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Harvey Pekar's two Chronicle covers have been a rare, and deserved, exception to our 22-year focus on local news, culture, and events.

"...is told in our 20th anniversary issue , an oral history published in September 2001. Most of those ideas..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Vaguely Purposed Zombies

Maybe astral projection is the best way to survive one of those nutty First Thursday thingies after all …

"...fabric that would be much better displayed on the less-hirsute-and-weatherbeaten-than-homeless-mayoral-candidate-Leslie Cochran physique of what's-her-name, Ethan Hawke's wife...."

May 30, 2003 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...By slightly modifying the oral history process, The Dirt easily bests the typical paint-by-numbers..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Andy Langer

Postscripts

How Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy, "stumbled" across the idea of writing the book.

"...write a "stately literary biography"; she opted for an oral history, like Jean Stein's Edie: American Girl or George..."

March 2, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Tapestry: The Music of Carole King

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's original production Tapestry: The Music of Carole King celebrates King's landmark album with both deeply felt renditions of its songs by an ensemble of singers who can rattle your soul and the testimony of women who heard those songs speak to them in profound ways.

"...women have to say matters. They give us an oral history of a time when women were questioning their..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Calavera #4 UBU ROI: ANIMAL HOUSE MACBETH

"...bodies and a few props. Combining mythology, dance, and oral history, they perform seven vignettes that are not nearly..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Review

Dotting i's, Circling C's

Simplifying the Tortured History of Circle C

"...on the State Supreme Court docket for a year. Oral arguments were heard in November, but no one expects..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

American Folklorist

Peter Keane, Not a Singer-Songwriter

"...Me Follow You Down, which is sort of an oral history of the Cambridge folk years, say from the..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature by Brian Berger

The Luv Doc: Gracious Acceptance

The Luv Doc postulates on why 69 was invented

"...case, the sex really is that good ... vaginal, oral, anal. Every. Which. Way. He loves to please me,..."

June 2, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Barbecue and Good Ol' Boys

A promotions scandal suggests the good ol' boy network is alive and well at DPS.

"...It was followed on Nov. 27, 2001, by an oral exam, conducted by the commander of the Narcotics Service,..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Inside the Spinning, Whirling World

"...the academic stuff through something that used be called Oral Interpretation. Many departments of Oral Interpretation now call themselves..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Campfire Horror Story

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

"...the camp, forcing Joseph both to masturbate and perform oral sex on him. This happened, Joseph told investigators, in..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...remainder-bin life as any of these books. But dammit, history is waiting! Care to be the one to deny..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

The Color of Fire

The Austin Fire Department is making another attempt at staff diversity – will it do any better this time?

"...Joe Villareal, the first Hispanic firefighter in the city's history, to join the ranks. And only in 1976 did..."

May 13, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

A Rich Herstory

Lesbian Archivists: Still Diggin' the Seventies

"...Austin Lesbian Activism Project (ALA) to collect the written, oral, and video histories of lesbians living in Austin in..."

Feb. 7, 1997 News Feature by Clay Smith

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...improve with age. They translate into invaluable sources of history by inconspicuously molding the past and the present. This..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket

Engelhardt serves up a delectable combo platter of Texas barbecue suitable to savor

"...followed by the perfect companion volume, a collection of oral histories that chronicle a true American regional cuisine. UT..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Van Boven vs. the Texas Medical Board: Now At the State's Highest Court

Hearing latest step in doctor's lengthy fight

"...and adds that he himself will be presenting his oral argument to the Court. Overcoming the sovereign immunity defense..."

Sept. 28, 2021 News Post by Michael King

Once Upon a Time in Spain

Guillermo del Toro on fairy tales, facists, and everybody's new favorite movie

"...stories for tiny tots but fearsome and fully codified oral traditions handed down from one generation to the next,..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In and Out

Controversial sodomy law may be struck down

"...panel ruled 2-1 that the law banning anal and oral sex between homosexuals (but allowing it between heterosexuals) violates..."

Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

Mediocre Media '96

A Rough Beast Kicks in the Water

"...of appalling dimension. The most elaborate communications apparatus in history, it seemed, could make little sense of what was..."

Jan. 3, 1997 News Column by Chris Walters

UT Law Professor Illuminates the Dangers of The Shadow Docket

Stephen Vladeck's new book reveals how SCOTUS is secretly undermining the republic

"...one of the most alarming shifts in the court's history: Since 2017, there has been an unprecedented increase in..."

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Public Notice: The City's Day in Court

Plus: $100 million buses; $0.00 fares

"...as the date when a three-judge panel will hear oral arguments, of no more than 15 minutes per side,..."

Oct. 1, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

In My Blood It Runs

How erasure of Aboriginal culture splits the life of one boy

"...consume erase the First Nations experience from Australia’s official history...."

June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Primary Source

"...History is subjective. It's the perception of events that can't..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Theatre's Great Historian The Essential Oscar

"...and author of what is possibly the most comprehensive history of theatre ever written -- which is to say,..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

The Top 10 Austin News Milestones of 2018

Days like these

"..."aquapocalypse" this year with the wettest September in state history. That was followed by even worse flooding in October,..."

Dec. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Luv Doc: The Hot Zone

If you really want to be sure, complete immolation is the way to go

"...Fortunately Hot Zone, there is a lot of reasonable..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Luv Doc: FMB

Mouths are undoubtedly festering cesspools of bacterial flora

"...in your teeth. You took personal responsibility for your oral hygiene and you know who was the beneficiary? Your..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Heads in the Sky; Feet on the Ground

Interview with artist Leah DeVun

"...that inspired the show. I want to suggest this history that is pretty uncovered for people of our generation,..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

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