The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...The younger folks among you may just remember what it..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Luv Doc: Stop it. Stop it now.

7 things people under 30 should stop doing

"...came across an article on Huffington Post entitled, “7 Things You Totes Need to Stop Saying if You’re Over..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Column

The Trials and Success of Tom Laughlin's 'Billy Jack'

Politics and pacifism on the East Coast

"...bigger news than it was, but time does affect the stature of cultural archetypes. Laughlin had played Billy Jack..."

Jan. 2, 2014 Screens Post by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: Wake of the Red Witch

Everything that begins also ends

"..."Been in the dark/ All of my life/ Waiting for the Wake/..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

The Learning Curve

Bill Hader on his schooling in comedy at SNL

"...up in rehearsal. Saturday night, you sell it to the country in a live television broadcast, where you're expected..."

April 19, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Take Me to the Palette

Bernie Taupin is as lyrical with a brush as with a pen

"...The name conjures words, descriptions of honky cats and island..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'May the Passenger Pigeon Sing Thee to Thy Rest'

Second-Place Winner

"...My grandmother told me that the passenger pigeon traveled in flocks..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature by Perry Tyson Midkiff II

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...join thousands of protesters in St. Paul, Minn., for the Republican National Convention. In the trailer behind them were..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...“I want somebody to tell my mother and go down yonder in Georgia and tell my..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Waiting for the Man

Lou Reed wonders if you ever read Othello

"...once that afternoon by Reed. Now, I'd been on the phone for more than 30 minutes with his assistant..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...Forty-six years ago and change, in the winter of 1957, John Graves paddled the Brazos for..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

The Earth Moves

For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go 'round

"...Let's get one thing straight: Dance doesn't make the world go 'round. Although the world itself, the terrestrial..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City

He is everywhere. He is unavoidable. He is Tha' Subliminal Kid.

"...I'll make you a universe," DJ Spooky writes in the liner notes of his 1996 Songs of a Dead..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

"...Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present (HarperCollins, $36), has achieved news status by the..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

The Right Profile

Austin singer-songwriter grows a up, grows a beard, and grows out of a strict DIY ethic.

"...behind. Actually, he's one time zone ahead, calling from the Charleston, West Virginia, studios of National Public Radio's Mountain..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Where Have All the Cowgirls Gone?

Austin's Female Country Singers

"...her that night, all of us spread out over the echoing dance hall like a few roadies at sound..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Burn Down the Mission

Darden Smith

"...photograph by Jason Kaplan Divorce. The dissolution of a relationship. Personal or professional, when the..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Here Comes the Judge

Beavis and Butt-head's Hollywood Score

"...onanistically inclined whackmasters Beavis and Butt-head ended up on the air at all. This pair of animated 14-year-old dimbulbs..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Capitol City Comedy Club's Grab for Bigger Laughs Restarting the Stop

"...and my bank account so small that I could rarely afford to venture out to watch the folks I..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Arts Feature by Spike Gillespie

The Word Made Song

Gospel Music in Austin

"..."Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness;..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Feature

The New Moneyball in National Champions

Ric Roman Waugh calculates the human cost of NCAA profits

"...Ric Roman Waugh admits that there’s a degree of humor in calling his NCAA drama..."

Dec. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: The Rules No Longer Apply

Create decent housing for all Austinites (1 million and counting). Is it really so hard?

"...could afford and find decent housing near to all the places they need to be. Is that really such..."

July 2, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Open the Crypt Door to The Mortuary Collection

How two days of filming in Austin saved Ryan Spindell's horror anthology

"...Behind every story, there's always another story. Ryan Spindell's Gothic horror-comedy anthology The..."

April 23, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: The Still is Still Moving to Oliver Rajamani

ATX’s Romani Lone Star makes another auto doc, My Mind

"...“In your series, I noticed a musician added videos they listen to, so I added James Last, his orchestra...."

Nov. 10, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Cowboys Versus Witches in The Pale Door

Austinite Aaron B. Koontz's weird, weird West

"...for Austin writer/director Aaron B. Koontz to head on the dusty trail to making his period horror The Pale..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gary Kent Is One of the Last of the Dangerous Men

New documentary Love and Other Stunts catches the daredevil legend in action

"...stunts; especially one who doubles for an actor during the filming of stunts and dangerous scenes. (First known use..."

June 1, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tapping Into the New Old Settler’s Music Festival

Checking in with Donna the Buffalo, Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, the women of I'm With Her, and more

"...Donna the BuffaloThu. 19, 7:10pm, Campground Stage; Fri. 20, 5:15pm, Original..."

April 20, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture

Star John Marshall on lions and the world's craziest home movie

"...carries a stack of family photos: his dad, his brother, his dad's second wife, her daughter, the family's animals...."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cornering the Market

With its second location, Wheatsville expands its cooperative mission

"...The exterior may still be under construction, but the long-awaited..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

The Luv Doc: Hoarders!

Ever find a half-eaten Hot Pocket in the crack of your sofa?

"...Our garage is completely filled with boxes of books, clothes, bikes, camping gear, etc. We can barely walk through..."

July 13, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

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