Slam as It Ever Was

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

"...Wammo, and to discern it in his stream of words is like grabbing a fish bare-handed. "Some people don't..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Shawn Badgley

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the Writers' League of Texas will be dedicated to spoken word poetry and will feature performances and discussions by..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...groundbreaking Dead Kennedys, Biafra's relevant again. He's dropped the spoken-word harangue of recent years in favor of tearing the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...bluegrass band on speed continues to tour seemingly nonstop. Word from the road says that Split Lip has a..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron

Record review

"...to be Waldron's last recording. He gets the last word, literally, with a spoken-word coda of the heartbreaking lyrics..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...until May, but already has AAA radio programmers salivating. Word that Steve Lillywhite manned the boards for the proper..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Short Cuts

SXSW Film 04 is here. Where are you?

"...5:30pm. Be there, or be from somewhere else, pardner... Word from SXSW Film 04 HQ is that there's a..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Happenings

"...and Lamar. Hightower will sign copies of his new spoken-word CD, The People Are Revolting! (in the very best..."

May 16, 2003 News Feature

Book Woman Fights Back

If "things don't return to the normal pattern by the end of the year, then I think we would have to re-evaluate," says Book Woman's Susan Post. "But we're not going to take out a loan, we're going to have a benefit! It's like we're in the hospital and we have some hospital bills, and our friends are going to help us pay them." She's talking about Sunday's Independents Jam, about which you can find out more here.

"...application process for nonprofit status (à la Boston's New Words Bookstore), and that if "things don't return to the..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Literature Corner

"...better"), and how the underground punk network got the word out on the Brains' homophobia and effectively splintered the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...these through a different medium, so we use the spoken word, as in acting. We use theatrical movement often..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Dancing About Architecture

New Year's New Clubs, New Arrangements for the Austin Music Network and, well, News.

"...their acts showed up, as "no-show" was a key word for the evening. Frank Sinatra Jr. was expected to..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

In Good Company

A casual spectator might not realize just how much Robert Creeley's long literary career -- he's 73 this year -- has been conducted on the edge. But Creeley not only had a finger on the pulse of American poetry, he's usually been a heartbeat or two ahead of it.

"...The impression is of hesitance, the voice "stumbling" over words, in the grip of some powerful feeling left unnamed..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Craig Arnold

Waves Coming to Shore

No artist in the last 50 years has combined dance, theatre, music, scenery, and costume into epic spectacles like Pina Bausch, and as this German visionary returns to Austin Dawn Davis explores her work and her impact on the city's Johnson / Long Dance Company.

"...-- that were epic in every sense of the word. Her works are evening-long (three hours with no intermission..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...by Brannen Temple and Yoggie Mossgrove) to the album's spoken word passages and six-minute spacefunk jams, Bruton's taken some..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

SOUND & VISION '99

"...know FronteraFest, Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre's annual orgy of performance, word of a companion performance festival might seem like a..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Expectations of Future Growth

Third Time Lucky?

"..."Grassroots" isn't a word you'll hear Johnny Goudie throw around in regard to..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Jazz Sides

"...a-spinnin' on the opener "Sugar Craft," and Steve Canon's spoken word on "Whatever Happened to Gus." Yet MMW isn't..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature

Gin And Condoms Everywhere

Memoirs of a Slam Poet

"...jealousy, bliss, sex, booze, and the love of the spoken word...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature by Wammo

In Person

"...says that "she single-handedly turned her book into a word of mouth success," Serros states that a West Coast..."

June 12, 1998 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Grab the End of the Poll

"...heart to have to excise the paragraph containing the word "crepuscular."..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Column

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...on to sell more than 250,000 albums. In other words, great expectations are rarely matched by sales figures...."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

Street Sales

"...The few facts I did get out of Mr. Spoken Word include that there will be more songs on..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

I'm Sorry, Yogi

"...that is), or a zombied-out Nazi clown saluting a spoken-word event at the Dobie Cinema, he'd still be legend...."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postscripts

Mixed Notes

"...free speech. AWL is also trying to get the word out about their job bank, which lists freelance assignments..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Dancing About Architecture

Driving a New Buick

"...have to check out Lounge-a-palooza for "This Guy," though; word has it that the song will be included as..."

July 4, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

"...seductive enough to make you forget, especially with the spoken word pleas and introspective pouts of "More Than I..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

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On Paper and on Tape

"...two-cassette release is a cyclical torrent built around the word "everything," which doubles here as both an uber-structure housing..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Books Feature

Writer/Translator Liliana Valenzuela

"...chicha in question appears in the title for an afterword essay she's penned for her Spanish translation of an..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Books Feature

Happy F---ing New Year

"...story on Hole with one on yet another four-letter word band: Live. (You'll remember the Hole story he wrote..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Music Column

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