UK Calling

Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.

"...of the Year Thus Far). Described, accurately, by Canvas magazine as "the bastard love child of Billy Bragg and..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...could move on with normal business operations, the knockout punch came in the form of a letter to the..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...company's contributions to Austin before leading up to the punch line: Opponents of the project, he writes, are "extremists"..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature

Spotlight: The Clutters

Nashville's Clutters are cleaning out the garage

"...notion of place and time, with a push and punch back-dated to Fifties Memphis and Hamburg's Star Club in..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...this year's New York Underground Film Festival for Filmmaker magazine wrapped up in a lame joke about Warner Bros...."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...friend Michael Hollett. The publisher and editor of NOW Magazine, Toronto's weekly, Michael and I met at the annual..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Denying Marisol

Third Place

"...horoscopes aloud to her fellow passengers from an old magazine she'd found under her seat. She listened to the..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Nancy Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...four-chord rock à la the New York Dolls or punch-drunk Stones. With four LPs under their belt -- the..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar asks, "What's black & white and splooged all over …???" And keep your eyes peeled locally, kids, in the next few weeks, Austin becomes celebrity central.

"...YOUR LAST HIT WAS WHEN? New York magazine reports that after Anna Sui's show during fashion week,..."

March 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...parody than journalism, but I was raised on MAD Magazine and loved it. "This guy is funny!" I waved..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Scary Movie

Sid Moody interviews director Larry Clark about his new film, Bully.

"...with almost religious yearning. Tulsa contains a Grand Guignol punch line of sorts, with the last image of an..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Right Man for the Job

Charlie Robison says 'fuck everybody.'

"..."Then I saw some stuff he said in a magazine about how country needs to go back to a..."

June 29, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Young, Loud, and Cheap

The Skunks were a band. A loud one.

"...local punk legends-to-be the Huns, Stains/MDC, or the one-two punch of the Big Boys and Dicks, they were there..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...the rest of the Rude Mechs are proud as punch of their translational feat, and rightly so. Characters in..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Public Notice

Public Notice ponders the end of the world as we know it, and feels damn fine. Happy New Year!

"...Bono was featured in a story in Rolling Stone magazine. The piece wasn't about a new album or hairdo,..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Public Notice

Buy Nothing Day? Public Notice tells what it knows about this annual international event while encouraging you through the rest of the column to buy lots of things (or at least donate the stuff you no longer use) for the less fortunate.

"...Web site for inspiration. Adbusters is the culture jamming magazine brainbaby of the social activism thinktank the Media Foundation,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Dancing About Architecture

Austin City Limits to enter its 25th season two shows lighter; Steamboat loses more relocation prospects; and Ozzy Osbourne declines Black Sabbath's nomination for entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

"...Ian Moore has finished mixing his new album for Punch Entertainment (a division of Koch) and is back in..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Producers of Piquant Pods of Perfection

"...the early Nineties, with the birth of Chile Pepper Magazine, the chile craze just took off. People ate it..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Exhibitionism

Latino Comedy Festival: Ripeness Is All

"...on TV, I see white people. I open a magazine, white people. I turn on Telemundo for a little..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Review

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...That's fine if you want to reach Acoustic Guitar magazine subscribers, but not so good if you're trying to..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Scanlines

La Jetée

"...of stills was hypnotizing. The story packed the biggest punch, the ending a real kicker. Thirty years later, having..."

April 9, 1999 Screens Feature

The Trouble With Ally

"...love interest Don Hollinger, an executive with a news magazine? Unlike Ally, who pines for Billy or some suitable..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Alternate Histories

"...White Jazz (aka "The L.A. Quartet"). Like a sucker punch on a glass jaw, Ellroy's "alternate history" of that..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dancing About Architecture

Night Clubbing

"...policy, but you can ask David Yow how much punch a half-empty tallboy can pack! Meanwhile, plate glass windows..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Whisks Up

The Way To Cook

"...is Rao's Famous Lemon Chicken recipe, praised in food magazine circles for some time. There are dozens more recipes..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Food Feature

One of the Great Ones

"...about how to pull it off, make it work, punch it up into the windstream right on Babe Ruth's..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Needs More Color

Progressive Papers Grapple With Chronic Complaint

"...progressive press, as well. Just last month, Mother Jones magazine devoted an entire special section, "America's Changing Color," to..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Slow Burn

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

"...span longer than most movies. Its flurry of rhetorical punches opens with a review, by chemists and inhalation toxicologists,..."

May 2, 1997 Screens Feature by Dick J. Reavis

Sxsw

"...-- Nuthin' But Ass. Punk rock so prickly and punchy you have to check for puncture wounds, and lyrics..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...the Clouds Roll By." When she sings, "Drop-kicked and sucker-punched a couple of times, some scrapes and bruises but..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

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