Sound of the City

Black Milk's Detroit "oomph"

"...really built around hard drums, different kinds of melodic samples. Sometimes we’ll get experimental and go real left, but..."

Jan. 13, 2010 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

McCoy the Top QB Ever? Talk to the Ghost of VY.

Colt poised to be the winningest college QB

"...of the quarterback in the Big 12: Oklahoma’s Heisman-winning Sam Bradford? Gone. Baylor’s saviour Robert Griffin? Toast. Texas Tech’s..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Letters at 3AM

At the crest of Beatlemania, 18 and hungry for life was some kind of way to be

"...joyful, forgetful, hopeful, and, because the template was the same, the public response was the same: Strangers everywhere spontaneously..."

July 3, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Spiros closes and now Room 710, too? Meanwhile, the Bizarros' long, strange trip returns them to the Hole in the Wall.

"...and as the birthplace of Tia Carrera's improvised pagan magic, will close its doors and begin the process of..."

June 12, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: Looking Up

Along the path back to wonder

"...room with me when I finished the book). That same summer, living in a school bus in Vermont, I..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009 Lineup

Get it while it's hot.

"...Here We Go Magic..."

April 27, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Best in Bluegrass

Southside of the Tracks on the right side of 08

"...players to give an idea of what’s in store: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Pat Metheny, and Bruce Hornsby, with..."

Dec. 30, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

12 More Days of ECM

12 More Days of vintage ECM jazz Touchstones

"...debut as session head picks open on “Georgian Bay,” Sam Brown’s nylon strings fluttering flamenco against Charlie Haden’s bass..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Thursday Picks

"...Your Own Adventure book, no trip is ever the same for Austin's Tia Carrera. The telepathic trio, led by..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

The Book of Lenny

Jonathan Marshall's artwork and video illustrate a mythic journey that's *cough* Star Wars *cough* strangely familiar

"...featured an installment of a multichaptered project spanning the same three mediums but mining an expansive history from geographic..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

Days of Heaven

Moving pictures rarely lives up to that phrase the way this one does

"...no-brainer. Museum of Modern Art portraits Richard Gere and Sam Shepard stalk adorably hardscrabble Brooke Adams, 1917, in the..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

A Skull in Connemara

Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara teeters between the absurd and the just plain silly

"...of Everything," a whimsical tune akin to "Puff, the Magic Dragon." It's a scene that teeters between the absurd..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Duke Ellington

In Box

"...being jazz, no two takes even try sounding the same, so the effect is one of multiple chances to..."

March 2, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Sugar or Salt?

Severed heads, barbecue, and SXSW

"...it isn't so obvious that you're lost among the flotsam and jetsam – floating bits of space, time, detail,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Critics Poll

"...Langer: Sam Roberts, ACL Music Fest..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature

John Lee Hooker

Gift Guide

"...under aliases Texas Slim, John Lee Cooker, and Birmingham Sam & His Magic Guitar to avoid label disputes. Give..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Austin Powell

Hurd Is the Word

Cornell Hurd, Austin's most prolific C&W songwriter? It's no joke.

"...we go put flowers on his grave at Fort Sam Houston. Danny Young took that picture. His dad was..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Ice Cream?

Matt Allen's free ice cream melts the hearts of rockers everywhere

"...Ice Cream Man, Allen, spurred by late-night ventures to Sam's BBQ on a visit to Austin, moved here to..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

New Medicare Plan Infringes on Sovereignty, States Say

Attorney General Abbott leads states' legal charge

"...With the magic of Plan D now in full swing, however, the..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Family Affair

Those Canadians are too damn happy. Must be the the donuts.

"...The reasons are plenty, but the outcome remains the same: Canadian music, just like the True Northeners themselves, shares..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Point Austin: Not So Smart

Jury rules in favor of officer, but APD policy still stings

"...of excessive force. After two days of evidence, Judge Sam Sparks threw out the First Amendment claims and removed..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Column by Lee Nichols

Food-o-File

If you weren't at Eat, Drink, Watch Movies on Sunday night, you missed quite a party. Time to thank the people who made it possible.

"...prepared the food sacrificed their Sunday off to work magic (there's no better way to put it). Erickson and..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Page Two

On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW

"...is – after replying "22 years" – or the same of SXSW – replying "18 years," I often stop..."

March 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...mingling with fuzzy indie pop. Expect more of the same from the Brooklyn group's forthcoming Fortune. Saving the absolute..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

The Six Parts Seven

"...ones on this collection are no surprise, starting with Sam Beam of Iron & Wine. He employs his whispered..."

March 12, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Postmarks

"..."obsession with campaign finance reform and ethics legislation as magic wands for popular democracy." Most folks in our camp..."

June 20, 2003 Column

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...to keep their companies alive. For them, getting the same amount of public funding they had received the previous..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memoriam

Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

"...and ran out of film and light at the same time up on the Devil's Backbone. It was foggy,..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature

Quasi

Record Review

"...more-aggressive-than-usual musical interludes. After five albums, Quasi is still Sam Coomes (Elliott Smith's bassist, who writes most of the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Universal Talent

From 1961 to 1992, Julioeloy Mesa worked in the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Industry and Art, making movie posters that earned international awards, exhibitions in museums, and even a permanent collection in the Library of Congress. Though he now lives comfortably in Austin, Texas, Mesa's artistic struggle continues.

"...state offices (Fidel Castro regularly watched movies in the same building), he practiced communism's most hallowed art: the poster...."

July 13, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

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