After a Fashion

"...MY BOLOGNA HAS A FIRST NAME ... Last year the Oscars were held six months after 9/11. This year,..."

March 28, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...It's Friday night, and the audience is trickling in, mostly families with young daughters..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Deep Blues From Gatesville

Amy Smith thought a judge would give her two years max for possession of crack cocaine; why is she doing 20?

"...ward, but that was how Amy Louise Smith spent the first eight days bonding with her newborn son, before..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

And You Come From Where ...?

Writer-performer Brian Shapiro opens And You Come From Where ...? with a bang -- a solid, vivid tale of family that's enough to make you fall hard for the show. But the rest of this multiple-character one-man show never quite achieves the same excitement, and you may find your love waning.

"...And You Come From Where ...?:Where Did the Love Go?..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Viva la Revolution!

Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.

"...Quick, can you name the American artist who famously stuffed himself into his campus..."

March 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Fish Out of Water

Seasick and Solitary on the Sandy Beaches Cruise

"...Although I didn't know exactly what to expect going into the Delbert McClinton Sandy Beaches Cruise, suffice it..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

More tributes to Doug Sahm

"...In your article "A Full Plate" [Nov. 19], there appears to be more carbohydrates than meat and potatoes...."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column

Postmarks

HPBC is on the minds of many this week; Gotham lingers in the shadows.

"...Kudos to Erica Barnett for her excellent piece on the Hyde Park Baptist situation ["Grow and Prosper," Nov. 19]...."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...Hunter has been annoying his neighbors. Like most of the campers with their pop-up trailers, huge cast-iron smokers, and..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

Holy Smoke!

The Barbecue! Bible

"...Live fire cooking is the world's first cooking method; it's the easiest and most..."

June 25, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...A Triple-S movie (three suicides in the cast -- Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates, and George Sanders),..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Record Reviews

Abbey Lincoln

"...Lincoln and bassist Dave Holland. Nearly two decades later, the 44-year-old Wilson, now both of her mentors' peer, enlists..."

April 2, 1999 Music Review

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...In 1992, Forbes magazine hailed Leininger as one of the 400 wealthiest entrepreneurs in the country, and reckoned his..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Justice Denied?

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

"...accept responsibility for what she did. Accepting responsibility is the beginning of healing." - District Attorney Ronnie Earle, August..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature by Jordan Smith

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Bruce Hughes

"...Hughes may play in two ofAustin's most popular bands, the Ugly Americans and the Scabs, but there have always..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

A Double Shot of Wry

Author Neal Barrett, Jr.

"...purple house. And he writes books that stray outside the boundaries and send reviewers deep into their thesauruses in..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Texas Platters

"...I Hate These Songs (HighTone)..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

Writer/Folklorist Kay TurnerBetween Us

"...of some 60 letters written between women who love other women, is the first such volume. Drawn from thousands..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Reissues

"...GONE WITH THE WIND..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Shortcuts

Go Girl!

"...Entertaining fears of a multimedia man's world? The soon-to-be Austin-based company Girl Games will certainly assuage them...."

Nov. 24, 1995 Screens Column

Sultry, Aggressive, and No-Bullshit Blues by Margaret Moser

"...The drive out to Sue Foley's Buda home is one..."

June 30, 1995 Music Feature

Two Sisters, Two Food Trucks, and a Lot of Soul

It's a family affair as sisters from Austin's Eastside emerge with twin trailers honoring their mother's legacy

"...5903 Wellington Dr., at first you might not notice the pink food trailer in a small grassy field across..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Food Feature by Haris Qureshi

AISD's "School Changes" Process Places Equity Front and Center

“Historically, this is a very racist city, and unfortunately, this school district is a part of that system"

"..."community visioning session" in early June, as part of the Austin Indepen­dent School District's "School Changes" process, parents turned..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Ramblin’ After Midnight With Stef Chura

Detroit indie rocker steps into the spotlight with second LP

"...by Car Seat Headrest wunderkind Will Toledo, Midnight finds the Michigan DIY staple feverishly jostling for layered clarity. Witness..."

July 18, 2019 Music Post by Beth Sullivan

Ibeyi Transmits

Sisters prove the measure of their society

"...French-Cuban twin sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz come together as Ibeyi, the Yoruban word for “twins,” composing simultaneously..."

April 13, 2018 Music Post by Isabella Castro-Cota

ATX Television Festival: Denis Leary

Rescue Me, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, and blue collar blues

"...Festival, it’s probably … Denis Leary. He said, “Unless there’s a funny story to be told, or something to..."

June 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jenny Zigrino, History Channeler

Among Moontower comics, Jenny Zigrino is the Ren fairest of them all

"...weird girl" growing up. "I was never into what girls my age were into," she says. "I enjoyed just..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Ashley Moreno

I Like to Watch

Finding the heart in Syfy's The Magicians

"...Syfy Network’s The Magicians, which ends its first season this Monday, April..."

April 8, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

Talking Bullshit With Nell Scovell

Muppets writer on buzzwords and the uphill battle for women in comedy

"...On Sunday, the writer Nell Scovell appeared on the SXSW Interactive panel..."

March 16, 2016 SXSW Post by Jen Sorensen

A Safe Place?

Parties, alcohol, and attitudes are contributing to a high number of sexual assaults in Austin

"...Every 107 seconds someone is sexually assaulted in the U.S., and in Texas, two in five women have..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

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