Counting the Cocktails Onstage

The tally on tippling in some classic American dramas shows characters drinking to excess

July 21, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Age Onstage

Getting Specific About Age in subUrbia and Hot Flash!

"...have to go ("Only eight more years to Legal Drinking Age!"). We worry a great deal about age, concocting..."

April 4, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Drinking and Shrieking

This local Web site is dragging Austin clubs online and into the spotlight.

"...seems like a solid start. Running from the mikes onstage, through the soundboards, and out into the ether of..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

"...Want to hear some good drinking stories? Ask theatre people. Between their research for playing..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Tangled Web at Spider House

A culture of heavy drinking and late nights, alleged sexual misconduct, and a lawsuit all pull on the threads of a poisonous time at the campus-area cafe

"...from empty. College students, alone and coupled, sit outside drinking beers or working on laptops, likely unaware of the..."

Dec. 21, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

City Theatre's The Seafarer

Karen Sneed’s staging is shot through with compassion for the play’s hard-luck, hard-drinking Irishmen

"...bit of a supernatural twist to the holiday happenings onstage at City Theatre...."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Playback: Pastures of Plenty

Q: Ships and vans share what in common? A: Hazardous waste.

"...brings people together, and by the time we hugged onstage after playing the last date – a sold-out show..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Local Flow

Austin hip-hop in the house -- really

"...little over a year ago, there were more people onstage than in the audience, but now it's not unusual..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Bill Murray Plays It Straight – Mostly

Still, you can’t keep Peter Venkman down

"...Standing onstage in front of a packed Long Center on Sunday,..."

March 19, 2018 Music Post by Dan Gentile

A Night With the Andys

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen uncensored in Austin

"...to our show to continue an entertaining evening. Andy’s drinking onstage – [he] likes to scope out the town..."

June 22, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Dan Gray

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Thursday

Young Thug in the park, icy French experimentalism, and more

"...In Austin, the March music extravaganza supplants the Catholic-rooted day-drinking holiday...."

March 18, 2022 SXSW Post by Derek Udensi

Elaine Stritch (1925-2014)

Brassy Broadway legend truly at liberty now

"...a feisty, fiery force of nature who kept blazing onstage no matter what time, the times, or The Times..."

July 17, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Acting Tipsy

Local thespians reveal how they tackle the challenge of playing drunk onstage

"...That may help explain Jones' attitude that drinking, however useful to a performance, shouldn't be done indiscriminately:..."

July 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...came when Anal Demonstrative starlet Nina Whett joined Toxic onstage to sing something called "Drink Beer and Fuck." Although..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Throwing a Few Back With Shit-faced Shakespeare

When it's time to perform Shit-faced Shakespeare, here's how an actor prepares

"...have only four hours until you have to appear onstage plastered...."

July 21, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Attacked by Lesbians

Just three good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm

"...to hawk tie-dyed jockstraps and sandal-toe incense sticks while drinking a $3 cup of foamy Lite beer...."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Steady as She Goes

Li'l Cap'n Travis humbles its way into Austin's musical heart

"...membership in Christian's club. Matt and Mandon are elsewhere, drinking and conversing...."

July 2, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...mine," Cale shucked the sweaty T-shirt he had worn onstage and wadded it up as an offering. "C'mon. 'I..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...What he wanted was a group of chubby girls onstage who would shimmy and shake shamelessly while providing occasional..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...saying, I guess the club was around after the drinking age had gone up, 'cause he said they didn't..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Barge to Hell, Part 3

A final metal injection from HeadCrusher

"...and made fun of him. We tried to keep drinking and to my surprise he was really well-mannered and..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...at Houston's legendary Gilley's dancehall ended with more people onstage than in the crowd. This was one of those..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Get It While You Can

"...solace sitting in a rundown roadhouse in the swamps drinking a Dixie beer, watching the sun set on the..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"...Bangs and the Delinquents before they ever set foot onstage at the venerated Armadillo World Headquarters. The only question..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...fact, Jim [Morrison, the band’s singer] did get arrested onstage. They hauled him off stage! They arrested him in..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"..."We knew he was a wild man onstage," says LeRoi's singer Joe Doerr about the group hiring..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Rude Awakening

Austin's Rude Mechanicals Get Inspired Training at SITI

"...Sides: We impressed them all with our drinking prowess...."

July 31, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...appearance as a beneficiary of Phillips' faith-healing powers, staying onstage to sing harmony for a few songs, including "Burning..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Don't Worry, Gus Van Sant Won't Get Far on Foot

Oscar-nominated director talks his new cartooning biopic

"...one I ended up creating, because he did appear onstage as part of an introduction to him, and as..."

July 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

"...a hotel room with a stack of Beatles records, drinking wine and trying to decipher the secret of the..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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