Metallurgy

Metallurgy

"...ancestry. Fellow countrymen Burst erupt hardcore screamo, Linus Jägerskog's punctured lung infinitely more bearable when the fivepiece puts hammer..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Howard Defeats Bentzin

Dems claim a 'Republican' district

"...in a Valentine's Day rout that had Republicans seeing red as they watched their lock on House District 48..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Honky-Tonkers Don't Cry

Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore

"...the mythic honky-tonk is pulsing to the beat of hundreds of shuffling Justins. Every breath imagines sawdust and manure,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader

Jesus Christ! What are these words? Hincty, goudge, donicker, furze, rick, pecksniff, flapdoodle fantod, tumerling? What kind of screwball whips out stuff like this?

"...pop figures (Lightning Hopkins, Robert Mitchum, Sam Peckinpah) and sneered at the rest. His sneer came natural by virtue..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Brant Bingamon

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...and the way capital cases are investigated and prosecuted. Predictably, both the Harris Co. and Dallas Co. district attorney's..."

April 8, 2005 News Column

TV Eye

It finally happened. I am in that group PBS courts during fund-drive time with those extended remember when' music special.

"...Brian Price, a former convict from Crockett, Texas, who prepared last meals for executed inmates at Huntsville Prison. Steak,..."

April 1, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Not Fade Away

The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.

"...a True Believers CD. Alejandro Escovedo's San Antonio soul roared up there like the wind's dominion, just as the..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Film News

Look no further than this alt-weekly's SXSW coverage for proof that Austin is the film capital of Texas, but don't forget some of the stuff going on 'Between the Scenes'

"...which is being described as The Apprentice for the red states. Murphy, who grew up in Refugio and has..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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Our readers talk back.

"...Independence, would pledge his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor to fight for all of our individual rights..."

June 25, 2004 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Week: "We regularly receive reports, some quite intriguing and credible, about concealed caches." – New CIA Iraq weapons-hunter Charles..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Our readers talk back.

"...is in thinking all they have to do is discredit evolution and, presto, their beliefs are proved by default...."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

New to DVD

You can turn your back on a drug, but never turn your back on Criterion Collection DVD #175, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an "eerie trumpet call over a lost battlefield."

"...a head full of Gilliam, can take a Big Red Shark to Vegas, wallow in depravity and adrenochrome, and..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...toiling at Larry Flynt's L.A. Free Press, I'd been hired to cover the show. With visions of Hunter S...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Being Charlie Kaufman

Will the real Charlie Kaufman please stand up?

"...fat, bald, unsuave, and unchiseled Charlie Kaufman who is hired to adapt a book about orchids into a screenplay..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

AFS Summer Free for All

"...Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (D: Frank Tashlin, 1957): 6/3, 9:30pm..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...HADACOL: This Midwest outfit banded around brothers Fred and Greg Wickam, released its sophomore effort All in..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Day Trips

"...in Lockhart looks like a Norman castle made of red brick and yellow limestone trim. The four-story structure once..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Citizen McCall

Kinky Friedman once remarked that the line between fiction and reality is the one he snorted back in 1978. More than two decades later, he's still getting things mixed up. Chronicle writer Sidney Moody investigates why he puts his friend John McCall, the multimillionaire shampoo magnate and owner of the beauty supply firm Armstrong McCall, in his new detective novel Steppin' on a Rainbow without even bothering to change his name.

"...of the San Simeon mansion. Then we see McCall, underscored by the soundtrack of a vaudeville song-and-dance routine from..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Articulations

Central Texas writer Tom Grimes has a play date in L.A., Deborah Hay duets with Baryshnikov in Brooklyn, and Jouét flies off to Louisville, plus legislative applause for Austin musicals Jouét and Oliver!

"...the small Hollywood theatre counted such lightweights as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris, Beth Henley, and Alfre Woodard among its..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

The State Policy Committee Politically Purges the State Employees' Charitable Campaign

"...support -- gasp! -- unions), and employees contribute to hundreds of groups represented through the United Way and a..."

April 13, 2001 News Column by Michael King

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...Ruth Brown, the Drifters, Champion Jack Dupree, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke,..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...Perhaps the coincidence isn't that odd, given the wildly unpredictable gestation period that most books undergo before they arrive..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

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The Chronicle endorsements (or lack thereof) under fire.

"...Secondly, to say that Rafael Quintanilla has "undeniable" credentials for his work in East Austin, yet endorse a..."

May 5, 2000 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...SXSW front, note the addition of Velvet, formerly the Red Room, and Randall Stockton's yet-unnamed club to the festivities..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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Sweep Them Out

"...Forget the Red Scare. Now, it's Wiccan witches overrunning our nation's defense!..."

June 4, 1999 Column

It's a Mystery to Me

"...McGee. Howard Elias, a controversial civil rights lawyer, is murdered on the eve of another one of those L.A...."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Further Reflections

"...web coverage of SXSW. The entire list of films featured, can be found here. The symbols (RP), (WP), and..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

The Opposite of Sex

"...Hill's look at the final, twisted days of buffalo hunter and Western lawman James Butler Hickock. The film opens..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Screens Feature

Rural Kraut

"...accompany various cuts of roasted beef, pork, and veal. Non-red meat options are limited to one chicken dish (Grilled..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Day Trips

"...brilliant white as it nears, and then turns bright red before it disappears. The road is off of FM787,..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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