King of Bongo

Tracking Spain/France's illusive King of Latin punk rock, Manu Chao

"...Stay or Should I Go" riff, anticipates Mano Negra's maniac bounce. "Ay Qué Dolor!" ("Oh What Pain") thrusts up..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

S. Moser Exasperates Reader

"...that manager who rightly treated him like a delusional maniac. If this incident disturbed Mr. Moser enough to fill..."

Aug. 3, 2006 Postmarks

A Convenient Truth

Kevin Smith on 'Clerks II'

"...about [Jhonen Vasquez's cult comic book] Johnny the Homicidal Maniac with. She talked about her biggest career regret to..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I could dance like a maniac "many a night, for years to come" and go..."

June 23, 2006 Column

Antone: Our Gift From the Coast

"...and dance," he'd say. I could dance like a maniac "many a night, for years to come" and go..."

June 19, 2006 Postmarks

Ian McLagan & the Bump Band

Record review

"...Spiritual Boy: An Appreciation of Ronnie Lane (Maniac)..."

April 28, 2006 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Daniel Francis Doyle

Record review

"...like. Something akin to being chased by a machete-wielding maniac in the woods. Perhaps that's why all the critters..."

April 28, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

On the Case: No. 2

Greetings from planet 'Cassidy'

"...can't stop him. Nobody can stop him! He's a maniac."..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Reefer Madness

The Bedlam Faction tackle the cult hit 'Reefer Madness' with a postured, exaggerated approach that's totally intentional and often quite funny

"...hallucinatory episodes and turns you into a crazed sex maniac? Did you know that repeated use of marijuana drives..."

April 22, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Education of Arnold Hitler

Wouldn't it be funny if your name was Arnold Hitler?' Marc Estrin writes in the follow-up to the acclaimed Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa,' and immediately the warning sirens start to wail

"...share a last name with the most famous genocidal maniac in history. Maybe not laugh-out-loud funny, but surely embarrassing,..."

April 15, 2005 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Patricia Vonne

"...like Joe Ely ("Joe's Gone Ridin'"), Johnny Reno ("Sax Maniac"), and most poignantly to Alejandro Escovedo, with the title..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

SXSW Film Reviews

"...Competition Screenwriter Larry Cohen may have recently cornered the stuck-on-the-phone-under-the-thumb-of-a-maniac market (Phone Booth, Cellular), but Cavite ingeniously tweaks the..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Clash

Gift guide

"...November 1979 release, it helps to hire a complete maniac as producer. Such was the case when the Clash,..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Upcoming Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines

Of all the secrets in Uncle Walt's vault, one would expect Donald Duck decked out in SS regalia to rank with 'Song of the South' and the pseudo-sex subliminals of 'The Little Mermaid'

"...Progressive Stupidity (Media Blasters, Aug. 31): Johnny the Homicidal Maniac creator Jhonen Vasquez's subversive, dearly departed series about the..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Madvillain

Record Review

"...does it capture the unstructured verse of a masked maniac within a sheer net of plausibility, it parades his..."

April 16, 2004 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Wop-bop-a-loo-bop

Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a little

"...the Four Freshmen pap to a piano-pummeling, make-up-wearing, howling maniac was something that must have had adults of the..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...if Sid Vicious had not been such a suicidal maniac. It was an impossible combination that somehow clicked, like..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Revue

Reissues

"...from Nashville Skyline's humble country squire into a sex maniac screaming at the depot, and on the defiant honky-tonk..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Review by Shawn Badgley

Queens of the Stone Age

Record Review

"...frenzied tear of "Songs for the Dead," and the maniac bombast of the 75-second "Six Shooter," Grohlsome. Said screaming-meamies..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Coach's Corner

Cedrick Trout (shudder) comes to dinner. But that's not quite as big a joke as Major League Baseball's idea of steroid testing.

"...And what could I say? I didn't want this maniac even knowing where I lived, let alone sitting around..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...eternally re-constructing two-lane death alley patrolled by Duel-ing semis, maniac truckholes, and Texas state troopers, hang a right at..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Coach's Corner

Mike Tyson's a punk who doesn't deserve the cover of Sports Illustrated; the Spurs and Mavs are pretenders who don't deserve better than they got; and baseball fans … well, they deserve a league that can deal with its labor problems

"...will last longer. Oh yeah ... fervently hope this maniac doesn't land a lucky punch and win...."

May 24, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Short Cuts

Buy local! Go see Guillermo del Toro's Blade 2! While you're at it, check out his other film in theatres, The Devil's Backbone!

"...past week, but if you're raring for more (you maniac, you) the Cinemaker Co-op gang will be showcasing the..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Local Web site Wows 'Cahiers du Cinema'

Austinite Todd Harbour wins praise from the esteemed French film publication Cahiers du Cinema for his film-and-video Web site, Mobius Home Video Forum.

"...likes of William Lustig -- director-producer of splatter fave Maniac -- and Wicker Man helmer Robin Hardy), and a..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Short Cuts

SXSW web competition entry rules and another Linklater premiere at the Paramount

"...HTML Does Not Stand For Hate That Maniac 'Laden: Or does it? If you've got an e-mail..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Page Two

The most effective weapon against long-term terrorism is this country's involvement in the world community; the most effective refutation of terrorists is the preservation of our civil liberties.

"...men can carry off a coordinated action, or one maniac with a loaded truck can take out a building...."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...(2) He's a maniac. Says he: "My management style is a cross between..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mom's Travel Advisories

Guerrillas, drug lords, landmines, limb loss, organ malfunction … According to my mother, these are just a few of the terrors that await me when I arrive in South America.

"..."o" hits the air. "Because some drugged-up Argentinean sex maniac will find it suggestive if you go around looking..."

June 15, 2001 Features Feature by Karla Zimmerman

Guys Like Me

Was America Really Made for Dick Price?

"...quiet laugh. He is not at all the raging maniac you might expect from his comedic output. He told..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Postscripts

The state of gay writing was discussed at the third annual Behind Our Masks Literary Festival in Philadelphia last weekend.

"...-- "an advice book for young freaks and dreamers, maniac brainiacs, and lesbian vegetarians."... BookPeople is throwing a party..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

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