Five Ingredients for a Perfect Halloween

Like the best bags of trick-or-treat candy, it’s all in the selecton

"...of this most chilling holiday.Through Nov. 4Scream Hollow, 149 Split Rail, Smithville$10texashalloweenmuseum.com Scary Movies..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...of shops on South Lamar next to where the Split Rail had been, I thought, "Oh, poor thing. They'll..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Halloween Begins in Summer This Weekend

Haunted houses get ready to shake the chains again

"...be ignored in the scare game, Scream Hollow (149 Split Rail, Smithville) will also be returning from the beyond,..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...Tuesday night [residency], and finish the night at the Split Rail to see Ray Wylie Hubbard."..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Halloween Is Serious Business

Behind the gates at Scream Hollow and the House of Torment

"...Scream Hollow, 149 Split Rail Lane, Smithville, www.screamhollow.com. Oct. 31: Pitch Dark special..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Into the Woods at Scream Hollow

Behind the scenes at the local destination horror house

"...Halloween, then reopens for Pitch Dark Nov. 4-5. 149 Split Rail Ln., Smithville. Tickets and info at www.screamhollow.com...."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

To C-Boy, With Love

Continental Club maverick Steve Wertheimer pays tribute to his mentor – with a nightclub

"...Wertheimer says, listing the Armadillo, Soap Creek, Antone's, and Split Rail as regular haunts. "But there was something special..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Slate’s Slate: Preserve the Past

‘Lost Austin’ and other ‘hysterical’ markers

"...live music venues] such as the Armadillo or the Split Rail, the buildings themselves are not architecturally significant, but..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Playback: Major Frost

Who's Max Frost and how did the Austin native sign to Atlantic Records?

"...how the hippies infiltrated a country bar called the Split Rail. What's next is up to you: Call KUTX..."

June 28, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

11 Meal Times

Turn the tasty up to 11

"...hosts a benefit for the New Farm Institute with Split Rail Ales and Wander­lust Ice Cream & Sorbet. Enjoy..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung

Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum

"...what might happen in the night – at the Split Rail or Antone's or the Soap Creek Saloon –..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Cactus Cafe Closing Is Deeply Saddening

"...John Hartford on I-35. Freda and the Firedogs at Split Rail. Cedarwood Whackers off Bluff Springs. When AWH doors..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Postmarks

Blood on the Tracks

The ballad of Griff Luneburg and Cactus Cafe

"...San Marcos, but the Armadillo World Headquarters and the Split Rail in Austin were his stomping grounds on weekends...."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...You have a shift in the paradigm from the Split Rail and the Armadillo to filmmakers, but it's still..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Spangles and High Heels

Dreams come true, just ask "Her Tallness," Marcia Ball.

"...the edge of town at Ben White and the Split Rail at Riverside, where fast-food restaurants sit today. The..."

June 20, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

Matthew McConaughey, Peter Fonda, Luke Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Farrah Fawcett, Louis Black: Which godlike celebrity did Style Avatar Stephen deign to spend a hot 15 minutes in a trailer with? Oh, wouldn't you like to know …

"...seemed to go on forever, punctuated with portions of split-rail fences, fierce cacti, and glowing moon rocks. As dusk..."

March 14, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Nowhere but Texas

A long, lost cosmic country artifact resurfaces.

"...X. Reed, Steve McDaniels, and David Cook packed the Split Rail on Sundays as Freda & the Firedogs. The..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...robot, wearing a cowboy shirt and standing behind a split rail fence, tells jokes, moving in not-quite-lifelike gestures. It's..."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Page Two

Editor Louis Black comments on our brief reunion with cover subject (and onetime Chronicle illustrator) Keith Graves, reconsiders Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter, and says "get well" to KVET talk-show mainstay Sammy Allred and "farewell" to former staffer Sarah Hepola.

"...of fine boot- and hat-makers in town, of the Split Rail and the Stallion, of drive-ins and barbecue and..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...with Wilson's Armadillo, and the One Night, Soap Creek, Split Rail, and Broken Spoke, there was the Checkered Flag,..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Ace in the Hole

Who is Clay Blaker and why are all these famous people recording his songs?

"...George Strait, Tim McGraw, Mark Chesnutt, Clay Walker, the Derailers, LeAnn Rimes, Tyler England, Jim Lauderdale, Johnny Bush, Bill..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Postmarks

Development peccadillos and Lost Austin kudos.

"...the first Austin stage I played on and the Split Rail was the first place I saw a Kerrville..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...effluvia scattered randomly about the untreated wooden walls and railings. The band, however, was anything but country. Drunken men..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Return of Wayne Douglas

A flood of posthumous Doug Sahm CDs, both old and new, hits record stores

"...the Armadillo World Headquarters, Vulcan Gas Company, and the Split Rail are long gone, fond memories in the minds..."

June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Framed

"...scene via locales like Soap Creek Saloon and the Split Rail...."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Crossing the Final Path

"...one of him standing in front of his short-lived Split Rail at the corner of Seventh and Brazos a..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Altered States

Daryl and His Other Brother Daryl

"...were one of the folks. You hung around the Split Rail. You played your trumpet on street corners. You..."

May 15, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

"...Southern Culture on the Skids, Electric Lounge with the Derailers, the Bottle Rockets, and Lucinda Williams (at Lucinda's request)...."

Nov. 21, 1997 Column

No Expectations

Whiskeytown

"...after the band had finished its showcase at the Split Rail. Adams, who remembers being hung over and playing..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

Behind the Panels

"...includes spoken -- or at least written -- word. Splitting the Atom That stretch of Red River north of..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Music Column

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