Street Style, Festival Edition

Sartorial snapshots from Congress during AFF and TBF

"...Herman fauxhawk and artfully rolled plaid shirt with a typewriter-shaped award from the festival. (Dodson won the Narrative Student..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Design Post by Amy Gentry

Feel a Draft?

That's the Writers Guild Foundation's exhibit

"...There are show bibles and screenplays and, hell, the typewriter on which Psycho was written. There's work from the..."

Oct. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

From the Vaults: Hawke Talk

Ethan Hawke, who was born in Austin, has made many a return to our city

"...bookstore. Or the set, or the stage, or the typewriter."..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

What would Stephen have worn in the Stone Age? Not distressed Levi's ...

"...about Captain America cuff links, cuff links of vintage typewriter keys, cuff links of baseballs, planes, subway tokens, barbells..."

April 5, 2013 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW: Pushing the Envelope With People of Letters

The Australian literary event revives two dying arts

"...Bellow and Joan Didion used the same brand of typewriter...."

March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Meet Curtis McMurtry

A third generation emerges in the McMurtry clan

"...seven in the morning to the sound of his typewriter, which is what he still uses because computers frighten..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Letters at 3AM: Winter Reveries

No matter the season, no matter the climate, when I write I write in winter

"...asleep by 11. I'd take my Olympia portable manual typewriter to the kitchen, make instant coffee, put on Louis..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Under Construction

A lively collage of all-American memories at once thoughtful, funny, and poignant

"...displays iconic American artifacts like a bowling pin and typewriter to great visual effect; and Kathryn Eader's lighting and..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

The Way It Is and Isn't

Ben Rubin's art installation at UT shows the gap between TV news in Cronkite's time and now

"...steady pace and comforting old Courier font (think Grandpappy's typewriter), seem to belong to another time. This is how..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cabaret

The intimacy of this well-acted production also makes you aware of its tight budget

"...set budget seemed to go mostly toward Cliff's period-appropriate typewriter...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Goatwhore

"...Eternal Youth"), it's subsumed by the New Orleans quartet's typewriter attack (rat-a-tat-tat). When he's forefront in the mix ("When..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Making It Personal

Lynn Shelton on the creative process behind 'Your Sister's Sister'

"...bloated with whiskey, slaves away for months at a typewriter in a tiny room somewhere, sweating out a script..."

June 29, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground

Old hat for Velvet vets, but knowledge for newcomers

"...Yorkers back in the Sixties sit down at the typewriter instead? It's a testament to the band's ongoing influence,..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Daughn Gibson

"...Lou." By the title track at album's end, the typewriter percussion, synth fills, and Gibson's deeply echoing voice owe..."

June 1, 2012 Music Review by James Renovitch

New, Not Improved

A familiar cover in an unfamiliar place

"...and a coaster designed to look like a giant typewriter key. (#nerd)..."

May 14, 2012 Books Post by Monica Riese

FF2011: 'A Lonely Place to Die'

The Gilbey bros. explain the truth of their Fantastic Fest title

"...when we cowrite we're not in front of a typewriter together. So William will be writing one section, I'll..."

Sept. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Ch30nicles

Remember That Issue ... When Nick Balanced Louis?

"...then, but there he was, the reporter with his typewriter lounging in an inner tube, floating down a Hill..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins

Zach Theatre's Whisenhunt Stage, Friday, August 19, 2011

"...of the Texas Legislature, whose madcap hijinks kept Ivins' typewriter humming. National politics weren't off her radar either. Ronald..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

You're Going To Want To Remember This

A few words with Nora Ephron: writer, filmmaker, foodie, and turtleneck enthusiast

"...in The New York Times that you preferred the typewriter over the word processor, because only the former accommodated..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Best Beloveds

Molly Ivins' kickass boots are an ideal fit for prized actor Barbara Chisholm

"...in her old office at the Observer, a vintage typewriter and a battered wooden armadillo occupying the desk, it's..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Feature by Amy Smith

'Shock Corridor' and 'The Naked Kiss'

Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture

"...the Shock Corridor disc contains the 1996 film The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera, a delicious portrait..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: Beginnings

How I learned that writing for publication wasn't just about me

"...Jeff added, "Bring your typewriter."..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

'Joseph Phillips & Shawn Smith'

Two artists make dazzling use of artifice to explore and explode the artificial

"...all baldly crimson and obsidian-feathered upon an exploded antique typewriter, at the many-fingered burst of flame caught mid-blaze within..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"...on his guitar: hot rod, car alarm, machine gun, typewriter, Japanese sci-fi mutant lizard...."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'Fifth-Business'

Debra Broz and Mark Johnson conflate and explode texts and images in their duo show

"...Mark Twain – the first author to submit a typewriter-produced manuscript (Life on the Mississippi) – was a columnist..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Empire That Dreams of Us

Unlocking Shearwater's The Golden Archipelago

"...co-founder Jonathan Meiburg, sitting in front of an antique typewriter in the office library of his South Austin home...."

Feb. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Planisphere: New Poems & In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991

The latest from two celebrated elder statesmen of poetry

"...hardly a stuffy academic. Imagine Ashbery sitting at a typewriter in his pajamas, wearing a playful grin, pounding out..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Books Review by Amy Smith

Naked If I Want To

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

"...changed the way we live and communicate. Using a typewriter or writing by hand is so significantly different from..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Sealed With the Sigh of a Commiserating Spirit

Adam Elliot on Mary and Max, his Claymation film about unlikely pen pals

"...weeks to make a model miniature of Max's Underwood typewriter or that Max alone had more than 30 interchangeable..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Into the Wild

Balmorhea might not be one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, but it scored the movement

"...arpeggios on piano with the racing of an old typewriter. Evidenced by a reworking of "Baleen Morning," last year's..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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