Wednesday Showcases

Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance

"...next arrived, Dark Room Notes' fresh alterno-electronica is exactly where it belongs, leading their generation by the hand to..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

'Counting Water'

Third-Place Winner

"...the greenish fluorescence. These are the kind of lights where there are no corners left dark. Reminds me of..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Carolyn Lindell

Ana's Opening

Third place

"...the gray Formica table and yanking Ana's tee-shirt down where it had been riding up. "And get yourself a..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Stacy Muszynski

Melville in Cubicle Hell

Tyro film director Jonathan Parker brings "Bartleby the Scrivener" back to the future. And who better to ride shotgun than freaky, geeky Crispin Glover?

"...difficult instrument to learn how to play. You don't touch it; you wave your hands near it to change..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Groover's Paradise

Former Rolling Stone scribe Ed Ward describes trying to track Doug Sahm.

"...Doug liked me, so we kept in touch, which was hard to do, because he never seemed..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...Flea," which would do Jim Lange proud as the hands-down best version of the Dating Game theme since Homer..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

"...that this year is expected to be the last wherein the club can have their tented outdoor shows for..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Food Top Nines

"...restaurant market. All the new Austinites have to eat somewhere, and throughout the year new eateries opened at breakneck..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

No Schism

"...don't reassert the traditional urban development of the past, where living, walking, cycling, and transit come ahead of cars,..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column

Who's Minding the Clinics?

City/County Divided on Public Health

"...Health Clinic. photograph by Jana Birchum There's no room anywhere. Every time you turn around you bump into something,"..."

May 1, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Riding on the Wrong Side

"...police wagon hauled him and his bike to jail, where he sat until 2am until he was finally released..."

Oct. 17, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Bunch Replies

"...I ordinance forced the TNRCC to adopt both a "hands off" policy to city watershed protection ordinances and a..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column

Record Reviews

"...be excellent song-fodder. So a whole set of tunes touching on the various aspects of ignorance isn't beyond the..."

July 7, 1995 Music Review

First Look: The Statesman

A “supper club” with clever cocktails and warm hospitality

"...is a throwback mural along the rear wall featuring hands holding martini glasses, rocks glasses, and cigars. It’s a..."

Jan. 18, 2024 Food Post by Taylor Tobin

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 24-30

"...the Superdome in New Orleans on September 15, 1978, where she and her actor friends watched a boxing match..."

June 24, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

'Sheds'

Short Story Contest third-place winner

"...just keep my wits about me like I would anywhere else as a girl. If I see a gun,..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Melanie Westerberg

Letters at 3AM: Georges Méliès' Tricks and Treats

Creating the possibility that anything could happen onscreen was the great contribution of Georges Méliès

"...and, headless, he places that head on a table, where it goes on talking silently (this is silent cinema)...."

Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Saturday Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...in a way no other late-Seventies pogo machine can touch. Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle still know how to..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is now rife with violence and bloodshed at the hands of Islamic radicals welcomed by this pact. It is..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column

Unrequited Love

Considering the high prices and small portions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood admits that to pursue her tryst with Emilia's would make her a fool for love.

"...of the Emilia's kitchen rests securely in the capable hands of talented young chef Will Packwood. Raised in Italy..."

May 4, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...back then are now clearly novelty songs with a touch of black humor and the too-occasional outburst of great..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Postmodern P.I.

"...causing suicides, and various forms of self-degradation and havoc. Where does all that come from?..."

June 11, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

“Shana Hoehn: Hauntings” at Women & Their Work

Vintage hood ornaments are reimagined as sculptures that expose the historically distorted treatment of women’s bodies

"...unless you've recently been to Women & Their Work, where several are standing silent watch in the dimly lit..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Food Issue: Nice Tomatoes

The story behind the Eastside Green Tomato photo gallery

"...day's milk. And while the experience put me in touch with my heritage, no, our hands weren’t blistered from..."

June 14, 2013 Chronolog Post

Practice Safe Salsa!

"...it is perfectly appropriate to ask your produce manager where tomatoes and peppers were grown...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Blazing Baile Carioca

Mexico takes on Brazil: winner, metal-based dance?

"...singer Marina's bright vocal play adds just the right touch. Retro modern: Dublin-based Mexicanos Rodrigo y Gabriela intoxicate with..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Serious GAME

For the Austin Outlaws, the game is the only thing

"...turf and scampers 45 yards to set up a touchdown. "You just reached for her!" head coach Geoff Gummerman..."

June 2, 2006 Sports Feature by Kevin Brass

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...Trees, can only hope that his band the Praying Hands match the airborne wizardry of the Foo Fighters. Pickerel..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

The Blurbing of SXSW 06

"...Sixties Britpop and Seventies American power pop. Oakland's Cuts touch on pop, glam, and just a little bit of..."

March 10, 2006 Music Feature

Almost Famous

Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road

"..."Booher has the touch with the toll collectors," grumbles Roeder. "They love him."..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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