Word Is Out

After Broadway, Def Poetry Jam goes national and Austin's Pro Arts Collective snags them

"...Broadway enjoyed a six-month run, with a flurry of rave reviews and a Tony Award for Special Theatrical Event...."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood unscientifically surveys local foodies on local coffee.

"...whole slanguage that goes along with the new coffee-shop culture. However, as an ardent supporter of locally owned independent..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Page Two

Critical response to Kill Bill ignores the current cultural resonance of cinematic vengeance.

"...The latter has earned rave reviews, some beyond ecstatic. Right up front, I have..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

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

"...By offering less melodrama and action than most popular culture narratives (comic books, TV programs, movies) they told so..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Junior Senior

Record Review

"...up all-inclusive fantasies of a bubble-gum punk rock hip-hop rave taking place at a gay bar hosting a cheerleading..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Fatboy Slim@Austin Music Hall

"...Slim@Austin Music HallMarch 21 With a federal crackdown on rave and DJ culture having occurred throughout the U.S. since..."

March 29, 2002 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Things Have Changed

A brief, very general overview of the year in albums 2001

"...Everyone's intuition, however faint, said so; Slick Willie's ecstatic rave decade, the Nineties, had come to an end, and..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Graffiti on the Superhighway

The digital age has ushered a new era in visual art, with the Internet offering artists a new medium for the creation of art, an infinite space to display their work, and a marketing tool. But with this expansion of creative opportunities come sticky questions of ownership and the communal experience of art.

"...Red Fez on Fifth Street fizzed like an underground rave venue. Half the crowd bubbled high on a secret..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...into the house where I continued to rant and rave. Two or three agents tried to sooth me, telling..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

Politics

"...A few examples from its bygone political culture:..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postscripts

The continuing roll call for Texas Writers Month.

"...1999, Susie Kelly Flatau wrote a book called Counter Culture Texas in which she traveled the state documenting old..."

May 4, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...the last handclap on his four-track, and his friends rave about the uncanny results. (Relax, Ringo, he doesn't sell..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Page Two

"...my youth. Every month or two, some work of culture shot the top of my head off, renewing my..."

June 30, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Book Reviews

"...the mundane triggers reverie, ordinary conversation becomes a quixotic rave that is both appealing and nerve-wracking at the same..."

July 30, 1999 Books Review

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...crossover or just another big beat spin beyond the rave revolution? Either way, one thing's for sure: Giving in..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...the legendary producer of De La Soul and the Gravediggaz; from the experimental pioneer who created and perfected hip-hop's..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...dancer, and rapper who's Focused Daily debut is earning rave reviews. And what do you wanna bet Austin's X-Man..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

Built to Spill

"...leader respectively: the unpredictable synergy that occurs when street culture embraces science fiction. The album's packaging, futuristic blueprints and..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...1995 self-release and '97's Wrapped, re-released last year to rave reviews and CMT interest by Sony's Lucky Dog imprint...."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

It's All in the Game

"...Bill Maher pressed his glowing cynicism over a pop culture obsessed with guns and buns...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Downsizing Dell

Timing Is Everything

"...anticipation of being on the campus has received universal rave reviews -- from both the DJCC and temple camps...."

Oct. 9, 1998 News Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

A: The Flatliners

"...a brand-new album out on MCA that's destined for rave reviews and a lengthy tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter..."

May 15, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...ol' England. Audience-wise, the chasm between these two exploding subcultures wasn't so deep that good old American Yank punks..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...while reading The Ax (Mysterious Press, $23). Published to rave reviews last June, The Ax details the predicament of..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Post Marks

Muddying the Waters

"...with the same system. I suspect, no matter what culture he lived in, he would have become successful...."

Nov. 7, 1997 Column

Hitting Below the Mason-Dixon Line

America's Favorite Curmudgeon Takes On Thomas Pynchon

"...literary pundits. How can this be? Why do people rave about this guy's sodden, turgid books?..."

June 13, 1997 Books Feature

Food-O-File

"...a menu influenced by Foo. Though Jasmine Harbour won rave reviews and several awards, the Lius soon realized that..."

June 6, 1997 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Roadkill

Metallica

"...for the kids to get a little bit of culture and appreciate the work that goes into that kind..."

April 25, 1997 Music Feature

Media Clips

"...1. Terminate "Rant & Rave"..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Column

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