Mondo Mink

Mink Stole on life with John Waters and death in the new horror-comedy All About Evil

"..."I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone. My kind..."

May 14, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Legitimate Public Concern

The Keller prosecution is an enduring stain on Austin's honor and sense of justice

"...Vijay talked about going to Zilker Park in the van. They got a baby gorilla. Danny took Christi..."

March 27, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Waxing Nostalgic: 2008 SXSW

Getty's SX wrap-up.

"...Ah. The big gush and the streets are finally ours again...."

March 18, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

Prosecutor Times Four

Part 1: Meet the candidates for Travis County district attorney

"...mid-December that he would not run again, retiring from the post he has held since 1977. Over the years,..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...night in 1985. I'm lying on my back on the main stage of the Doll House, one of Austin's..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Houston Stomps KC, KEYE to Air Titans Again, but Texans Return to KEYE in Week Three

"...The first thing I noticed at Reliant Stadium on Sunday..."

Sept. 13, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Naked City

An Iraq war vet responds to the senseless attack on Camp Casey

"...As reported here and elsewhere over the past week, Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a slain..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Drilling plan threatens world's longest protected beach

"...Padre Island National Seashore is under attack, according to the Sierra Club. Tuesday, the club's Southern Plains office held..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Rent Party Blues

Are post-boom rents killing the Austin music scene?

"...Downtown, lines mark the spots. Two clubs with the longest lines appear to..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...I walk the dog at twilight so I can glance in strangers'..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Professors of Pleasure

Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.

"...floating, just floating, about a dozen feet up in the air. It's not really doing anything else, just kind..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Going, Going, Gone?

Gary Bradley agrees to sell 1,000 acres of land to the city

"...If so, it's time to take a hammer to the piggy bank, because developer Gary Bradley has agreed to..."

March 17, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Back Door Man

A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence

"...Bill Bentley having a quick bite to eat at the Hole in the Wall. The flesh-and-blood Bill Bentley was..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...First published in theNew Yorker magazine in 1996, "The Fourth State of Matter"..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

Music Amidst Used Furniture

The History of the Red River Strip

"...The bar's gonna be pushed back, and all this is..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature

A Decade in Austin Films

The city’s cinema, from indie visions to Oscar winners and international blockbusters

"...a film city, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Every year, dozens of local filmmakers produce features and..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Tom Gimbel Takes Austin City Limits Global

Sky’s the limit for the ACL brand

"...Last month at Arlyn Studios, representatives from KGSR and the Austin City Limits television franchise officially flipped the switch..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Immigrant Women Stuck in Detention

T. Don Hutto detainees can't get their day in court

"...safety, and eventually escaped for a freer life in the U.S. She was kidnapped by traffickers in Mexico, raped,..."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Top 10 Austin Breweries

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...state for craft beer. We don't mean that in the sense that craft beer isn't wildly popular and fully..."

June 23, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Playback: Armadillo Tales

A review of the best book on Austin’s 1970s music scene since The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock

"...A book can cure the worst case of boredom. I'd know...."

April 7, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Austin Cinema Limits

ACL doc fundraises, UT inherits Ian McLagan's personal collection, and ScoreMore for the kids

"...Merle Haggard heard the call of nature while taping an episode for Austin..."

May 13, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Flashback

PBS concert staple inducts its second class of legends

"...A benefit for KLRU TV, Thursday’s induction ceremony at the Moody Theater for the Austin..."

June 19, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Outside of Society

Does Austin have enough room for two queer film festivals?

"...Six months have passed since opening night of the 26th season of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

A Thousand Splendid Words

Khaled Hosseini on Afghanistan, poetry, and writing

"...Hosseini transcends borders through books. We caught up with the international bestselling author (The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid..."

June 9, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

This Old House

Sam Houston and the historic jigsaw puzzle of Boggy Creek Farm

"...Many of the people who shop at the biweekly Boggy Creek farm..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Money Makes Campaigns Go Round

First finance reports for the primary season in Travis County

"...Like Berkeley Breathed once wrote, money can't buy you love, but it..."

Jan. 19, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

"...two things: It'll be hotter than Beelzebub's armpit, and there will be a musical you can see for free..."

July 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seven of Five

Brewster McCracken, Margot Clarke lead the pack in a crowded open-seat City Council race

"..."I'd like to revive the idea that a council member has the right to..."

April 18, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Dance Fever

Sundance 2000: The year of "dot-comming," short films, female athletes, and the feverish race for the next big thing.

"...and RuPaul (he of drag diva notoriety, who adopts the respectability of the surname Charles as the narrator of..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?

"...If you pay attention, the numbers make you sick. The numbers are about a..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

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