Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

"...started as an Iowa thing, but it's an Austin, Texas, thing now. Dudes with farmer genes rock."..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...and as ramrod real as Veronica Lake's résumé: This Gun for Hire, All Women Have Secrets, Bring on the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...opine that the only way stopping Hussein's regime made sense is if he was moments away from a catastrophic..."

July 18, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...little clout to point out what goes on in Texas state prisons and jails on a daily basis ["Beaten..."

July 12, 2002 Column

Postmarks

More Light Rail hubbub and a few Naderite cries in the wilderness.

"...has more road-miles per capita than any other large Texas city, and although more massive road building is already..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column

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The Real Obscenity

"...Who Runs Texas?..."

April 30, 1999 Column

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Plan for People, Not Cars

"...hopefully "putting more teeth" in upgrading the ways the Texas school districts keep score of dropouts, etc...."

March 26, 1999 Column

Bombs Not Bullets

Austin Hip-Hop Mushrooms

"...whatever, they all believe in this. There's a tremendous sense of community that goes along with this. I think..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Film

Film Reviews

"...and pornography, consensual sex and rape. 3.0 stars (A.M.) Texas Union..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

HAAM Day, Ron Carter, and Pecan Street Festival lead our recommended shows

"...with bands like the Lumineers, yet cuts a decidedly Texas slant into the genre, literary but playful. The harmonies..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Opinion: An Open Letter to Chip Roy, U.S. Representative, Member of Congress

A retired principal urges Chip Roy to reconsider his position on the free availability of military-style automatic weapons to civilians

"...Swimelar. I am an American citizen and a retired Texas school principal in your congressional district. I have a..."

June 3, 2022 Column by Gregory Swimelar

Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change

A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races

"...the three of them together can provide a fuller sense of what Travis County officials mean when they brandish..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Bullock Museum Screens Bonnie and Clyde

Texas Focus series spotlights seminal Sixties film

"...censorship board recorded audience members clapping as cops were gunned down. Still, history is written by the victors –..."

April 19, 2017 Screens Post by Dougie Gerrard

DVDanger: Alexandra Essoe Gazes Through Starry Eyes

Horror star talks body image, body horror, and audition angst

"...a lot of the time. It would have made sense for her to physically punish herself in some way,..."

Feb. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gets 'Looper' For Second Wave

Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans

"...Cold Steel (2011) D: David Wu, 107min, Texas Premiere After 17 years spent directing television series in..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Headlines

"...• The University of Texas regained some sense of normalcy Wednesday after a gun-wielding..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Go Records has slowed PPM's underground momentum. Olympia, Wash.'s Gun Outfit shotguns the glory years of 1980s SST Records..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Point Austin: The Way of the Strayhorn

Carole's for Austin. Is Austin for Carole?

"...Hall). The Chronicle's Wells Dunbar has already punctured this nonsense in "City Hall Hustle" (Jan. 16), and his conclusion..."

Feb. 6, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Starting Over

For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm

"...the road portraying the assorted Lone Star lunatics of Texas' third-smallest town in either Greater Tuna or its 1989..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...8pm, Texas Union Ballroom Berkley Hart is percussionist Jeff Berkley and..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...a self-titled CD that sprinkles Latin sabor over meat-and-potatoes Texas blues and rhapsodic live shows. – Christopher Gray..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

'Something Went Wrong'

Six months after he was killed by an Austin cop, Jessie Owens' family still wants some basic answers

"...shoulder, "the powder burns were just right here." Glasgow's gun, she realized, had to have been pressed right up..."

Dec. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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Our readers talk back.

"...I have had for my life is my West Texas upbringing. Ultimately, it has been the bedrock of any..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Page Two

SXSW looms, Seton's dubious deal, the war moves closer, the city silences the music, and the new GOP loves deficits.

"...kickoff for SXSW Film but also the third annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards at the airport studios...."

Feb. 14, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Summer Film Previews

Pearl Harbor: From Eternity to Here

"...just anxious to matter," says Rafe. It is this sense of wanting to make a difference in the world..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...some serious casualties -- besides good taste and common sense, that is -- and none of them more sobering..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Miracle Man

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

"...of Bel Geddes' design work at the University of Texas, and it had the original set model that he..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...want learned discourse? Try this bit from one of Texas' greatest statesmen, Sam Houston, characterizing an opponent in his..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Trying To Fix the World

Five-year review of APD Chief Art Acevedo

"...Padron – a "servant," and a "hero," who was gunned down by a shoplifter inside a North Austin Walmart..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Loaded Dice

Less is no longer more to Iron & Wine's Sam Beam

"...the Iron & Wine dignitary, who moved to the Texas Hill Country in 2005 and goes seemingly unrecognized here..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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