Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...Hello, Dave Tejas from the Krum Bums here. I'm going to attempt to recount the blurry events of our..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

Letter at 3AM

While remembering September 11, we owe it to ourselves to remember what its horrors have been shamelessly manipulated to obscure.

"...could not bear to watch those planes strike those buildings again, or to see those towers fall once more...."

Sept. 6, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Development peccadillos and Lost Austin kudos.

"...Spring Valley & the TDHCA..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column

Feasts That Define the Millennium

Food, the Original Commodity

"...The past millennium has witnessed profound changes in the ways people obtain access to food, cook food,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

TV Eye

Hankering for millennium specials? Got 27 hours to kill? Find out what's in store this holiday season on the boob tube.

"...end of the night. Because the millennium meter is turning over to the year 2000, the expectation to party,..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...If, as Gertrude Stein once said about her hometown -- "there is no..."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

Sleazy Listening

"...or a friend's parents') house and rang the doorbell. Sweating and puffing, they hauled in a Spanish-provincial-style AM/FM/phono/TV/8-track/cassette home..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Something Worth Living For

Michael Fracasso's World in a Drop of Water

"...of Michael Fracasso's third and most recent album, World in a Drop of Water, and it provides the two..."

May 8, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Appetite for Reading

A Summer Spread of Captivating Cookbooks

"...illustration by Lisa Kirkpatrick Cookbook sales are soaring and the consuming public still seems hungry for more...."

June 13, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Soup's On

Eat Warm in Winter

"...photograph by John Anderson In cooler climes, where the onset of fall and winter..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

To C-Boy, With Love

Continental Club maverick Steve Wertheimer pays tribute to his mentor – with a nightclub

"...People make the place. Consider the Austin music scene, where a hideous National Guard armory (Armadillo..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Coach's Corner

Coach takes on sports talk radio.

"...odd cat. Many families have a fellow like Bob rattling about somewhere. Bob was present at each family gathering:..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Arthouse

It takes a village to raise a city

"...for The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, a time-based installation/performance by Los Angeles artist Liz Glynn in which volunteers..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hey, Yo! Young Lovers

Rome & Jewels is choreographer Rennie Harris' new hip-hop version of the Romeo and Juliet story, set in the streets of Philly where the Caps and the Monster Qs fight for control.

"...Than this of Juliet and her Romeo...."

Jan. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The First Omen

Gruesome gynohorror prequel to 1976’s satanic masterpiece The Omen

"...Directed by: Arkasha Stevenson. Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy, Maria Caballero,..."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Best of the Rest The Summer of '95, Part 2

"...Do you believe in magic? Silly question. You're human. You obviously believe in..."

June 9, 1995 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM

In Screenworld, face-to-face engagement is devalued, yet one is never alone

"...Screens, screens, screens – everywhere, screens. Right in front of me, in arm's reach, are three: the..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit

Steven Saylor's series of mysteries set in ancient Rome is one of the best mystery series being published today.

"...the End: A Novel of O. Henry, which took Austin's Servant Girl Annihilator murders of the 1880s and re-imagined..."

May 24, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit

Steven Saylor's series of mysteries set in ancient Rome is one of the best mystery series being published today.

"...the End: A Novel of O. Henry, which took Austin's Servant Girl Annihilator murders of the 1880s and re-imagined..."

May 24, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Blue Monday

Antone's Blue Mondays continues, 25 years later.

"...At half past 10pm on a sticky night in late September, Antone's Monday Night Blues Band is already..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Julius Caesar

Though it shows evidence of higher aspirations, the Austin Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, directed by Ev Lunning Jr. is a one-dimensional melodrama, lacking the rhetorical firepower and guiding vision that gives this drama its political punch.

"...Running Time: 2 hrs, 15 min..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Author Literatus

"...Saylor has so effectively created an alternate fictional universe in his Roma Sub Rosa series -- which consists so..."

July 2, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

"...When I encounter someone comfortable among the dead, in this..."

April 14, 2000 Column

Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates

Top Nine Cyber Stories

"...1998, Bill Gates got hit by a cream pie in Brussels. The offender, a Belgian guy, got away. But..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

From Country to Blues, Check Out These Austin-Area April Music Festival Lineups

Peruse new 2024 plans from Eclipse Utopia, Two Step Inn, and more

"...With October’s Austin City Limits and Levitation behind us, promoters have begun..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Coriolanus

Lorella Loftus' staging of Coriolanus at the Vortex doesn't succeed in making Shakespeare's hero truly tragic or noble, but its fierceness of imagination and commitment would do the Roman general proud.

"...CoriolanusThe Vortex, through Nov. 30, Running time: 2 hrs., 10 min...."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Other Box Sets

"...packaged that way -- sometimes they actually have books in them. They carry titles like The Gifts of the..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Temple of Angels, a DJ Chicken George benefit, a Soap Creek Saloon reunion, and more recommended shows

"...Guitarist Avery Burton recently gave Brooklyn Vegan a succinct rundown of his inspirational Texas music pals: "Victor Gutierrez..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Michael Ray Charles' New Art Asks Hard Questions About Race and America

The internationally acclaimed artist returns to Austin with new work that, as ever, leaves us asking ourselves what we see

"...The artist spreads the paint deliberately but quickly, filling in the sketched-out semicircle with..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

Guy Deutscher, with his always slightly amused tone, manages to turn this ambitiously comprehensive, globe-trotting book into a great layman's read without sacrificing the integrity of the material

"...The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention..."

July 8, 2005 Books Review by Nora Ankrum

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