Last of the Delta Bluesmen

Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi

"...A peculiar darkness penetrates nights in the not-so-Deep South – heavy, humid, dense at 3am. By..."

April 22, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'The Main Treatment Options'

Short Story Contest: First place

"..."Oh, shit, Ramey," was the first thing I said when I walked in the..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Katie F. Perry

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...We've already teased some of the highlights of the just-announced SXSW Film 2011 lineup –..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The 'Obamacare' Scare

GOP employs national playbook in Travis County House races

"...Did anyone mention to the Republican Party of Texas that President Barack Obama isn't..."

Oct. 22, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Time Like the Present

As usual, dancemaker Deborah Hay is making every moment count

"...Most artists have to wait until they've shuffled off this mortal coil to be the subject..."

April 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Rod Kennedy's 80th birthday

"...Friday, his 80th birthday. "It's amazing, especially being in the music business." Judging only by the numbers, the Texas..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM: Conditions on the Ground

This is no war on terror; we're taking sides in a civil war

"..."These [30,000] additional American ... troops allow us to accelerate..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Spoon stays home for a sold-out three-night stand at Stubb's, while Little Joe Washington hits the hard streets of H-Town, and White Denim finally gets proper Exposion

"...Spoon's sold-out stand at Stubb's last weekend didn't exactly cool the furnace blast baking Central Texas...."

July 17, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The 1821 Club

Tuning in to the future of Austin's music scene today

"...The real indie bands in Austin are teen bands not..."

July 10, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

City Hall Hustle: Behind the Numbers: Who's Still Got Cash?

A look at who's financing the candidates

"...Obfuscation abounds in campaign finance reports. Even the name of the latest round, the "30th Day Before..."

April 17, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Off the Record

Ben Kweller saddles up in Austin, Willie Nelson and company share one last night in the Backyard, and Bavu Blakes and others gear up for election night

"...by locals Bill Callahan ("John Tyler [In Hindsight]") and the Monahans ("James Knox Polk [The Other Is Better/The Landscape..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...a part of town that is not so much either of those things – Zell Miller III is rehearsing..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Off the Record

Local bands get licensed to ill, Marked Men prove lo-fi is all the rage, and Explosions in the Sky curate All Tomorrow's Parties

"...OTR was contacted on behalf of Experience Music Group, the California-based music licensing and publishing company responsible for placing..."

May 16, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Threadgill's reopens its original location in historic fashion, Spoon gets remixed, and Neil Young's Greendale takes the stage

"...For its grand reopening on March 14, the original Threadgill's on North Lamar hosted a tribute to..."

April 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Constable Races: Part 2

The relatively tame contests at play in precincts 1,3, and 4

"...Anyone who's ever pondered the mystery of why constable races are so insanely and..."

Feb. 29, 2008 News Feature by Amy Smith

Off the Record

Graham Williams of Transmission Entertainment breaks down this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, while Ian McLagan and the Chronicle music staff sound off on the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot

"...Halfway through the inaugural Fun Fun Fun Fest, held on a blisteringly..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

The $360 Million Question: Where to Put WTP4?

City Council is re-re-rethinking WTP4

"...Rumblings about the future of Water Treatment Plant No. 4 -- the..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Descent Into the Maelstrom

Radio Birdman surfs out of Edgar Allan Poe's maelström a quarter-century later

"...The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad..."

June 22, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Play the Role

Mr. Bavu Blakes, ridin' herd on Texas rap

"..."Ask any DJ in Texas who made their own lane and got respected, accepted in all rap..."

April 27, 2007 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

The Iron Man

Longtime local stage phenom Ken Webster has a record to rival that of a Baseball Hall of Famer

"...The lights come up, and there he is, like a..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Serene Life

David Lynch meditates on Inland Empire

"...David Lynch keeps himself occupied. The world's leading avant-garde filmmaker also paints, runs his own..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

Is BCP Still for the Birds?

Ongoing disagreement over the appropriate balance between public access and endangered species protection on Western Travis County's Balcones Canyonlands Preserve comes to a head

"...Ongoing disagreement over the appropriate balance between public access and endangered species protection..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The Banks of the Blanco

Environmentalists and Hays County clash over river-clearing project

"...clamshell excavator dumping full-grown trees onto a bonfire. That's the scene a group of kayakers found one recent morning..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Inside the Actor's Superego

How Michael Baldwin got here (hint: It involves a showbiz upbringing, Oreo cookies, and shrieking armadas of flying, brain-sucking spheres)

"...be a teenage girl living in Japan in 1976, then chances are your heart still quickens at the mention..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Facing the Media

Who is Young-Min Kang? That's what he wants to know.

"...its form, due to its transmediation of, most often, the human face. Even when there are no biometrics in..."

March 25, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tasers and the APD

Police leadership says stun guns protect officers and prevent injuries, but critics charge they are dangerous and overused

"...In March 2004, the Austin Police Department acquired 730 new X26-model Taser International..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Company You Keep

There's no knowing Andrea Ariel without knowing the artists she works with

"...come easily to this Austin choreographer and dancer – the kind of person for whom writers coined the words..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

South for the Marijuana

The gringo travels to Mexico in search of weed and wisdom.

"...After you cross the international bridge you turn right and follow the railroad..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Project in Interpreting the Texas Past

"...down a long straight road and turn right into the dusty scrub of LBJ State Park. The vast Johnson..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

The GOP's Inaugurama

"...Dewhurst were duly inaugurated Tuesday, just after noon, to the accompaniment of the Texas A&M Fighting Aggie Band ("The..."

Jan. 24, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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