Gay Place

SXSW keeps on trekking and we’re still here with your queer guide

"...We also recommend easing your SXSW withdrawals with this month's Fuego – a party for and by Austin's QTPOC..."

March 16, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Leon and Stella Alesi: Love Conjures All

Leon and Stella Alesi provide ocular proof of a life in the arts

"...Stella: I was a little scared to move to Texas. I'd moved around a lot. And I was like,..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Author Ed Ward Revisits Rock’s First Guitar Hero, Michael Bloomfield

“When you heard Mike Bloomfield play, you got the sense this was the real shit."

"...Bloomfield, accompanied Dylan's Newport Folk Festival appearance the following month. Folkies booed...."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Your Fantasy House

Where reader types would own a vacation home if it could be anywhere in literature

"...Julie Wernersbach Literary director, Texas Book Festival..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Four

Crowdfunded juggernaut Lazer Team hits screens big and small

"...quartet plays four losers from a small town in Texas who suddenly find themselves with an alien combat suit,..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Holy Mountain and Red 7 in Danger of Losing Leases

Could the Red River Cultural District be losing two of its landmark live music venues?

"...Holy Mountain property (617 E. Seventh) at $8,000 per month, compared to its current rent of $5,500. Similarly, Red..."

May 15, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...its eclectic, amplified topography through each afternoon and starry Texas night...."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Terminal Stage

With 'Adam Sultan,' playwright Steve Moore again reflects on friendship and mortality in Austin

"...running in full production at Salvage Vanguard Theater this month. (For Wayne Alan Brenner's review, see p.32.) Colleagues in..."

April 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Good Eats (and Drinks) Every New Student Should Know

The Food staff weighs in on student dining

"...kitchen that brazenly blends the flavors of India with Texas and Europe. They also host live music and events..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Food Feature by The Food Staff

Off the Record

Checking out of South by Southwest 2010 and paying final respects to Big Star's Alex Chilton

"...care how many hits your shitty blog gets a month. Fuck Google Analytics. And besides, bloggers aren't real writers...."

March 26, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Saturday Picks

"...debut EP, Body Language, drops on Drag City next month, following behind their black, bluesy, and unhinged live shows...."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Public Forum Tomorrow on Local Immigrant Population

St. Edward’s University, beginning at 8:30am

"...those immigrants about whom everyone keeps talking reside in Texas, many in the Central Texas area. According to the..."

June 28, 2007 News Post by Cheryl Smith

Film News

Last thoughts on Altman, courtesy of collaborator Stephen Harrigan; plus, incentives and local interest

"...in a good word for filming incentives at the Texas Capitol. More to come when our Lege arrives in..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

"...four of his plays receive their premieres in a 13-month span, and all four are as different from one..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wedding Vows

No one believes more firmly than Jack Ingram that Jack Ingram 'is' the future face of country music

"...exercise may soon be obsolete. If the next 12 months play out like he hopes, Ingram will have made..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Food-o-File

A Majestic future for Grape Vine Market? Plus: Noodle-ism and Mangia aren't just local favorites.

"...for 2005, and Noodle-ism was one of only two Texas eateries to make the list. Congratulations to chef/owner Jeff..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Dentler's Feb. 6 review of Oliver Future's first record ["Texas Platters," Music]...."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...the Mason-Dixon line for pants length in League City, Texas, in 1984, and pointed me back to my classroom...."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

After a Fashion

Keg party at the lake! We get starstruck at the 10th anniversary party for Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater's classic ode to bud and tube socks.

"...brief pleasantries. We hung with other local glitterati, including Texas Monthly's Evan Smith and his lovely wife, Julia; Austin..."

June 6, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary scene

"...will talk about her first book, A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Books Column by Clay Smith

Coda

"...and how you always explained to me that "The Texas Blondes were a quasi-Christian glee-club greeting service for lonely..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Short Cuts

Austin mourns Robbie Jacks.

"...Leatherface in Kim Henkel's 1994 film Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, for which Jacks also recorded a love..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...and crew of nonprofessionals, and its origination in Austin, Texas, all pointed to the fact that Slacker was something..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Food-o-File

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood on the year that was in Austin's culinary life.

"...the classic "boom and bust" cycle of the West Texas oil patch, any prolonged expansion in a market always..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

TV Eye

Good TV shows don't go to heaven, they go to Barnes & Noble; also, Larry David's HBO special is worth the price of cable.

"...the creative team behind it. Seinfeld, Ally McBeal, Walker: Texas Ranger, Dawson's Creek, Star Trek, The X-Files, Buffy the..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Bob Schneider

"...mixed drink he couldn't slam or a University of Texas freshman he couldn't seduce now has no interest in..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...Fest, where more original work is performed in a month's time than most theatre cities see in a year...."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Chow Downtown

Dining in the Heart of Austin

"...to feature such theme dinners at least once a month. More elaborate meals, such as a multi-course dinner to..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Food Feature

Public Notice

"...database entry, other office work a few hours a month...."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

Magical Mystery Tour

"...After the carnage of the last six months, it's comforting to know that at least one Austinite..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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