Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: W.W.P.D.?

The curious semantics of "progressive" politics

"...We don't usually kick off with corrections, but this one deserves to be made:..."

March 22, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Jagjaguwar, but both are based in Bloomington, Ind., share office space, and are solidly committed to their diverse stable..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Capitol Chronicle

Marty Akins for Governor, and few dozen others for statewide office

"...governor we've got Rick "Governor Veto" Perry, likely facing off against Tony "Señor Deep Pockets" Sanchez, with darkhorses Marty..."

July 6, 2001 News Column by Michael King

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

"...wall and his eyes guarding the entrance, and the noises of recess were as remote as the sunshine. Like..."

June 29, 2001 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

Postmarks

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

"...my life when I, like others, would have been offended to have seen the Jesus video in my mailbox,..."

May 4, 2001 Column

Radiohead Listening Party, Plush, Thursday 15

"...thrust of the first number was Yorke droning "get off my case," as a matter of fact. Elsewhere, there..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Songs: OHIA

Acts Playing South by Southwest

"...track and its reprise both largely comprise annoying bird noises doesn't help either. The ending isn't so much an..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Back Bog Beast Bait

While its Sixties-era script gives Sam Shepard's early, kooky drama Back Bog Beast Bait a hallucinogenic clunkiness, the look and feel of the Tongue and Groove Theatre production is impressively atmospheric and its company of performers have a terrific time.

"...the ceiling. A recording of bird, grasshopper, and frog noises fills the Blue Theater. The well-costumed band comes through..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

In The House of the Moles: Live, Love, Get the Fuck Up!

Writer Terry Galloway and theatre company Rude Mechanicals are "an amazing match" in the slapstick-and-death piece In the House of the Moles.

"...The Off Center,..."

March 10, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Real Life Rat Tales

Carol Brorson consults the experts to get to the roof of Austin's rat problem.

"...Ron Dotson, who leads the Rodent and Vector Control Office for the city of Austin, has tracked and trapped..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Features Feature by Carol Brorsen

The Momentous Moorcock

Michael Moorcock. literary superstar of Bastrop, Texas and the world, had quite a 60th birthday party. Writer Carolyn Banks on what it was like to be there.

"...little like having the top of my head ripped off and magnificent multicouloured ideas poured in."..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature

Postmarks

Bikes, Beets, and Bastrop.

"...articles about their own arrested development and the flatulent noises they make in restaurants? Personally, I'd love to read..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column

Letters at 3AM

When the new Millennium begins, we should be asking the same questions about life we always have.

"...patterns are mad; and the governments and corporations make noises about it all but don't do anything about it,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Blow Harder

The use of horns in local rock & roll bands

"...Fishtrap's jam-based ethos, and even the Fuckemos coaxing bowel-like noises out of a trombone. Let's not even go near..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Playing Kissyface

Profile of eclecto-rockers Adult Rodeo

"...set, they plowed their way through a wealth of off-kilter rock tunes, jangly pop deviations, dub-heavy reggae, and country-flavored..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Burton used to reach over to Elizabeth Taylor during off-camera moments, take her breasts in his hands, and squeeze..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Yo Ho Ho and All That Jazz

"...an Irish lawyer, who emigrated to the Carolinas. Married off to a local seaman, Bonny and her husband moved..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

American Power Pop II

"...recruited for the live act, and the band was officially christened 20/20...."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Kent H. Benjamin

Record Reviews

"...Century" picks up and improves where Junior Citizen left off, and more importantly, über-bassist Rose Marshack is singing now...."

Aug. 1, 1997 Music Review

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...Tom Lopez's dense score and the assortment of incidental noises that almost acted as a character in this multidisciplinary..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Roadkill

"...sudden head twitches and thumbs-ups and Pee Wee Herman noises and whatnot. I suppose the accumulated sexual tension accounts..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Music Feature

The Evil of Two Lessers, Part II

"...Jefferson Clinton, seeking re-election, has made similar, though quieter, noises recently. Clinton, too, would like Hollywood to make less..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Confessions and Misinformation

Fear's Lee Ving

"...to breakneck tempos. Lead guitarist Philo Cramer made vomitory noises over Ving's viciously jacked rhythm guitar, suggesting a familiarity..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Feature

7 and 7 is

"...lyrics that'll make you wince every time you get off to "Freebird." Songs and production come together on the..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Music Feature

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