When Eddie Met Ozzy

Black Sabbath front man drops by Austin lawmaker's office

"...Bletchley Park in the UK, and are headed to Mount Rushmore, as well as other locations around the U.S...."

Nov. 5, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

50 Years of Rolling Stones

Today, I’m as old as rock & roll itself

"...stacks more booty related to one of the Stones’ Mount Rushmore recordings. A Dallas sundering the same month finally..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly

Compton MC takes a quantum leap forward

"...Kendrick Lamar’s rocketing ascension to rap’s Mount Rushmore – which has included crucial appearances at both..."

March 17, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Playback: Dale Watson's Ameripolitan Dream

Outlaws wanted (for Awards), God calls back Gean West, and SXSW wristbands back on sale!

"...Pondering an Ameripolitan Mount Rushmore, Watson's distinct baritone booms over the phone as..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Where is Dan Savage?

The Luv Doc's knowledge of analingus is abominably sparse

"...would be swinging from a harness on the side Mount Rushmore chiseling Dan Savage’s beautiful visage into its immortal..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

Playback: Grohl Call

Nirvana drummer, Foo Fighter, and documentarian Dave Grohl passes it on

"...Flanigin about The Drifter. "But it really became this Mount Rushmore of artists who I wanted to write for..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Forty Nights

Forty nights of live music? Piece of cake.

"...Xetas @Holy Mountain (May 30)..."

July 11, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Estate Sale Roundup: May 8-11

So many options, so little time.

"...Lincoln's head, c. 1930, designed by the creator of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, who commissioned Frederick Carder of Steuben..."

May 8, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Catching Up With Jerry Ferrara

The 'Entourage' co-star has a host of new projects on his plate

"...Jerry Ferrara: I mean it’s basically the Mount Rushmore of acting. It’s all guys that I have..."

Nov. 2, 2013 Screens Post by Patrick Courtney

ZZ Top’s Pincushion

Flyin’ high and fast at a sold-out Moody Theater

"...sense in the aging genre. If you’ve got a Mount Rushmore-sized riff, don’t just ride it for four FM..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Public Enemy, Doug E. Fresh

SXSW showcase reviews

"...LL Cool J – could double as rap's first-round Mount Rushmore, but the scene around Doritoville suggested it was..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

How I Got Hitched

A twentysomething sees his first Hitchcock, and he likes what he sees

"...crop duster somewhere in Indiana, then he’s tumbling down Mount Rushmore. But God bless Grant’s Roger Thornhill, whose outsized..."

Oct. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

'The NFL Beat': Week Four

Live from Studio 6A in haiku form

"...Giants at Eagles The NFC East. The Mount Rushmore of QBs. Vick has a bounce back...."

Sept. 29, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Gary Clark Jr.

Local bluesman gone stratospheric escapes all that onstage

"...White House: Red, White, and Blues reads like the Mount Rushmore of living blues legends. Chisel in Austin's Gary..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...somber yet smiling face deeper than any crevices on Mount Rushmore," I wrote later in the paper, his mere..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

Michael Ventura: Fog-Clearing Instigator, Genius

"...While single-handedly Occupying Lubbock, he has enlisted half of Mount Rushmore and that Gettysburg Address dude in the cause...."

Dec. 18, 2011 Postmarks

Country Mile

Country Mile

"...is campfire cowboy music. As a face on Austin's Mount Rushmore of progressive country, the now Colorado-based Murphey is..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Music Review by Margaret Moser

The Hightower Report

Privatization: The Road to Hell; and Vermont: First in the Nation

"...Uh, yeah, professor. Like Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, the Lincoln Memorial, and other..."

June 24, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...A tiger at a truck stop outside Baton Rouge, Mount Rushmore. The inside of our van is covered with..."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Day Trips

David Adickes sculpts larger-than-life statues of larger-than-life men

"...are in presidential parks in Williamsburg, Va., and near Mount Rushmore, S.D. Adickes, who has lived in Houston for..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Crossroads 3

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

"...in Cleveland Heights. A hillbilly wedding in the birdsong mountains of West Virginia had flown us into Pittsburgh, and..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM: 'Roadie': 30 Years Later

The screenwriter of Roadie visits his younger, more serious self

"...enough to stay sober and work? And, with their Mount Rushmore-sized egos, duck and call the cops if they..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Them Crooked Vultures

"...and Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. Despite the Mount Rushmore effect, Vultures is essentially Homme's solo vehicle. Grohl..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...Blue martyr Mariska Veres, lip-syncing her goddess on a mountain romp, "Venus," at IMAX heights...."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Patti Smith

"...the overused phrase "rock icon": "I always think of Mount Rushmore."..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

Ice Cube racks up the body count at Mohawk, Loxsly shines a light on Tomorrow's Fossils, and gift-wrapping local holiday offerings

"...Cube cemented his legacy as part of the genre's Mount Rushmore with "Gangsta Gangsta" and "Straight Outta Compton" from..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

No Lonesome Tune

Retiring the dean of Texas songwriters? Fat chance.

"...is still considered the dean of Texas songwriters. A Mount Rushmore of Texas troubadours would slot his granite face,..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Bohemian Rhapsody

Patti Smith's 12-year take

"...they say that, I always think of uh, like, Mount Rushmore." – Patti Smith in Patti Smith: Dream of..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

My Clone Sleeps Alone

"...this week as irrefutably as one of the genre’s Mount Rushmore men, Arthur C. Clarke...."

July 25, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

TV Eye gives up her sabbatical from the box and re-embraces TV

"...history in stone (his grandfather was a carver on Mount Rushmore). But when Native Americans began to protest the..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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