His Dark Materials

David Gordon Green shines a light on love and loss in Snow Angels

"...David Gordon Green's voice is low, with a soft Southern lilt, the product of years spent skipping between Arkansas..."

April 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Love and Creation

An approach to the SXSW Film Festival

"...is not to argue for a utopian fantasy of Southern race relationships or ignore the very history and ongoing..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Double Life

Director Douglas McGrath on the other critically acclaimed Truman Capote biopic, 'Infamous'

"...of it has such sympathy in it and such feeling underneath it, without in any way ever showing off...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Liz Welch Tirrell

Wake-Up Call

Looking back on the onetime heart of local hip-hop, Catfish Station, and the visuals that defined it

"...The absence of Southern crunk acts on Sixth Street at the very moment..."

July 22, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Friday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...shop serenades. – Greg Beets HOPELESS/SUB CITY SHOWCASE8pm-2am, Redrum Southern California's marriage of kamikaze tempos and harmonies has been..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

The Austin Diner

We know they can do breakfast. But what about lunch?

"...tacos or plates of huevos rancheros, a good old-fashioned Southern-style breakfast is harder to come by. Thankfully, I live..."

April 23, 2004 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Do the Tighten Up

'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel

"...Funk sprouted forth as an adjunct to Southern soul in the mid-Sixties with James Brown hits like..."

May 16, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...sings them so delicately that the listener can't avoid feeling the consequences of careless behavior with fragile souls...."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

The Johnson Treatment

It's been a dozen years since Robert Caro's previous book about Johnson, and now he's back, this time with Master of the Senate, an exhaustive and exhausting examination of the United States Senate during the years of Johnson's time there.

"...Dealer, but his new status as part of the Southern ruling elite required that he do things like help..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Dick Holland

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...SIDE SUICIDES: Take some Chumps, some Reclusives, a Hard Feeling or two and a little Bulemics, marinate 'em in..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

The Joys of Meanness

Scott Blackwood's initiation into the writing life

"...-- like Albert Camus and Milan Kundera and "weird Southern books" like Light in August -- and unexpectedly the..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Letters at 3AM

If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.

"...century deserves is a New York mayor with a Southern accent. Many persuasive New Yorkers have begun whispering to..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Defying Gravity

With Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee took one of the most maligned of cinematic genres -- the kung fu film -- and created an epic many critics (this one included) are calling the year's best movie. We spoke with him about the film's grueling shoot, the refinement it makes to the martial arts genre, and more.

"...star, especially in Asia. And I just had this feeling. I always saw her playing the part. I thought..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Postscripts

The rest of the world may be pondering new publishing technologies like e-books and on-demand printing, but Books editor Clay Smith is still stuck on paperbacks. LSU Press' Voices of the South series is one reason why.

"...here I am, apparently in my dimly lit cave, feeling guilty for relishing in nostalgia. I blame LSU Press...."

June 30, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Spotlights

SXSW Film Festival: Five in Focus

"...the suburbs outside of L.A., it resonates with a neo-Southern Gothic sensibility that only adds to the story's brooding..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Honky-Tonk Song

Profile of piano man Earl Poole Ball

"...Poole Ball is a big man, with a genteel Southern accent and soft-spoken ways. His movements are slowed somewhat..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Postmarks

Don't Shelve Smart Growth

"...chicken-fried steak plate with plenty of cream gravy and Southern-style veggies. As economical as Threadgill's is, I'm still paying..."

July 2, 1999 Column

Steven Fromholz

"...Scare,' and after that, Rusty Wier had the best Southern rock band I ever heard, and that includes Lynyrd..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

The Prop. 2 Coup

Not Your Same Old Song and Dance

"...expansion, and enviros got their green space. Later, this feeling of good will spilled over to the S.O.S. Alliance..."

May 8, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...not his body actually is in that tomb in Southern California, he certainly lives on as the guiding spirit..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...few stories about the usual... love, lust, desperation, killing. Feeling a little jumpy? Close your eyes and dream of..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Think Locally, Act Regionally

Regional Government's All the Rage - Are We Ready?

"..."The area of northern Travis and southern Williamson County," says Moore from his San Marcos remove,..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Working Class Hero

Stephen Doster

"...were trying to send me in the direction of Southern rock."..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Reissues

"...recent croonings. Strains of blues, country, and other indigenous southern American musical forms abound, but they were never played..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

Different Dimensions

Drums and Tuba

"...just as the hearty soup is a symbol of Southern Louisiana's cultural mélange, Drums and Tuba's musical parts interact..."

May 30, 1997 Music Feature by David Lynch

The Justice's Closet Case

A "Deeper Faith"

"...appellate judge who engineered the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the late 1970s. "I am transparent,"..."

May 16, 1997 News Feature by Bob Elder

Record reviews Reissues

"...about the common sources from which black and white Southern musicians and singers drew their ideas, even in areas..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

The Big Pow Wow

Cultural Olympiads, The Derailers

"...The whole Southern Crossroads experience was a great one. The folks from..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...Well, this film is that goof. You get the feeling that somebody involved in Senior Trip really thinks it's..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Club Cafe

The Open Road

"...self-contained. I wasn't with my family, eating turkey and feeling like Baby Huey - overgrown and ridiculous - while..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

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