Eli Black

Midnight in Harlem

Tedeschi Trucks Band Live Shot

"...Neil’s dopamine classic “Everybody’s Talkin’” and closing in an R&B whirlpool that included Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” and..."

Jan. 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Band of Heathens

Thursday

"...The Band of HeathensTop Hat Crown & the Clapmaster's Son (BOH)..."

March 18, 2011 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Control

Gretchen Phillips admits she wasn’t Just Comforting that girl

"...barks and croons with jazz-funk band Mushroom on 2003's Mad Dogs & San Franciscans, a hot collection of mostly..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Feature by Cindy Widner

Shocked to Read Moser; Please Censor Him

"...an adult on a bike that turns people into mad dogs?..."

Aug. 3, 2008 Postmarks

Meet & Heat

The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

"...When the judges hit a stretch of uninspired sauces – not life-threatening or potentially tastebud-destroying, but lacking any culinary..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Food Feature by Louis Black

Keep on Growing

Derek's main Domino Bobby Whitlock settles in his legend in Austin

"...fame comes as songwriter, vocalist, and keyboardist for Derek & the Dominos, Eric Clapton's post-Cream wrecking crew that gave..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Hightower Report

Texas Legislature, theatre of the absurd; and, why all the surprise over steroid scandals?

"...arch-conservative politicians preach about the evils of "Big Government" … then turn right around and try to shove ever-more-intrusive..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Summer Reading

Also Recommended

"...The Floodmakerby Mylène Dressler (Putnam, $23.95)..."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Delaney & Bonnie and Friends

Reissue

"...Delaney & Bonnie and FriendsD&B Together (Columbia /Legacy) Mississippi's Delaney Bramlett..."

April 4, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Bud Shrake: Touched by an Angel?

Bud Shrake has been communing with angels since he was a child, but why?

"...ragtag assembly of wild Texas writers who called themselves Mad Dogs. His proclivity to revelry was so well-known that..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Suburbia aka The Wild Side

"...is black, another has a homosexual father). Despite rats, mad dogs, and no running water (although it's never explained..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Short Cuts

"...What do mad dogs, Englishmen, and the 98th most powerful person in..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

1998 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...George Bush, Brent Scowcroft A Tribute to A.C. Greene & Americo Paredes Emcee: Tom Staley; with comments by John..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

Waiter, There's a Brit in My Motherboard

"..."But in terms of Brits? Mad dogs and Englishman go out in the midday sun...."

March 6, 1998 Screens Feature

The Pope of Avant Garde

Remembering William S. Burroughs

"...He cannot speak. His jaw merely falls open and mad dogs leap out...."

Aug. 15, 1997 Books Feature

Raving About Theatre

A Swarm of Wily, Unruly Theatre Types Meet in the Heat

"...this town when it's hip deep in this swelter? Mad dogs? Englishmen? Quentin Tarantino?..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to know about the contributions that Jeff Heckler has made to this community, his work against the Longhorn Pipeline..."

March 8, 2002 Column

PAW Patrol: The Movie

Puppy power scampers to the big screen

"...a joke about how a band of talking puppy dogs and a small kid pay for jet-powered fire engines..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...Starring Rock and Mr. Show's David Cross.JULY 4Cats and Dogs: Talking, kung fu fighting cats and dogs bent on..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bad Dog

When we see a dog running free, why are we frightened? Longtime Austinite Paula James meditates on the effect that fear of the natural world has had on us.

"...indistinct. Even when fences were put up for the dogs, children rambled freely -- cutting through yards, playing with..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Paula James

Expectations of Future Growth

Third Time Lucky?

"...Warden entered into a production deal with River North A&R chief Joe Thomas and began recording an album planned..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...got to bond. Dark Passage, one of four films made by a legendary Hollywood couple, Bogey and Bacall, was..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...I loved you, I loved you way back when –..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

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