The Luv Doc: Beware the Righteous

Way worse than robots

"...As much as I desperately want to tell you..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two: Otto Binder Had a Vision

The great science-fiction and comic book writer already had a name for Trump back in the 1950s – Bizarro

"...and they did. Among his contributions to the vast universe of Superman stories was co-creating Bizarro. And right now,..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by Louis Black

DVDanger: Justice League vs. Teen Titans

Why is DC Animated better than DC's Cinematic Universe?

"...an heir to Lovecraft’s doom-laden belief that an empty universe would be a huge improvement over one in which..."

April 19, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hideaway

A descendant of the father of our country in the Antone's House Band? For three decades now, believe it!

"...as a Texas stronghold for Chicago blues, Memphis blues, Mississippi blues, California blues – blues of any stripe –..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Feature by Sarah Brown

Luv Doc: Beer in Heaven?

What if the bliss they're doling out in heaven is not your jam?

"...of exotic craft brews from every backwater in the universe. Inexplicably (because that is the nature of the divine),..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Norman Lear to Receive AFF Award

Norman Lear will get AFF Outstanding Television Writer Award

"...producer Sons of Liberty, Body of Proof, Across the Universe James V. Hart, writer Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Contact,..."

April 9, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Behold! The Austin Music Awards

Announcing the 2014/15 Austin Music Awards bill, the 13th Floor Elevators reunite for Levitation, and King Coffey recovers after being struck by a car

"...Black Angels, who are well versed on "You're Gonna Miss Me" from touring as Erickson's backing band. ZZ Top's..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Happy Bastille Day?

Four years ago, in Paris – not so much

"...I know that my cheaper deal meant I would miss most of France’s most celebrated holiday. On July 14,..."

July 14, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

'From Dusk Till Dawn' Bites into a Big Kahuna

Director Eduardo Sanchez on El Rey, Rodriguez, and that tasty burger

"...(Wilmer Valderrama) under the microscope in this expanded, parallel universe trip to the Titty Twister. It's filled with revamps..."

March 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...– while their daughter makes a run for Little Miss West Virginia. (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Psych Fest Synchronicity

"...& the 13th Floor Elevators' landmark single "You're Gonna Miss Me" – not to mention, on a larger scale,..."

April 29, 2013 Postmarks

Get Your Game Face On

SXSW Gaming Expo opens Palmer to the public this year

"...Center. It's like the Hubble on steroids; you can't miss it. NASA is bringing telescopes for stargazing, offering tours..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Full Hearts Can't Lose

The 21st annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...kicked off last fall with its annual call for submissions, I wasn't the Books editor. And furthermore, when I..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Monica Riese

'Better This Way'

The first-place story

"...was not to be. They were going to just miss each other...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Benjamin Reed

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...is equally unrelenting in its depiction of a pitiless universe. It may be even less optimistic, opening with a..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Preaching to the Choir

Quiet Company high priest Taylor Muse still has faith all right. It's called trust.

"..."Oh, there must be a god, somewhere in the universe/ May be looking after me/Yeah, he may be smiling..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...his Merry Pranksters traveled east from California on a mission with a combined purpose of fun and exorcism. This..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

The State of Utopia

Karen Valby’s dispatches from a small Texas town

"...small American town, one relatively remote from the obsessive universe of popular culture. "I guess they just wanted to..."

May 28, 2010 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

The Hightower Report

Wall Street's Mitch; and That Can't-Do Spirit

"...well, reduce competition! Yes, in their alternate (and perverse) universe, airline CEOs claim that to increase competition, they must..."

April 23, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Day Trips

The Collin Street Bakery along the northbound side of I-35 in Waco serves up fruitcakes for weary travelers

"...earlier this year, the Southern-plantation-style building is hard to miss at the Bellmead exit. Surrounded by large windows, the..."

March 19, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...DVD and Blu-ray – and suddenly a whole new universe becomes interactive. All 128 audio tracks listed ("listed" being..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Christmas Carols With Walter Cronkite

Holiday memories of the legendary TV newsman

"...Cronkite was a current affairs junkie and sometimes missed entertainment trends because his attention was on world events,..."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Phinney

Nathan Green: Happy Birthday Moon

In his second Art Palace solo show, Green throws a powerful punch of relentless joy

"...as being borderline kitschy or simplistic. That would totally miss the point. Green inventively skews them to build a..."

June 5, 2009 Arts Review by Andrew Long

Page Two: Return to Forever

From creationism to red-baiting, the right kicks it old school

"...contradiction between the metaphor of God's having created the universe in seven days and just what and how long..."

May 29, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Chapter One: A Team Is Born

A season preview for the Austin Aztex and the United Soccer Leagues

"...with no player draft, scouting reports that are pretty hit-and-miss, and a whole universe of football players out there..."

April 17, 2009 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Madness in Many Packages

From Highland Mall to PACT, the lunatics are at large

"...and family while spending time browsing the available commercial universe...."

April 10, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM

I am not my thoughts; I am not my feelings

"...fly scenes. I find no poem more frightening than Miss Emily Dickinson's peculiarly punctuated "I heard a Fly buzz..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...script, performance, and visuals to create a totally immersive universe that beseeches my return again and again...."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Erotica 2008

Gallery Lombardi, Saturday, August 2, 2008

"...you’ve grafted your head onto Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1967 Mr. Universe photo. Of course, you shouldn’t miss out on all..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Off the Record

Peering through the walls of Austin history to pay tribute to an original member of the 13th Floor Elevators and preserve Raul's rats

"...heard on such landmark psychedelic recordings as "You're Gonna Miss Me" and "She Lives (in a Time of Her..."

June 27, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

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