Postmarks

Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

"...It is clear that in spite of a slowing economy, Austin will move forward in its commitment to make..."

May 4, 2001 Column

The Whole Package

With Margaret Wiley, you didn’t have a one-trick pony; you had a multitude of talents and personalities in one big and big-hearted woman. Wiley’s friends and colleagues at Esther’s Follies offer their memories of this exceptional Austin comedian who died November 2.

"...With the writer, that bawdy satirist who could skewer Tammy Faye Bakker with songs by The Who and deliver..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...Seventies, and here the producer takes Richman and drummer Tommy Larkins' two-man-band simplicity and augments it with just the..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...SARAH DASHEW Some of My Stuff..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

Burn, Aspen, Burn

Chasing Celebrity With a Basic Cable Nobody at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival

"...wonderful world if I could build a bridge between myself ó a basic cable nobody ó and some bona..."

March 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Brad "Chip" Pope

Great Expectations

Assessing Austin's Class of '96

"...Dead Spy Report on MCA and Doyle Bramhall II's eponymous debut on Geffen. Until now neither album has recorded..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin's Pool System Will Collapse If We Don't Save It

Shall we dive in?

"...I'm talking about last summer's "Bar­tho­lo­mew Swims" edition of My Park, My Pool, My City, Forklift Danceworks' multi-year in-pool..."

June 1, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Emily West's "Why Eulagene?"

Second Place winner in the 2017 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...For Christmas, the last time she was here, my sister gave me a Rubbermaid tub full of shit...."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Emily West

Enforcing the 'Double Standard'

Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin

"...The recent article by Amy Smith ("Then There's This: Double Standard," Sept. 20) lays..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Feature by Tom Palaima

Round One at Round Rock

Is the noisy suburban school battle an omen of things to come?

"...dressed in red urges me to make clear in my article that "Dan McFaull," the school-board candidate, isn't "Dan..."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...post-WWII era. One of their first releases was an eponymous LP on Checker in 1960; since then, they've released..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...in 1958, the day Elvis Presley went into the army, their cries getting louder the following year when a..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...restaurant he was heard by all to say, "No, my dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Postmarks

Balance, Yes; Reality, No

"...community dearly wants...." Replacing life with concrete is not my idea of revitalization; and clearly the community does not..."

July 11, 1997 Column

Ac/dc, the Poor

"...Center, Friday 26 Once upon a time, back in my youth, I was lucky enough to score tickets to..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...company folks forgot to put the 3D glasses in my copy of the LP. There was spark and sometimes..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Feature

Save Me From What I Want

Annie Clark births slow jams, a tin man, and a baby pony

"...how long it would take to birth a baby pony, if I was a horse," she notes from sound..."

June 19, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Postmarks

Readers' last gasps on light rail.

"...a decent light rail system, then I could leave my car at home and forget about MoPac. Indeed, over..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column

The Sacred & the Profane

The Gourds co-frontman flew the coop for Shinyribs and ain't looking back

"...with Sahm. "He'd just call Claude [Bernard] 'Flaco,' and Jimmy [Smith] 'Danko.' Doug was in his own universe."..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Thursday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...a coarse-pop aesthetic that still embraces sunshine. L.A.'s the Little Ones are currently earning themselves a mountain of indie..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Famous Long Ago

Legendary "Humanzee" Oliver, his friends, and the bitter fight over animal welfare at a Texas refuge

"...Frank and Janet Burger, who ran a chimp, dog, pony, and pig show that was once a regular feature..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...year's Cedarland in tow. Minor-chord ruminations are decorated with creamy layered effects, like Slowdive, Yo La Tengo, Nick Drake,..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

100% Texan

Kevin Fowler is among the brightest of the Young Texas rising stars.

"...fathers shuffle counterclockwise around the dance floor with their little buckaroos. Bachelors in starched white cowboy shirts, tight blue..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Santa Claus Is dot.Coming

Some off-kilter suggestions for the online shopper interested in more than Amazon.com.

"...is much more fun, what with all the cool little boutique sites that are popping up all over cyberspace...."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

After a Fashion

Fur is back, just like it's always been.

"...(and many other kinds of animal hides, such as pony skin) in their collections. Fashion, good or bad, is..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

To Make a Long Story Short

"...sorts information from over 230,000 albums. "The sum of my parts somehow looks larger than I do. I think..."

April 2, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Record Reviews

Built to Spill

"...steps in tidying up the cosmic clutter surrounding his little corner of it. Keep It Like a Secret hits..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Coach's Corner

"...younger of a pair of boxers who live in my house. They reign in a backyard where I've spent..."

May 8, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Record Reviews

"...feminist, she deals with subjects including the injustice of polygamy, the dearth of farmers in her land, the rigidity..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Review

SXSW Music List No. 3

Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others

"...Hundred Visions, one-man pop machine Mobley, dark indie rockers My Jerusalem, and songwriter Molly Burch, who was recently singed..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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