India Ink

The Literary Coming of the Second Continent

"...Back in the Seventies, I had a girlfriend who was a devotee..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Michael J. DiLeo

A Drinker's Guide to Literary Austin

Local authors dish on their favorite bars for reading and writing

"...This Saturday, October 27 is the annual Lit Crawl Austin, a literary pub crawl co-hosted..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Gay Place

Our fave event of the year is here: Queerbomb!

"...Queerbomb is here (see Saturday)! We've got the glitter and gold short shorts ready and our procession..."

June 2, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Simple Man, Simple Dream

Part of the Seventies Southern California songwriting cabal that produced Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles, J.D. Souther brings his craft to the Dripping Springs Songwriters' Festival

"...Nowadays, the mainstream knows J.D. Souther from a network television hit,..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

Letters at 3AM

At the crest of Beatlemania, 18 and hungry for life was some kind of way to be

"...impulse basic as lust, or maybe more basic: contact; the acknowledgement of one for another, two together, the beginning..."

July 3, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Food for Thought

Books on Cuisine Make the Perfect Summer Treat

"...it also spawns entire industries, many of which use the subject of food to fuel fantasies of domesticity and..."

June 12, 1998 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down -..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Biographer Tamara Saviano’s Guy Clark Revelations

The dean of Texas songwriters’ final days, the forthcoming documentary on him, and more

"...into a Terry Allen sculpture. So at midnight after the songwriter's wake in Nashville, his biographer and longtime publicist..."

March 31, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...7pm, BD Riley's Brothers Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa formed Dog Trumpet in..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Townes Without Pity

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy

"...is far too eloquent a wordsmith to hang up the phone with a simple "No comment." Instead, he hung..."

June 14, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Hidden Room Theatre Resurrects King Lear

The once-popular but now obscure revision of Shakespeare's play by Nahum Tate is revived, complete with happy ending

"...Burns and company are resuscitating King Lear. Oh, not the one from your high school English class. Not the..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Stephanie Carll

The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink

A collection of cookbook gift ideas for 2011

"...The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Songs of Innocence and Experience

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

"...The bathroom in the Steamy Bowl is a place that..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Twenty Flight Rock

The Art of Bob Dylan; The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez-Fariña and Richard Fariña

"...Song & Dance Man IIIThe Art of Bob Dylan by Michael Gray Continuum, 918..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Poison 13, Meat Purveyors, and Churchwood Guitarist Bill Anderson Loads Out of Town

If not for Austin, “I don’t know if I would have been a musician at all”

"...Ask a seasoned musician how many bands they’ve been in. Their pupils will dart up and to..."

March 29, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Love Is All Around

Lucinda Williams gets married onstage in Minneapolis

"...about to follow in his footsteps and marry her sweetheart of over two years, Tom Overby, onstage at First..."

Sept. 21, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Storytelling, a Book Trail, Markets, and More Arts Events

Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week

"...lovers: Ali Hazelwood, known for her scientists-in-love stories like The Love Hypothesis, comes straight off her new paranormal paramours..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

DVDanger: Mad Max

Before we hit Fury Road, the original revs up

"...There aren't many film franchises that can last nearly four..."

May 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...The creativity has been unleashed...."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

All those brilliant 'financial instruments' turned into monsters that no one can stop

"...Crisis Reality Check: Whether you call it a "bailout" or a "plan," its..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Continued Story

Daniel Johnston's songs find new life in the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle

"...Long ago in the Eighties, I was in a band called Glass Eye...."

Feb. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Kathy McCarty

Letters at 3AM

Carnaval literally means 'Goodbye, meat,' but in spirit it's more like 'Farewell to desires of the flesh.' Let's celebrate our desires before we bid them farewell.

"...It's "carnival" in English, but the Portuguese "carnaval" (accent on the "val") is prettier. Both..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Belated Replies

"...illustration by Jason Stout The letters pile up unanswered, the phone messages go without..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...The gods of annexation were looking out for Austin in..."

Nov. 15, 1996 News Feature

S-S-Somebody Spank Me

The Asylum Street Spankers

"...When the Asylum Street Spankers advertise themselves as playing "music the..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Music Feature

Qmmunity: Short n’ Sweet

More events, less column is just what the editor ordered

"...events have made it necessary for me to, as they say, take it easy with work. Two weekends ago,..."

April 19, 2024 Column by James Scott

Gay Place

OUTsider Fest, Andrea Gibson, and more heat up the week ahead

"...returned, well, I'm not sure I can help you. The fourth annual fest kicked off yesterday to examine time..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Out in Public

OUTsider returns with Sex in Public, and we're ready to voyeur

"...Sex. I like sex. There's nothing about sex I don't like. For some, sex..."

Feb. 17, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Ezra Edwards

Romeo Talk Back

Tripping on E

"...I'll fly in the face of your manifesto (i suspect your strategy is..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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