Funk No. IV

FunkFest IV slims down for Saturday night at the Parish

"...the Stanton Moore Trio, led by the drummer of New Orleans jammers Galactic and the rarely seen supergroup Garage..."

Nov. 18, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Riding the 'Wave'

Bud Shrake compacts his far-flung, storied career in his new collection

"..."There are people who go to New York as professional Texans," Edwin "Bud" Shrake says. "But..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Navasky & Barsamian

Former editor of The Nation discusses the role of the alternative press

"...also believes that the amount of independent and alternative news available today indicates an "unprecedented movement in American history."..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Hottest Commodity

Once green with envy, Texas now joins New Mexico in championing the chile … just in time for the 12th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival!

"...lovers come out of the woodwork when they smell New Mexico green chile roasting," says Hill Rylander, market master..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Food Feature by Sandy Szwarc

The Reale Thing

The Search for New York-Style Pizza:

"...A new pizza joint opened in our neighborhood recently. It's called..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

Worth a Thousand...

Words Play Off Images in Four New AMOA Exhibitions

"...himself with his poetry. Young was described in The New Yorker magazine as one of the vanguard African-American poets..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Nothing Is Off-Limits for Comedian Gianmarco Soresi

The New Yorker isn’t afraid to make himself the punchline

"...been flying back and forth from his home in New York to the next touring city every week, covering..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Miranda Garza

Vieux Farka Touré and Jackie Venson Help Christen the 04 Center

Malian blues meets Austin blues via world-class shredders

"...Faith United Methodist Church until January 2018, the Austin New Church is now booked by Dallas promotors Kessler Presents..."

June 3, 2019 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Love in the Time of Mitski

Creeping anxiety and no happy endings, but comforting nonetheless

"...bright pink toes. Halfway through her set, the 25-year-old New Yorker stood onstage alone, playing a guitar she couldn’t..."

July 5, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

Austin Shakespeare's A Streetcar Named Desire

This thoughtful take on Tennessee Williams' classic subtly pits the Old South against the New North

"...of the above," embracing metaphor and subtly pitting the New North against the Old South – a seldom used..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Courthouse Bond Defeated

Bond Proposition loses: 50.7% to 49.3%

"...“It ain’t over ’til it’s over,” a famous New Yorker once said. That was certainly true of the..."

Nov. 3, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Lit-urday: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

All the single ladies: Edna, Edith, Neith, Maeve, Char ... and Kate

"...a dirty word – spinster – and spins rousing new meaning from it...."

May 16, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Weird City Hip-Hop Festival: Pharoahe Monch

Veteran MC on depression, rock bands, and his demise

"...with an anti major-label sentiment in ways the Queensbridge, New Yorker’s previous three albums didn’t. That’s largely due to..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

"And I told her ..."

Joshua Ferris brings his working writer's style to Austin

"...my radar in 2010 with the publication of The New Yorker's '20 Under 40' collection. Among that group of..."

May 23, 2014 Books Post by Rod Machen

Joanna Barbera’s Seven-Year Itch

On tour, in video, and at Holy Mountain tonight!

"...seven years in Austin. Her upcoming tour, with a new video, publishing company, and local Shane Cooley in tow,..."

March 27, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

SXSW Lou Reed Tribute Gathers Steam

Richard Barone enlists Alejandro Escovedo for star-studded show

"...“It’s going to be New York meets Austin,” says Richard Barone. He’s talking about..."

March 5, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Wreck & Ruin

Four new songwriterly discs worth catching up to

"...odd so many of my favorite artists are releasing new discs this fall. Every season should bring this kind..."

Nov. 8, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Bedside Manner: Got Opium?

Getting High and Low with Steven Martin, Nick Tosches, et al

"...to China." -- Emily Hahn, "The Big Smoke," The New Yorker, February 15, 1969...."

July 23, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

'The Artist Is Present' and Camera-Ready

HBO debuts a fascinating doc about Marina Abramovic

"...recorded video gets us closer, which is why the new HBO documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present is..."

July 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Here Is the House... Or Maybe It's That One

Meghan Daum at BookPeople tonight with her memoir about misadventures in real estate

"...confessional humor to BookPeople tonight in support of her new book Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in..."

May 12, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

MCW Alum Brian Hart Reads at BookPeople

Michener Center for Writers also announces hiring of Elizabeth McCracken and a reading by Richard Ford

"...awfully nice notices. As in, “quietly exceptional,” quoth The New Yorker...."

Jan. 20, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

How to Paper a Powder Room

New books for when you've got a little time on your hands

"...materials? Yes, you could just stick with the months-old New Yorkers and L.L. Bean catalogs crowding your porcelain top...."

Dec. 4, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Make Someone Happy – Someone Else, Because Chances Are It’ll Never Be You

Jimmy Durante will bring us together

"...brothers’ Barton Fink. The quote (nabbed from a terrific New Yorker profile from a couple years’ back):..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Flash Mobs Blow Out Five Candles

Almost as soon as they started, flash mobs have been eulogized as a crested trend.

"...marketing companies and protest groups alike, they still make news. Last month, Taco Bell staged one outside of an..."

July 1, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Duty

Learn Your EATs

An epicurean orientation for students new and returning, but also for ACL visitors and recently arrived residents

"...is giant plates of food that would make a New Yorker happy. Málaga..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Land of Confusion

Michael Simon's first detective novel finds a transplanted New Yorker struggling to solve a murder in a 'completely different' Austin

"...disenchanted UT performing arts grad student, a transplant from New York, Michael Simon, midway through his graduate work, was..."

July 30, 2004 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

The Last Fool of Chelm

How Nathan Englander Survives His New Fame

"...he has been anointed by media outlets from The New Yorker to Entertainment Weekly, as occurrences and duties wholly..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

Postscripts

Neal Barrett Jr.'s third book in as many months, Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories, is all previously published material but well worth the re-read.

"..."Already knew who you was," Johnston said...."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Good Eye: A Woman Possessed

Was she wrong to go all Isabelle Adjani on New Yorker book critic James Wood?

"...week's "Killer Outfits" column with a rhetorical potshot at New Yorker book critic James Wood that did not go..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Homage To An Old Marquee

"...precious, marvelous, unsettling experience, a way of dreaming still new to humanity -- a dream that changes our perception..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

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