Still Hazy After All These Years

The Seventies may be long gone, but counterculture comedian Tommy Chong is still here and still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music, and making people laugh.

"...I have to confess that when I called Tommy Chong at 8:30 on a Monday morning, I had..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...early Nineties. Her increasingly more frequent gigs please her myriad fans, passionate about Hickman's thoughtful, pop- and rock-edged compositions...."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Crash Landing in Teen Heaven

A reunited Sincola on the 1990s

"...the 1990s, but other than the Gits, it wasn't my favorite decade musically. Then Sincola's reunion appeared – at..."

Sept. 8, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Myra Breckinridge Video stores killed the revival houses. Video and..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Cardinals Down the Drain: To Night the Impossible Mare?

"...of our state of mind, the transcript culminates with my pathetically paraphrasing St. Francis of Assisi's Serenity Prayer. We’ll..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Toros on Top

"...rebounds for every 30 minutes he’s on the floor. My man Justin Bowen is putting in 13 points a..."

Jan. 14, 2008 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Tex-Mex Institution Reopens as an Austin Food Truck

Austin’s newest tamale mavens, Karam’s Tamale Company

"...Alex would be capable of doing it. She adds, "[My] only concern was, did Alex really want to work..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Cult of Neutral Milk Hotel

Suddenly, there they were, first show of a sold-out Moody stand

"...At the bright age of 17, I took my first paycheck from Round Table Pizza, logged on to..."

Feb. 18, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Moontower 2014, Day 4: Fred Armisen

Less comedy show than meet-and-greet, but oh, Armisen charmed

"...James Franco for being “Mr. Everything.” If that’s a fair descriptor, then Fred Armisen – actor, writer, producer, director,..."

April 28, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

'Fayette'

First-Place Winner

"...When we turned onto Highway 71, my grandfather said, "Eighty percent of feeling good is looking..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature by Burke Nixon

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark Updegrove

The Library's director from 2009 to 2017 on LBJ's evolving legacy

"...a presidential historian, his perspective on LBJ's legacy (and Lady Bird's), and the distinctive pull of the LBJ Library..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...secession movement could gain some mainstream traction has her fairly frothed...."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Outrun

Saoirse Ronan stars in a staggering portrait of addiction and recovery

"...The Outrun is based on the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot, but Liptrot and director Nora Fingscheidt roam from..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Babylon

Four decades later, this gritty and earnest recounting of black British life keeps all its power

"..."This is my fucking country, lady, and it's never been fucking lovely...."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'

"...can make sure our own city employees are treated fairly, and paid a decent wage, so that they don't..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...want to force onto the workers is reasonable and fair," the union said in a press release Monday morning...."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature

The Name Game Visits Auditorium Shores

City delays renaming in honor of Vic Mathias

"...not without some protest) in changing Town Lake to Lady Bird Lake, after the former first lady, and naming..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature by Amy Smith

Letters at 3AM: A View From the St. James Hotel

The St. James: It's an infirmary, it's a morgue, and it's a hotel where we each share a room with the dead

"...It's like Bessie Smith singing, "My mind is like a rowboat on the stormy sea/It's..."

May 18, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.

"...and mushy, what I could do – I'm drawing my judicial retirement, and I'm here in a nice firm,..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...road renovation, and I credit you for quoting me fairly. But then, my words were fair. Trying to be..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...to dazedly happy effect, while fellow Hoosiers the Panoply Academy Legionnaires play skronky rock songs that are fractured as..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Jump on It skips a beat but keeps on keepin' on; Solid Gold 40 gives up the ghost.

"...were happy last Wednesday to find that after a mysterious absence the week before, the weekly Jump on It..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Coach's Corner

"...Onion Creek: How, I'm wondering, did my sports compass get so turned around? I gaze out..."

May 28, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

No Rush to Rename Auditorium Shores

Council delays name change to "Vic Mathias Shores"

"...(but not without some protest)in changing Town Lake to Lady Bird Lake, after the former first lady, and naming..."

May 27, 2014 News Post by Amy Smith

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson's film is a marvelous spectacle: spry, sly, and rich with microdetailed production design and tickling tributes to cinematic forebearers.

"...being, well, so Wes Anderson-y. In the interest of fair play, we’ll admit the prosecution’s case: Anderson’s dollhouse aesthetic..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playback – SXSW: Zero Hour

SXSW started early this year, but now – as usual – everything hits at once

"...beginning last Friday during SXSW Interactive when newly anointed Grammy recipient and local boy Gary Clark Jr. played a..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips

The Tower of the Americas shoots 750 feet into the air and has helped to establish San Antone as a desired tourist destination

"...for 18 months. Built as the centerpiece of the HemisFair '68, the San Antonio landmark is the second-tallest free-standing..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Our Shostakovich Year

On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party

"...new year belongs to Dmitri Shostakovich – in our fair city, at least. In a cultural collaboration that's unprecedented..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture, Arts, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Don't let the heat get you down

"...to the Queertowne podcast. Austin’s favorite – okay, maybe my favorite – queer comedy interview pod holds a live..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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

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