Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...and competition were held (with the exception of the WWII years), and the attendance gradually grew from 20 riders..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Postmarks

HPBC is on the minds of many this week; Gotham lingers in the shadows.

"...am 57. My father served in the Pacific in WWII, my grandfather in Germany in WWI. To what end?..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...or friends who answered the call to arms in WWII (*living or deceased)...."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

The Jive Bombers Hit the Deck, It's the Jive Bombers (Texas Jamboree)

"...the Jive Bombers throw their collective hat into the post-WWII swing ring with 15 cuts of rolling dance fuel...."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Review by David Lynch

The Nine Lives of Ol' Possum

An overview of country legend George Jones' life and career.

"...Jot down a short list of post-WWII male country superstars: Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Page Two

Welcome to the 1999 Best of Austin issue.

"...they acknowledged that there had been comic books during WWII. I had always read comic books, but now I..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...who paints tales of getting bitten like a saged WWII vet reminisces about a gut full of bullets. He..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

October Previews

"...mysterious Harry Lime (Welles) loose in the shadows of post-WWII Vienna is being given the full re-release treatment. The..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Public Notice

You name it, we stood left of it.

"...Flyin' Saucer in the years after his return from WWII as a prisoner in Stalag 13. The dudes from..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Exhibitionism

Sandbox: Young at Heart

"...and more a how-will-she-get-away-with-it, Different Stages' production of this WWII-era British thriller is full of character. In a remote..."

July 16, 1999 Arts Review

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"...picture of the horrifying exodus from central Europe during WWII inside a metafictional framework that is fashioned out of..."

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...looking for a better life during the Depression and WWII. The result was a scene that, for a time,..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Day Trips

Coming up this weekend...

"...The 23,000-square-foot gallery tells the story of President Bush's WWII service and other servicemen in new exhibits. 830/997-4379 or..."

June 11, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Off The Bookshelf

Dear Exile:

"...up in a house (which was performed often during WWII, including at a concentration camp in a Warsaw ghetto..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Scanlines

Practical Magic

"...way that Neville Brand (fourth most-decorated combat vet of WWII) looked by '72. He was never a threat to..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Interfaith's Socialist Agenda

"...When WWII ended my ship was ordered into the strait of..."

April 23, 1999 Column

The Coffeehouse Chronicles: Episode 3

"...The barely renovated WWII-era frame house sits comfortably on a huge lot bordering..."

April 2, 1999 Food Column

Heavy Mettle

Fact of Life

"...ascension of single-use zoning as planning gospel; in the pre-WWII context, it was not at all odd for working-class..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Reflections

"...(prompting such reactions as J. Edgar Hoover's scrutiny during WWII), sometimes polemical, but always a voice for a community..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Players, Prisons, Pit Stops, and Girl Gangs

"...a picture called Action in the North Atlantic during WWII; they had these miniature ships and submarines with midgets..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...playing that flourished in the years before and after WWII. So if nothing else, the title Hot Guitars is..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Live Shots

"...it?" "Yeeeaaahhh!!!!!" A picture of John Kirby, another populist, WWII-era band leader, is projected onscreen, accompanied by Kirby's arrangement..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

Letter to Isaac

"...majority part of the city of Austin built after WWII, my bicycle riding happens on the weekend and week-long..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column

Public Notice

We'll Always Have Tuxpan

"...there's nothing remotely chimerical about Casablanca, the place. The WWII juggernaut successfully sucked the romance out of the most..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Coach's Corner

"...active, lifelong supporter of the University of Chicago. In WWII he worked on the Manhattan Project. In the early..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

Nichols Is Biased

"...been a legitimate call to arms. Thank God for WWII, eh?..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Column

Scanlines

The Hunt for Red October

"...entertaining films ever made. In the last years of WWII, a German U-boat is sent out on a dangerous..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Screens Feature

It's All in the Game

"...station lost thrust. In Hollywood, Steven Spielberg brutally portrayed WWII in Saving Private Ryan, while in the Middle East,..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...along Central Avenue in the bebop years immediately following WWII and ending with Ornette Coleman taking his avant-garde visions..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

It's Not Just a ZIP Code

Neighborhood Associations

"...BCNA were parts of about a dozen separate (mostly pre-WWII) additions and subdivisions. Even today, what many Austinites think..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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