'Joan Thinks I'm Funny, So I Better Keep Going'

Oddball Festival's Whitney Cummings on the craft of comedy

"...– Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, and Whitney Cummings – can call Venus their ancestral home...."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Rise of the Valkyrie

Kate Leth talks women in comics and fake geek girl phobia

"...that he was quickly called out for it. The bad thing? That he even thought to say it in..."

May 26, 2014 Books Post

Outside of Society

Does Austin have enough room for two queer film festivals?

"...– last October, and to say a lot has happened in the Austin LGBTQ film and arts scene is..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Housecore Horror Reunites The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Austin hosts the official gathering of the original Lone Star terror

"...Festival has finally announced its headlining movie, and we can already smell the diesel. This October, the Austin metal..."

May 1, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Adam and Joe go to 'Holliston'

FEARnet launches first original sitcom tonight

"...move makers Adam Green and Joe Lynch think they can change your mind with Holliston, the network's first original..."

April 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Marooned on BP Island; and Dems Cave on Disclosure

"...message is blunt: Flee! Flee as fast as you can! Flee, because BP is coming!..."

July 9, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Luv Doc Recommends: Evil Dead: The Musical

Salvage Vanguard Theater, Thursday, October 15, 2009

"...think that in the afterlife old King Hamlet has nothing better to do than backseat drive his son into..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...who passed away last week after a battle with cancer, was celebrated locally and nationally for his fiction and..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Sad Songs Say So Much

Old Settler's Fest headliner and soul survivor Bettye LaVette loves country but the bad old days not so much

"...label: Send back the plane tickets. The tour was canceled, the album indefinitely shelved. With the exception of two..."

April 18, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

ACL Fest Saturday Interviews

"...Oliver confides. "But I guess a lot of things happen that can erode the structural integrity of something that's..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Not a Political Person BB (Before Bush)

"...guests of the Iraqi people, they as the owners can ask us to leave their country. And as guests..."

May 13, 2007 Postmarks

Election 2006: Key Texas Races

Key Texas election returns

"...Indie hopeful Carole Keeton Strayhorn – the candidate whom many Democratic leaders had picked early on as..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two: For What It's Worth

Thoughts on conflict of interest and the staying power of Neil Young

"..."There's something happening here..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

'Natural Capitalism' in the Hills

The Crossings' earth- and economy-friendly integration into the Hill Country really is something to feel good about.

"...Dell's success," says Joyce, "and we asked ourselves, 'How can we be responsible with what we've been given?'" So,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Almost Willie

On the Road Again with the King of the RV Parks.

"...open road and a life of the unexpected. Anything can happen, and often does, in the life of Almost..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...tonnage of that equipment was or what gas mileage can be expected from a tank. The military equipment was..."

July 14, 2000 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Austin Music goes to Amsterdam, and the Spankers come back from there; more albums don't come out, and more bad club news

"...South by Southwest World Headquarters, and next week you can expect to read here a list of the first..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Coach's Corner

"...in the sea, as becalmed as the Ancient Mariner. Nothing seems to happen during this period. Sure, games are..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...Stan Brakhage, the de facto Godfather of American experimental cinema, is the most influential filmmaker you've never..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Show Low is the name

"...for 200 miles, and you map dozens of extinct volcanoes, lava fields, ice caves, ruins of ancient cities, and..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Column

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

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

"...worry about all of these other issues. I just can't do that from a moral – I think it..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...girl on the witness stand said, "No, it didn't happen," Frances Keller put her head in her hands and..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Saturday Night Live

Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets

"...Saturday night. Unfortunately, there wasn't much live music action happening that evening -- Stubb's was closed, Liberty Lunch's Ice-T..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Drake Tungsten and His Boy Skellington

"...Like the back nine at the Sahara Country Club. Nothing to do now but take five, maybe. An early..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Nothing could be further from the truth. But until all..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...It's so muddled, because things are so bad – it's so off-kilter now. When I worked at..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Sandra Bernhard ♥ America

Sandra Bernhard returns to Austin for We're Still Queer Honey!

"...self-enclosed world created in performance film Without You I'm Nothing. Perhaps it was the tuna sandwich story in memoir..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Raped by the Players

A lawsuit against an Austin dot-com firm reveals a world of fast times.

"...What happened that night -- May 14, 2000 -- began unremarkably,..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...Sunday's showcases, there will be some form of music happening somewhere on Austin turf at any given moment. How..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...guitar, writing songs so all those things that are happening now, 20 whatever years later, they were all kind..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

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