Live Shots

The Barkers

"...Hill. But the spirit lives on, and has lately manifested itself Tuesday nights at the Continental Club under a..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature

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Third-place winner

"...what she's having, and then she slips away, a hollow left underneath my canopied palms. Only an instant passes,..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Andy Steinberg

Blood, Sweat & Murder

Redemption for Austin's definitive one-man band? Just don't ask Scott H. Biram what the 'H' stands for.

"...on a wall of amplifiers with his 1959 Gibson hollow body guitar – cracked earth below, expansive blue sky..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...Nineties, BVSC is an endearing Cinderella story in which journeyman guitarist Ry Cooder and producer Nick Gold go treasure..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Texas Platters

"...credit. In the deluge of female singer-songwriters, she has managed to find some unoccupied vocal dry land. Of course,..."

April 17, 1998 Music Review

Postmarks

Nofziger Responds

"...I am disappointed in your treatment of my father, Manuel Zuniga, who is running for the Austin City Council,..."

April 25, 1997 Column

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...tanned from a day of sunbathing naked at Hippie Hollow, the women glide out from the pink, graffiti-covered stalls,..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...debut novelists discussed their creations as they posed in Armani and Ralph Lauren duds, mugging for the camera as..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Blue Monday

Antone's Blue Mondays continues, 25 years later.

"..."George Rains on drums, Sarah Brown on bass, Denny Freeman on guitar, Mel Brown on organ, me -- and..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...town and public nudity? Whether it's excursions to Hippie Hollow, frat-boy streaking hijinks, clothing-optional apartment complexes, the abundance of..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

1999 Film Critics Poll

"...Office Space, Man of the Century, In Dreams..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Against the Grain

A profile of Bad Livers bassist Mark Rubin

"...alt.country, film, public radio, and non-commercial television. Part Renaissance man, part neurotic outsider, he's definitely the only tattooed, 330-pound..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

November Previews

"...this gentle, funny, passionate, and focused study of a man in Wisconsin pursuing his American Dream. The movie's subject,..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Justice Denied

"...you have the environmental political machine deciding when, how many, and which minorities will be elected. That political machine,..."

June 6, 1997 Column

Oh No, It's Mr. Bill!

Do Bill Bunch's Tactics Hurt the Springs He Loves?

"...There can be no rest for a man whose whole being is the preservation of paradise when..."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Owen Egerton’s Bloody Good Time

Writer/director’s distinctly Austin horror-comedy returns for RTX Austin

"...been booked to play the Stateside (capacity 305), but demand was so high that, hours before its world premiere,..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Snags Chappaquiddick as Closing Night Film

Full lineup includes Call Me by Your Name, Three Billboards

"...Toronto Film Festival may be the first stop for many of the fall film calendar’s biggest, most award-baity releases,..."

Sept. 26, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...a riff lifted from Charlie Haden's bassline on Ornette Coleman's "Ramblin'," it only sold 19,000 copies. Today, Dury proclaiming..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Are the Horns Tourney Bound?

Steep hill to climb

"...A man named Tom Penders coached the 1998 Longhorns to a..."

Jan. 23, 2012 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Page Two: Making Their Marks

Austin loses two legends in one week

"...have no breath left. Our dear, dear friend Luke Zimmermann died this week. Tuesday night, Austin legend, promoter, brigand,..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Louis Black

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...Thundered out on the Roman air 'When the Saints Go Marching In'..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sitting Here Speechless

Snoop remixes Cash

"...Snoop Dogg first showed his allegiance to “main man” Johnny Cash on last year’s “My Medicine,” but his..."

Feb. 5, 2009 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Ruins of the Realm

Talking turkey with James McMurtry

"...he's trying to warm up to some of the demands of the music business, including press encounters, but he..."

May 2, 2008 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Paul Rusesabagina: Human Rights in Action

Real-life hero of 'Hotel Rwanda' is honored for saving lives

"...the Holocaust, but for Paul Rusesabagina, the words ring hollow. "Every world leader said those two words. Every world..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Transforming Herself

Sissy Spacek's Most Memorable Movies

"...can get. She is a disassociated and disturbed young woman who virtually stands around while Kit murders her father..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Master of the Crossroads

"...an inquiry into what it meant to be a human being. So from the outset, his ambitions were larger..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

All the Gory Details

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

"...A man jumps onto the hood of a car and fires..."

March 24, 2000 Screens 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.

"...beginning my senior year. I did not know the man well, had never studied with him, but in such..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

Public Notice

Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.

"...we pondered all of this, we noticed a young man, mid-20s, carrying a satchel and shuffling his Chuck Taylors..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Exhibitionism

Big River: Pleasantly Adrift

"...his real name!) portrays the devious, rubber band-like con man/actor the Duke with zeal. It's a boy's story, though..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Review

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