Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Witching Hour

Chorus Austin unearthed a vast repertoire of music – gorgeous, frightening, and comedic – that speaks to mortality and the dead

"...This year's celebration of the dead seems to have lasted longer than usual, stretching..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time?

With Michael Schaub, Kathryn Rogers, Matt Bucher, and more

"...We don't mean "What's the most important book you've ever read?" – whatever that..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The AggreGAYtor: August 13

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...gets in a huff, and George Michael puts out the flame. Today’s AggreGAYtor hopes you understand; sometimes the clothes..."

Aug. 13, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

In Perfect Alignment: The Ransom Center Beat Holdings

"...a poem from 1974's Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island, begins with this: "Before dawn the coyotes/weave medicine songs/dream nets --..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Pluck of the Irish

AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking

"...George Bernard Shaw – and yet for most of the 20th century, the story of Ireland on film was..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Daniel Johnston-inspired rock opera Speeding Motorcycle rolls into town with Kathy McCarty riding shotgun, Transmission Entertainment gains another foothold on Red River, and the Black & White Years get Real! In Color! with the Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison

"...Considering the rising Red River Flats condominiums and the booking battle..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Over the 8 Ball

Anna Hanks consults one of the world's most enduring toy fortune tellers just in time for Halloween.

"...Imagine how children across America will feel when they discover that one of their most enduring and popular..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Anna Hanks

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...Like this country's forefathers, it came from England. Though it didn't originate there,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Buzz Heard 'Round the World

"...Gunnar Hansen as Chainsaw's Leatherface..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Art of Film Producing

Lynda Obst's Hollywood Survival Manual

"...Hollywood producer Lynda Obst is the author of Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths From..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Out of the Boomers' Shadow

David Bucci, Playwright for Today's Young Theatre Haters

"...anything new, you just have to do shit to the old shit so you can see it again. You're..."

July 19, 1996 Arts Feature

The Frisco Shop: Last of the Legend

"...When I sat in a booth with Frisco Shop co-owner Lawrence Baker to discuss the longevity..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Good Eye: Books Are a Slanket for Your Brain

Read your way through those visits with the in-laws

"...I'm having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit this year. Blame the..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Sex Addiction and the City

Steve McQueen on Shame's New York state of mind

"...We gorge ourselves on it. We always want more, whether it's tactile, emotional, or sexual. And I think that's..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How I Got Hitched

Marjorie Baumgarten on the trouble with Hitchcock

"...The trouble with Hitchcock is nearly identical to the one..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Head Above Water

"...comical Cameron Diaz's husband? Well, okay, he did do the execreble Monkey Trouble three years ago, but that was..."

June 27, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...D: Steven Spielberg; with Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

How I Got Hitched

Kate X Messer on Hitchcock keeping one eye on her at all times

"...It was the strangest thing. I'd never noticed it before. For two..."

Oct. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Kate X Messer

Short Cuts

"...be known as Prince. This particular aGLIFF stands for the Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival and it's..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Tall Drink of Water

Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series

"...The trouble with touting a movie as the greatest ever..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Young, Loud, and Cheap

The Skunks were a band. A loud one.

"...Maybe you were actually there to see the Skunks at Raul's. Maybe you weren't..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Postscripts

Harry Potter's Pot of Gold

"...Weekly article asserting that "hardcover children's fiction is hot these days" ("The Harry Potter Halo," July 19). The article..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...love, sex, and indigestion are all swirling around one another in Married Life, Sachs’ adaptation of the 1955 John..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"......"

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

Warner Bros.: Avada Kedavra, Healy

'Wizard People, Dear Readers,' Brad Neely's wonderfully wacked-out homage to 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,' is no more

"...So, Harry Potter has awakened to another tequila sunrise only to..."

April 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...headlined "Oppel's Memory Hole," which critiqued my column in the Statesman on Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos. A highlight was King's..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

News Ticker: March 27

All the news that's fit to blog

"...Rick Perry heckles a heckler, UT scientists work their magic, and Ted Cruz forms a not-so-secret society. Family..."

March 27, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Niche Justice

Travis County specialty courts try to break the cycle of crime

"...For Kellie R., it started with a quaalude...."

March 26, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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