Black Sheep Boys

Okkervil River navigates the headwaters of its career

"...keeping track has witnessed the trajectory of a postmodern Renaissance man, a frustrated aesthete, a literary (and literate) rock..."

April 1, 2005 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Town Lake Stage @ Auditorium Shores Enjoying a recent renaissance, New Orleans' Neville Brothers have just released one of..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

The Visitor

Crispin Glover comes back to Austin with his What Is It?' in the can

"...Actor, writer, multimedia artist, and 21st-century renaissance man Crispin Glover has always made..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Park. You expect something this demented from Brooklyn, and particularly out of Birdman, whose digital droppings generally kill. Oakland's..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Short Cuts

The Austin film community becomes a forum, just after it becomes a juggernaut. Plus, the Arbor sprouts again.

"...way to mass-network. Among other notable filmsters were the Renaissance Company's J. Damon Chang, who won last year's "New..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Hello Murdah, Hello Foddah: Marc Savlov reports from the Alamo's Camp Hacknslash, where more than 1,000 horror fans saw Freddy Vs. Jason while not sloshing their way around a softball field and flashing their kibbles and bits.

"...age of Hollywood, in the Seventies, during that film renaissance that occurred just before Jaws hit the fan," said..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Was the article by Mike Clark-Madison, "Tobacco-Free Triumph Goes Up in Smoke"..."

June 27, 2003 Column

Spangles and High Heels

Dreams come true, just ask "Her Tallness," Marcia Ball.

"...florid names of the carnival rides lure kids and kids-at-heart as much as the games on the midway: Ride..."

June 20, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...debut, All Around, that's more pop-oriented than their earlier art-punk. Pretty Girls Make Graves is a hypercaffeinated punk troupe..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Hearing Voices

An institution unto itself, the DVD commentary track can provide insider dish, impressions of mommy, and the startling depths of one movie star's know-how (or lack thereof).

"...tracks, revealing insider dish, impressions of Mommy, and the startling depths of one movie star's know-how (or lack thereof)...."

Jan. 17, 2003 Screens Feature

Story Book Children

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez duet their way into Austin's heart.

"...co-authored and sung by Billy Vera with Judy Clay, charted high, and the pair became the first interracial couple..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gael Force

Austin's Celtic tributaries feed into Austin Celtic Festival -- and the larger whole.

"...Davidson's heart was still heavy when she locked the door of..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bouchercon 2002

The world's premier mystery convention awards its premier authors.

"...at the world's premier mystery convention, held at the Renaissance Hotel at the Arboretum:..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Books Feature

The Cheese Library

Virginia B. Wood checks out the cheese library.

"...fromager. At the New York City restaurants Picholine and Artisanal, he's responsible for planning, ordering, ripening, and serving the..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...is to Pacific Northwest collective Minus the Bear. The smart lyrics and limber guitars on their debut, This Is..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Cyborgs, smart leotards, and the info-pocalypse

SXSW panelists discuss the potential futures of tech.

"...Programmers, artists, and high tech professionals met at this year's South..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Big Black with the psychotic energy of the Birthday Party. Guitarist David Uskovich (Distorted Pony, Sweet Pea) leads Switchhitter..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"..."Howl," remains the defining prose expression for the spontaneous, street-smart, and culturally alienated group of artists, hustlers, addicts, and..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"..."I just think it's the nature of when the art form got started," she shrugs. "Most of the women..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...of Jimi Hendrix setting fire to his guitar. One artist didn't make the final cut: Laura Nyro, 20, who..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Man of Character

State and Main star William H. Macy talks about his iconic position as America's indie darling, the state of indie filmmaking today, and what on earth Gus Van Sant was thinking.

"...broad a range of characters as this (an admittedly partial list -- his bio includes more than 60 films..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

New shop Chimera is spotlighted and Therapy's spooky exhibits elicit a few kudos, too.

"...At the back of Chimera, but always near the heart of it, is where a different kind of magic..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Page Two

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. would call it a Wampeter.

"...the flowing, more legible, "humanist" scripts of the Italian renaissance, which came to be known as Roman faces...."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Nick Barbaro

A Room With a View

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

"...to be installed. Wertheimer and Continental Houston managing general partner Pete Gordon, who managed the Austin club for three..."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...enjoy a revolutionary point of view that breaks tradition apart, but I also do love tradition. I love history..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...akin to watching some bizarro hybrid of Saturday morning cartoons and Freedom of Choice-era Devo. It's alternately silly and..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...dumb to die." They just might be right. A quarter-century of skewering every musical genre from country to hip-hop..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

The world is not ending anytime soon -- but neither are television specials about the twilight of the millennium.

"...to understand my body's machinations. I had a mad, heart-pounding crush on a junior high school teacher. I sometimes..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Super-8's Super Fans

The Cinemaker Co-op preserves the art of the littlest of motion picture formats -- Super-8 -- and trains tomorrow's filmmakers along the way.

"...lime Jell-O, circa 1969. Intrigued, I spent the better part of the summer struggling to re-create the stop-motion wizardry..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...were awed by the city's advanced developments in the arts, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy. Even today, while Casablanca and..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

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