Of Love and Bingo

The Bradford Report

"...I don't mind mixing spring pleasures (flowers, falling in love again) with summer ones (fruit salad and reading by..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature by Robin Bradford

True Believer

You're at SXSW today because of its late creative director, Brent Grulke.

"...seemed completely illogical at the time. Why would Tom Waits, iconic songwriting genius, want to come to Austin and..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Nina Forever

When the three-way includes his dead ex

"...True love waits. And waits ... and waits ... and..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Christopher O'Riley

Record Review

"...Christopher O'RileyTrue Love Waits: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead (Sony Classical) Seeing..."

June 13, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...ADDICTED TO LOVE..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...the Meters, and LaBelle. A legend. – Robert GabrielLZ LOVE7pm, Central Presbyterian Church LZ Love may be new to..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Naked City

The "AA-S' Chastity Patrol

"...imbibing their inspiration. On Wednesday, Feb. 20, Marvin "Calvinists Love Longer" Olasky delivered a hallucinatory version of the American..."

March 1, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Enrico Rava

"...same distinction. Akin to classical pianist-cum-NPR host Christopher O'Riley's True Love Waits: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead (plus follow-ups Home..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Christopher O'Riley

Record review

"...nothing more than a waltz. O'Riley's previous two releases, True Love Waits and Hold Me to This, were grandiose..."

July 14, 2006 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Christopher O'Riley

SXSW live shot

"...songs he's transcribed for the 88 keys on 2003's True Love Waits and '05's Hold Me to This. No..."

March 24, 2006 Music Review by David Lynch

Radiohead

Record Review

"...album seems only half complete. Save the yearning, unreleased "True Love Waits," I Might Be Wrong comes off as..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Forgiving His Trespasses

Fight for the Right

May 28, 1999 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Dying Young

"...David Selby and Ellen Burstyn. From Dark Victory to Love Story, the incurable disease has nourished film romance --..."

June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bukowski: Born Into This

Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."

"...directly to the other. What is your definition of love? asks an interviewer (not Dullaghan, who’s cobbled together a..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe

“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”

"...His songs have been covered by Tom Waits and Yo La Tengo and championed by Kurt Cobain...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Please, Judge

Roky Erickson's first studio album in over a decade proves Will Sheff and Okkervil River's genius once again

"...The song is now the centerpiece of True Love Cast Out All Evil, the 62-year-old native Austinite's..."

April 16, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Hovvdy, Cherubs, Hoody Rap, a Tribute to Walter Hyatt, and more recommended sounds

"...Hovvdy's True Love..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Column by Carys Anderson

The Old Man & the Gun

Robert Redford has rarely shone more than in this true-crime tale

"...Lowery. Starring: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hunger Games

Lauren Kelley's 'True Falsetto' exhibition reviewed

"...rumbling as you watch the Lauren Kelley videos in "True Falsetto" at Women & Their Work. Or maybe not...."

Jan. 12, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

30 Rock

Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling

"...From the opening chords of "Love Struck Baby," it was clear this album would change..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58

Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack

"...Johnston’s songs have been covered by Tom Waits and Yo La Tengo and championed by Kurt Cobain...."

Sept. 11, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Coppola's take on the very old story is deliciously fresh. Oldman's Dracula has a stylized, almost hyperreal clarity and a singular weirdness.

"...Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost and Tom Waits. Coppola's version of Dracula has been one of the..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nothing But the Truth

Alejandro Escovedo remembers his friend and collaborator Stephen Bruton.

"...South by Southwest 1999 was a good year. Tom Waits headlined the Paramount Theatre Saturday Night, and Sunday, Robert..."

May 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Big 12 Power Rankings: Week 3

Ladies love the grillmaster

"...I am also known in certain circles as a true man of leisure and grillmaster par excellence. Which, of..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Sports Post by John Razook

What Becomes a Legacy Most

Forever is in large part about what an artist's legacy means to the living

"...Sadegh Hedayat, to that of an unidentified woman's late-in-life true love, who tragically died two months into their marriage..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dancing About Architecture

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

"...tracks are "Slender Means" and the Daniel Johnston song "True Love Will Find You in the End," while on..."

June 29, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...aural popper in the disco bathroom that was Andrea True's "More, More, More"? Unfortunately, Toxic's take on porn rock..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Big Sweet Life

"...solo debut from the former founding member of Austin's True Believers. With its songs of scraped hearts and cynical..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...between the eyes. Gang leader Langford still has the truest aim, "Day of the Dead" a hit, but sidekick..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Andy Langer responds: While it's true that there is no hard and fast rule, audio..."

May 17, 2002 Column

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