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Nov. 8, 2013 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
If I Had My Way
Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!
"...Johns' room sits near the lobby on the first floor, which..."
Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran
The Big Chill
Wild Thing Chip Taylor waxes political on 'New Songs of Freedom'
"...him back into the musical fold with The Living Room Tapes (1997) and Seven Days in May (1999). That..."
June 27, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Bright Lights, Inner City
When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway
"...get turned away. Not exactly turned away, but no room to sit. The fraternities reserved tables for 20, 40,..."
July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...environmental organization positions is much longer than I had room to address. And Griffith's record is far from perfect...."
March 8, 2002 Column
Welcome to Texasland
Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas
State History Museum, won't have many historical
documents, but it promises to be entertaining.
"...the offices of the State Preservation Board. A conference room on the ninth floor of the Sam Houston Building..."
June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford
Day Trips
"...again turned to Ma Ferguson. A supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, she faced a state suffering in soup lines, prisons..."
Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Worth a Thousand...
Words Play Off Images in Four New AMOA Exhibitions
"...best known for her sculpted portrait of President Franklin Roosevelt, which has appeared on the U.S. dime since 1945...."
Nov. 29, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen
Public Notice
"...them from 6-8pm Thursday, Aug. 15, in the meeting room at Book People, Sixth & Lamar. New ideas and..."
Aug. 16, 1996 Column by Kate X Messer
SXSW Music Adds New Order, Killer Mike, Protomartyr, and Isabella Lovestory
Along with over 300 more artists headed to the Austin festival
"...Isabella Lovestory reprises a recent local stop for Boiler Room’s December show at the Concourse Project. Japan/Colorado hip-hop act..."
Jan. 25, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
In Pease Park, Patrick Dougherty Constructs a Wooden Wonder
The environmental artist sticks the landing
"...a sense of direction for the work, he allows room for it to evolve as construction progresses. "As you're..."
Feb. 2, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
SXSW Film Announces Audience Awards
Grand Jury awards for Virtual Cinema also named
"...Audience Award Winner: Mr. Roosevelt Director: Noël Wells..."
March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Josh Kupecki
SXSW Announces Film Lineup
Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more
"...Mr. Roosevelt D: Noël Wells After a death in her family,..."
Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
Day Trips: Taxidermy
Stuffed and mounted animals may have their place in museums, but they're kind of creepy
"...without zoo bars. After all, conservationists such as Theodore Roosevelt and John J. Audubon were noted taxidermists. Natural history..."
Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
DVDanger: The Hoarder
Matt Winn and Emily Atack on storage nightmares
"...could store Manhattan four times over, and still have room for Roosevelt Island 10 times over. In new horror..."
April 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Chicago Remixes Chicago
Founding keyboardist Robert Lamm’s gym kismet
"...comes up when I’m on tour in the hotel room listening on random play...."
July 16, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets
Glorious Renewal
The Contemporary Austin gives new life to the place where it all began, Laguna Gloria
"...years and was an ardent supporter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Upon her death, Time magazine was quoted: "Even for..."
March 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood
Mardi Gras 2015: Gather Your Krewe
Follow the purple-gold-green rainbow to our online Mardi Gras series
"...are likely set by now. Current attempts to find rooms close to the action in New Orleans have been..."
Jan. 14, 2015 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer
Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain
When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's
"...political. But viewing historic violence intimately, in one's living room, in real time – that was new. Fifty years..."
Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
"...During World War II, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt communicated by radio telephone because there was no trans-Atlantic..."
Oct. 25, 2013 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup
From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol
"...Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room Owen Egerton, Everyone Says That at the End of..."
Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese
City Hall Hustle: Do You Feel Lucky, PHHS?
Council committee takes next step in reorganizing social service funding
"..."I found this quote from Theodore Roosevelt that I want to use right now because I..."
May 27, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar
TDH: 5/23/11
Conflicting council views of social service process?
"...“I found this quote from Theodore Roosevelt that I want to use right now because I..."
May 23, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar
Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming
'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more
"...is disbanded? We can’t say, but it involves chat rooms, bare breasts and a generous slathering of nitro-glycerine. Cast:..."
Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Night in, Night Out
Steve Wertheimer describes working longtime Austin clubs
"...and rockabilly haven. When it comes to booking his room, he said, "I'm not right all the time, but..."
Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Define 'Normal'
Debra Monroe on the families we're born with and the families we build
"...are always talking around the elephant in the living room, we'll never be really close – so much evasion..."
May 14, 2010 Books Feature by Scott Blackwood
Steel Bluebonnet Determination
Robin Shivers, founder of HAAM, worked behind the scenes, and yet was one of the Austin music scene's most important faces
"...lifelong devotion to her husband resembled that of Eleanor Roosevelt, who told the nation, "I am my husband's legs."..."
Nov. 27, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Oct. 29-Nov. 5
"...BOOK FESTIVAL Some Sunday highlights: Douglas Brinkley on Theodore Roosevelt in The Wilderness Warrior, James P. Bevill on The..."
Oct. 30, 2009 News Feature
Res Publica
Citizens calendar, Aug. 14-19
"...considered a rabid tree-hugging liberal in today's world: Theodore Roosevelt. 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050...."
Aug. 14, 2009 News Feature
Letters at 3am
If one is to vote for McCain-Palin, what, precisely, would one be voting for?
"...2, 2002, McCain "was on the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, yelling to a crowd of..."
