Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect ...

Part One: The Artists' Application Process

"...the packet of paperwork seems straightforward enough -- eight pages requesting information ranging from the ethnic make-up of the..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Feature

Age Onstage

Getting Specific About Age in subUrbia and Hot Flash!

"..."I'm in my middle 40s, and those things are starting to be..."

April 4, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Gen X Feminist Mom’s Approach to Holiday Greetings

Holiday staples and folded

"...As a Gen X feminist, it’s in my contract to be into zines. I’ve always been fascinated..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Tom Noonan Explains What Happened With What Happened Was ...

Revisiting his Sundance-winning dating drama after a quarter century

"...to digitally paint out an errant bucket in the back of a shot that had been distracting him for..."

Jan. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ben Snakepit Releases His Manor Threat

New collection of diary comics debuts at Beerland this Saturday

"...be an afternoon show, from 6-10pm,” he tells me. “My band Ghost Knife will be playing, the Hex Dispensers..."

June 8, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Donya Stockton Isn’t Going Anywhere Near Hell in That Handbasket

The Austin clubland mover-and-shaker weaves much to the imagination

"...to drop out for a couple of years, because my parents decided they couldn’t afford to send me to..."

April 4, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Might Be More Art Than You Can Handle, Baby

Esopus. Rubber Repertory. So many links.

"...[Note: My own Minerva's Wreck anthology, the three annual issues of..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

The LuvDoc chats with Marcus G. Ollington, rock star cartographer

"...the most embarrassing stories I have ever heard in my life – one that I will not recount here...."

Aug. 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...me, it happened at the age of 21, during my senior year at the University of Texas. I was..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Stephen: like a little fawn in the Houston meadow

"...other Houston grandes dames. But it was in the pages of W that Lynn Wyatt came alive for me...."

June 19, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...I had heard of Bud Shrake. The spreading Texas mythos of the early Seventies, sweeping east and west at..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Page Two: When I Write the Book

On luck, anarchy, and the narrative vagaries of life

"...Back in the old days, Austin's airport was not only..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...eye of the original man in the moon way back in 1914. That pioneering hole-in-one, from Melies' silent masterpiece..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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Our readers talk back.

"...express their viewpoints publicly on nuclear energy and its myriad benefits – among which are helping to meet growing..."

April 30, 2004 Column

Take Me, Instead

An interview with SWT's Arturo Mancha, whose novel in progress was a recent break-in casualty

"...a table, this novel would be the centerpiece of my table. Everything else would be second in pride." Two..."

April 25, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Erard

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

"...Hirschfeld) and Sylvia, and they huddle up in the back corner. They are auditing the class and are graciously..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

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Our readers talk back.

"...Back to your writer's question: Did SOS Matter? Silly question...."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...appreciation on both volumes, and rises to give them back to their owner. Evan sizes him up. Sarah with..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Greg Bueno: In the Land of oZ

"...-- to start a Webring, a chaining together of pages that allows surfers to tour the links in succession...."

Aug. 4, 2000 Screens Feature

Feel-Good Generations

There's a reason scholar Rachel Maines, the author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction has survived the various assualts on her intellectual freedom: She's smart, she's funny, and she also "dances circles around reactionary clod-like thinking."

"...buckle. Then he threatened to call her parents. "When my mother answered the phone," Maines says, "Robbins asked if..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Lindsey Lane

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Former TFSC Counsel Responds

"...tactic, employed by The Austin Chronicle with respect to my Capital Metro report, is not unusual where reality is..."

April 9, 1999 Column

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"...I miss my former colleagues, at least most of them. ... There..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column

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No Schism

"...significant in-kind support to ACG to help it get back on its feet several years ago...."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...(she wrote an apparently less candid memoir some years back titled Limelight and After) gives the reader the false..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Mersey Makers

Magneto USA

"...opened is Melody Maker. As you flip rabidly through pages upon pages of music opinion, scouring reviews for word..."

July 21, 1995 Music Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...a Valley of Violence, House of the Devil) comes back to the big screen with X, a 1970s throwback..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Great Feckin' Depression of Seamus O'Doherty

Th' dark-eyed Dubliner & his ginger mog: Captured by Austin's Izzi Ross

"...stuff you’d see in one of those paper-based newsthings back in the day. Also, here’s another treat: The gags,..."

June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Local Pick for Free Comic Book Day

Creators of Punchline offer a super-powered narrative

"...away, comics featuring all manner of genres – superhero, mystery, comedy, crime, sci-fi, romance, et OMG cetera...."

May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel

"...this is the man who took on Texas' most mythic and exhaustively anatomized story in his novel, The Gates..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UPDATE: Flood of Relief

In tragedy's wake, Central Texas continues to care for her own

"...a righteous Wimberley Strong flag with proceeds going to My Neighbor's Keeper • Central Texas Floods 2015 Helping Hands..."

May 29, 2015 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

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