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TCB is away on vacation, but not before leaving readers with (hopefully) a couple of laps – and this year's ACL Fest lineup

"...hits from Shelton's ode to the sport that, as Walt Whitman wrote and Sarandon quotes, "is our game. It..."

May 19, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Call and Answer

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

"...("Poetry and the American Voice") on the poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Langston Hughes. When in response..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Hang the Holidays

Help is on the way

"...is vast; it contains multitudes – of presents. (Sorry, Walt.)..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Album Review: White Denim, 12

Onetime Austinite conjures Seventies garage rock on dozenth LP

"...A Walt Whitman-esque legion of men and women make music on..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 15-21

"...and extensive in the coming weeks. Like Gemini poet Walt Whitman, you should never apologize and always be proud..."

July 15, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

We Have an Issue: It’s Been a Year, All Right

It's the Top 10s issue; plus, meet the new Food Editor

"...all pop-eyed post-dick pic. Winston Duke's incandescent recitation of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in Nine Days. The village..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Seeing “(California) Stars” at Austin City Limits’ Hall of Fame Induction

PBS perennial fêtes Alejandro Escovedo, Lucinda Williams & Wilco

"...On Thanksgiving Day 1976, the Band stage its Last Waltz in San Francisco, clustering Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, Februry 12-18

"...(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I've adopted some lines from poet Walt Whitman for you to use in composing a love..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change

A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races

"...Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Ben Fountain on Beautiful Country Burn Again

In his new book, the author lights up 2016 to make sense of that crazy, intense year

"...found myself coming across people who seemed like guides: Walt Whitman. Henry James. Hunter Thompson. Joan Didion. Abraham Lincoln...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bill Murray Plays It Straight – Mostly

Still, you can’t keep Peter Venkman down

"...and wisdom. Easy to assume that a recitation of Walt Whitman would descend into parody, but he demonstrated nothing..."

March 19, 2018 Music Post by Dan Gentile

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...third edition of Leaves of Grass, the American poet Walt Whitman wrote a series of newspaper columns under the..."

May 5, 2017 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...with my own money at Sam Goody in the Walt Whitman Mall...."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2016

Uncommon combinations – dance with horses, music with robots, drama with a Tesla coil – made the year unforgettable

"...8) PONYTRAP: PROMETHEAN WALTZ (Stateside) Look, this citation isn't another celebration of music,..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Star Wars Prequels Strike Back

Austin-made documentary gets to the heart of the hate

"...likely to quote The Journal of the Whills as Walt Whitman, a subtly disguised academic treatise. "We knew that..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Classical Guitar Narratives Series

"...expressed in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and works by Walt Whitman, John Dowland, and Benjamin Britten. Artists include tenor..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature

L. Shapley Bassen's "Portrait of a Giant Squid"

First Place winner

"...verified his belief that, like a grand piano or Walt Whitman, New York City contained the world...."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by l. Shapley Bassen

DVDanger: Drawn to the Screen

Some animated selections from beyond the House of Mouse

"...successful (imagine French rapper MC Solaar trying to speed-read Walt Whitman over some Of Monsters and Men outtakes) but..."

Dec. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway

Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?

"...and hawked it door to door. People will read Walt Whitman as long as people read, and, because of..."

July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: To Sit on a Park Bench

The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up

"...you matters, if you behold with your whole heart. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson knew this; they were great..."

April 4, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

A Poet's Paper Trail

Billy Collins' archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance

"...for him reading someone else’s poem – one by Walt Whitman, say...."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Amy Smith

Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Best of 2012, Vol. 2

This year wasn’t such a wash after all

"...& Gold (Asthmatic Kitty) 6) “Leavin’,” MilkDrive, Waves 7) “Walt Whitman,” Trampled by Turtles, Stars and Satellites (Banjodad) 8)..."

Jan. 2, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

David Byrne & St. Vincent

"...of emotion in Clark's depression-sunk "Ice Age" and hearkening Walt Whitman's cosmos not only in the album's title, but..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Review by Doug Freeman

ACL Interview: Trampled by Turtles

Friday, 5pm, Austin Ventures stage

"...animated TV show Squidbillies, Trampled by Turtles now count "Walt Whitman" amongst their videos...."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Hercules on Two Wheels

Could bicycling be bigger than baseball again?

"...(Writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas and Walt Whitman, have also found two-wheeled inspiration.)..."

Nov. 12, 2011 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

Come Together

Latino poets building a community at CantoMundo

"...J. Michael Martínez was the 2009 recipient of the Walt Whitman Award. "Think about that: In the last two..."

July 1, 2011 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

West of Here

"...Where has Walt Whitman's America gone? What happened to the days when..."

March 18, 2011 Books Review by James Renovitch

Letters at 3AM: The Thing About Words

Words are the property of all

"...commonality of your medium. Even if you chant like Walt Whitman or rhyme like Edna St. Vincent Millay or..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...– Walt Whitman..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...talking of William Blake and quoting John Donne and Walt Whitman...."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

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