High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...the day before, told him I was flying to Phoenix with Freddy. He said he was going to Taos,..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Shit happens: Hosing off and cleaning up after the glorious mess that was the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...Dead Weather, the Brit-pop evolution of the Arctic Monkeys, Phoenix's ecstatic electro-jetliner, and Ben Sollee coloring outside the lines..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Opie on Top

AFF to honor Ron Howard's extraordinary contribution to filmmaking

"...the camera: children’s fantasy (Willow) and romantic comedy (Splash), summer blockbuster (the Da Vinci movies) and fall Oscar bait..."

July 14, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers

"...9:15pm, Beauty Bar Backyard Imagine Phoenix fronted by Usher. Spawned from the ashes of P:ano,..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...7pm, Elysium At last summer's birthday/Emo's gig, Bauhaus' skeletal frontman and goth-rock godhead proved..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Pondering Downtown Condos

Frequently Asked Questions

"...are peanuts compared to other U.S. boomtowns such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Miami. In the Miami area, closer..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Letters at 3AM

Officially confirmed 'alien' activity would be as sobering as it is intoxicating

"...Saw one once. Summer of 1981. It was unidentified, flying, and definitely an..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Place of Honor

Twelve rounds between Hiroko Shimbo and Tyson Cole

"...she set up a test and evaluation kitchen near Phoenix where several highly promising chefs from around the country..."

June 1, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Thursday Sleepers

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...Hi to Your Mom doesn't sound like one. Last summer's fourth LP, Impeccable Blahs, is an East Coast OC..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Friday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...their blues/punk/pop concoction aptly embodies the label's unpolished aesthetic. Phoenix-based the Breakup Society thrive on the raw power pop..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Skies Partly Cloudy

Two years down the road, liberal network still struggles to establish itself

"...momentum. This month the network lost its affiliate in Phoenix when the station was sold and the new owner..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Tulia on the way to church camps in the summer, I hated to hear about what happened there, but..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column

Keep Us Posted on Edna

"...Tulia on the way to church camps in the summer, I hated to hear about what happened there, but..."

Oct. 25, 2005 Postmarks

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...of a telephone call from an anti-polygamist activist from Phoenix, Ariz., named Flora Jessop – it wasn't long before..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"...time a senior editor at Spin, saw Susy Buchanan's Phoenix New Times piece on quad rugby and pitched Maxim..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Walk Like Cleto

H-town's Chingo Bling slings tamale beats

"...Afford Him, Women All Adore Him." He tours (Boise, Phoenix, Portland, and Albuquerque), gets ink in publications like Lowrider..."

June 11, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Bradley's Lazarus Lotto Goes to Court

Gary Bradley's bankruptcy trial features the spectacular rise of the Lazarus Trust

"...before the developer filed for Chapter 7 in the summer of 2002...."

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...His forthcoming LP, West of Lincoln, is a melodic summer paean to falling in and out of befuddled love,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Tom "Phoenix" Strubbe..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Column

The People Person

Peter Hedges' Pieces of April brings the novelist-screenwriter out of the quiet and into the filmmaking fray.

"...April's long-suffering father and mother. Coming off of a summer film season dominated by blockbuster sequels, Hedges' film is..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...OH, BEAST!: Rising like an angry phoenix from the burned-out nest of Austin prog-punk outfit Zulu..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Look Ma, No Hands!

How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.

"...to the proceedings were Sara Clark (who died this summer, deeply mourned), Frances Barton, and Marty McKenzie, among others...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The First SXSW

"...bands playing their convention in New York in the summer of '86. The Seminar announced that they were going..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Spit Out the Seeds

Lucinda Williams bares all

"...days after playing The Tonight Show, Williams called from Phoenix to play catch-up...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Too Much Caffeine Woman

Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

"..."I got on the wrong plane in Phoenix. They bumped me because I was going to miss..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In Person

It probably seems a little unlikely. A 33-foot midnight blue tour bus rolls into town at dusk. And former Austin Poetry Slam Team member Mike Henry was on it.

"...of performance poetry in America; sort of a rolling summer camp for slam poets...."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Mike Henry

Picking Up the Pieces

Karr Conviction Closes Another Chapter in O'Hair Case

"...murdered the O'Hairs and Fry.Sloth at APD By the summer of 1998, Tim Young and John MacCormack didn't have..."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

TV Eye

After federal agents stormed the Gonzalez house last Saturday, it was all Elián, all the time on cable television : but doesn't it feel more like a movie of the week than breaking news? Also, upcoming May television events, and networks announce series renewals.

"...the event on television until I checked into a Phoenix-area hotel room on Saturday night. From what I could..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Crossing That Bridge

Council approves a separate bike and pedestrian bridge over Town Lake near the existing Lamar Street Bridge, and hears neighborhood concerns about moving central booking to the new criminal justice center downtown.

"...Regency Apartments, and attend Pease Elementary School and the Phoenix School day-care center...."

April 21, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...Cosmic Crew, Austin's Unfadeable Young Guns and Underdog Turntablists, Phoenix's DJ ZTrip, and New York cutups the X-ecutioners. Think..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

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