Letters at 3AM

Seniors graduate into the world of the Bush junta.

"...told of teaching our 12th grade Brave New World and 1984, how Julian said something that made her socks..."

June 13, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...SXSW Film has always been up with comedy, and a quick skim of the just-released feature lineup shows..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

RPG

Record review

"...ostensibly metal acts, but Richmond, Va.'s RPG manage Fulltime thunder in land-speed record time. Southern boogie fattened by metal-lic..."

June 24, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Planet Rock

Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

"...SXSW 05's hottest tickets. The UK collective's 2004 LP, Thunder, Lightning, Strike, is a carnival of hip-hop, techno, indie..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Spotlight: Skullening

Welcome to Skullening's loud, guitarless, screwball drama

"...trademark trenchcoat with very little underneath. In some weird and surreal manner, Skullening is the long-lost cousin of the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Shelley King

"...Thunder begins Kick Up Your Heels and not just any..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Chrissie Hynde, Talk of the Town

Pretenders’ ageless voice completes an ATX trifecta

"...punk. Monday at that same Moody Theater, her 40-year-old band debuted on Austin City Limits...."

March 14, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Levitation Live Shot: Vaadat Charigim/Black Ryder/This Will Destroy You

Tent triptych – moody, jolting, maelstrom

"...“derivative” in Hebrew? It’s moody languor that’s all rise and no crescendo...."

May 10, 2015 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Megadeth, Testament, Exodus

Stubb's, March 26

"...seeds Metallica, which Mustaine was fired from in 1983, and Slayer last fall by delivering a return to its..."

April 2, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gilbert O'Sullivan

"...Gilbert O'SullivanCaricature: The Box (Rhino Handmade) If Gilbert O'Sullivan's limp, 1971 hum-along "Alone Again (Naturally)"..."

May 7, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Coach's Corner

"...A rookie "sports- writer," nervous and paranoid, is attending his first staff meeting. He's chastised..."

June 28, 1996 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Off the Record

The fast and the furious: the sentencing of J Kapone, Steve Wertheimer's Hot Rod Revolution, and 'How to Tour in a Band or Whatever'

"...The Fast and the Furious..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Hamilton Township

Salvage Vanguard turns Jason Grote's new play into a rare slice of performance: funny, frightening, visceral, violent, and totally unforgettable

"...Fifteen years ago, Jason Neulander and David Bucci were hanging in Rhode Island and..."

June 13, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

In Print

Scott Von Doviak's 'Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema'

"...Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Ted's Continental Blowout

"...TCB. Three letters and a lightning bolt. Takin' care of bidness. 20 years..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Review: Different Stages' The Tavern

Not to be melodramatic but, damn, Different Stage's revival is a satire worth sitting through

"...Broadway" (the result of the dozens of hit musicals and revues which he wrote, composed, produced, and performed in)..."

March 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 19-25

"...Luisah Teish. "I've danced with delight around totem poles and pressed foreheads with Maori warriors. I've joked with the..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Drummer Scott Laningham's distinctive touch fused effortless swing, versatility, and a recognizable tone. He contributed to the mix the..."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Brutality Television

Why you won't be seeing Austin emo puppet band Fragile Rock on America's Got Talent

"...backstage at America's Got Talent with my emo puppet band Fragile Rock, being interviewed after our performance...."

July 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Brently Heilbron

Reservoir Dogs

Churchwood's Beefheart blues

"...the map? Good luck. Though it sounds both English and exquisitely, almost soberly, small-town Southern Gothic, it doesn't show..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Uwaga!

Polish metal got me to Poland

"...On the underside of Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland, the skeletal bronze statue lights up every five minutes,..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Word Up, Showdown

Austin's teen poets unfurl their flag in Silicon Valley

"...any sane person refer to Henry Rollins as a stand-up comedian? Hell no. He's a spoken-word artist, man...."

July 13, 2007 Books Feature by Stacy Alexander Evans

New Model Army

Anarchy in the UK

"...pop's as dead as Dickens' doorknob (thanks, Robbie Williams), and far worse, so is John Peel...."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Tempest

In the State Theater Company's new staging of The Tempest, director Scott Kanoff offers a carefully considered, vividly imagined, and vividly theatrical exploration of Shakespeare's text, sounding its themes of family, aging, freedom, justice, and mercy.

"...nefarious wrong, an assault that tore his life apart, and at long last he is standing before the villain..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Space Program

ST-37, Past & Future Pioneers of...

"...of 1997 drew to a chilly end, the scientists and engineers at NASA in Houston were finishing up work..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Ballad of Davy Jones

Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing

"...lingering pain or mysterious twinge deep inside comes alive and our mental doors fly open with hell's host of..."

May 22, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Kingdom of Days

Bruce Springsteen doesn't call E Street pianist Roy Bittan "Professor" for nothing

"...sympathetic compassion on 88 keys than 35 years of "Jungleland" crystallized by a Rockaway Beach comber in service of..."

April 3, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Duke/Peacock, has toured extensively with B.B. King as musician and arranger, and has long led his own orchestra, heard..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Pianist Jason Moran stands at the forefront of a new generation of jazz..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...them with faint praise. So virtually all the books and recordings I deal with are those I think have..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

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