The Day the Earth Stood Still

Soundtracking unknown worlds with sci-fi instrumentation

"...Science-fiction soundtracks are a special breed, disproportionately represented in lists of..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Who Is Stella Burden, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Her?

When the Rude Mechs do a show about acting, they find madness in the Method

"...actors and attained guru status through a very specific philosophy and exercises. And some of those exercises were said..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

King Tears

A decade after the ValuJet crash claimed Walter Hyatt's life, his posthumous archive celebrates his tender abilities once again

"...country cut with an easy jazz swing and a soulful lilt. Their high-energy shows and poignant, smart songwriting attracted..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

La Machinista

Honorable mention

"...rocky land with goats and sheep, a pig and some chickens, a few acres of grain in the valleys..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Lisa Carroll-Lee

Page Two: Aww, Canada ...

At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006

"...and I were swimming in the cold lake water somewhere in Northern Ontario. The colors were vivid: the darkening,..."

March 10, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in the neighborhood and speaks for the local neighborhood association where the development will be...."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...any story about these allegations despite various grassroots news sources covering this issue. Note to the reader: please look..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...elite. Telluride is film-centric, but it isn't a poor person's event, its offering brilliant, but narrowly curated. Sundance is..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...agendas are really all the same: safe, convenient, and reasonably quick transportation. It's great that Katie Larsen can use..."

May 30, 2003 Column

A 'Bullet' to the Gut

In The Bullet Meant for Me, his new memoir, Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid explains why he went to Mexico and was forced to return as a changed man.

"...to hail a green, unlicensed cab, but for one reason or another, they did. When the driver took a..."

March 29, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...was playing the Yellow Rose of Texas. I should also mention, in the interests of precision, that Molly was..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...just headed off to teach at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. Louis Black was still ostensibly a..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...has gone beyond himself and made it through, creating something that contains and radiates what you hold dear in..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Our secret fantasies were made public by Elvis Presley.

"...to be to look in the mirror and see some trace of Elvis staring back...."

March 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

What It Is

Edie Brickell returns to tell the world what she is.

"...New Bohemians, Edie Brickell isn't nearly as innocent and unsophisticated as the 20-year-old who so sheepishly delivered "What I..."

June 2, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Sphere of Influence

The creators of Phantasm talk about the amazing success of their work over the years and why on Earth it's been so successful in the first place.

"...well as a creepy cemetery worker whose ties are so thin he should be playing 'Louie, Louie' at a..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Speaking in Tongues

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

"...rules of English grammar to boot -- and make some kind of sense out of it, and that there's..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

A Fright on the Townes

"...Oh, this is one strange week, all right. That fact was established when I..."

June 18, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...The Buena Vista Social Club recordings of the last two years, featuring some..."

June 11, 1999 Music Review

Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...This is the most frustrating sort of book. Loaded with dense and heavily researched passages..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

All About Guitars

"...(l-r): Julian Capps, James Adkisson, Mike Sherrill, and Reese Beeman photograph by Bruce Dye..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...the world. The album is an outstanding collection of songs that inject rock & roll lifeblood into folk and..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

The Texas Book Festival

Chapter Three

"...So much of the discussion about what it means to..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...Fringe," which you can read at http://www.fringeware.com/dwebb/ or http://cyberpsychos.netonecom.net/fringe/. Also check out the bibliography and other info at http://www.euro.net/mark-space/DonWebb2.html...."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

SXSW Record Reviews

"...Although the title sounds like a Quentin T. cult, Tarantism is clearly a..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...It's detention for Kelly Willis, Charlie Robison (standing) and Bruce Robison photograph by Todd V. Wolfson..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Art That Speaks for Itself

"...parts of North America. We are to ascend the Missouri River with a boat as far as it is..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Austin Confidential

Interview With Actor Russell Crowe

"...actor Russell Crowe has lost his beloved leather jacket somewhere in Austin. His outbound flight back to Los Angeles..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Coach's Corner

"..."Mackovic," he observed years ago, "couldn't motivate a homeless person to pick up a $20 bill." Years before anyone..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...illustration by Jason Stout Let 144 poets loose in a sleepy Connecticut..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

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