Roasting Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Style

A satirical website challenges Glenn Beck to his own game

"...well as our fellow alt-weekly friends over at The Stranger both have pieces on a new website that challenges..."

Sept. 15, 2009 News Post by Adam Theriault

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...ruffles the wonkish pundit, it's true, but as these things go, the idea that the Texas secession movement could..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Other Blondie

Blondie Chaplin's musical journeys

"...Blondie is no stranger to Austin, though his schedule keeps him from spending..."

Aug. 27, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Paper Heart

Ultra-introverted mumblenerd comedian Charlene Yi shines in this faux documentary that problematically blurs the line between staged, improvised, and "real" events.

"...their dramatic usefulness and overall sense of quirkiness. But things get a bit bumpy – and semiscripted – when..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twisting in the Wind

Austin Energy is trying to find the right price for renewable energy – but that's much easier said than done

"...explains yet again as AE's attempt to be cautious. Stranger still, Sloan argues, was AE's decision to price the..."

Aug. 21, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Cinemapocalypse at the Alamo Ritz: Die, Nazi, Die!

Quentin Tarantino premieres Inglourious

"...Having survived our share of Butt-Numb-a-Thons, we're no stranger to long-haul movie marathons, but it's still a surreal..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

What Would Jean-Luc Do?

In a post-digital world, is cinema dead or just rebooting?

"...is truth 24 frames per second" Godard is no stranger to it (see In Praise of Love). It's cheaper,..."

July 24, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

All That Remains

Roxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago, leaving her family with only memories and investigators with few clues

"...gets to him. It was just one of those things. She was a young girl – she is young."..."

July 3, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Gay Place Loses It!

Week One of our Anytime Fitness Challenge.

"...There are a few things I'm confident about, and here they are:..."

May 15, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Letters at 3AM

Having a personal relationship with an impersonal God

"...say "God," I mean the living connectivity of all things, playing itself out over time. "We live in God...."

May 8, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Sounding off on the ripple effect from City Council's changes to the Austin City Code regarding live music at restaurants, while Vega makes some noise with Crystal Castles

"...to and a lot of great exposure." Palomo's no stranger to blog notoriety, either. His former outfit, Denton's Ghosthustler,..."

April 24, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Turfcats Player Profile of Robert Quiroga

An interview with a former Baylor Bear and current Turfcat

"...start of something new. I know Austin is no stranger to the arena football game, but this is something..."

April 17, 2009 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

SXSW Film

Reviews and interviews

"...of Four Boxes, that they've hit the jackpot: A stranger has died, with no relatives to claim his estate...."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Gay Place

Where the queers at on Friday? SXSW!

"...You Like a Billionaire." Highs and lows are no stranger to Ms. K, but things are looking up. In..."

March 20, 2009 Features Feature by Ash Bell

Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Screening of 'Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo'

Paramount Theatre, Saturday, March 14, 2009

"...one in Africa but the one in an even stranger and scarier place: Louisiana. Oklahoma at least has a..."

March 13, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Generation Overshare

What happens when the line blurs between our online and offline lives?

"...online, entering chat rooms, creating personal pages, listing 25-100 things about yourself, it becomes dangerous if your identity is..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Interacting at Interactive

A social experiment in schmoozing goes a little too well

"...the Eastside. My initial plan was to ask a stranger if they had a “pick-up line” to meet people..."

Feb. 23, 2009 SXSW Post by James Renovitch

Off the Record

Diving into Club 1808, the Real Heroes' Chinese democracy, and Ray Benson on Willie, Wexler, and the Wheel

"...Saturday with a special guest – the Red Headed Stranger's tour itinerary appears to be open – before hitting..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

No Relief for Rodney Reed

The piecemeal appeals process isn't doing the death row inmate any favors

"...Reed attorney Benjet says the ruling is, among other things, frustrating – in part, because the court still has..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

City Hall Hustle: First One In

McCracken cracks open his war chest in officially declaring his candidacy for mayor

"...It may get stranger still: The latest chatter is that, behind the scenes,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Sustainable Biodiesel: Made in Austin

How two guys are putting Austin on the biodiesel map … again

"...Nelson, the wife of biodiesel advocate and Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson; and Kelly King, co-founder of industry pioneer..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Quantum of Solace

It's grim, dark, and relentlessly violent – James Bond as Terminator rather than Templar – but it delivers the goods in bloody high style.

"...You name it, Craig's vicious arctic eyes will kick things to a whole new level of goodness knows what...."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2008 Texas Book Festival

Citizen of the World: Stephanie Elizondo Griest

"...heritage." It opens with a quote from, of all things, the band Popol Vuh (fittingly, in fact – the..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

'Boys Will Be Boys'

Jeff Pearlman's new book exposes the excesses and successes of the Nineties Dallas Cowboys

"...no preface, because Pearlman has no use for such things. On the first paragraph of the first page, the..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Jeffrey Dell: Big Pelt

These prints address the fact that looking at hair is fascinating and creepy

"...hair growth. "Big Pelt" is a meditation on all things hairy by printmaker Jeffrey Dell...."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

ACL Fest Sunday Interviews

The Dirty Old One Man Band recovers from the road

"...$121 for three-quarters of a tank of gas; a stranger named Robyn, who settled into selling his merch for..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Still Up the Junction

Q&A with Chris Difford of Squeeze

"...for Argybargy, East Side Story, and Sweets from a Stranger), and Simon Hanson (drums) and Stephen Large (keyboards), from..."

Sept. 3, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Days of Future Past

The history of Salvage Vanguard Theater's unlikely sci-fi success, The Intergalactic Nemesis

"...serials – has gone before. And to make matters stranger, it's a work of science fiction, a genre whose..."

July 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Drawing Interest

Books with graphic value

"...Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditkoby Blake Bell Fantagraphics Books,..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...we roll into a backward-ass Northeastern hillbilly town. Even stranger, you can't buy beer and liquor at the same..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

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