Texas Medal of Arts Awards: The stars at night are big and bright ...

Stars fall on Austin April 3 as the Texas Cultural Trust Council hands out its annual Texas Medal of Arts Awards to some of the Lone Star State's greatest cultural heroes

"...Times bestsellers such as Ricochet and White Hot Sandra Brown (Literary Arts); revolutionary jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman (Music); internationally..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Congressional Results

"...Tommy Calvert (I): 802 / 1.6% • 5,285 / 2.6%..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Record review

"...Victor session in Dallas with Western swing pioneer Milton Brown on vocals, which was credited to the Fort Worth..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Keever (visual art), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), Tommy O'Malley (theatre), Joey Seiler (theatre), Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

March 6 Primary Report

Eckhardt dethrones Sonleitner, fundamentalists duke it out with public education, and more

"...bending over backward to light a halo over Eckhardt's brown curls while looking for any opportunity to attach hand-whittled..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature

ACL Music Festival Interviews

"..."You're Gonna Miss Me." Then a UT psychology-student-turned-electric-jug-player named Tommy Hall asked him to join what would become the..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Trouping Ahead

The Latino Comedy Project keeps creating laughter and its own opportunities

"..."Right now, it's black and white," he says. "The brown has not even been introduced into the picture in..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

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Our readers talk back.

"...my work by surrounding me with such great musicians (Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, David Grissom, Derek O'Brien, Frosty Smith,..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column

May I Have the Envelope, Please?

The 2004-2005 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Smith Cantara (theatre), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), Tommy O'Malley (theatre), Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts), and Holly..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Smith Cantara (theatre), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), Tommy O'Malley (theatre), and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts); and..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Bryan Brown?..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

True Hollywood Stories

Texans who took a chance and headed west tell all

"...is cast in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused as Tommy Houston, the supporting freshman kid with the helmet of..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

My Brother

"...hardball catcher, offensive guard (played ball with the legendary Tommy Nobis), judo, and karate. He hated to lose. He..."

Aug. 25, 2004 Postmarks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...anthems like X's "White Girl" and making it into "Brown Girl." Their hilarious send-ups rock like crazy, and their..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Where Stephen went and who he went with. It's all in bold. It's all inside.

"...in back – a den of iniquity upholstered with brown shag carpeting. It was from there, with dim lighting..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Dream Lady

Cindy Walker, the queen of Western Swing, reflects on a lifetime of songwriting

"...CW: Oh, it was. And when Tommy Duncan sang "Dusty Skies," he cried. But I didn't..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Better Guns Than Pipes

"...Jordan Smith's report last week on the sentencing of Tommy Chong in the aftermath of the daring "Operation Pipe..."

Sept. 23, 2003 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...editor's, not the writer's. Speaker Tom Craddick and Rep. Tommy Merritt, R-Longview, abstained.]..."

July 25, 2003 Column

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Scott H. Biram breaks into Leadbelly, Lightnin' Hopkins, and "Brown's Ferry Blues" at Club DeVille, and it's hard to..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

The Malford Milligan Band

Texas Platter

"...like Otis Redding's "I've Got Dreams to Remember," James Brown's "Lickin' Stick," and James Carr's "Pouring Water on a..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Postmarks

"...weighed 175 pounds. He had blue eyes, thinning short brown hair, and wore glasses. He had started taking medication..."

July 19, 2002 Column

Dancing About Architecture

"...emphasizes local names. Among Austin-centric acts confirmed are Junior Brown, Marcia Ball, Ian Moore, Vallejo, Guy Forsyth, Doyle Bramhall..."

June 21, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

I Before E

A career retrospective on one of the lost cosmic cowboys, Rusty Wier

"...a few other crowd pleasers and then invites singer Tommy Elskes onstage for a duet of the Bee Gees'..."

May 31, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.

"...other nonperforming ex-Ramone roaming the streets during SXSW, producer Tommy Erdyli); Chris Brokaw is the guitarist for Come; the..."

March 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Critics Poll

Critics' favorites from 2001

"...Best Local ShowGreg Beets: Pong, Brown Whörnet, Room 710..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Music Feature

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...and the national consciousness: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, King Rastus Brown, John Bubbles, Fred Astaire, Harold and Fayard Nicholas, aka..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

"...Tom Brown..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...Hawkins, Ellington again, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Dancing About Architecture

Broken Spoke is broken into and thieves ride away with owner James White's family heirloom: a saddle, mister.

"...entertainment from Asleep at the Wheel, Marcia Ball, Junior Brown, Bekka Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Stephen Bruton, Tommy Castro, Bruce..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

Travis County D.A. Ronnie Earle has the edge in contributions over D.A. contender Shane Phelps

"...Tommy Jacks, former pres., Texas Trial Lawyers Assn., $5,000..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

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