Quit Your Day Job: Ray Wylie Hubbard

Singer-songwriter on his days burning down Burger King

"...My last real day job was probably back in my 40s, and I..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Quit Your Day Job

Stark singer-songwriter David Ramirez used to box up 15,000 pies a day

"...they'd come out on my side wrapped up. My job was to load them all into crates, and they..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Quit Your Day Job: Jess Williamson

Heart-on-sleeve song siren paid her dues, all right – right down to the staples

"...In my early 20s, I had a job for a day and a half at an art..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Quit Your Day Job: Taylor Muse

Quiet Company frontman details how to make trash salad

"...My first job was the worst I ever had. It was this..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Don't Lose Your Day Job

Texas unemployment insurance paints a dismal picture.

"...all bad. At least, if you're out of a job, you'll receive a 13-week extension on your unemployment benefits...."

March 22, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Quit Your Day Job: Sam Baker

Song whisperer once picked cotton

"...I've worked a lot of rough jobs, but the worst one was hoeing cotton up on..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

American Job

"...Everyone knows this is nowhere, this world of minimum-wage jobs, stultifying labor, and dead ends. Another day, another meal,..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Can a Working Musician Find a Decent Job in This Town?

Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them

"...realized none of the musicians there were at a day job. Since I don't have one, most of my..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

The Bank Job

When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.

"...with an enormous amount of cash and jewelry. For days, the robbery was the talk of London: the brazenness..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Day Labors - Night Falls

Austin's Day Labor Site Attracts Drugs, Criminals

"...the trucks that routinely pull in to pick up day laborers had long stopped coming. Cokley was fatally wounded..."

Aug. 30, 1996 News Feature

Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...to take off in Hollywood. Sims had gotten a day job at Urban Outfitters, a new store opening on..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Local Pick for Free Comic Book Day

Creators of Punchline offer a super-powered narrative

"...Here comes Saturday, May the 4th, swinging in like an orange fist..."

May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Daddy Day Care

"...in terms of its effort, Eddie Murphy’s latest, Daddy Day Care, offers a lackluster start to the summer comedy..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Burn Survivors Speak in 'Present Day'

New charity documentary debuts in Hill Country

"...Country, stop by the Boerne Community Theatre for Present Day. That's the new fundraising documentary for the Moonlight Fund..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

World AIDS Day: No One Untouched

Roger Temme on why we still observe World AIDS Day

"...For much of today’s younger LGBTQ generation, AIDS is a thing of the..."

Nov. 27, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Day One on the Floor

Liveblogging from the House in the 82nd Legislature

"...The 82nd Legislature of the State of Texas begins today. We'll be keeping track of events throughout the day,..."

Jan. 11, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Take Your Slacker to Work Day

"...me up with a press pass for the Memorial Day Texas Rangers vs. Boston Red Sox game. I would..."

June 12, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

Last Day at the Lege

Sine die arrives as threat of a special session looms

"...The Texas Legislature has only one job: to pass a budget for the upcoming biennium. More..."

May 29, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.

"...sense of couture, who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

UT's Day After Tomorrow Is Here

Maybe Dennis Quaid was right about UT athletics

"...I just refer to: A) The plot to The Day After Tomorrow or B) University of Texas’ fall athletics..."

Sept. 22, 2010 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Day Trips & Beyond: Six Baseballs for Cuba

Capt. Day Trips makes friends in Cuba by handing out new baseballs

"...Handing out baseballs in Cuba: A "Day Trips" travelogue...."

March 16, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

How Dan Brown Created Neo-Noir Your Lucky Day

Director and his star and composer on the twisty thriller

"...writer and director of twisted crime thriller Your Lucky Day, it was the other way around: over a decade..."

Nov. 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Toros Tryouts: Day One, Part Two

"...Halfway through the first day of Toros open tryouts last weekend, I had a..."

Oct. 22, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Updates from around the state and things to look forward to

"...pandemic is over we’ll all be ready for a day trip...."

April 1, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Labor Day TV Programming

Got the day off? Time to work the couch

"...Sure, you could spend Labor Day at a BBQ cookout or splashing around a swimming..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips

Mandola Estate Winery pairs handmade Italian-style wines with a Texas accent to an Old World-style Italian market and restaurant

"...line. "They keep telling me not to quit my day job yet," says Stan Duchman, a Houston cardiologist with..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Hi, How Are You Day: Wayne Coyne

Flaming Lips’ singer talks Daniel Johnston ahead of Tuesday megashow

"...reached halfway to Santa Fe to celebrate his 58th birthday, Wayne Coyne mused about Texan song-savant Daniel Johnston. Flaming..."

Jan. 21, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Talking Through 'That Day'

Two plays – Omnium Gatherum and The Guys – try to express what happened on September 11

"...As the 11th day of the month inches closer on the calendar, a..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips: Magic’s Theater, Dripping Springs

Old-fashioned magician thrills with timeless illusions and tricks

"...years ago with his bag of tricks and a day job in the film industry. A graduate of the..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...New Canaan Farms' Jam Hour has discontinued its live Saturday night radio show, which was broadcast from under a..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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