Ken Lieck Archives • The Austin Chronicle

Music

TCB

Stranger than Fiction: Spoon previews new album, the smoking ban returns, the Gourds let a few fly

by Christopher Gray March 4, 2005September 30, 2025

Music

TCB

Out with the old (“Dancing About Architecture”), and in with the news: “TCB” and the closing of the Mercury and Sound Exchange.

by Christopher Gray January 10, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to “Dancing About Architecture” and chart a new course, a bit.

by Louis Black January 3, 2003September 30, 2025

Music

Dancing About Architecture

The last installment of “Dancing About Architecture.”

by Ken Lieck January 3, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

Page Two

Leaving us no time to catch our breaths after the Austin City Limits, Pecan Street, and Cinematexas festivals, our little city is graced next with the Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Austin Film Festival, unofficially kicked off by a screening (co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society) of Jonathan Demme’s new film, The Truth About Charlie.

by Louis Black October 4, 2002September 30, 2025

Columns

After a Fashion

Phew! We’re glad that’s over. SXSW is gone and things are beginning to get back to normal. Your Style Avatar has some parting thoughts about Courtney Love and looks (fashion) forward to some upcoming events.