Take It or Leave It

Are the Strokes great? The Chronicle's Christopher Gray says no, but talks to them anyway.

"...You look like you only slept for an hour..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I would like to comment on your piece about Children's Hospital ["Naked..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column

Dancemaker

"...insight into the tenderhearted artist beneath Taylor's flippant exterior, like when his jaw quivers for a sliver of a..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Wrong Cause

"...was an asshole. That's just my opinion. To some people he is a hero. Indeed, clouds of ambiguity, ambivalence,..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Books Feature

Painting Race

Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images

"...clearly, the figure holds the key in his big white teeth. It is not a pretty picture. If the..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...machine will save humanity, that it will unite all people into one communal mind, and that we can be..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

Postscripts

Shuttle Carnage Looms

"...relieve congestion by building new freeways into Williamson County like SH130, the more we encourage sprawl far outside the..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Column

Inevitably Texan

Left-Winging It with Cornell Hurd

"...sounds familiar). In the Bay area, he found a like-minded crowd, including then-unknowns Ray Benson and George Frayne (who..."

June 21, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Bill Adler and the Drug Underworld Innocence and Savagery

"...shouts look at me, me, me. The really brave, like Bill Adler, are only startling in that they don't..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Books Feature

Disclosure

"...is? As an actor, he is honing his “victimized, white, middle-class male” persona into a fine art, and with..."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shut Up and Drum: Thor Harris Talks Politics and Humanity

We spent election day with local percussive rebel

"...a better place," reasons Thor Harris, sitting on his templelike front porch. "I'm not sure about politics."..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin at Large: You Can’t Take Our Sons Away

On gun violence, white supremacy, misogyny, and fatherhood

"...least some love for El Paso in our souls, unlike this asshole choad from Collin County who decided it..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Swamp Dogg Lotions Up

After midnight at the Continental Club Friday & Saturday

"...Bluetooth. “You can put that in your article, let people know I’m clean. Swamp Dogg was taking a fuckin’..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Running the Funny

Club manager Margie Coyle has kept the laughter going for 20 years

"...helped launch the careers of Bill Hicks and Ron White and Mitch Hedberg and George Lopez back in the..."

July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Home Is Where the Hatred Is

Dialoguing with 'Souled American' author Kevin Phinney

"...to become creative and start to think about this stuff critically. To me, if you listen to a song..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Come Out and Play

Has Austin – or anywhere else – ever seen anything like Cinemania weekend?

"...road map of those three glorious days under the white-hot Texas sun, your hearing all but gone, bludgeoned into..."

May 28, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...not rule in a democracy? America needs political leaders like George W. Bush that are willing to apply the..."

April 2, 2004 Column

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...easier, or may be harder, because he's surrounded, and liked and admired, and was hired, by native Texans who've..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Cell

"...Director of commercials and music videos Tarsem Singh is like a toddler at Christmas: He's far more interested in..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hippo Snouts and Hyena Eyeballs

Through the years, Mick Vann explains, just about every edible thing imaginable, and some stuff even the most jaded imagination can barely contemplate, has been used to gird the loins of the hapless horny male. Remember: It's almost always the guys who feel the need to produce seed.

"...of food and sex in the movies (Tom Jones, Like Water for Chocolate, A Chef in Love) but that..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...common man. And I thought of him sort of like Gunga Din, who had those qualities. So it has..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Exhibitionism

Latino Comedy Festival: Ripeness Is All

"...comedy is hotter than Austin asphalt in August. Headliners like Carlos Mencia and George Lopez are playing across the..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Review

Do They Dare?

Austin Team Portland-Bound for the National Poetry Slam

"...plucked from the audience. For the National Slam, cities like Austin hold a showdown contest that narrows the season..."

July 26, 1996 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

KAZI's True Colors

The Reverend Frank Garrett Pushes KAZI to the Edge

"...this board that is a part of the WPPL (White Pervert Protection League)... will be exposed as well as..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Sam Houston & Blk Odyssy Adds Chicken and Waffles to Their Message

Serving up some neo-soul food

"...their live music gigs. For a self-described "grandiose thinker" like frontman Houston, nights off from performing turned into more..."

June 12, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Uncorking the Story to the True Crime/Comedy Podcast Wine & Crime

Amanda Jacobson pairs vino reviews with different varietals of lawbreaking

"...Franzia in. You didn't want to look morbid or like you were trying to learn all the what-not-to-dos of..."

July 12, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Smallfoot

Furry animated antics as yetis find proof: Humans exist!

"...Much like Monsters, Inc., this animated children’s film inverts the common..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

Two Texans discuss politics, fear, and the power of Willie Nelson to bring us back together

"...Everyone had been instantly impressed. It felt a little like meeting a 2018 Jimmy Stewart. Tall, humble, sincere, and..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

Take Two Aspirin and Ping Me in the Morning

Heath care: an oral future

"...a message that might save mankind, John Nosta sounds like one of Asimov's Eternals on a collect call from..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

SXSW Eco: Beyond the Burlap Bag

Environmentalists ponder how to mainstream eco-culture

"...speaker, Ann Leonard, rose to fame with her website TheStoryofStuff.org: Her 20 minute exploration of the life cycle of..."

Oct. 10, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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