Dancing About Architecture

Austin leaves Ken Lieck homeless and fuming.

"...pick because they have to be at their pathetic monkey jobs at some ludicrous hour of the morning. That,..."

April 28, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...eclectic showcase without bidding adieu to the genre. Chicago's Monkey Paw kicks things off with atonal but spirited vocals..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Wide Open Heart

Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.

"...or four hours, and hand out a bunch of business cards. We'd do that three times a week. After..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Public Notice

Buy Nothing Day? Public Notice tells what it knows about this annual international event while encouraging you through the rest of the column to buy lots of things (or at least donate the stuff you no longer use) for the less fortunate.

"...discover how tough it is to pry that consumer monkey off your back while you're trying to dismount that..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

The Nine Lives of Ol' Possum

An overview of country legend George Jones' life and career.

"...Bug" or "I'm a People" ("If I was a monkey a-workin' for a livin', I'd be a-gittin' instead of..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Postmarks

Don't Cry for Rainey

"...copy of the Chronicle, and I've visited Austin on business in the past an am truly enamored with your..."

July 23, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Spare Us

"...immigration policy that has historically served the interests of business rather than "elasticity" similar to being nativist and racist?..."

July 16, 1999 Column

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...whiskey flask with the greeting, "Lil hair fer yer monkey?"..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Put Your Weight on It

"...act, including a version of the classic toast "Signifyin' Monkey."..."

April 30, 1999 Screens Feature by Mike Emery

Scanlines

The Crazies

"...bigger-budgeted films such as Creepshow (1982), Knightriders (1981), and Monkey Shines (1988) aren't as rich or vibrant as their..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature

Get It While You Can

"...most genuinely funny and lovable entertainers in the music business, whose onstage antics, and offstage hotel destruction, became the..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

115 Comics Walk Into a Bar ...

"...and work even harder or get out of the business...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Flip the Switch

"...nasty habits ("Live With Me"), been gouged and gored ("Monkey Man"), raped and strangled ("Midnight Rambler"), and finally pledged..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Public Notice

Indie*urp!*gestion

"...Poison 13, Hickoids, Reivers, Doctor's Mob, Pocket FishRmen, Hundreth Monkey, Girls in the Nose, Balloonatic, Stretford, Joan of Arkansas,..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

The Write Place

The Austin Heart of Film Festival

"...Hollywood luminaries is the range and breadth within the business it covers. Writer-directors such as Wes Craven (A Nightmare..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Mixed Signals

Behind the Glass at KUT Radio

"...Many KUT staffers feel as if there's been a monkey on their backs for years now, and Giorda's leaving..."

July 19, 1996 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

"Corporate Predator" Dissected

Freeport Makes The Nation

"...mainstream. Many observers are amazed that Foreman, the longtime monkey wrencher and opponent of all things that smacked of..."

July 21, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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