More Than a Pair of Jokers

While she was growing up, Anne S. Lewis thought of Randy and Jason Sklar as just her crazy twin cousins. But now, after an MTV sitcom and success on the comedy club circuit, she's thinking her relatives may be more than just a pair of jokers in her family deck.

"...way from the chest-clutching heart attack -- in the middle of the toast at my wedding. Even so, we..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...there, take a deep breath and stop for a moment to prioritize. A salad bar with potato salad and..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Warrior Witches in Hell

"...Buffy: The Vampire Slayer features a perky high-school kid (Sarah Michelle Gellar) whom fate has designated to..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

They'll Be Booming

By the Time I Get to Georgetown...

"...be 'fessing up to that in the paper (hi, mom). But it has given me further impetus to free..."

July 5, 1996 News Feature

A Totally Killer Time With Nahnatchka Khan

Director of the new horror comedy on time travel and more

"...as a writer on shows like Malcolm in the Middle and American Dad!, then moving into directing with Don't..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Professional wrestling is in a major resurgence at the moment, and there's a particularly unlikely one-time champion back in..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Marvelous Jew

Larry Harlow talks salsa consciousness

"...LH: I went to a special school in New York, a music and art high school..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...wishes to Willie and his math-challenged dad, to his mom, to Kathy McCarty, the greatest living guitar-playing songwriter who..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...As someone who was fortunate to be in the middle of many of the seminal scenes in Texas music..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Column

Not Your Average Child's Play

CinemaTexas unveils CinemaKids, a two-part program of movies created by kids and inspired by them.

"...been shooting on video since he was four. His mom, LeAnn Erickson, teaches film and video production at Temple..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Quest for Aztlan

Roen Salinas Searches for -- and Finds -- Life in Folklórico

"...her hands until they were swollen by the public school teachers for speaking Spanish. "Era como una muda. I..."

April 24, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Stubborn With My Goals: Impassioned MC J Soulja Stays Focused on Creating Opportunities in Austin Rap

"There ain't no trophies for that kind of shit"

"...and building an empire," he adds. "Sometimes you get moments like this where you gotta talk to somebody who's..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Southeast of Austin, an Unarmed Immigrant's Killing Galvanizes a Quest for Justice

Why did Adil Dghoughi die?

"...It was still the middle of the night when Caldwell County sheriff's deputies arrived...."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Bouldin Creek Cafe Holds Curbside Steady and Prepares for Return

Leslie Martin's longtime vegan diner goes back to this future ASAP

"...don't want to expand into some intermediate phase, some middle-ground thing that's maybe gonna make us not as efficient...."

June 11, 2021 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Unplugged: Lowering the Volume of the Live Music Capital

Ley Line, Aaron Stephens, Team Goodtimes, Uncle Pie Hole, and more grounded sounds

"..."My mom's seen Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder – all these..."

May 18, 2018 Music Feature by Isabella Castro-Cota

Next Up at SXSW: Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear

Mother and son play it by ear

"...Taylor, but there was a long period from elementary school through early high school it was just like hip-hop..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Full Circle

The gospel according to Ruthie Foster

"...Samantha Banks and Tanya Richardson are due at any moment for the first rehearsals of the new material. Songs..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Off the Record

Reviewing the three-ring circus of Fun Fun Fun Fest and flashing back to the Armadillo World Headquarters with Dweezil Zappa

"...Weapon. Told backstage that his biggest fan was a middle-aged suburban mother (my girlfriend's), Pallett cheekily responded, "You'd be..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

This Old Mouse

Facing accusations of market saturation, cultural homogenization, and unethical labor practices, Disney keeps manufacturing the magic … but for how long?

"...can have right here in the parking lot," my mom would say, and she'd mean it, too -- she..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

The Agony of the Ecstasy

Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?

"...Sinking of Noah's Ark Balch, a 26-year-old UT Business School grad, was until recently the driving force behind Ark..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

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

The Medium Is the Music

"...and stuff there, I choose a ukulele. By the middle of the afternoon, I was playing two Christmas carols..."

March 5, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

On the Lege

Boxed Out

"...Washington how to handle a budget surplus."--R.B. I'm Telling Mom..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Column

The Pope of Avant Garde

Remembering William S. Burroughs

"...I was in the middle of editing my film Taking Tiger Mountain and was..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Books Feature

Postmarks

Can't Handle Scamming

"...yards and a vehicle/test facility was planned in the middle of our residential neighborhoods...."

Aug. 15, 1997 Column

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...horrorpunk act at the Ritz at roughly the same moment the Ramones ruled CBGB. L.A. proto-punks the Imperial Dogs..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...accidents in the sense that I got an inspired moment and all of a sudden, I was singing and..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Turning Williamson County a Bluer Shade of Purple

Wading through the new political landscape of the Austin suburbs

"...the people, and I've tried to maintain that." (His mom, Tamara, is following us in the walking tour's de..."

May 10, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Life After Gentrification

When you and your home both have to move

"...her worries. Her children are struggling with a new school; their outdoor shower lacks a reliable supply of hot..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Meet the Women of Austin R&B

Spotlighting five formidable soul vocalists

"...job at Pappadeaux's in part due to the restaurant's old-school R&B playlist. Performing as Alesia Lani, the McNeil High..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

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