Featuring Texas

Films From Around the State

"...Finding North As in previous years, South by Southwest '98 boasts an impressive lineup of native works ranging..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Reissues

"...Lalo Schifrin (Mission: Impossible); and Robert Drasnin (Wild Wild West), are a few. Other well-known composers also worked on..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

The Big Crapshoot

Tracking South by Southwest

"...out recording contracts like business cards at South by Southwest, it's not an entirely invalid inquiry. Artists do get..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Greg Beets' National Top Ten

"...9. Fugees, The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia)..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature

Written in Stone

UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation

"...at its massive Grasberg copper and gold mine in West Papua (an Indonesian province formerly known as Irian Jaya)...."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Sxsw

"...are over 700 bands playing this year's South by Southwest conference? You are only one person, with two legs,..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...Hayward. Executive producer: Bert Schneider. Raybert Productions, Inc. A Columbia Pictures Release. Songs: "The Pusher" by Hoyt Axton, performed..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...the undercover agent, Tom Coleman, an itinerant lawman from West Texas with no prior experience in undercover narcotics work...."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...brought Austin's first punkzine: Austin Vanguard, brainchild of Nick West, whose nom de punk was either Nick Modern or..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Friday Picks

"...League fashion, Vampire Weekend coined its own genre: "Upper West Side Soweto." It's a combination of traditional Afro-pop, Trinidadian..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Expectations of Future Growth

Third Time Lucky?

"...with the label actually date back to South by Southwest 1994, when Robbins heard the local singer's "This Kind..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...sign of the zodiac), Fisher decided this South by Southwest showcase was a good chance to display his newer..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...The South by Southwest speaker list for the conference side of this year's..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Tenth and Final SXSW Artist List

Action Bronson, Talib Kweli, a Blaze Foley tribute, and 196 more

"...on our already teeming ant colony for South by Southwest. As such, the conference’s music programmers today release their..."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Great Gig in the Sky

The best albums of our lives – and the afterlife

"...3) Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems (Columbia)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Down & Dirty

Lone Star guitar great Johnny Winter gets his hands dirty once again

"...Beaumont guitar giant from taking this year's South by Southwest head on. Fifth Street warehouse Rowdy's Saloon hosted his..."

July 4, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...the sunny beaches of Jamaica. The group's debut, Isles (Columbia), delivers what it promises: progressive, intelligent island music with..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Top 10s

"...1) Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball (Columbia)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward

Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all

"...divide independent filmmaking into two categories: pre-Mariachi and post-Mariachi. Columbia Pictures' gamble on that little Spanish-language shoot-'em-up changed, well,..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Painting by Numbers

Wherein we recall how we got here ... and contemplate the baleful map-drawing future

"...overpopulated is Michael McCaul's District 10, which runs from West Lake Hills, through North Austin, and east to suburban..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...& Brown) leading the way, this SF quartet tosses West Coast pop in a psychedelic blender with droning garage..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Landmark Willie

"...His first album for Columbia, issued in 1975, was a wholly original Gothic Old..."

April 25, 2008 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

In the Mood for a MomRomCom?

The Alamo Drafthouse is serving up It Happened One Night and Sabrina for Mother's Day

"...South Lamar and Sabrina at the Alamo Village on West Anderson. Each movie will be accompanied by a special..."

May 11, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Tommy Shannon

'I Live in Trios'

"...moniker lasted until Clive Davis signed the band to Columbia Records in 1969, where they recorded simply as Johnny..."

April 13, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Troublemaker

Ed Ward's first-hand account of Willie Nelson's Complete Atlantic Sessions.

"...I flew to New York, checked into a West Side Howard Johnson where the band and crew were..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Good Humor Man

Former 'Seinfeld' writer Pat Hazell is funny, upbeat, generous, and, oh, yeah, he lives here now

"...Years, his one-man show about growing up in the Midwest in the Sixties and Seventies, at the State Theatre..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...started," sings Rodney Crowell on 2005's excellent The Outsider (Columbia), but that's exactly what he wants. Too sophisticated to..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Bruce Springsteen

Gift guide

"...Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition (Columbia)..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Scott Jordan

Letters at 3AM

In the next presidential election, only the Democrats can be counted on to preserve the Bill of Rights

"...He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, went to Columbia Law School, and became the youngest member of the..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Texas Towns & Places

"...and "A Handful of Laurel" were turned into a Western classic about a Texas border town by Marty Robbins..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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