Lights Out

The Seventies represented the heyday for film programming at the University of Texas. Marjorie Baumgarten recollects the days of CinemaTexas and the Texas Union Theater.

"...Program Notes as they were freshly pulled from Peters' typewriter (assuming the Notes were turned in on time by..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...futuristic roadster on the glass panel?) There's the Yiddish typewriter that Isaac Bashevis Singer used to write his Nobel..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...This is a Cajun typewriter, so it spell like it sounds. Smiel a friend..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Column

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...the semi-surrealist strain," charmed by its story of a typewriter repairman suffering from a potentially terminal case of "organic..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

Birthday Cage

Pianist Michelle Schumann celebrates the 90th anniversary of the birth of musical innovator John Cage.

"...For instance, where, pray tell, does one locate a "typewriter bolt" these days? Could you substitute a "mouse ball"?..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rude Mechs' Richardson to Read With Ethan Hawke

At his BookPeople appearance on Friday, Aug. 2, 7pm, Ethan Hawke and his Ash Wednesday will be joined by the Rude Mechanicals' mega-talented Sarah Richardson.

"...bookstore. Or the set, or the stage, or the typewriter. Ethan Hawke, everybody, is everywhere. Family man, friendly guy...."

Aug. 2, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...back again) of such outrageous fortune for the reserved typewriter repairman that one begins to expect the absurd. Though..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Letters at 3AM

To be an artist is to live a life of service to one's gift.

"...of instant coffee, my cigarettes, my Olympia manual portable typewriter, the night, the snow. (I miss the crisp clacks..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Holiday Wish Lists 2001

"...VCR, videotapes (rated G & PG); electric typewriter..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Features Feature

The Velvet Underground

Box Sets

"...one. The packaging -- condescendingly lo-fi, with its tired typewriter font, brown paper plainness, housed in a stupid flip..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Music Review by Kate X Messer

How to Succeed in Screenwriting

Austinite Vance Kotrla's screenplay advances in the Heart of Film Competition.

"...some of his writing on a vintage Forties Remington typewriter.) He shrewdly recognizes the worth in working it, and..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...Swiss orderliness, particularly when he threw an old portable typewriter down a chute that served as a garbage disposal..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...for the prototype issue on a barely functioning manual typewriter left by an errant boyfriend...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...[then-boyfriend, now-husband] was typing a story on the Chronicle's typewriter -- the first Martin Fender story, which later became..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Music in the 1990s

"...on three instruments -- electric guitar, electric and acoustic typewriter -- would prove highly significant in my own story...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...8 commentator. He wrote his contribution on a manual typewriter...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

"...begins, like rain on a window or an old typewriter. In fact, it is a sex toy hopping madly..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Slacker, the Map

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.

"..."The typewriter isn't the point. The point is it symbolizes the..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Light Up the Sky

For the debut of his new Austin Playhouse company, Don Toner provides a time-travel trip back to 1948 with old Moss Hart and his play about putting on a play, Light Up the Sky. And the trip is one sure to leave a smile.

"...Ellsworth Schave would have been better off with a typewriter, somewhere offstage, than dropped into the midst of this..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Time to Bounce

Rapping with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the funkiest Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court

"...Puff Daddy, and Mariah Carey. "Wordy Rappinghood," a playful typewriter-accompanied ditty, plus a reworked "Under the Boardwalk," likewise became..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by John G. La Briola

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...also directed the IFC's remarkable Sam Fuller documentary, The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera, is also the..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Story of G.I. Joe

"...men is compelling and natural. Though he carried a typewriter rather than a rifle, Pyle earned the respect of..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Cabaret: Blinding Furnace

The revamped revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, in its national tour, may not reproduce the intimacy of the original production's environmental design, but its strong performances and overt theatricality still grip the audience.

"...life is cocaine, gin, smuggled French perfume, a disused typewriter, and sex. Lots of sex. Gender-bending, gender crisscrossing, bawdy,..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...to type. I could hunt and peck on the typewriter, but I couldn't really type. Of course, the novel..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Pamela Ribon: Sealed With a Squish

"...stories and letters, typing fiction on a clunky manual typewriter at the age of 10 in a walk-in-closet-turned office,..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Screens Feature

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

"...Robbins has always written with his heart on his typewriter. His novels are philosophical allegory as much as they..."

June 2, 2000 Books Review by Barbara Strickland

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...my vision accurate or am I forgetting about your typewriter? Have you moved on to a computer?..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Double Take

Austin Scribe Lawrence Wright Tackles Noriega -- Twice

"...most journalists his age, Wright started out on a typewriter. He typed on thin, canary-colored second sheets. "The percussive..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Lone Star Sweden

"Lars Gustafsson has the air, somehow, of a sailor," Roger Gathman writes about this Austin author transplanted from Sweden. "It is as though he were some Swedish Sinbad come to rest here after a dozen ports. And in a way, that is true."

"...of Bernard Foy there," Gustafsson says. "I started on typewriter and then finished on computer."..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Figures of Speech: Poems of Enrique Lihn

"...his "News from Babylon," Lihn writes: "Grandmother of writing, typewriter mine/blood no longer runs in my veins:/from the sanctified..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Review by David Garza

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