The Hightower Lowdown

Republicans come out against "misleading information" -- oh, the irony! And, patriotic defense contractors refuse to buy American.

"...Attention Americans: The Pentagon is back on Code-Red Alert -- not because of another threat from foreign..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

His Whole Life

How Lake Austin Spa and Resort chef Terry Conlan rose to the top without losing his perspective and priorities

"...leave again. During his years at UT, where he majored alternately in English and drama (playwriting), he became the..."

March 21, 2003 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

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

True West

The dirigo group production of Sam Shepard's True West sees Corey Gagne and Judson L. Jones swapping the roles of petty criminal Lee and screenwriter Austin every other night. While both are exceptional actors, offering plenty of sharp character work, both versions bring that pervading sense of threat that gives the show the violent inevitability of Greek tragedy.

"...chase across the Texas Panhandle, through "Tornado Country." The hunter is unsure where he's being led by his prey;..."

July 19, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

AFS Summer Free for All

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

May 31, 2002 Screens Feature

Second Helpings

Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals Austin's catfish hot spots in the first of a two-week series.

April 26, 2002 Food Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RED DYE #4, THE DISOWNED, THE SNOBS, FORTY SECOND SCANDAL:..."

March 15, 2002 Music 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

Blondie

Reissue

"...(Capitol/Chrysalis)BlondieParallel Lines (Capitol/Chrysalis)BlondieEat to the Beat (Capitol/Chrysalis)BlondieAuto American (Capitol/Chrysalis)BlondieThe Hunter (Capitol/Chrysalis)..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Joy Ride

"...suspense he can generate in a single screening. With Red Rock West and The Last Seduction Dahl almost single-handedly..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Texas musicians report from NYC and D.C., Nick Cave and others cancel shows, and the Trail of Dead headline a Red Cross benefit at the Mercury

"...over last weekend and through this one include Charlie Hunter, John Hammond, Nickel Creek, Grant Lee Phillips, Dave Edmunds,..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Down From the Mountain

"...D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob. Starring: Holly Hunter, David Rawlings, Colin Linden, Chris Thomas King, John Hartford,..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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

Dancing About Architecture

Kissinger gets lost

"...to 101X (not a Capstar station) have been equally inspired by the fact that there's a rare position opening..."

May 18, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Gospel According to Hollywood

Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.

"...corrupt middleman, Caiaphas, and not the Jewish people, who conspired to kill Jesus. When the Crucifixion has resulted in..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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

Future-Kill, Roadie

Hoping to capitalize on the success of Tobe Hooper's 1974 surprise horror hit Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Future-Kill reunited that film's stars Neal and Burns and aimed for a similar creepy / kitschy vein. It failed.Meat Loaf quits his day job to become the world's best roadie. Sound weird? It is.

"...face, both his arms, and, well, another precious member suffered some damage, too (no, we don't get a look..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Second Helpings: Catfish Hunter

You like catfish? Do your friends know you as "the one who eats catfish"? Have we got a "Second Helpings" for you.

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Column

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

Day Trips

"...The site was discovered in 1987, when neighbors noticed boats pulling up to..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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

Postmarks

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

Punk rock rough stuff; Emo calls it quits; Tenacious D seems to be the shit.

"...weren't "real" enough for some people, the scene along Red River certainly got more than real enough over the..."

March 24, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

1999-2000 Award Winners

"...8. Hot Buttered Rhythm..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...somewhat more porous since the hits are not always predictable. It's also a good time to bring back that..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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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