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

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...senior executive editor and lead political reporter for the magazine. "But Evan Smith, though ... that's an interesting story."..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...By magazine publishing standards, Texas Monthly is positively long in the..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

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

Throwing Down Love

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

"...market too -- next to the Bible, his HM magazine is Christian rock's longest-running must-read. And then there's the..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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

All Done Up

"...fault. We've been given too much freedom, and like punch-drunk fighters, we careen from one fashion look to another...."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...pop mode to freakout mode, with guitar lines being counterpunched with samples from a tiny keyboard sampler the bassist..."

March 26, 1999 Music 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

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...marketing guide, which said that there was a new magazine, I forget the name. I thought, well, a new..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Jackie Brown

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a fairly straight-ahead, Seventies-styled caper film.

"...Baby). And Denise Crosby (Star Trek The Next Generation/Playboy magazine). Nice work if you can get it. Based on..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Local Palette

58th Faculty Exhibition

"...of those fold-up drawings in the back of Mad Magazine, sans silly punch line...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Arts Feature

Top 10 Breads

"...Top Ten Cocktails With a Punch 1. Dry Bombay Saffire Martini @ Jeffrey's Bar: A..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Food Feature

Austin Strikes Out

Top Ten Political Stories and Moments of 1995

"...prevent Austin-bashing bills from passing, was skewered by the magazine for a session-long pouting snit. Well, pout or no..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

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