2nd Annual Ameripolitan Music Awards

"...Winners of the Western Swing Group category, Austin’s Hot Club of Cowtown poses..."

Feb. 18, 2015 Photo Gallery

Into the West

Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek's Cutoff

"...over the rocky terrain. This is not a conventional Western filled with the sounds and images of gunfights and..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Appaloosa

Ed Harris takes a turn behind the camera again in this Western in which he co-stars with Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons.

"...Spall. We've heard tell about the rebirth of the Western at least since Clint Eastwood's vicious, Unforgiven 16 years..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Somehow, Stephen has managed to milk attention to his birthday out of another week's column. You'd think they happen more frequently than once a year … perhaps at his age, they do? Plus, some Vivid cowboy news for those who may read this column for different reasons …

"...panel I See by Your Outfit: The History of Western Wear that I rehearsed for days in front of..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Last Samurai

Tom Cruise turns Japanese.

"...Samurai. From all appearances, the film – essentially a Western set in 19th-century Japan during the Meiji period –..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Companeros!

"...The Alamo’s all-you-can-eat pasta, focaccia, and Caesar salad Spaghetti Western Spaghetti Feast returns with this violent Italian Western about..."

March 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Question of Equity

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

"...came into being in 1994," says John Holly, the western regional director of AEA, headquartered in Los Angeles. "Before..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Rosetta, My Rosetta

"...By the time she found the courage to send..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...renaissance in regional literature, My Blood's Country: Studies in Southwestern Literature (1973)...."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Postmarks

Turner Is Worthy

"...opportunity away from East Austin and toward the lily-white western countryside." Visit her modest East Austin neighborhood and you'd..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

The Wild, Wired West

CD-ROMs Make Virtual History

"...And that's enough sagebrush-meets-silicon metaphors to start off this western multimedia round-up. Try booting up these:..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Screens Feature

South African Wine Shines at Cape Bottle Room

East Austin shop focuses on an under-the-radar wine region

"...South African wine bar, takes its name from the Western Cape, a province of South Africa that's home to..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...you doing sci-fi, why aren't you doing a spaghetti western, why aren't you doing, you know—it was also so..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Punk Trilogy Gets a Re-release

Penelope Spheeris speaks on her restored punk doc triptych

"...cinema isn't hyperbole, it's the truth. The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy, her ongoing chronicle of the Los Angeles..."

July 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Snakes on a Plate

Reconsidering the reptile

"...a creative whim, the Sway crew recently acquired Texas western diamondback rattlesnake at a whopping $57 per pound through..."

July 10, 2015 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Fusebox Festival

The 2010 lineup promises a Fusebox as wild, novel, and thrilling as ever

"...May 1, will include modern dance from Japan, a Western from England, a Western swing big band with 200..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

Alamo Village, where John Wayne shot The Alamo, has lost the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years

"...the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years...."

Aug. 21, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Pearl King

Formed through irritation, time, and friction, yet gorgeous, imperfect, and universally valued: Oliver Rajamani

"...folk music of his Tamil tribal culture, also studying Western and Indian classical and contemporary music. He played jazz..."

May 4, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

Naked City

"...is native to five creeks in Northern Travis and Western Williamson counties. Late last month, the U.S. Fish and..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Hurd Is the Word

Cornell Hurd, Austin's most prolific C&W songwriter? It's no joke.

"...might be de rigueur, but the sound accompanying this Western swing number is the scraping of chairs on Jovita's..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters @ 3AM

On this drive, the universe condensed into one word: invitation.

"...wondering about a wild gal. Of such stuff are Western legends made...."

June 23, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Who's Your Grandpa?

Critics say older case gives ammo against AMD, but city staff say they are apples and oranges

"...the city's 1997 annexation of the entire Village at Western Oaks subdivision...."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Playboy of the Western World

As the weather cools, Different Stages brings the warmth of rural Ireland to town in its staging of J.M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’

"...The Playboy of the Western World..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Isolde: Queen of the Western Isle

Margaret Moser reviews Rosalind Miles' take on Tristan and Isolde.

"...Isolde: Queen of the Western Isleby Rosalind Miles..."

April 25, 2003 Books Review by Margaret Moser

Imminent Harm

The city plays a high-stakes, high-risk game with Stratus Properties, while the citizens look on

"...to Slusher, Paul Tesluk of the New Villages at Western Oaks neighborhood drew loud applause with his rebuttal: "Well,..."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...a cowboy and thus spent two years on the Western frontier. He tamed wild horses, branded cattle, fought Indians,..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Naked City

Round Rock residents decry the western alignment proposed for SH130 and plead the case for an eastern alignment before the Texas Turnpike Authority.

"...was very relaxed in Round Rock, where TTA's preferred "western alignment" -- or, as the locals call it, the..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Over the objections of SH130 backers, CAMPO expresses its unanimous support for an eastern alignment for the road.

"...commissioners, had already made plain their opposition to the western alignment. (Republican Rep. Mike Krusee of Round Rock made..."

Feb. 11, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Hank World (Bloodshot) SPADE COOLEY & THE WESTERN SWING DANCE GANG..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...Crust Doughboys, but there are still plenty of undisputed Western gems here to compensate: "Don't Fence Me In," "Home..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

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