Notes on Kitsch

... or W.W.S.S.T. (What Would Susan Sontag Think) about Austin's love of camp?

"..."I never really thought about it," laughs Linda Lou Von Hochtritt, the designer and purveyor of Lucky Lou Shoes,..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...Anyone who has tried to write about Mad Dog, a..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Notes on Regarding Susan Sontag

Doc opens up about Sontag's loves and career path

"...great cultural and literary critic, essayist, political activist, feminist icon, and public intellectual Susan Sontag had lived much of..."

Dec. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Summer Camp

Notes on QueerBomb's profusion of glitter and camp

"...In her famous 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag summed up the camp sensibility..."

June 20, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Q&A: Colin Mochrie Goes to Summer Camp in Boys vs. Girls

The Whose Line is it Anyway? star talks nerves and narwhals

"...of Zoom interviews can feel like walking into a conversation halfway through. By the time Michael Stasko entered summer..."

Jan. 12, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texans Rookie Mini-Camp Report

Texans welcome their newest additions

"...Texans rookies were welcomed to the Lone Star State on Friday by a thunderstorm that kept..."

May 11, 2013 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...by Mike Clark-Madison photos by Kenny Braun..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Tribune Festival Notes

Legislative aftermath: Hard to run a state without revenue

"...In Texas Tribune Festival sessions on public education and health care, the persistent subtext..."

Sept. 26, 2011 News Post by Michael King

Boot Camp Challenge

A sports blogger and his beer belly enter boot camp

"...and weigh – according to the scale at the Chronicle which many female employees claim is inaccurate, figure that..."

Jan. 15, 2009 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

NBA Playoffs: Thoughts and Notes

Spurs the team to beat in the West

"...After a weird 66-game season, after an elbow to the back of the dome,..."

April 30, 2012 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

TIFF Notes

What I took away from the Toronto International Film Festival

"...Instead of searching for the themes, commonalities, and distinctions among the 300-plus films screening at this..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Election Notes: Notes at the End of the Road

Just a few more days of this deluge

"...Eight-days-out campaign finance reports are up on the city clerk's website for City Council candidates. See..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature

Big Wheel Keep On Turning

Bluegrass, new grass, song grass, tropical grass – roll some Old Settler's Music Fest

"...Honk!TX, Austin Urban Music Festival, and Wobeon World Music Fest..."

April 19, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Keeping the Lights on at Casa de Luz

The iconic Austin eating-and-meeting place dearly wants to continue pursuing its macrobiotic mission – but can't quite seem to comply with public safety codes

"...When Eduardo Longoria started Casa de Luz in Austin almost 24 years..."

June 14, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Sitting Around on "The Corner"

Drive, They Said

"...minutes of fame, and all I wanted was 12 seconds -- the average time it takes me to get..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

Pride Piper

Artist and Pride piper Silky Shoemaker brings DIY joy to the Pride table

"...Matthews take the stage. It's a Camp Camp revival, one night only, and the founders of Austin's upstart queer..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Playing Through

Shannon McCormick and Graham Reynolds' Unbeaten revels in the camp aspects of football in a loving way

"...I hesitate to say that Shannon McCormick and Graham Reynolds' Unbeaten, which finishes a two-week..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Haunting the Chapel

Q&A with Dave Lombardo of FFFF headliners Slayer

"...In addition to anchoring Fun Fun Fun Fest’s biggest headliner yet..."

Nov. 2, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963

What these early diaries give is a sense of the author and cultural analyst in the process of becoming the international touchstone known as Susan Sontag

"...Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 318..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Books Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indoor Queers Club

Stay home and cool off with Qmmunity’s movie, book, and TV recs

"...be had from the comfort of your own air conditioning. Here’s the Qmmunity crew’s curation of crucial queer-centric pop..."

July 13, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Citywide Talent - Meet the Finalists of Citywide 86'd

Four young cooks compete in the finals tonight

"...After several months of qualifying rounds, the four finalists in Uchiko's Citywide..."

June 17, 2013 Food Post by Carly Yansak

Postscripts

Comedy that stands the test of time, and royal dictates that don't.

"...enduring, etc., etc., etc. "This is a cheap, dopey explanation, and I'm upset that you suggested it," Steve Martin..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

scanlines

Gabriel Over the White House

"...D: Gregory La Cava; with Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, C. Henry Gordon. VHS Home..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Feature

Democrats and Their Campaign Teams Train Up to Turn Texas Blue

The Texas Democratic Party focuses on flipping the state as early as 2020

"...In a sparse studio at the Springdale General complex on the Eastside, the future of the Texas Democratic Party..."

Sept. 20, 2019 News Feature by Roxy Bonafont

The Time of Their Lives

Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'

"...even though he lives in the Austin area, the only chance we have to talk for a major profile..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas."..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Campfire Horror Story

How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

"...It was just after 11am on Aug. 13, 2004, when the SUVs began to arrive...."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Counterfeiters

Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.

"...call the moral compass often fails to operate under conditions described as the fog of war. In such times,..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Live Election Coverage

Is it over yet?

"...closer to turning Travis-County-blue? Will D6 voters show CM Don Zimmerman the door? We’ve got questions and, fingers crossed,..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

Texas Book Festival 2015:
The Train to Crystal City

Jan Jarboe Russell's saga of World War II internment in Texas reviewed

"...camps in California for Japanese people (U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike), Jan Jarboe Russell’s The Train to Crystal City..."

Oct. 15, 2015 Arts Post by Michael King

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