Playback – 2014: Keeping the Dream Alive

Reviewing ATX music 2014

"...reopen at a location that never materialized. The Legendary White Swan closed in June due to inconsistent attendance...."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Kickstart Your Weekend With Amazon Express

It's the 4,200-mile journey you'll never forget

"...the cloud forest to the rain forest to pristine white sand beaches, the team paddled the entire Amazon River..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Touching All Those Hands

Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

"...could. He worked with everyone: black people, brown people, white people, gay people, straight people, churchfolks, artists, activists, crusties,..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crazy For You

With Crazy for You, Zilker Theatre Productions brings the grand songs of George and Ira Gershwin back to the park for the first time in 43 years, and the occasion seems to have inspired the artists involved to an infectious jubilation.

"...of feet by legs, trunk, and neck, hover 29 faces, each boasting a similar span of gleaming white teeth,..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two

The Republican right's hypocritical rhetoric machine has become so dazzling and effective it can only be viewed as (highly successful) conceptual art.

"...shift the bulk of Texas' electoral power to the white-flight suburbs that vote Republican with blind consistency. Redistricting is..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...him after a party with Rod Stewart & the Faces...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

King of the Hillbillies

"...Jesco White in Dancing Outlaw There's something oxymoronic about a documentary..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...There's more to Reynolds' book than smiley faces and dilated pupils, though. His coverage of the entire..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...down the opening notes of "Wicked Messenger" on the Faces First Steps. The same man on piano behind Ron..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

The Li'l Green Aggravation Society

Rock & Roll's Cain & Abel: The Kinks' Davies Brothers

"...these days, if he's not uttering the words "Small Faces," is uttering "the Kinks" instead. (Ironically, Ray recently presented..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Live Shots

"...was their way of saying, "Your brand of mediocre white-bread funk displeases us immensely, now please go away quickly."..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature

Austin’s Sexual Assault Controversies Roil the District Attorney’s Race

Margaret Moore's controversial handling of rape cases brings opponents to the race

"...Brett Kavanaugh ascended to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kelly White, co-CEO of the SAFE Alliance, the local nonprofit that..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Comics (Artist) Panel

Five Austinites on the state of the sequential art, from comics to comix to manga and beyond

"...first big contract about how they got there. Mack White..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Joey Seiler

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...and hyped, the teachers piled into principal Joaquin Gloria's white SUV and drove across Airport Boulevard to a cluster..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Miss Montana's Wedding Day

Third Place

"...Outside her windows, the tops of the mountains were white: new snow. Next to her bed was an empty..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Undercover on High School's Ritziest Glitziest Night It All Goes Down at Prom

"...cut from cardboard and wrapped in tin; the same white tablecloths and balloons and tinsel and chintzy party favors..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature

A Broken Trust at the Alamo Drafthouse

After executive mismanagement of sexual harassment accusations, the movie chain reconsiders what it means to do the right thing

"...in the lobby, featuring many of those same familiar faces. In the latest round of revelations, it turned out..."

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...rockers. Shortly afterward, Strummer wrote the band's first anthem, "White Riot," with its incendiary chorus, "White riot, I wanna..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...studied with him, but in such places names and faces were generally familiar to everyone. He spoke quietly, and..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

(Your Name Here) Roasting on an Open Fire...

"...Zoom! He's outta there, leaving you giftless! My personal white collar (and cummerbund) pick would be the Mr. Fabulous..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Column

The Eugenic Circus Comes to Town

A Downtown hotel is hosting a natalist, eugenics-aligned conference in December. Why Austin?

"...in Arizona," because the Apaches "got royally butt-raped by whitey lol Better keep a bag packed, we're building the..."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...the mess that happened last night, I look at white people burning stuff up in the name of Black..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...Stina Leicht of Of Blood and Honey fame. Skyler White, whose The Skill of Our Hands, co-written with Steven..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Failure by Design

"...us stuck around afterward to counter the heavily armed White Lives Matter protesters, we witnessed an abysmal failure of..."

Nov. 21, 2016 Postmarks

We're Still Here

Assessing the continuing black Austin experience

"...all these black and brown folks over here, poor white people, and creative-class people," explains longtime Austin resident, community..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

'Noriko Ambe: White Scape'

Ambe's milky topography may make your aesthetic senses go snow blind in appreciation

"...'Noriko Ambe: White Scape'Lora Reynolds Gallery, 360 Nueces #50, 215-4965 www.lorareynolds.com Through..."

March 2, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...Alamo City's home team in the Texas league – white boy, vato, soul man, musician. His career has crisscrossed..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...tell." Hubbard had been here before – some young white boy trying to get insight into the blues. "I'm..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Graduation at Escuelita

How much longer?

"...this block, had indeed signed a long-term lease to White Lodging Services Corp., which plans to build a multistory..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...at home, as Gov. Rick Perry lies in Texans' faces about a school finance solution – and a fifth..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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