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The Drop Everything List »
A Robert Johnson Tribute, International Surfing Day, Juneteenth, and Cocktail Week in Dallas . . .
June 2012 by Michael Hoinski
The Drop Everything List »
The Sulphur Creek Iron Chef Cook's Challenge, Spoon, the Aurora Picture Show, and Battle on the Bernard. . .
April 2012 by Michael Hoinski
Shakespeare in Lufkin »
Y’all, the world’s a stage.
May 1999 by Gregory Curtis
Upstaged »
A Texas playwright gets panned by Catholic conservatives.
November 1998 by Keith Kachtick
Dennis the Menace? »
A few (ahem) letters about Dennis Rodman.
November 1998
Leon’s Lens »
In the Central Texas town of Seguin, Leon Kubala has been documenting life and death for more than fifty years, one picture at a time.
October 1998 by Anne Dingus
Tales of the Bazaar »
From First Monday Trade Days in Canton to Market Days in Boerne, our guide to Texas’ best troves of trash and treasure.
October 1998 by Suzy Banks
DANCE • Carlos Acosta »
Feet accompli.
September 1998 by Patricia Sharpe
THEATER • Robert Wilson »
An impressive impresario.
September 1998 by John Rockwell
Slammin’ »
Poetry slammers descend on Austin.
August 1998 by Spike Gillespie
Anntastic! »
Ann Richards ads it up.
August 1998 by Brian D. Sweany
Aquaman »
An Austinite’s aquatic adventure.
July 1998 by Meredith Phillips
Sci-fi Fo Fum »
Texas is filled with giants in the science-fiction field these days, but none loom larger than Bruce Sterling and Michael Moorcock.
July 1998 by Mike Shea
Radio Daze »
Gary Mauro’s bad spell.
July 1998 Edited by Evan Smith
Taxi Driver »
I was my own boss, set my own hours, and came and went as I pleased. I was a Houston cabbie, and though it was hack work—literally—it paid the bills.
April 1998 by Ted Streuli
Drag Time »
The greatest Tuna of all.
April 1998 by Skip Hollandsworth
Joan of Art »
Less than a decade ago, she was a homemaker and an arts volunteer, but today the Arlington Museum of Art’s Joan Davidow is the most imaginative and adventurous museum director working in Texas.
January 1998 by Michael Ennis
The 1998 Bum Steer Awards »
A year of altered antlers, bawdy broadcasters, comedian corrections, dining detectives, emancipated emus, fossilized felines, gullible Gore, hemline harassment, insatiable igniters, jazzed-up jewelry, Kay’s kennelwear, lottery loonies, metric madness, numerous nudes, 007 oenophiles, poultry protesters, questionable quizzes, revengeful revenuers, Spam slingers, tie tirades, unallowed uniforms, variant videotapers, warning! water, x-humed x-mascots, yanked Yvonne, and zodiac zombies.
January 1998
The Curse of Romeo and Juliet »
The patriarchs of Texas’ leading Gypsy clans have been embroiled in a furious feud for more than two decades. And now that their children are in love, it’s only getting worse.
June 1997 by Skip Hollandsworth




