Top 10 Visual Art Things of 2006 (in chronological order)

"...1) First Night Austin Big art, live music, all ages, free, all day and half the night...."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

All Eyes on First Night

Fireworks rule, parades with kids and bikes rule, giant art rules ...

"...art activities rule, and so does our unique regional musical diversity...."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...a target – reality TV, say, or modern country music – and satire can slip into farce. Which is,..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Beyond the Blockbuster

With "Luca Cambiaso, 1527-1585," the Blanton bucks the trend toward superstar exhibitions and spotlights a lost Renaissance master

"...field has its superstars. Film has its Tom Cruises, music its Madonnas – names everybody knows. But just because..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Kinky's Mexican Riptide

A near-death experience convinced Freidman that 'I have to do more with my life'

"...Jewboys, and later as a writer of novels and essays...."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers'

Marrit Ingman's new memoir: an excerpt

"...It's because this collection is as much one of essays as recollections, true stories as much as murky anecdotes...."

Sept. 30, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Summer Reading

For those new to speculative fiction in general and African-American writers of the form in particular, the newest 'Dark Matter' anthology, edited by Sheree Thomas, is the perfect guide

"...flights of joyous word play that surf on the music of street corner slang. In the latter, Douglas Kearney's..."

May 27, 2005 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Nellie Blog

Why modern-day muckraker Ana Marie Cox couldn't care less about her critics – or even, at times, her audience

"...Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Or, for a music journalist, to read Lester Bangs. Because they get the..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Every Woman Everywhere

UT, ALLGO, and Resistencia honor the life and work of the late Gloria Anzaldúa

"...as Anzaldúa's work, with moments to offer personal recuerdos, music, poetry, panels on diabetes and other diseases that disproportionately..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Five-Year Reunion

'Freaks and Geeks' comes back in a big way – on DVD

"...in an honest-to-God yearbook (The Norseman, 1980-81) with multiple essays and a chokeload of features: auditions, table readings, raw..."

April 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The Who

DVDisc

"...on Who history. Kids is among the great celluloid essays on the power of rock music, interweaving classic TV..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Review by Matt Dentler

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...noise ordinance -- likewise of great interest to the music scene -- once the issue was turned over to..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Roots of the Left

Janes and Slusher's newsletter kept a Weird eye on City Hall.

"...Washington's Birthday, Can't Tell a Lie" fundraiser featured "swamp music." The Herald also profited, albeit modestly, from ads run..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...ones. Civil War veterans or Desert Storm veterans, alcoholic musicians or serial killers. They can be so in love..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...my unabashed prostration at the altar of Michael Ventura's essays, one point in "Street of Dreams" ["Letters at 3AM,"..."

June 21, 2002 Column

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"...mythology and cast it through prisms of art, poetry, music, and dance, to rock en español, to "rasquache" (i.e.,..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...of the Chronicle and a hall-of-famer of the Austin music scene. "It was a part of Texas I really..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Heat

"...between the living room and eating area to the music of a soap opera. We waltzed and fox-trotted, and..."

July 13, 2001 Features Feature by Robin Bradford

Texas Tales

For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

"...Texas identity and creating his next volume of personal essays. There are dozens of others. All of this literary..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...the novels that make up A Dance to the Music of Time"), Jean Rhys, Mavis Gallant ("a writer who..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

"...mix-it-up M.O. But he is likewise capable of sensitive essays on writers with whom he would have strong disagreement..."

March 23, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

Public Notice

This week's Public Notice takes a trip down memory lane and barfs all over its prom date, as we explore Eighties revisionism.

"...course, as most non-profit newsletters are: chock full of essays about their cause, letters from the president, info on..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Flies on the Wall With Attitude

Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.

"...Drew took a long look at the essence-capturing photo essays produced by the magazine's legendary cadre of still photographers..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dancing About Architecture

The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.

"...manager Jan Mirkin, who will be collecting photos and essays from potential suitors at the band's return gig on..."

June 16, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...to Doug Sahm. In the midst of many moving essays on the life and contributions of one of Texas'..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

Postscripts

Details about where Austin's own writin' reverend Charles Meyer will be reading from his new murder mystery about a serial murderer, as well as the Austin connection to British journalist Clare de Vries' I & Claudius: Travels With My Cat

"...reverend, Charles Meyer, will be at Borders Books & Music in North Austin (10225 Research) on Thursday, December 9,..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Book Reviews

"...Brazos and across the Llano Estacado, McMurtry found "the music of departure -- faint, the god almost out of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Day Trips

Coming up this weekend...

"...Caribbean festivals take over the beaches in Galveston with music, arts & crafts, and food, June 12-13.409/763-4311 or http://www.galvestontourism.com...."

June 11, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Gang of Guerillas

"...A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Volume One and Volume..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Books Review

Why I Read ...

"...curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection Dick Holland:Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy, by Dave Hickey ranges from..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

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