Off the Record

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010: No rain, no dust, no problem

"...The 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival will be remembered..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

This Time Just the Girls

The ladies of Austin hip-hop hold court

"...It started when Jean Grae said these magic words:..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

Crew54 hits the streets and documents the ATX hip-hop underground, Austin's all-American Idol contestant, and Ohn dials in a new music platform

"...On the Grind..."

May 8, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The American Con of Bootstrap Optimism

Kelly Reichardt talks about Wendy and Lucy, her prescient tale about a girl and a dog, a rock and a hard place

"...churning out $150 million computer-generated explosion reels and calling them movies, the idea of a quiet tragedy about a..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Off the Record

Gearing up for the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...Songs for the Deaf..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

An all-star tribute for a Red Headed Stranger, Girl in a Coma awakens with help from Joan Jett, and Tia Carrera constructs its Electric Ladyland

"...its addition to iTunes. Of course it helps that the album is backed by Joan Jett, whom the San..."

May 9, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

A walk on the wild side of SXSW 2008

"...Walk on the Wild Side..."

March 21, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Think Outside the Book

Eric Schlosser on Richard Linklater's adaptation of his Fast Food Nation

"...its societal and economic impact – was expanded from the author's earlier articles for Rolling Stone. It has now..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Katrina Through the Eyes of an EMT

Philipp Meyer, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at UT and an EMT, drove to New Orleans and spent 24 hours working with a local police department as an EMT.

"...Last Sunday, Philipp Meyer, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at UT and an EMT,..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Philipp Meyer

Excerpt From A Twist at the End

"...The following passage follows William Sydney Porter -- later known..."

April 7, 2000 Books Feature

For the Love of the Line

In the exhibitions “Old Master Drawings From the Suida-Manning Collection” at the Blanton Museum of Art and “Selected 20th-Century Master Drawings” at the Norwood Gallery, we can indulge our eyes in samples of art spanning five centuries.

"...An empty space is where it always begins, the empty space of a sheet of paper or parchment,..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Identifying the Impulse

"...Art Blakey In their search for neat, storybook tales, Hollywood has generally shunned..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

How Mr. Denton Spent His Summer Vacation

"...Blackburn, Lunatics, and One Day Closer to Death. And the New York-based publisher has rights to the first look..."

July 31, 1998 Books Feature by Mike Shea

A Stone for Norman Mailer

"...Has Norman Mailer published a book or sculpted a tombstone? The Time of Our Time is a massive slab..."

June 12, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

The Real Sound

Don Walser's Legacy

"...photograph by John Carrico It's the Tuesday night after South by Southwest '98 and one..."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Zen of Filmmaking

Letters at 3AM

"...Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin was engaged in the improbable business of making people laugh in such a..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Out of the Shadows

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

"...There are a lot of things of which I'm probably..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The SXSW Expansion Club

"...It's hard to say which is growing faster: the size of SXSW or the number of clubs in..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Music Column

What Galleries Are Doing on the World Wide Web Why Net Art?

"...in love with it." That's how I feel about the Internet. One minute I didn't know it existed, and..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Arts Feature

So, Where Were the Vampires in Before Sunrise?

"...guess you're supposed to figure that any film with the word "Dawn" in the title (Dawn of the Dead,..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Column

First Kid

"...a Secret Service agent, Sam Simms, who longs for the plum detail of guarding the president, but Simms' tendency..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautiful Boy

Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography

"...As America continues to fail to tackle not just the opioid epidemic, but addiction in general, it feels like..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crooklyn

"...to his grand-scale bio-epic Malcolm X is a slice-of-life family drama set in 1970s Brooklyn. Instead of the elaborate,..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Moonlight Mile

"...asks his attorney why his daughter was caught in the crossfire of an anonymous domestic dispute in a diner,..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fun Fun Fun Q&A: Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop pioneer predicts Martians breakdancing to “Planet Rock”

"...Regarding the birth of hip-hop, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika..."

Nov. 5, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Page Two: God Is Alive, Magic Afoot, and Music Everywhere

Egmont Street was where we discovered Risk, Quaaludes, phone phreaking – and some of the greatest albums ever made

"...really started to listen to rock in high school, there were precious few ways to hear new music. Often..."

June 23, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Rising Son

The son of Muddy Waters inherits the family bidness.

"...The name Big Bill Morganfield probably means little to even..."

July 6, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Forty Years Later

Back to Max Yasgur’s farm

"...When I wrote about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock during this year’s South by..."

June 10, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Last of a Breed

Veteran Austin music scribe tackles a topic equal to his skill: Willie Nelson

"...leveraged his own slice of Texas heaven just beyond the banks of the Blanco River outside of Wimberley. Former..."

April 25, 2008 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Monster Band: Susan Tedeschi Q&A

Susan Tedeschi likes big families

"...After being married almost a decade and raising a family, blues mama Susan Tedeschi and slide guitarist Derek Trucks..."

Jan. 17, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

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