Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

"...MescalerosGlobal A Go-Go (Hellcat) Third time's the election for ex-Clash generalissimo Joe Strummer, and just in time too. Mick..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

ECM New Series

"...an opera, and string music. Herbert Henck 's simply titled Piano Music finds the German pianist interpreting the deco..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

Articulations

Tragedy times two: Nathan Jensen and five fellow artists lose their work in a studio fire, and musical star Steve Barton, an alumnus of UT, dies unexpectedly.

"...co-op studio he'd just created out of a 30' x 50' industrial building on the property behind his home...."

July 27, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Butthole Surfers and Austin City Limits suffer set backs while Riverfest marches on.

"...Damn Times, Holy Charlie; Friday: Eastside Suicides, Jack Ons (ex-Flaming Hellcats), Whiskey Rippers; Saturday: Squat Thrust, Sexy Finger Champs,..."

June 29, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...working, but that has never been true of the Texas Film Commission. It's such good industry, filmmaking, because it's..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Public Notice

Two words for this week in "Public Notice": Pride and Ride. Okay.

"...Bikes, Yikes! Dykes on bikes? We wish. No, the title refers to two different annual events happening this weekend...."

June 1, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

CAPTAIN AMERICA

Another failed effort to capture Marvel magic.

"...(1992); with Matt Sallinger, Scott Paulin, Ned Beatty, Ronnie Cox...."

May 4, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...veteran quartet (Tallboy, Jesus Christ Superfly) just released its self-titled debut, which pulls a Drive-By on some Truckers as..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...thriller with a spider-web storyline about jewel thieves and boxers... Nicolas Cage takes a break (thank god) from high-octane..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Texas Justice

Book on Texas' Death Row Presents Just the Facts

"...If you live in Texas this October, you no longer have to wait until..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Dick Holland

Has Daniel Clowes Really Grown Up?

"...It's tempting to call cartoonist Daniel Clowes a chameleon, except for one problem. Though the Berkeley-based writer/artist's comic book..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Jump on It skips a beat but keeps on keepin' on; Solid Gold 40 gives up the ghost.

"...absence the week before, the weekly Jump on It extravaganza was back at its regular time and place (6-10pm..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Summer Gaming Preview

"...effect gaming may have had on it. Debates erupted, titles were temporarily shelved, and parents everywhere started to raise..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Monster Achievement

Diablo 2 Lives Up to the Hype

"...five all-new character classes, a towering stack of 3-D f/x-enhanced spell books, and hundreds of freshly forged weapons and..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Out Front

Profile of newly minted solo artist Gurf Morlix

"...he does. In fact, more now than ever. Gurf Morlix -- and shouldn't a name like that be household?..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Therapy? Suicide Pact -- You First (Ark 21)

SXSW Records

"...Love on A&M, Suicide Pact -- You First is exactly what its title describes: a no-win situation -- especially..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Cross Examination

An El Paso medical supplier says the American Red Cross took part in an illegal scheme to ship medical supplies and other goods into Mexico without paying import taxes, and conspired to keep it a secret even after he was wrongfully imprisoned as a direct result.

"...be kicking through piles of junked hospital gurneys and X-ray equipment than preparing for a legal showdown with one..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postscripts

What's so good about the usually fatal disease local writer Tom Doyal contracted?

"...the Austin Writers' League, senior legal counsel for the Texas Association of School Boards, and with a collection of..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Mandingo

"...Live parody, which featured host O.J. Simpson as the title character. Whatever the case, this overly long Southern tale..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Super-8's Super Fans

The Cinemaker Co-op preserves the art of the littlest of motion picture formats -- Super-8 -- and trains tomorrow's filmmakers along the way.

"...a dusty, old med-school microscope and a glut of Sixties-era ski gear that would send Picabo Street fleeing in..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...To relieve the anxiety of silence and repression, Ella is also drawn to..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Postmarks

Don't Cry for Rainey

"...my window. The police station was across the park next door. The drug store (soda fountain and all) and..."

July 23, 1999 Column

Page Two

"...times discussing her vacation in this manner, I have exaggerated her casual conversation into a character trait. Despite this..."

July 2, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...past sure is tense. Thinking back amid the knotted exposed-nerve gratings, atonal mewlings, bent cranial psychedelics, unspooled lyricism, and..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...72-year-old Ferrer, a versatile singer, performs laudably on his self-titled debut, with different types of accompaniment, including lsh big..."

June 11, 1999 Music Review

Playing on the Past

"...Gorf. QBert. Zaxxon. Kaboom. Yar's Revenge. Hunt the Wumpus. Dig Dug. For..."

June 11, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

It's a Mystery to Me

"...and metaphor, the Angels Flight railway, whose rumbling steel "X" links together the different planes and crazy counterbalances of..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

I Drive Dean Haglund

"...tuna that was my invitation to the BS4 "Media Mixer" at the Paramount Theatre, I searched furtively for actor-comic..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Feature

Book Reviews

"...make no mistake, Cindy Bonner, who lives in Yorktown, Texas, is like one of her previous characters: She doesn't..."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

Dancing About Architecture

The Outer Limits

"...doesn't afford the room to discuss in detail every faux pas, flap, and fistfight that peppered the weekend, here's..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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