Wild Indian

Searing and brutal tale of two Indigenous men bound by bloodshed

"...Wild Indian opens with one of the most brutal, tough-to-watch..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Mardi Gras Indian Tribes From New Orleans

"...Listed are more than 50 Mardi Gras Indian tribe names from in and around the New Orleans..."

May 5, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Nine Mardi Gras Indian Songs You Don't Know (and One Everyone Knows)

"..."Handa Wanda Pt 1," Wild Magnolias..."

May 5, 2006 Music Feature

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

"...Get out those coonskin caps. Disney's King of the Wild Frontier is in town to entice a new generation...."

Feb. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ishi: The Last Yahi

"...the last living Yahi. Cold and starving, the California Indian came down from the hills and spent the rest..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Gang Don't Bow Down

Big Chief Kevin Goodman sew, sew, sews a new history here in Austin

"...as big chief of the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans and the secrets of "masking..."

May 5, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Wind River

Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation

"...writing, Wind River, a police procedural set on an Indian reservation in Wyoming. Sheridan exhibits a sure hand as..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Float Fest Lineup Makes Landfall

Zedd, Weezer, Mac Miller tube into San Marcos

"...German EDM giant Zedd, nerd rock godheads Weezer, indie wild bunch Cage the Elephant, and Pittsburgh MC Mac Miller..."

April 4, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Screen Dreams

Drive-In Theatres... on the Web!

"...a horribly lame and unfunny horror comedy starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner. It rained off and on all..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...a history lesson: In 1855, the Salish and Kootenai Indians surrendered their claim to western Montana and northern Idaho...."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...year. Perhaps the coincidence isn't that odd, given the wildly unpredictable gestation period that most books undergo before they..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

India Ink

The Literary Coming of the Second Continent

"...and The New Yorker have done special issues on Indian writers, The God of Small Things by Arundathi Roy..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Michael J. DiLeo

Dvorák's New World Inquiry

How a Czech composer helped America find its authentic voice

"...Knee massacre of 1890 had not only ended the Indian wars but in a sense nearly finished off the..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Big Land, Big Stories,& One-Eyed Jacks

Western Roundup

"...illustration by Nathan Jensen Some American Indian tribes used to believe that, before humans were created,..."

April 18, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a Western without a compass.

"...actor gives voice to an animated chameleon in a Wild West town, or Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man from 1995,..."

July 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saving Darma

A UT linguist travels to northern India in a quest to preserve the local language of the Darma Valley

"...started once again for the Darma people of the Indian Himalayas. All along the winding mountain road that runs..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Feature by Dan Oko

Natural State

San Antonio-based Presidian wants to enter into public private partnerships with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

"...provide a partial solution to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's financial woes. The problems facing Texas parks have..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

Postmarks

Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...girlfriend had long, dark dreadlocks, she was small, with Indian features. The other male was white, reddish blonde hair,..."

March 17, 2000 Column

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...or George Washington -- had been told from the Indian point of view. And try looking in your high..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Native Son

Sherman Alexie's Vision

"...guitar always found him. Eventually the spirit of an Indian mystic named Big Mom, who lived on a mountain..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Blood Brothers

This book does a superb job of capturing the essence of these two great Americans and their shared love of the American West

"...bound together by shared mortal combat during the Plains Indian Wars (1860-1890). The two were already embedded in American..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Bobby Bridger

Three Canyons

The Southwest Edge of Texas Hill Country -- Home to Lost Maples and Garner State Park -- Is Rich in Both Beauty and History

"...Indians attacked goat camp of Nick Coalson on June 1,..."

May 18, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Boone's Lick: A Novel

"...Lick, for Crazy Horse appears here as an unnamed Indian who playacts having a lame horse and leads Colonel..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Review by Mark Busby

Chi’Lantro Expands, Taco Flats Expands, G’Raj Mahal Preps a Return, Delucca Opens, Épicerie Spotlights Kallas-Lee, Central Market Celebrates Hatch, and More, More, More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...And G’Raj Mahal, the popular Indian eatery and Rainey Street original, is relocating to Austin’s..."

July 27, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

"...animals running out of the chutes are dangerous and wild. In fact, they have been kicked, hit, and had..."

March 10, 2000 Column

Beyond the Latke

Five alternatives to everyone’s favorite Hanukkah dish

"...your name with the Cocky Chick – braised chicken, wild rice, and house fondue – or keep it in..."

Dec. 6, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Day Trips

Bigfoot Wallace lived a life as big as Texas

"...Bigfoot Wallace started the last stampede of wild buffalo to thunder down Austin's Congress Avenue. In the..."

March 13, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

'May the Passenger Pigeon Sing Thee to Thy Rest'

Second-Place Winner

"...a museum drawer. She assured me that the last Indian would be preserved alongside the final pigeon in the..."

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

Worlds of Flavor

As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Mick Vann writes. My pulse quickened and I salivated uncontrollably every time the possibility of attending crossed my mind. I would love to go, but my financial picture was in its usual bleak and blurry mode. Then came the call from my editor. I had gotten a surprise, last-minute press pass.

"...with the colors of autumn, the lake, and its wild canyon tributaries magnificent, the twisting and spiraling road all..."

March 23, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

A Mid-Indian Summer Night's Dream: Missing the Bluebonnets

Second Stone Theatre's A Mid-Indian Summer Night's Dream takes the play out of Athens and sets it in Austin (kind of), but while the idea is striking, the production doesn't make the transition as completely as it could.

"...A Mid-Indian Summer Night's Dream: Missing the Bluebonnets..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

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