Austin Underground Veterans Immortalize the Nineties in New Oral History

A Curious Mix of People's Greg Beets and Richard Whymark plot October launch events

"...club Blue Flamingo (now Chess Club) who coined the oral history's titular phrase...."

Oct. 20, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Transcribing the Oral History of Dazed and Confused in New Book Alright, Alright, Alright

Melissa Maerz wrangles a class reunion

"...when Melissa Maerz started researching Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, she made..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Oral History of ABGB

Pils to wake, pils to sleep

Aug. 31, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Oral History of Austin Beerworks

How the local brewery became the heir to the aluminum throne

March 10, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Black History Month and Austin's Dirty Laundry

KLRU launches online series featuring ATX civil rights leaders

"...in the U.S., Austin has a long and dirty history of segregation, the results of which are still visible..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

The Heaven & Hell in 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History

We return to the Red River strip of March 1966 to witness Roky Erickson and crew

"...13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History can be purchased from Anthology Editions at shop.mexicansummer.com/product/paul-drummond-13th-floor-elevators...."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Jon Savage

Austin History Center Documents Life in Austin During COVID-19

Share your moment in history with AHC's new collection

"...make sure we don't forget? Thanks to the Austin History Center's new collection, "The COVID-19 Files: Austin Responds to..."

April 17, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

We Have a Lot of History Here: The Austin Chronicle and Between the Lines

How Jeff Goldblum’s first starring role helped shape the paper we became

"...up in our 20th anniversary issue as a Rashomon-like oral history called "The Golf Cart Story: What Really Happened..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

History's Closet

Making the case for an Austin gay barchive

"...We are history. Some of us freshly minted, others sepia with tattered..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Essential History Museums and Cultural Spaces

Fun for everyone from history buffs to kids who like hands-on science

"...Home to a presidential library, history museums and historic homes, a state-of-the-art children's museum, and..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Mass Shootings and Musical History

Tower and A Song for You explore different sides of Austin

"...been largely relegated to what the documentarian calls "deep history." Maitland's directorial debut, The Eyes of Me, aired on..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

It's All History

The Rise and Fall of Cedar Street

"...about this. There's no percentage in it. It's all history. It's all gone."..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Coming Out Under Fire

"...dishonorably discharged. What their testimonies provide is a unique oral history of an active but hidden subculture and the..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dirt Road to Psychedelia

This documentary traces the changeover of Austin's youth culture from beatniks to hippies, folkies to rockers, and potheads to day-trippers – with side trips into all the music along the way.

"...Scott Conn. Conn's vital documentary contribution to Austin cultural history weaves oral history from informed sources with a wealth..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Broadway: The Golden Age

Epic oral history of the heyday of the Great White Way as told by the people who were living on graham crackers and dreams back when it was all going on.

"...This is Broadway: The Golden Age, Rick McKay's epic oral history of the heyday of the Great White Way..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Rachel Proctor May

How the West Was Sung

The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History

"...because the genesis of The Newton Boys was an oral history compiled by Claude Stanush, the best way to..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...this Fourth of July weekend, we offer a mostly oral history of their intersection with Austin. Prior to this..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way

Coffeetable book on New Orleans? Dense ethnography and oral history of Crescent City brass bands!

"...arresting black-and-white images, it's instead a dense ethnography and oral history of Crescent City brass bands past, present, and..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

A Gift Guide for the Austin Music Fan in Your Life

Try a Nineties Austin oral history, Willie birthday LP, or BLK ODYSSY ashtray

"...DIY more than a boys club – this new oral history should be required reading for all contemporary scenesters..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Long Fringe Review: 'Holier Than Thou'

The show where you compete for the powers of the Messiah

"...onstage and via giant video talking heads) offering an oral history of their attempt to win the powers of..."

Jan. 31, 2012 Arts Post by Dan Solomon

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

History of Australia's greatest sonic butchers

"...humor to be found in having this definitive documentary oral history of Australia's favorite purveyors of sonic carnage be..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

True Love Cast Out All Evil

New oral history explores the head and mysteries of Austin's psych pioneer

"...Oral histories generally denote an amorphous "story" its gleaners failed..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Outing the Archive

The Austin History Center stands ready to gay up its archives

"...the current state of LGBTQI collections at the Austin History Center?..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...Memory and history. Both have a way of being skewed by, and..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Who Is Mandy?

The author hopes that history – so cruel to African-American women in the kitchen – can help breathe real life into a 19th-century portrait

"...named Mandy has beguiled unsuspecting visitors to the Austin History Center since the Nagle family donated it to the..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Always in the Best Spot

Harry Benson caught history in the making, at the center of it all

"...Gallery's new exhibition titled "Harry Benson: A Witness to History." For 50 years, the Scottish photojournalist has been present..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Esther's Follies: The Laughs, the Gossip, and the Story Behind Texas' Most Celebrated Comedy Troupe

In his history of Esther's Follies, author Jesse Sublett follows the flow of four decades of frivolity

"...and a longtime Chronicle contributor) faced in penning a history of Esther's was on the scale of the Lone..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...Morrison lived in town. No account of Austin's musical history would be complete without a chapter on Holmes Sterling..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

From the Archives: Organizing Outside the System – Deborah Shaffer and The Wobblies

Our 1981 interview with the filmmaker behind the classic doc

"...The history of union activism in America has rarely been captured..."

May 3, 2022 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990

Hardcore demanded history, so here it pounds

"...as noted repeatedly in this chunky, warts 'n' all oral history, the big, rotten apple lagged far behind when..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

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