TCB

SXSW 2005 plows a furrow of beer cans, cocaine, and music through downtown Austin

"...procured a packet of dirt from the grave of serial killer Ed Gein, which several people proceeded to snort..."

March 25, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...1998, when he commuted the death sentence of confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. (Lucas died of natural causes..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Darediablo

"...Exit" is the perfect bookend to Twenty Paces, 11 serial installments that feel like you just spent the afternoon..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

163 Questions

Honorable mention, the 13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...reminded me of Otis in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. T F..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Rebecca Beegle

Enfants Terribles

Cruiserweight, armed and ready

"...their extensive network of well-wishers, Urny's conscientious cataloging of serial numbers, and some old-fashioned good luck, they were able..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

TV Eye

Just before I threw out her TV (or at least thought about it), I looked back at television in 2004

"...4. Lost (ABC): I really hope this serial mystery has a great payoff...."

Jan. 7, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Benda Mask

Untold secrets of Jean Arthur

"...1931, most likely in one of three rarities: a serial titled The Masked Menace, and either The Mysterious Dr...."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

AFF Opens With 'Overnight' and More

For admission information and more, see www.austinfilmfestival.com, or check back here next week for our preview

"...Duffy with comparatively lighter fare, James Wan's Saw, a serial-killer horrorshow starring the Dread Pirate Roberts himself, Cary Elwes,..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Kids Stay in the Pictures

When the Cinemaker Co-op and the Center for Young Cinema combined to make the Motion Media Arts Center, at least one thing stayed the same: the importance of kids

"...his bedroom on the "totally unfair" media depictions of serial bad boys Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Unpardonable

The Bush record of 'compassionate conservatism' is amply illustrated by his clemency record in Texas

"...to their deaths. In the 154th case, that of serial murderer Henry Lee Lucas, the governor relented only because..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Summer Reading

Also Recommended

"...Thorne in a fix for this third installment: A serial killer is on the loose in London, but the..."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The 'N' Word

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

"...Hunter Darby didn't plan on being a serial novelty-band member. He got his start playing with a..."

May 21, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

DVD Roundup

"...stars John Malkovich as Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's beloved serial-killer-cum-art-aficionado. (Ripley's last screen incarnation came by way of baby-faced..."

May 21, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Will Shill for Nukes

At UT and elsewhere, academic scientists are only too happy to lend their names and reputations to the nuclear power industry

"...than an exercise in LexisNexis-fueled pedantry, consider yet another serial instance of nuclear collusion – a chorus of received..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Next Departure

With 'Jersey Girl,' Kevin Smith swaps out Jay and Silent Bob for a 7-year-old, all while 'The Green Hornet' looms

"...based on George Trendle and Fran Striker's 1936 radio serial and ABC's mid-Sixties television show that featured a pre-Enter..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Young's Town, USA

A guided tour of 'Greendale'

"...on the radio or something, like listening to a serial. Then we decided we're going to put some things..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The CD 25 Delicatessen

"...Doggett guy – "we'd be called racist.") Klein, a serial appointee to GOP patronage jobs in Austin and D.C.,..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...as an American people, you'd be better off picking [serial killer] Jeffrey Dahmer." – L.N...."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TCB

Gimme whatcha got for a poke chop…

"...three siblings and bassist Dave Hawkins have reported the serial numbers to the police and are combing pawnshops just..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Lingering on the Beloved Characters of 'What Ever'

Talking with Heather Woodbury about the people in her eight-hour performance novel, What Ever.

"...four nights, two hours a night. Because of this serial component, the show becomes a habit, a really good..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Pretty Powerful

Giving the gift of reading

Dec. 5, 2003 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond

"...based on the life and murderous times of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, who also inspired Psycho and The..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Back to Josquin

Texas Early Music Project Director Danny Johnson on the 15th-century composer he keeps returning to.

"...runs deep. He compares him to Bach, Beethoven, 20th-century serial composer Anton Webern, and the Beatles. "He was someone..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

The Middle of the Night

With its isolated farmhouse and unseen menace, The Middle of the Night may look like a conventional thriller, but playwright Lowell Bartholomee refuses to play by the rules, creating an offbeat drama that keeps us perpetually off-balance by playing against our expectations.

"...So, if we're not in Serial Killer Country or the Land of the Living Dead,..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

"...OF BENNIFER Reports say that Ben Affleck has left serial bride Jennifer Lopez crying at the altar. The pair,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Capitol Chronicle

In the Bush era, Labor Day gives little cause for celebration

"...loss and finding comfort in the new economy of serial unemployment. Perhaps some of that $477 billion will find..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Queer Paradise

The 16th annual Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: a preview

"...to testify. In the meantime, a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer is maiming transgender prostitutes, and the circle seems..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

New on DVD

New on DVD: Stargate: Ultimate Edition

"...The potboiler plot is straight out of an adventure serial, in which sneezy, bumbling James Spader deciphers some old..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Jason Henderson

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

"...War veterans or Desert Storm veterans, alcoholic musicians or serial killers. They can be so in love or they..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

(Re)learning Japanese

One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature. The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who stumbled into acting after his grizzled mug and gruff mien won a talent search. Together, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune created some of the Japanese cinema's most enduring treasures.

"...a corrupt statesman) is as simple as a Saturday-morning serial. Just the same, Mifune is no flyweight onscreen, and..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

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