Memories of Monroe

"...way to its louder sister, in a sundress and cowboy boots, taking the night off from her boyfriend. Circle..."

Aug. 30, 2010 Postmarks

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...barbershop quartet delivering its number in boxer shorts and cowboy boots. Soundtracker "Low Lights of Town," re-recorded aboard You..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"...The Texan in Black – shirt, pants, steel-toed cowboy boots, Ray-Bans – hasn't been onstage 10 minutes and..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...making a statement, and you can bet your boots (cowboy, black leather) that it's going to put down the..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Off the Record

Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film

"...Congrats to onetime local wrangler Ryan Bingham (see "The Cowboy Song," June 5, 2009) and T Bone Burnett, who..."

March 12, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...resemblance to a certain Lucasfilm scoundrel and hotshot space cowboy whose name, for copyright reasons, shall go unmentioned here...."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

FronteraFest Schedule

"...Midnight Society. Improv from the troupe known for absurd humor..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...The Atlantic recording at the start of the cosmic cowboy daze and the critical acclaim that came with it..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Kyle Henry: Top Ten

Local filmmaker has a few films to put in your Netflix qeue

"...Sunday Bloody Sunday (Dir. John Schlesinger) - Everyone sees Midnight Cowboy, no one sees this film, which for me..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Andy Campbell

Off the Record

Marcia Ball turns 60 in style, Bill Baird finds himself in song, and more confirmations for the Austin Music Awards and SXSW 09

"...as some smoke and water blemishes to 311 Club, Midnight Cowboy, and Black Cat Custom Tattoo. The fires were..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

A Geezerville Mixtape

More of the best of 2008

"...2) San Saba County, "Cowboy Song," …Though Cheating Was Never An Option (Wagonmaker)..."

Jan. 14, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Junkie Rush

The Cowboy Junkies and Tom Rush: Six degrees of separation

"...Bet you money the Cowboy Junkies have an in-joke about the different drug references..."

June 2, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Old Settler's Music Festival Preview

Bluebonnets and bluegrass: the Old Settler's Music Festival, still picking, still grinning

"...and drink allowed in campground only. No drums after midnight. FRIDAY The Belleville Outfit4pm, Hill Country Stage..."

April 18, 2008 Music Feature

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...it. He was Cinderella, and the clock had struck midnight...."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gypsy Rose

The 'Rockabilly Filly' bucks back into Austin

"...between. It's not hard to envision her tapping those cowboy boots onstage at the Grand Ole Opry, alongside Johnny,..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Transformers

What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.

"...And, as an added incentive, you can witness former Midnight Cowboy Voight as a sort of über-Donald Rumsfeld and..."

July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 1

Smelling the jasmine with Vince Martin and Fred Neil

"...song is "Everybody's Talkin'" that Harry Nilsson covered for Midnight Cowboy, which far too many folks always assume was..."

May 18, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Shooting the 'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues'

Craig Brewer on Black Snake Moan

"...my life, as an adult looking back, it'd be Midnight Cowboy. There were two moments that just brought me..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

City Council Notebook

What's happening at council this week?

"...that last part come from? Are they gonna give Midnight Cowboy Massage some bucks to relocate? Item 23: Adopting..."

Feb. 12, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Vertical Helical Scan, We Hardly Knew Ye

You'd better record this on your VCR – it's probably the last time we'll ever mention it

"...Little Big Man topped the bill. Marathon Man and Midnight Cowboy, tougher to digest, would have to wait until..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"...che bellissima! – the bar is closing down. The midnight air stutters with the magic word, and men with..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Event Menu

A bounty of places to be

"...music of the Thirties with Rumbullion, and Tex-Mex border cowboy songs with John Arthur Martinez – all with wines..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Food Column

Crank

Jason Statham's Crank – despite the fact that its ever-revving mayhem is ultraviolent, sexist, and frequently offensive enough to warrant a look-see by both the ACLU and the DOJ – is pure action-film bliss.

"...but some hospital johnnies and a smile while Nilsson's Midnight Cowboy theme, "Everybody's Talkin'," counterpoints the whole absurd (and..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...legend. Of spandex and strippers. Of cocaine and rattlesnake cowboy boots. Of backstage decadence and debauchery worthy of Behind..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Snake Charmer

Ray Wylie Hubbard survived the crash, recovered the black box, and continues to fly high and get lowdown with 'Snake Farm.'

"...Castle Creek, and the old Saxon Pub burned oily midnight stories and songs...."

June 23, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In Print

"...If John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy hasn't aged well, neither have a lot of..."

June 16, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

I Saw the Light

Clifford Antone, hardcore to the end

"...the neon-lit front room – he tips his tan cowboy hat and smooths his white shirt. Reaching for the..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Last Shall Be First

New Year's Eve becomes a cultural extravaganza with First Night Austin

"...Midnight Finale 11:30-12:00am Ongoing All Day..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Extra Special

Gift guide

"...imaginative leap, to christen a rattus norvegicus puppet after Midnight Cowboy's consumptive pimp: Rizzo the Rat. Genius and nothing..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...out of the car and stepped into the desert midnight...."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

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