The Hightower Lowdown

George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."

"...BUSH THE 'WARRIOR'..."

July 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Pressley Fiasco

Pressley counterattacks … and the "Statesman" scuttles

"...meters, guns, or 9/11 conspiracies – unless, of course, they’re softball questions asked by Infowars demagogue Alex Jones...."

Nov. 4, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Off the Record

SXSW news and carryings on

"...In the chapel of the Travis County Correct-ional Complex on Friday..."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Mining the vaults of Austin City Limits, navigating the SXSW grid, and hanging with Jenny Wolfe After School

"...For Whom the Bell Tolls..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Hightower Report

Sign of the Times; and Bush Okays Environmental Grotesquerie

"...Sign of the Times..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Bard of Blast

Steve Wolf's pyro-antics are poetry in motion

"...Every biker is an engineer. There's always something that needs tightening or lubing or welding,..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

The renovated Austin Music Hall breaks new ground; Brown Whörnet goes digital; and Roky Erickson rocks Austin City Limits with a little help from his friends

"...Less than three weeks until its scheduled grand reopening, the Austin Music Hall is still a hard-hat-required construction site...."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Hightower Lowdown

Star Wars boondoggle, MBNA's bankruptcy fraud, and the CIA's cooked books

"...Bush Dreams of Star Wars At the height of the Cold War, schools held atom bomb..."

March 30, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Trying To Fix the World

Five-year review of APD Chief Art Acevedo

"...On the April morning of the funeral for slain Austin Police..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Off the Record

Checking in to South by Southwest 2010

"...Back to the Future..."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Round five for the Cactus Cafe and the Texas Union board: The gloves come off

"...Forsaking the Song, Part 5..."

March 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Ice Cube racks up the body count at Mohawk, Loxsly shines a light on Tomorrow's Fossils, and gift-wrapping local holiday offerings

"...night on Red River. Triggering round after round over the PA, each one like a closed-fisted punch to the..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Journey of a Gun

Gun traveled circuitous path to Kevin Brown's hands

"...known as "Icy Mike," was calling on behalf of another young man, Austin Ayers. Ayers had told Smith that..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Off the Record

Austin's musical landscape and its evolution continue rumbling down on Red River, documenting Roky Erickson, and the Weary Boys call it quits

"...Open for Business No sooner had the needle dropped on the inaugural "Off the Record" than..."

July 13, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

It's Always the Nice Ones

"...At first glance, the five members of Austin's Kiss Offs look like nice,..."

March 5, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Steady As He Goes

From cosmic cowboys and Americana to punk rock and legacy acts, Freddie Steady Krc keeps the beat

"...with "perch" – was a 9-year-old growing up in the Gulf Coast town of La Porte, listening to records..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Crazy Heart

At the crazy heart of the 2009-10 Austin Music Awards sits Stephen Bruton

"...his Sparkletts bottle. Correction: in his guitar case, though the filmmakers reportedly inserted the plastic road dog relief portable..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reliving Roky Erickson: July 15, 1947-May 31, 2019

Creature with the Atom Brain

"...Born in Dallas, he rooted in the Texas state capital beginning in 1965, when the teenager..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Valkyrie

Tom Cruise seems somewhat out of place as a German officer in this thriller about the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July 1944.

"...dooms Singer's hotly anticipated and much troubled account of the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life by his own officers..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Roky Road

The 2005-06 Austin Music Awards

"...A "wet, sloppy kiss from a fleeting, beer-breathed soul mate," concluded the Chronicle's Greg Beets about this..."

March 24, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Raul's Redux

Toasting an old venue, and a new one.

"...was a small, well-behaved crowd of about 25 that gathered at the Texas Showdown at 2610 Guadalupe on Saturday,..."

Feb. 4, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

If You Have Ghosts

The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and future

"..."We were performance art: a thing of the moment."..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Fun and Games With Stratfor

APD and DPS collaborated with private 'geopolitical intelligence firm'

"...One of the murkier and more forbidding aspects of the post-9/11 world..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by John Anderson

ACL Music Fest Live Shots

Saturday

"...Roky Erickson & the Explosives..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"..."One of the great rock & roll singers stood on the stage..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Explosives

Texas platters

"...The Explosives..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Fans Rip Off Artists, Too

"...I read your piece about trading music in cyberspace ["The Trees," Oct. 3]. Concerning this Texas Psych group, they..."

Oct. 6, 2003 Postmarks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to see that Ace Custom Tailors had again won the Chronicle's "Best of Austin" Readers Poll [Sept. 26] for..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column

Cam King

"...Tobe Hooper not chosen Cam King's "Circuit Queen" for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Marcia Ball might never have..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

ACL Music Festival Interviews

"...Roky Erickson & the Explosives..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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