Page Two: For What It's Worth

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

"...ears) of the beholders than the politics of the writers. It was foolish to regard any of them as..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

All Lit Up

Previewing the 10th Texas Book Festival

"...gospel on the steps, and the words of local poets reverberating off of the pavement. You'll find President Clinton...."

Oct. 28, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...one of the town's most consistently biting and insightful songwriters she deserves your attention, especially since on the heels..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Race to Innovation

With $1,000 each and eight weeks, five teams compete to take theatre to a new level

"...and presentations by speakers including Broadway producer Dan Fields, poets Elizabeth Austen and Georgia Me, and local entrepreneurs and..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

There Goes the Neighborhood

Ray Pride's 'Beauty School' Crack Pipes: No day at the ballpark

"...notes the singer's concurrent involvement with the Slack Panther Poets in the Crack Pipes' early days to emphasize the..."

July 29, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Carol You Don't Know

There's much more to Ms. Channing than Dolly and Lorelei

"...was there, "knee-deep in Strindberg and Dostoyevsky and modern poets and The Lower Depths," that Channing learned about Konstantin..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Flu Season

'The Flu Season' is difficult, jumping off in many different directions while focusing on love, time, memory, storytelling, and the nature of the real, but in mounting it here the Championship Theatre Group deserves its name

"...the spring – thus the title. Many of the poets with whom I am acquainted liken love to a..."

July 15, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Unfaithfully Yours

Had Hollywood not balked for nearly a decade in letting its first screenwriting superstar direct one of his stories, 'Unfaithfully Yours' might today be recorded as Sturges' directorial debut from 1932 / 33. Instead, it remains the modern Moliere's final treasure.

"...the director's huge alter-ego through straight-razor Shakespeareanism ("A thousand poets dreamed a thousand years and then you were born..."

July 15, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Phosphorescent

Record review

"...Poets rarely show their faces. Will Oldham, Elliott Smith, Will..."

June 24, 2005 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Yo La Tengo

"...one is career highlights for the lovelorn and tortured poets: "Stockholm Syndrome," "Our Way to Fall," "From a Motel..."

May 27, 2005 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Music Books

"...rock history. Or maybe you don't understand why Chronicle writers use strange words like "plangent," "seminal," and "coruscating" in..."

May 27, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Write of Passage

As Austin upstart Badgerdog Literary Publishing prepares to relaunch 'American Short Fiction,' it's preparing high-needs students to express themselves on the printed page

"...to foster the growth of every next generation of writers."..."

May 13, 2005 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

Film News

Summer shoots, Senate bills, and a few film festivals you should know about; plus, Bob Ivy plays with dolls

"...27 works by 27 independent women filmmakers with Austin poets and musicians performing between films. More info is at..."

April 15, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Luv Doc Recommends: Austin International Poetry Festival Humor Showcase

Ruta Maya, Saturday, April 16, 2005

"...Maya hosted by Vicki Goldsberry featuring a passel of poets including Nancy Fierstein, Peter Hunter, and Dr. Charles Stone..."

April 15, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Spotlight: Nona Hendryx

10pm, Cedar Street

"...closely with a variety of rappers, hip-hop artists, and poets. While many artists of her generation are content on..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bright Eyes

Record review

"...(Chronicles) means that once again all pink-cheeked young musical poets must be measured up against the door frame of..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...as he poured wine from his botas and introduced poets and flamenco dancers. Thank you, Michael Ventura, for my..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Column

Sweet Memories

"...as he poured wine from his botas and introduced poets and flamenco dancers. Thank you, Michael Ventura, for my..."

Jan. 12, 2005 Postmarks

Rock & Roll Books

Gift guide

"...at the American ballad through the eyes of 23 writers, critics, poets, musicians, and artists. Edited by Princeton history..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

You Call It Madness

Sheet music

"...tense, Kaye connects-the-dots from jazz, to standards, to beat poets, to Tiny Tim, to punk and makes it work...."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Review by Kate X Messer

She Lives

Clementine Hall was the 13th Floor Elevators' hip, maternal Wendy, providing food and security for the band's tribe of Lost Boys

"...class as John Donne, but they were both metaphysical poets. You can see the universality of the sacred poems..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...July 29. The music bill includes Leeann Atherton, Dimestore Poets, Steel Beam, and Texas Radio. Entry is free. See..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TCB

Pat Green's politics, Raul Alvarez's field of dreams, and Gibby Haynes' "Redneck Sex"

"...is a small amphitheatre on the site for musicians, poets, and authors to use. For now he's just starting..."

July 2, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Letters at 3AM

Speaking through your children's blood, and the words of the past and the present

"...what was unexplored. Sometimes in those spaces the map writers lettered these words: "Here there be soul-eaters." That space..."

June 11, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Summer Reading

Also Recommended

"...One of Austin's most prolific poets finds room for seemingly everything and everyone in this..."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Sheet Music

"...is an obsessive micromanager, personally making phone calls to poets, authors, and composers in order to manipulate them toward..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

The Latest in Paper: The People's Poet

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

"...the beautifully executed outcome of a collaboration among noted poets, scholars, and translators, including Alistair Reid, Robert Hass, and..."

April 2, 2004 Books Review by Dominic Luxford

SXSW Film Reviews

"...On Mother's Day, 2002, West Coast hip-hop artists, slam poets, visual artists, and speakers gathered to tell George W...."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Spotlight: British Sea Power

Two if by land, one if by British Sea Power.

"...Noble, BSP's painfully polite guitarist. "It's a place where poets like Wordsworth come from; it's a really pastoral place."..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Day Trips

Capt. Day Trips drops the 411 on Round Top, Texas

"...immigrants. The town was as famous for its artists, poets, musicians, and orators as it was for its agricultural..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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