Planet Funk Meets Planet Punk

Nu beats on famous bleats

"...are dead, but the whole of L.A. style. Austin's rave scene, club music glitterati, whatever you choose to call..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and Grill is responsible for the deaths is a travesty. Yes, the bartender who was [allegedly] intoxicated while serving..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

America Best Described as a Salad Bowl

"...conditions reveal the difficulty America has in blending multiple cultures like the metaphor suggests. At present America may be..."

Dec. 16, 2004 Postmarks

Postmarks

A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.

"...So rave on while those who are older and wiser laugh..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...of the good Captain. And why not? Our creaking culture of recombining all the stuff that didn't work the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Beginning to See the Light

"...The latter performance, as mentioned above, was a spectacular rave-up I would play countless times...."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Stompy Jones

"...by Side; cool, confident, continental, especially the album's three rave-ups with Ellington, "Stompy Jones," "Squeeze Me," and the high-rising..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sxsw

"...material ranges back to the earliest days of Acadian culture; you'll feel the ghosts of long-dead Cajuns dancing on..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

A T-Rex, Trivia, and Twilight, in This Week’s Recommended Events

Take those long arms and find a weekday happening

"...NBA’s roots in 1949 to today, Jackson expertly extols culture through the lens of sports fashion. His talk at..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

ArmadilloCon, Art, a Hot Sauce Hootenanny, and More Recommended Events

Get out and get spicy this weekend

"...more to explore both the art world and corporate culture and other themes during this exhibition’s six-decade span. While..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Rosé Gosé Brings Continental Flair to Austin

Belarus meets Austin in this new North Loop restaurant

"...Gosé melds its owners' neo-bohemian Euro vibes with the culture of the live music capital where they now reside...."

July 14, 2023 Food Feature by Haris Qureshi

The House That Built DJ Shani Hébert

Decades in the making, The Groove Temple arrives on KUTX

"...but also a collage of collected sounds from her travels...."

March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Opinion: Drug Use Is the Reality for Millions. There Are Ways to Make It Safer.

A paramedic and harm reductionist highlights resources in Austin to reduce risks associated with using drugs

"...that detect less-common contaminants, which are more common in rave drugs like molly...."

Dec. 25, 2020 Column by Claire Zagorski

Austin's aGLIFF Announces 2019 Honorees

Celebrating directors of seminal queer films Go Fish, Trick

"...independently produced but acquired by Samuel Goldwyn after a rave reception at Sundance in 1994, and its commercial, artistic,..."

July 3, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Review: Amazônia Groove

An entrancing collection of music from the rivers of northeast Brazil

"...film only scratches the surface of the music and culture of northeastern Brazil – including these specific accomplished musicians..."

March 9, 2019 Screens Post by Michael King

UT Department of Theatre & Dance's Enron

This production of Lucy Prebbles' play smartly recounts and reframes the corporate beast's rise and fall

"...starters, the underlying threat of violence embedded in the culture of toxic masculinity (on which Enron – and business..."

March 2, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Is Austin's Growing Dance Music Scene in Need of Its Own HQ?

We talk to a dozen members of ATX’s electronic music community

"...in honor of pioneering house music DJs. Here, we traverse Willie Nelson Boulevard Downtown, and slow for children on..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Page Two: Roger Ebert Added a Star to His The Whole Shootin' Match Rating

Last Night at the Alamo restoration revives Eagle Pennell's early promise for posterity

"...memory, they are not making a point about working-class culture (either celebratory or damning), but instead they are pushing..."

March 11, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Separate Lives

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham / Ibrahim 6

"...in Tehran's underground arts scene, immediately identified by a rave scene that's violently broken up by Tehran's culture police...."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two

A tainted prayer for the new year

"...these persons are incapable of succeeding in the predominant culture. However, complain about the adverse effects of this misbehavior,..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...made a Machiavellian alliance with the snake-oil Christians, who rave about rules and ignore the spirit of religion. Together,..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...more pop-oriented than their earlier art-punk. Pretty Girls Make Graves is a hypercaffeinated punk troupe from Seattle that combines..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...it. Only those turned away from both shows didn't rave about the DIY crown-all. It was a night Austin..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

More Than a Pair of Jokers

While she was growing up, Anne S. Lewis thought of Randy and Jason Sklar as just her crazy twin cousins. But now, after an MTV sitcom and success on the comedy club circuit, she's thinking her relatives may be more than just a pair of jokers in her family deck.

"...Catch a Rising Star club. Then they got a rave review in The New York Times. Last summer, my..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...more immediate, as in their pointed jab at pop culture, "Weather Report," and perhaps even narrative at times, as..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Lagniappe

"...a street once described by Allen Ginsberg as "a culture church." The book is bound in a "crazy fruit..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Arts Feature

Reissues

"...for Deluxe and King Records (which included the all-time rave-up, "Good Rockin' Tonight"), were uniformly excellent, these mid/late-Fifties, rock..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

Qmmunity: Mama Duke Has Her Eyes Wide Open

The genre-hopping artist discusses her latest album, You Can Open Your Eyes Now

"...We live in a grindset culture in 2025 – a world where working is considered..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Clowning Around With Fou Fou Ha

Clussy Fou discusses the avant-garde troupe’s history ahead of their 24 Carrot Show

"...night tests your knowledge of LGBTQIA+ history and kink culture. ATX Vogue Nights: Third Anniversary..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Column by James Scott

The Austin Chronic: A Holiday Shopping List for the Weed Lover in Your Life

From CBD sleep gummies to a gold gilded grinder: a cannabis gift guide

"...And I actually enjoy Christmas culture. Every December 24, I turn on It’s a Wonderful..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

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