Faster Than Sound: KUTX Beacon Jay Trachtenberg Retires

Jay Trachtenberg retires from KUTX, Rick Carney steps down as Music Commission chair, and Johnny Bush ascends to honky-tonky heaven.

"...In 1998, "The Men of KUT" – Jay Trachtenberg, John..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn’t Trying to Trick You

The 2019 Texas Poet Laureate talks shop as she receives two Texas honors

"...very few artists out there who approach what they're doing with a sense of like, 'I'm going to pull..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Feels Like the First Time

The 36th annual Austin Music Awards mark a number of debuts

"...Agenda item No. 1 for the 2017/2018 Austin Music Awards Show hinged on a landmark first for..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

When They Were Kings

My All American revisits UT Football legend Freddie Steinmark

"...The fateful story of University of Texas legend Freddie Steinmark ranks as one of mythic proportion, saturated in inexorable..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Other People's Songs

Picture 'Friday Night Lights' beauty Dana Wheeler-Nicholson singing for the president

"...and clear December Tuesday, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson makes herself comfortable in a patio chair at the Hotel San Jose. Even..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Frankenstein's Flat Tax

Part Forbes, part Bush, Perry cobbles together financial policy

"...So finally we get to see Gov. Rick Perry's financial plan:..."

Oct. 26, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

A Thanksgiving feast with Speak, A Welch Family Affair, and Ornette Coleman

"...tree, but that doesn't necessarily mean that country-beat songsmith Kevin Welch pushed his son Dustin and daughter Savannah down..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Marcia Ball turns 60 in style, Bill Baird finds himself in song, and more confirmations for the Austin Music Awards and SXSW 09

"...special guest for the Dicks' reunion at the 2008-09 Austin Music Awards at the Austin Music Hall on March..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Trash Anthems

Each of the seven short plays written by Dan Dietz in Shrewd Productions' Trash Anthems unfolds like a gift being opened, full of surprising scenarios and sympathetic characters

"...Running time: 1 hr, 40 min..."

May 11, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Letters at 3AM

No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'

"...What was all that wistful, reverent, carefully even-handed verbiage in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's Leaves..."

July 22, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Goya

Robert Hughes' description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.

"...This spring, a Spanish expert in 18th-century furniture made the headlines..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Page Two

"...I'm making an Austin-music tape for an old friend I recently..."

July 4, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

The House Democrats' walkout was their best option in light of Republicans' vicious and highly partisan day in the sun; ending The Chronicle Hour quiets the right-wing voices in our head.

"...Reaction to political events is usually determined by partisan affections. The current situation regarding the walkout..."

May 16, 2003 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

The film version of Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel The Mists of Avalon debuts on TNT, and the Top 10 Reasons to be Mrs. Colby Donaldson.

"...Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel The Mists of Avalon debuted in 1983, it garnered a loyal legion of fans who..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony Bourdain..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...Tenaciously Hoping..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Whenever We're Opened

Mortician-for-a-night, Wayne Alan Brenner ponders life as he faces death.

"..."Making a canoe," that's what the cops call it...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Small Screen, Big Ideas

The Territory Begins A New Season

"...The Thinking Man's television: Now there's a concept that just never..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Off the Bookshelf

The Wedding Jester

"...by Steve Stern Graywolf Press, $14 paper..."

July 23, 1999 Books Review

Natural Appeal

"...As is only appropriatefor the last Austin Music Awards presentation of the century, the 1998-99 show..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Bigger, Bitter

Ever-Evolving Bitter End Offers Something for Everyone

"...the trendy downtown haunt that squeezes a plethora of Nineties dining chic into the spatially challenged confines of its..."

March 6, 1998 Food Feature by Patrick Earvolino

Exhibitionism

Works by Chris Scroger: Mickey Mouse for the Next Millennium

"...Denton and former University of North Texas art teacher, paints pictures inhabited by garish and frenzied clusters of strange..."

July 11, 1997 Arts Review

Scanlines

Running Brave

"...D: D.S. Everett; with Robbie Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Graham Greene. VHS Home Video I Luv..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Another Rotten Day

John Lydon on the Radio, Punk Rock, and Reunions

"...biz terms a "musical bed" (background music), the sneery working class British voice welcomes you to "another Rotten Day."..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

Austin Elders: Meet Mary Lou Gibson, Journalist and Austin’s Voice of Saints

A woman of hundreds of articles and few words

"...has one of those bell-clear voices. She was born in 1939, but at times, she sounds like a woman..."

May 9, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Love Letters, Pro Wrestling, and More Recommended Events

Your weekdays are spoken for

"...It’s been 20 years since a stop-motion animated feature won the Academy Award for..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Texas to Execute Father Accused of Murdering Child Despite Innocence Argument

Will Gov. Abbott allow Robert Roberson to be put to death?

"...John Grisham, the bestselling author of legal thrillers and mysteries, joined a press..."

Sept. 27, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Cover art for Knock Out, a painting by Kay Odyssey drummer Vajaja Meza, depicts a woman..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Honky-Tonk Soul Man Charley Crockett Makes His Move

The singer’s long road to Austin

"...Last week, Charley Crockett released his fifth album in four years. Come early January, the 34-year-old country soul..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

A Team Effort

How collaboration got Richard Linklater's baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some!! off the bench

"...There's no "I" in team: That's the wisdom at the heart of Richard..."

April 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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