The Texas Gamut

Titles From Texas

"...I was sitting at the kitchen table with coffee in hand and The Essential Hank Snow on the..."

May 15, 1998 Books Feature

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...Edgar Varèse, in the liner notes for The Mothers of Invention album Freak Out!..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Terms of Engagement

If 'We Can't Make It Here,' then James McMurtry's in big trouble

"...There's fear and loathing in Crawford, Texas. You can see it in the brake lights of..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Texas Tales

For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

"...Texas A&M University Press, 266 pp., $29.95..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

A Sort of Legend

Author Neil Gaiman is a fantastist and storyteller. Marc Savlov talks to the author and reveals why he's also a legend. Sort of.

"...recent acerbic anecdote holds sway. He's not that sort of storyteller. He's better than that, or, at the very..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Genius of Love

"...It's February 1999, in the quiet, smokeless confines of the Cactus Cafe on the University of Texas campus,..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Son of the Circus

Twistin' in the Wind

"...when he's finally seated, going through a mental check-list of everything he's done since the April release of his..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips & Beyond: Old Warbirds

Former military aircraft offer once-in-a-lifetime rides

"...sitting on the airport’s black tarmac are real-life reminders of the horrific and exciting tales of World War II..."

April 12, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Songs of Life and Death: An Izzy Cox Tribute Album, Vol. 1

"...and outlaw country atop twanging, hollow-body guitar slides and old-time roots on originals such as "Bad Bad Woman." On..."

April 13, 2018 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Texas in the Title

"...25 "Texas Flyer," Freddie King Songwriters: Freddie King, Roy Davies, Bob..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Murder, Mayhem, and the Underbelly of Life

Friends in Low Places

"...her Jeep and body in a field just outside of Bastrop, Thomas has about 27 years until he can..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Books Feature

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...down at his drafting table in a nook just off the kitchen and works all night...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Edward Carey's Portrait of Madame Tussaud in Little

The Austin author both writes about and illustrates the grand, strange life of the waxworks queen

"...then again, intriguing contradictions go right to the heart of this fictional memoir of the queen of waxworks. You..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Elusive Truth

"...It's certainly one of the spicier tales in Texas lore: Connecticut native Emily..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Old Hollywood Tales

"...foreign to me. I get to spend a lot of time Web-surfing but I have also become quite friendly..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Texas Records

"...over three years and, frankly, occupied the taxi squad of Austin's hunkered-down but remarkably good reggae scene. There's a..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Music Review

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...A dead armadillo in the middle of the highway. One of the first images in 1974's..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tales Behind the Posters

"...Yet beyond the portraits and art lie the stories of how the posters came to be. As Priest tells..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Confessions of a Romance Virgin

Harlequin heats up a new market with its kickass Bombshell heroines

"...41st Street, near the pharmacy counter, there's a rack of flowery muumuus. It's in the odds-and-ends section of the..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

Fish Tales

Eaves Bros. Quality Seafood, At the Sign of the Neon Lobster

"...isn't too surprising, considering that an astonishing 8,000 pounds of seafood arrive every day at this unassuming white building..."

March 22, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Voice of the Writer

Readings From the Texas Book Festival

"...Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana opened the 1997 Texas Book Festival with a session in the Capitol's House..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Books Feature

Texas Platters

"...1940, there's little about Phil Ochs' music that says "Texas," other than an affinity in his later recordings for..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

Death of an Extra: Odell Grant

Odell Grant, who had a face you couldn't forget, has died

"...The lines curlicued and dug deep like an etching of the totality of time. Then he’d break into a..."

April 7, 2015 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Pieces of My Heart

Pamela Des Barres dishes in Austin

"...Review, $14.95), released in paperback. As the Mother Superior of groupies, Des Barres’ interviews with the old-school and contemporary..."

Oct. 13, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

"...Trevino was making a notable splash on the wave of country music's renaissance, the distinction of being a Hispanic..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

The Top 10 Works of Austin Art of 2024

The things that reignited my faith in the human capacity for creation

"...just agree that 2024 was a sucking black hole of despair? If not, at least pretend to agree –..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

A Tidal Wave of People Batter the Foundations of Austin’s Structural Racism

Thousands took to Downtown and Eastside streets to say, emphatically, that Black Lives Matter

"...In stark contrast to the chaos and bloodshed of prior days of protest, the massive rally and march..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...Austin's most popular band, the Scabs have become something of a local cottage industry. Last year's live-in-the-studio debut, Freebird,..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Memories of My Father Watching TV: A Novel

"...to do anything innovative. Nevertheless, Curtis White displays plenty of literary daring in his most recent volume, Memories of..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Books Review

Joachim Trier’s Thelma Is a Riveting Tale of Psychic-Sexual Coming of Age

Love makes the world burn down

"...his regrets about not being able to travel to Texas with his film, despite being "thrilled to have been..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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