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Art prize finalists, grants for a dancemaker and a new musical, and Mother Ginger

"...Young Women Leaders received 21,179 votes during the 15-day contest, beating out 20 other community leaders and local celebs,..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Event Menu

How to fill you Dec. 9-15 cravings: beer, gingerbread, SPAM, juice boxes, tamales, etc.

"...a traditional Sunday roast (Sunday, noon-4pm) with a members-only photo opportunity (begins at 4pm). Friday-Sunday, Dec. 10-12...."

Dec. 10, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Gotta Get Up

Harry Nilsson, the Pussy Cat who roared

"...album, focusing on his successful late-1960s/early-1970s arc through archival photos and interviews with friends like Van Dyke Parks, Yoko..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel's Top 40

"...to free vintage video games and an Air Sex Contest. "When you mix wrestling, Monotonix, and Mariachi el Bronx,"..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

After a Fashion

On updo, blue rinse, hillbilly teeth, and Karl Rove, as only Your Style Avatar can muster

"...Austin Dental Spa's Most Interesting Patient in the World contest. If I win, the prize is a $15,000 smile..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...to two minutes.) Instead, silence as the backdrop and contest. If anything, as much as American life, media and..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Off the Record

A fond send-off for D-Madness, stuffing the piñata for the second annual Pachanga Latino Music Festival, Hayes Carll helps rebuild the Crystal Beach, and roaming the Flatladers' Hills and Valleys

"...which boasts an arts & crafts area and a photo booth from Annie Ray, Vallejo leads a drum tutorial..."

May 29, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Top 10 Election Gaffes

"...congressional race and called the Republican incumbent in that contest "a nut." It never occurred to Jesmer that the..."

Jan. 2, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Choice Is Yours

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

"...CD – I even performed it in a karaoke contest at a forensics tournament. So when I came down..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Armor Up ... No, for Real

A free sneak of Iron Man, with strings attached

"...Fantastic Fest), hopefuls will have to send in a photo of themselves dressed up either as Tony Stark or..."

April 22, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playing Through

The Ice Bats are making it work the way a sublimely half-assed Will Ferrell movie works

"...the ice once in his life, for a team photo. "My goal is to turn it into affordable family..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Media Watch

KVET turns into poster child for station chaos, plus other tidbits

"...sports radio as part Howard Stern, part frat-boy fart contest. When he moved over to staid KVET and took..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Column by Kevin Brass

Dreamsville

16 Magazine and the birth of music journalism

"...on its audience in its first issue? Those iconic photos of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...some way to his or her particular abilities: A photographer might be the cinematographer, say, or a dancer might..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Dump the Pump Day: Win $500 in Groceries!

Capital Metro is offering possible prizes to people who ride the bus on June 21.

"...You have to do three things to enter the contest: 1) Ride the bus on June 21, 2007. 2)..."

June 20, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Film News

The latest incentives push shows promise; Swingtown seeks extras

"...as a Seventies hipster, and expect to get your photo taken. More info at www.bethsepkocasting.com.And the rest ... It..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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Our readers talk back.

"...House Photos Need ContextDear Editor,..."

March 31, 2006 Column

House Photos Need Context

March 27, 2006 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...April 3-7), and then in the city of Austin contests (complete with charter amendments) coming up May 13, along..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...or less. Keep on the lookout for a naming contest later this year. – Mark Fagan..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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"...of the adolescent cyber-game "boob show" for agreeing to photograph her brand-spanking-new, store-bought implants ["Block Those Cyber-Boobs! – Flasher..."

March 4, 2005 Column

Walk a Mile

The Texas Documentary Tour: Ramona Diaz's 'Imelda'

"...the lavish travel and entertaining; the incongruous meetings and photo ops with heads of state and Hollywood stars; the..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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"...By the way, that's Glen D. in the middle photo on the left on p.70, not Joe Mauldin.) What..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column

Another Proud Son of Meadow, Texas

"...By the way, that's Glen D. in the middle photo on the left on p.70, not Joe Mauldin.) What..."

Oct. 20, 2004 Postmarks

News/Print

People in the news

"...Feb. 9 (Loving Che), the Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest announcement party on Feb. 11, and former Austinite Faulkner..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

After a Fashion

It's the holiday season and Stephen is already ho-ho-Hoin' it up. What did the fashionable eat for turkey day?

"...clippings of design inspirations from magazines and finding a photo that he'd kept all these years of a vest..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Short Cuts

Movin' on up: MoveOn.org, Steve Bilich, Bennie Klain, and Kyle Henry.

"...of time for campaign fundraising whistle-stops -- this unprecedented photo-op appeared tailor-made for election year ad spots. If, like..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Oye Como Va

This trio of brothers from San Angelo aren't gonna be lonely for long.

"...difficult to confirm -- something about a wet T-shirt contest in a spring-break resort town. What wafts to the..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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"...gay foster parents, and thanks especially for putting a photograph on the cover of two gay men and their..."

May 16, 2003 Column

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"...Fargo Bank so that he could give me a photocopy of his insurance policy...."

March 14, 2003 Column

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