SXSW Gets Housebound

Director Gerard Johnstone opens the door on the New Zealand shriekfest

"...like TV's Ghosthunters? According to Housebound director Gerard Johnstone, "There's something incredibly funny about people who diagnose spiritual infestations..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry's Vexing Vetoes

Perry kills 24 more bills

"...The legislative special session rumbles on, but last Friday, Gov...."

June 21, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place: Howdy, Sailor

Gayest. South by. Ever.

"...town for a Conference? Yup. We are, too. Dang, there's so much gay up in this shizz: Check our..."

March 15, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Playback: KOKE Is Back

The original KOKE returns to a soda fountain near you

"...Austin radio personality Bob Cole. "That was part of the reason I left KVET. They still have a strong..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...Plight of the Chinese musician: Fly 7,000 miles for South by Southwest..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...This Phoenix-born, Brooklyn-based quartet has dropped two LPs on the indie-rock landscape. Where 2008's Tell It to the Volcano..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

La Sylphide

Ballet Austin's first brush with Bournonville showed his style suiting the dancers

"...Dell Hall at the Long Center..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

State Commission Considers Keller's Fate

Keller's execution-day decisions under microscope again

"...believe she made any mistakes on Sept. 25, 2007, the day Michael Richard was executed. In fact, to hear..."

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two: Abandoned Ship

As distrust grows, cooperation becomes impossible

"..."Doctor. You have testified that the following symptoms exist in Lieutenant Commander Queeg's behavior: rigidity..."

May 28, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Sunday

"...The Roller..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Feature

Castlemania

One boy's induction into horror

"...interest in all things cinematically macabre, shepherded me to the local Loew's in our tiny village of Pittsford, N.Y.,..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...Joe Lansdale was 4 when his father bought him a puppy. The dog soon started digging..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Article Is Flawed

"...Dear Editor, Re: “Believing the Children” [News, March 27]: Your article is flawed and..."

March 31, 2009 Postmarks

SXSW Showcases

Friday

"...official SXSW day party for teen acts. This isn't aw-aren't-they-cute-li'l-darlings. This is rock & roll at its most authentic,..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Movin' on Up

Melissa Villareal's life was changed by Ballet East

"...Melissa Villarreal is darting around the gymnasium at Martin Middle School, desperately seeking someone who..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Jessica Mathaes: A concertmaster flies solo

ASO's top violinist readies for her first solo concerto performance with the orchestra

"...The concertmaster of the Austin Symphony Orchestra was dressed as..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

Page Two: City Slights

In our civic dialogue, grace and respect have all but disappeared

"...I believe in grace and redemption. So much of the time people level judgments in a way that seems..."

July 20, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Medicine Man

Up a Tree With Greg Ashley

"...The Kosse Cafe is one of two diners in the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Lotto Madness?

Former Texas Lottery Commission employee sues commission, alleging he lost his job because he alerted the Texas Legislature to security and ethics breaches, as well as to a cover-up in which employees 'are bullied into silence'

"...People play the lottery, sure, but does the lottery play people? Former..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Page Two

What it takes to win the War on the War on Christmas

"...What it takes to win the War on the War on ChristmasREPORT FROM THE FRONT:..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Audit Ugliness

Perry questions Strayhorn's ethics, but watchdogs warn he's in a glass house

"...she would expect all statewide elected officials – from the governor to state railroad commissioners – to hold to..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Flowing Over

More with Craig Brewer

"...look real. Brewer's sophomore effort, Hustle & Flow, marries the director's gritty hometown of Memphis to Terrence Dashon Howard's..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Stephen gears up for the celebrity onslaught by skewering more ... celebrities!

"...WORDS OF THE WEEK: During London's Fashion Week, glamazon Naomi Campbell was..."

March 11, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Letters at 3AM

Our Ecstatic Days' is that rarest of creatures: a great novel. The first great American novel of the 21st century. Steve Erickson has discovered the secret of creating a novel that is not a book but an organism. Proust did it. Joyce almost did it. Faulkner sometimes did it. Marquez did it. Yes, that's the company Steve's keeping in Our Ecstatic Days.'

"...Twenty years ago the woman I was married to intercepted a review copy..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

Gratitude and goodbye to Will Eisner, whose comic 'The Spirit' is the epitome of great American art

"...truly terrible night, hardly sleeping, racked by thoughts and the minor pains accumulated from a life badly led. Much..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Be Afraid, Coyotes – Be Very Afraid

Travis County tackles coyotes in northwest Austin

"...and bad pop music, it's comforting to think that there are at least a few age-old menaces that Texans..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

TCB

One final SXSW missive

"...All the Young Dudes..."

March 26, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Letters at 3AM

The Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department is invading our privates

"...President George W. Bush has been skipping around the country accusing Sen. John Kerry of "flip-flops." Well ......"

March 19, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Race and APD, and so much more, for City Hall this week

"...weeks of heated debate on race and APD – the Austin City Council has a full, varied, and interesting..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TCB

Austin from A to Z

"...Last week, the most thought I put toward music was wondering if..."

July 18, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

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