A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...Technicolor with acrobats, torches, dueling. Edmond Rostand's swashbuckling high school English staple – operafied by an Italian but sung..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: We Are the Eggmen

In the abstract, people are usually good about defending free speech. They fall apart in the specifics.

"...When in school we first learned about the United States Constitution –..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Quintessence

Quincy Jones has lived a career that would make his hero, Duke Ellington, proud

"...the time. I do 500,000 miles. I'm in the Middle East every year. Or China or Beijing or Shanghai,..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Utter Daveness of Dave!

A farewell tribute to artist and co-founder of the Fresh Up Club Dave Bryant

"...it'll be very much bulletin board, with paper letters, back-to-school sort of stuff with markers and photographs. It will..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...competence to pass muster at the Ed Wood Remedial School.) And I applaud the never-say-die tenacity of committed artists...."

July 18, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.

"...The middle-class wife in Far From Heaven is supposedly intelligent, yet..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

I Before E

A career retrospective on one of the lost cosmic cowboys, Rusty Wier

"...A silver pin with the initials RW adorns the middle and guitar picks flank the hatband. "My summer hat,"..."

May 31, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...some are probated or paroled here. They are mostly middle-class, mostly with some religious background, all former alcoholics, heroin..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...N'Sync) and Rise of the Booty (Britney Spears, Ricky Martin) to get a frighteningly unironic, bad-acid flashback to the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Dream

"...Martin Banks photograph by John Carrico..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Proposed school boundary changes didn't fare as badly at the ballot..."

Feb. 12, 1999 News Feature

Slouching Toward Iambic Pentameter

Recent Poetry From the Bottom Up

"...illustration by Amy Emery Christmas in the middle of summer is so much fun. Especially at the..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Get Out the Bootstraps

Cause Texas Ain't Takin' Care of You No More

"...the tax-paying public, is prevalent among working Texans. "The middle class families are out there struggling to make ends..."

June 13, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Personal Politics

"...County Courthouse in Hillsboro, Texas. It is in a middle-class neighborhood of orderly yards, tall trees, and modest homes...."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature

No-Cost Travel

Cookbook Heaven II

"...meet food journalist Aglaia Kremezi. The Central Market cooking school brought her here in the spring; then her books..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Austin Film Festival Review: The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

A recurrence not at Owl Creek Bridge, again and again

"...Given his family’s wealthy, upper middle class life, Tunde attends a nearly all-white private high..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

News Roundup: Bullhooks and Bikes

Plus knives, fires, and schools

"...old this week. The ride began at Jordan Elementary School, and ended at 6200 Johnny Morris Road, near the..."

Aug. 10, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...are melodically and rhythmically inventive enough to suggest George Martin had produced. Tim Stegall EMA..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

AISD: Who is Under the Axe?

Breaking down the 1,017 proposed cuts

"...pick apart the presentation, and it's clearer now which schools, offices, and individual jobs are under the lay-off axe...."

Feb. 13, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Hair." Stepping into something more modern, the outgrowth of Martin Crane's musical dinkings spawned not only a full-fledged band..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft

"...this pick for me is Long’s agent, the veteran Martin Demoff, a no-nonsense dude who likes his Tuna. But,..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...are introductions that I play at the beginning or middle of the set, which are medleys or montages of..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Martin Burke, Fully Committed..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

"...Expelling Mold From School..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

By Any Other Name

The history of Austin's cherished landmarks reveals the extent to which chance plays a part in who among their namesakes we remember and which fade with time.

"...the old Tenth Ward and as president of the school board and who cut a curious deal in which..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Long Fringe @ the Hideout

"...and Eat It Too!, a monologue in which a middle-aged Dixie queen recounts her humorous activities on the dating..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Author Literatus

"...his latest, Rubicon: A Novel of Ancient Rome (St. Martin's, 23.95 hard), there's a plethora of evidence -- the..."

July 2, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...JUNIOR VARSITY: Watching Junior Varsity's joyful minimalist-rock celebration of school spirit is almost enough to rectify an unhappy childhood...."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Highway 61 Revisited

"..."I graduated from high school June, 1968," explains the longtime local writer, deejay, music..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Steven Fromholz

"...the same degree as Jerry Jeff Walker or Michael Martin Murphey, two of his best-known peers from what Fromholz..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

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