The Pleasure Seekers

Patti Quatro and her sisters started a revolution

"..."Detroit in the Sixties was a Renaissance. Motown was the going thing, but..."

July 29, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Right Snuff

Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn't just another face in Austin's eccentric crowd

"...the Top 40 radio station in Austin in the mid-Sixties...."

July 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Walk in Austin's Shoes

Curious tidbits and Austin arcana

"...she grew up, she was never meant for frat-straight early-Sixties UT. She was enrolled as a fine arts student..."

March 19, 2010 News Feature by the News Staff

Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly

Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen

"...Kenneth Threadgill, then Austin's artistic underground origin in the Sixties can likewise be attributed to Jack Jackson, Jim Franklin,..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

A Married Woman;
Made in U.S.A.;
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Go, go, Godard!

"...The mid-Sixties was a fertile and transformational period for French filmmaker..."

July 24, 2009 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Remembering RFK

Three new tomes examine the legacy of RFK in pictures and words.

"...$39.95 A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixtiesby Bill Eppridge Harry N. Abrams, 190 pp., $29.95 The..."

June 13, 2008 Books Review by Kevin Phinney

The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

"...my view of life. Maybe it's all about the Sixties not working. That could be it. I'm a Sixties..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Confessions From the King of Fuzz

Cult soundtrack composer Davie Allan comes to the Alamo Ritz

"...Wild One, but they really took off in the Sixties. Future stars such as Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Diane..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...in all of Central Texas in the Fifties and Sixties. His influence over the airways gained him special favor..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...Is it any wonder they were ready for the Sixties?One Toke Over the Line..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

AFS Texas Documentary Tour

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

"...group who started up in Greenwich Village in the Sixties and is still around, more or less. The latter,..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...first underground comic. Comix, they were called in the Sixties and Seventies, the irreverent twisting of the classic art..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Psycho Beach Party

Prairie Oyster Productions' staging of 'Psycho Beach Party' is trashy, but it's meant to be: a campy, albeit loving, send-up of all things beach, all things Sixties, and all things Hitchcockian

"...loving one, of all things beach and all things Sixties and all things Hitchcockian? Was meant to be pure..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Hey, Hey, Woody Guthrie, I Made You a Film

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: 'Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home'

"...revival started happening around the late Fifties and early Sixties, people were rediscovering Guthrie, and they found this guy..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...one of them. The trio's manic guitar/keyboard/drums mixture of Sixties psychosis and early Modest Mouse jangle found its way..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics

The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them

"...Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Local Civil Rights Hero Overton Dies

Activist helped desegregate Austin's schools

"...restaurants and other "whites only" gathering spots during the Sixties and Seventies, he was usually accompanied by a small..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

George Kinney & The Golden Dawn

Fanning the flames of legend

"...the 13th Floor Elevators and Texas psych in the Sixties has not diminished over the years. It's just that..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"...called "Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties."..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...of country.) Yet in 1962 what we call "the Sixties" hadn't yet begun; this was still the world of..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...roots and lapsed into syrupy pap by the early Sixties. The singles soundscape of Top 40 radio that summer..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Street Ale House Trying to reconstruct the magic of Sixties pop is risky business. Thankfully, Detroit's Singles plow through..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...Eastside's 11th Street entertainment district. Popular music in the Sixties underwent the birth of rock & roll, which boosted..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

Elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist! You know that our diva style avatar Stephen made the scene (and quite a scene) at the Pride Parade. And what hot li'l purring mama will soon be off the singles list?

"...parade was Peace & Pride. There was a distinct Sixties feel to it all, but ASA was also promoting..."

June 20, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Do the Tighten Up

'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel

"...sides (and one from nearby Shreveport) from the late Sixties and early Seventies, Texas Funk unearths a largely unknown..."

May 16, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Ray Price

Texas Platters

"...country music legend is reunited with members of his Sixties Nashville A-team of studio players, with none other than..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

20 Questions With Eliza Gilkyson

The maturation of Eliza Gilkyson

"...If film credits in the Sixties were what they are now, every article on Eliza..."

April 19, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Mooney Suzuki have tempered their punk blues with tuneful Sixties post-soul on their new Gammon Records full-length, Electric Sweat...."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

The Naked Truth

Legendary exploitation producer Dave Friedman comes to town to present Mau Mau Sex Sex, the documentary of his career with Dan Sonney.

"...partners Friedman and Sonney made the move in the Sixties toward the nudie and nudie-cutie genre...."

Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Collegia Musikum

How music from the Medieval and Baroque eras impacts us today

"...Johnson, "was a catch-all phrase used in the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies for early music ensemble. It was based..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Robi Polgar

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