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Jan. 5, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Point Austin: Three Dimensions
When you're looking for heroes, avoid the usual suspects
"...the Soviet menace. Under the Fifties headline shadow of Sputnik, Clark and his schoolboy friends founded a rocket club...."
June 23, 2006 News Column by Michael King
Comet
Record review
"...cymbals and madly reverberated guitar. At their best, on "Sputnik," the Stones' slow-burning waves of woozy wombadelia creep up..."
Aug. 12, 2005 Music Review by Michael Chamy
Kafka on the Shore
It would be an understatement to claim that Haruki
Murakami's newest novel is a departure from his other
novels
"...thinks back to his most masterfully rendered images – Sputnik Sweetheart's Ferris wheel scene, for instance – there is..."
Jan. 21, 2005 Books Review by Jess Sauer
Jon Langford in 'Three Britischer Cowboys'
Jon Langford, longtime member of the British band the
Mekons, has developed a great nostalgic painting
style for rendering his own version of American
heroes
"...favorite imagery in romantic combinations. Cowboys, the Carter family, Sputnik, skeletons, birds, and horses all appear at home together...."
Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Review by Rachel Koper
From Here to Eternity
The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do
"...Tony James (later of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik) to form the London SS. With a revolving-door cast..."
May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw
Spotlights
SXSW Film Festival: Five in Focus
"...Science in Action as well as chunks of educational Sputnik shorts and pretty much anything else Baldwin can get..."
March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Dancing About Architecture
Liberty Lunch is finally reduced to dust bin debris even as Mueller Airport
hosts the "Airport Rave" and some 6,000 attendees, one of which was NOT Biz
Markie, who was a no-show. Who says there are no more live music venues in
Austin. Once-local guitarist Evan Johns hospitalized in DC with severe
liver problems, just as Bad Livers finish recording a new album. Ken Lieck,
King of the Segue.
"...the "most commercials per album" award over Sigue Sigue Sputnik. There's a release party this Friday at the Red..."
Oct. 8, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck
The Net
A Brief History of the Internet
"...what is it, anyway? It all started with a post-Sputnik government project. That's right, the Internet of today is..."
Jan. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by John Avignone
Highway 61 Revisited
"...at night with your earplug and your little Japanese Sputnik transistor. I always had this attachment to the radio...."
Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Hot Line to Jesus
Edison's Speaking Phonograph
"...In fact, he's looking for an older jukebox, a "post-Sputnik, early space age jukebox," as he puts it, with..."
Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig
Flashback, Cash Back
The Trickle Down Economics of Eighties Music
"...than in Virginia, which means artists like Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Shriekback, and the Beastie Boys seem to be more..."
July 18, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer
The Last Don
Bob Bullock: The Crusty Boss of Texas Politics
"...career in 1957 (the same year the Soviets launched Sputnik), is the most powerful -- and most feared --..."
Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Motoramas in Pink Pajamas
And Other Illusions From When Life Was Mighty Swell
"...party. Without a doubt, the shadows of Korea and Sputnik linger in their minds. That futuristic landscape seen in..."
Dec. 13, 1996 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett
Asian American Resource Center
