Bill of the Week: Closing the Gun Show Loophole

Ellis proposes universal background checks

"...it a class A misdemeanor for a gun show promoter to permit the sale of firearms at a show..."

March 9, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Music News: The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking

C3 Presents acquires Emo's

"...tonight! I worry about everything. If you're a concert promoter, it's such an up-and-down business. You worry about every..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Roy Jones Jr. Knows What Boxing Needs To Survive

And he wants Austin's help

"...Mayweather and Pacquaio, does it only for the money. [Promoters] are not looking for good performers and good fights...."

April 25, 2012 Sports Post by Kenny Pailes

Backstage Past

Bill Graham wasn't the only promoter with a treasure chest of rock & roll anecdotes

"...rock bookshelf has long been due a juicy, warts-and-all promoter's story, and here's Barry Fey to fill that slot...."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll

Tracing the American South's silk road – R&B style!

"...so makes a compelling case for the little-known show promoter/agent's new title, citing full service promotion campaigns that included..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

The lineup for ACL drops just in time for Pachanga and the Midgetmen's nine-year anniversary bash

"...Promoter Rich Garza likens the Pachanga Latino Music Festival to..."

May 20, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

True Legend

The great martial-arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directs this saga about the inventor of Drunken Fist fighting.

"...for a tasty cameo by Carradine as the Western promoter who stages these death matches). Likewise, Chinese film legends..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

The estate of Don Walser and Southbound's Lowkey both get their respective days in court

"...18, based primarily on the eyewitness testimony of local promoter Matt Sonzala, who declined to comment for this story...."

June 4, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

If You Can't Perform For Your Fans, Just Shoot 'Em!

Two members of L.G. All Starz shoot fans outside Spiros after showing up late for the gig

"...deal with disappointment by getting rough with the show promoter, tossed out of the club, and then returning with..."

May 29, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

A Gathering of Tribes

Timmy Hefner sleeps in a fortress of vinyl just to bring you Chaos in Tejas

"...madness. Over the past decade, the 28-year-old booker and promoter has brought some of the best punk and hardcore..."

May 22, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Temple Stone

Japanese psych warlords Ghost won't be as illusive as their name suggests after Saturday's show at Mohawk

"...music as Ghost had," recalls Krukowski fondly. "Then a promoter wanted to book a tour for a band that..."

May 15, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Bomb the Bass

Who says the guitar is sexier than bass? Not Return to Forever's Stanley Clarke, and hopefully not Beyoncé either.

"...In the last year or two, there were some promoters in Europe that made some serious offers for us..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Ballroom Dancing

SXSW panels

"...others was another prominent theme. Why count on a promoter to stick venue information labels on posters when you..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Within These Walls

A chat with Damon Krukowski and Michio Kurihara.

"...old address and they never received it. Then a promoter wanted to book a tour for a band that..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Gearing up for the sixth annual ACL Music Festival with C3 Presents' Charles Attal even as featured performer Steve Earle takes a shot at Austin City Limits the television show

"...the walls along with an equally illustrious Bill Graham Promoter of the Year award. One week before the sixth..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

National Lampoon's Pledge This!

Two weeks before this Paris Hilton sorority comedy is released to DVD, the film is making a half-hearted theatrical run.

"...a film's star – in this case, the tireless self-promoter Paris Hilton – refuses to actively support this comedy..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...conversation here invariably shifts to Jim Ramsey, the notorious promoter who booked the club between 1986 and 1993. The..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...what you will about Greg Palast: He's a mouthy self-promoter, a conspiracy hunter, a kook. But somewhere on that..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature

Cinderella Man

Ron Howard and Russell Crowe have once again combined their efforts to create a big Hollywood biopic that exudes the strong whiff of Oscar bait.

"...men in the ring) and Giamatti (as the boxing promoter Joe Gould), who has also done much better work..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Passing the Baton

City looks to future in wake of Texas Relays Controversy

"...According to real estate agent and party promoter Byron Davis, the days of the organized afterparties on..."

May 27, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...managed the Lubbock Hubbers baseball team and became a promoter of wrestling and boxing matches and musical shows. Pauline..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Where's the Party Yaar?

An indie comedy about ethnic identity.

"...embarrassing to Mohan (Penn), his too-cool-for-school housemate, a party promoter who prefers hip-hop to bhangra. Complications ensue en route..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

24 Hour Party People

"...up ruining one marriage and several friendships, Wilson the promoter was in style and substance much like that other..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Rave chaos part 2, plus Kerrville Kaos brings Direct Events Ghenghis Kahn Tim O'Connor out of retirement.

"...to a last-minute rave where a young man died, promoter Noah Balch handed over the EDC reins to the..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Undisputed

"...Falk a riveting delight as the foul-mouthed, broken-down boxing promoter who's living out his last years in prison even..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Circuit

"...drugs in his penis and a sleazy straight party promoter (Katt -- that's right, the “Greatest American Hero”) manipulates..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Dancing About Architecture

Everyone is retiring or dying.

"...dangerously nebulous nature. Under the newer, vaguer bill, the promoter of any live music event or public festival of..."

May 31, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...injunction against the tape's sale. Kathy Schroeder, a concert promoter in Fredericksburg, was allegedly attempting to get $325,000 for..."

May 10, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Keeping the Peace

Andy Langer examines round one of trying to establish a new city noise ordinance for Austin.

"...begun the meeting with that announcement, those same concert promoters could have shifted their stance from fear and unbridled..."

May 3, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Postmarks

The people want to know: who, precisely, was Bruce Barton quoting?

"...immediately went to work for/with Greg Hall, the waterpark promoter, to develop the site for which he had just..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Column

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