E Is for Everything

Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.

"...a thrift-store cowboy shirt, swinging a beer in one hand and shaking hands with the other, Hawke is easy..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Changed Forever

Scenes and voices from Austin's reaction to the attacks

"...I could think was 'My God,'" she says, one hand clasped over her heart. "It brought back memories I..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Waiting for Jerry

The arrangements were made, the interview set: Jerry Hall, one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world, would be calling writer Stephen MacMillan Moser at home on his own telephone! And he waited. And waited. And waited …

"...loses themselves in her characters, and never for one second did we forget it was Jerry Hall we were..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...-- with its epic pause between the first and second syllables, always exquisitely timed to draw the maximum amount..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...asked about the Welcome Bikers sign, I got the offhand answer, "Oh, that's 'cause all the Bikers are coming..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Don Giovanni: Lover on the Lam

Robi Polgar examines the Austin Lyric Opera production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

"...and fleeing the peasant girl Zerlina and her buffoonish husband-to-be Masetto (on their wedding day, no less!); and fleeing..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Identifying the Impulse

"...joining with Lion soon after, the label scored a second hit in 1941 with clarinetist Edmond Hall. Not long..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Exhibitionism

Phantom of the Opera: Window Display

"...The second piece, Andante for Flute in C Major, K.315, stars..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Arts Review

Dyed-in-the-Wool Fan

The Historical Fiction of Diana Gabaldon

"...Most of the valiant Highlanders were slaughtered and their second attempt to restore the Stuarts to the throne of..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Virginia B. Wood

A Vision Shared

Sonya Cohen and Dick Connette Last Forever

"...On the road less traveled, fate and chance walk hand in hand. The path of least resistance bustles, crowded,..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

You Are What You Art

"...value except that they probably feel wonderful in your hand). Lippard mentions donating one artist's book to raise money..."

July 11, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Reissues

"...century, anyway. There's virtually no argument that Rollins is, hands down, the greatest living jazz musician; but since signing..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Dr. Marvin Kimbrough and Floyd Freeman That Essence Rare

"...from 1990 to the present. Freeman, on the other hand, tells of shuffling through some documents and finding two..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

A Conversation with Stephen Harrigan Telling Ghost Stories

"...Comanche Midnight is the second terrific collection of Stephen Harrigan's essays published by University..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Arts Feature by Robin Bradford

Scanlines

Mothering Heights

"...rapidly to mind. All are available on videotape. "The hand that rocks the cradle" is an image that film..."

May 12, 1995 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Patria y Vida: The Newest Rhythm Of Revolution

Panel spotlights Cuba protest song leading to rapper's imprisonment

"...due to the passionate nature of the topic at hand...."

March 21, 2022 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

Live Election Night Results & Updates

The latest from the polls and candidate watch parties

"...a run-off. Meanwhile, his sister Susana Almanza is in second with 21.6%. Though small, her party housed her strongest..."

Nov. 6, 2018 News Post by News Staff

Extended Stay

The restaurants of the JW Marriott

"...Marriott, occupies prime real estate at the intersection of Second and Congress and attempts to entice prospective diners via..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Pitch

Ted Geoghegan gets gory for We Are Still Here

"...Man on 7 Train Platform in Sharknado 2: The Second One), he actually started off as a filmmaker in..."

March 15, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interview: Raina Rose

Folk music ‘only exists in a community’

"...she’s also been singing in Sam Baker’s band. Her husband Andrew Pressman is Ben Kweller’s bassist. We caught her..."

March 9, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Studio Visits: Bethany Johnson

In a sharply divided two-room studio, Bethany Johnson slowly works herself out of a rut

"..."gee whiz!" as they appear computer-generated but are actually hand-drawn. Her drawings are more than just technical feats; they..."

June 21, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

99th Floor

Austin Psych Fest boldly goes where no local music trip's gone before.

"...THC wowed the lysergically-inclined with both its second disc, Noctuary on Sacred Bones, and its appearances at..."

April 26, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

From Soup to Nuts (Hold the Nuts)

A hardly comprehensive look at Austin's soup scene

"...The tom kha at Pad Thai, on the other hand, is swoonworthy, with a perfectly balanced and deeply soothing..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Technology, Take Us Away

Are our gadgets and gizmos troubleshooters or troublemakers?

"...Trust. These are the people, I imagine, who can handle all the novelty – who can peer into the..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Voice Dance Company

The debut of Gina Patterson's new company had everything you need in choreography

"...predictable. Performed by a group of very good dancers hand-picked by Patterson from far and wide, the selection of..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Sorting the Family's Dirty Laundry

AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger

"...Cassuto, Alan's maternal grandfather and the subject of his second film, Intimate Stranger (1991) – as a "nothing and..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Friday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...guitars and an armada of guitar pedals. Last year's second LP, Solace, brought this Austin bedroom project into the..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...ear-to-ear grin on his face. He claps a friendly hand on the shoulder of a woman contorted in her..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...hitting the security guard in the head with her handbag, his handbag, to see Johnny Cash, the manly man...."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Jackie, Oh!

"It's been a long time since a woman was mayor," Jackie Goodman mused the other day.

"...about whether he'll serve out the remainder of his second term. Should Goodman run for mayor, she could find..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

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