Slam as It Ever Was

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

"..."People are not up to date with what slam is now," says Austin slam master Mike Henry, the..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Shawn Badgley

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio have produced what can only be called an extraordinary book

"...Hungry Planet: What the World Eats..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Planet Rock

Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

"...Head Kicked in Tonight" sent the floor into a slam-dancing frenzy. Unlike their more politically driven contemporaries, the Rezillos'..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Man on Fire

Mike Henry and the 'Slam Planet' recovery benefit

"...When former Electric Lounger and current Slam Planet: War of the Words director Mike Henry was..."

April 15, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mike Henry and Kyle Fuller

'Slam Planet: War of the Words'

"...Ask three different slam poets what it is – exactly – that they..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film

Interviews and reviews

"...Slam Planet: War of the Words..."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Core

"...and the gang from Armageddon have already fulfilled their planet-saving obligations, in steps physics professor Josh Keyes (Eckhart), vainglorious..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...lively new branches. But anyone who's been to a slam can verify that poetry and performance are tight today..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Wes Craven Presents: They

"...the spider-rat-bat-thing from Ib Melchior's sci-fi potboiler Angry Red Planet, but just a bit). That's something else the film..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Faculty

Co-written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), The Faculty is pure Robert Rodriguez: jam-packed with action, suspense, humor, horror, and plenty of cinematic homages.

"...clutter (nearly 10 major characters throughout), it's nonetheless a slam-bang, sci-fi actioner, relentlessly paced and edited, with a pounding..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Home School

Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.

"...the Other Side, continue festival runs that began at Slamdance 2006...."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...50 hip-hop-oriented instrumentals as he scores the forthcoming film Slam Planet: War of Words. DJ Tats supports. – Robert..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Litera

Lectures, Classes, Misc.

"...attempt weekly derring-do of such a volatile nature and Slam-seamytresses Van West is still wrestling in the basement with..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

Reading Aloud

SXSW 97 Spoken Word Showcases

"...artists." Henry also relied on his links to the slam poetry world to find artists comfortable delivering poems from..."

March 14, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...that want nothing but radioactive destruction for the entire planet, and he is one of only a few that..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column

Postscripts

Austin literary agent Jim Hornfischer hasn't been sleeping. He's taking the bar at the end of the month, he and his wife have three children, and he recently founded his own agency, Hornfischer Literary Management, Inc., after eight years with The Literary Group, an agency headquartered in New York known for handling celebrity books.

"...vague and abstract." Open and free to the public… Slam news: The 2001 Slam Team has been chosen for..."

July 13, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Go Forth. Be Memorable.

"...know about you, but if I hit a grand slam, I want the announcer to scream my name so..."

July 21, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Flatbed Press founders Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith, choreographer Kate Warren and theatre / spoken word artist Zell Miller III join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...wouldn't put him on the lineup); then on the slam scene, where he was winner of the 1999 Heman..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Gay Place

It's Coming Out Month big time in Austin this week

"...Women's Coming Out Story Slam Celebrate OUTober with women's stories of coming out. Fri.,..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...he hates rich, beautiful, talented, heterosexual women, now it's slam the UT football team and its uniforms. (You'd think..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column

SXSW Web Awards

An annotated list of this year's Web Awards winners

"...Streaming Audio: SLAM Media..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kim Mellen

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...objectivity from time to time. Finally, your cute little slam presuming that I think I deserve to live because..."

July 25, 2003 Column

A Drag Fest, Nutcracker, and Puppets in This Week’s Events

Lots of weekend events to keep you occupied

"...RIYL: Fantastic Planet and Belladonna of Sadness. This psychedelic 2D animated sci-fi..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...we could come up with is roller derby. No slam on roller derby, but this is America, goddamn it,..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...they look, are designed. But then, everything on this planet that doesn't occur without human intervention is designed --..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling: Poetry-Soaked World

Ada Calhoun covers Frontera Hyde Park Theatre's world premiere of Erik Ehn's Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling.

"...The poetry slam is a forum by turns beloved and detestable. Slams..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...* Wammo's Second Place Finish at the National Poetry Slam, Ann Arbor, Michigan: 118 poets, including myself, from over..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...around Austin since 1981, since before there was a slam circuit, before Chicago House and that whole scene (of..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...are being left out because the Chron chooses to slam and or ignore certain music styles. I am certainly..."

July 28, 2006 Column

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...might be stand-up comedy night, and Wednesday might be slam poetry night, late nights on Fridays are gonna be..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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