Texas Primer
January 1, 2000
Doug Sahm
To Sir, with love: Why Doug Sahm was my hero.
2000 – Page 9 of 9
Low Talk
January 1, 2000
Pretty, Good
Hooray for Hollywood's All the Pretty Horses.
Music Review
January 1, 2000
Tired of Adventures
Houstonians by way of Rhode Island, Peglegasus has been based in Austin for six of their ten years, though the group first took shape in 1979, when drummer Peter Voskamp and his guitarist sibling John acquired a stepbrother in guitarist Berke Marye. (Bryan Nelson, the unfortunate recipient of many parentheticals
Music Review
January 1, 2000
You Know How It Is
There’s a looming spirituality that works its way through the cracks of the Barbers’ second release, You Know How It Is. Perhaps it’s because they recorded in a former Baptist church in Austin, perhaps it’s their Southern roots, as thick as kudzu, perhaps it’s the angelic plinking of Elaine Barber’s
Music Review
January 1, 2000
Live at the Austin Outhouse
One of Austin’s most intriguing musical tribes over the years is what can be best described as the folk outlaws—a fringe element that drinks and drugs too much and lives on the street just this side of homeless, all for the sake of the song. In this realm, where Townes
Music Review
January 1, 2000
Ideal
Contemporary vocal albums often prove to be the aural equivalent of televised political ads: slickly packaged and hollow to the core. Talented singers and producers strut their stuff in slavish fashion. They look and sound great, but . . . where are the songs? Houston’s Ideal are not immune to
Music Review
January 1, 2000
The Texas Trumpets
This one’s a groove thang. Except for the fact that four trumpets replace a full horn section, it recalls the classic black show bands that began with post-war jump-blues combos and ended with the breakup of James Brown’s early-seventies funk powerhouse. Back then, blues and R&B musicians had to be
Book Review
January 1, 2000
Gypsy Songman
Gypsy Songman (Woodford Press) is the 57-year odyssey of Ronald Clyde Crosby from Oneonta, New York, to Austin, Texas, with whistle-stops for rowdy intoxication, music-making, and, ultimately, sobriety and happiness. You might know him as Jerry Jeff Walker. Précis: He lived it up, he’s living it down. by Mike Shea
Book Review
January 1, 2000
One Day’s Perfect Weather
Emotional worlds away, One Day’s Perfect Weather is a catalog of damage and loss among the cognoscenti. It’s a measure of Daniel Stern’s skill that his conceit of building urbane stories on the frames of well-known poetry and music is wholly successful. The U of H professor dispatches his protagonists
Book Review
January 1, 2000
The Last King of Texas
Raise your margarita to Rick Riordan for the authentic portrait of his hometown, San Antonio, in The Last King of Texas , his third Tres Navarre mystery. This time out, Navarre finds himself embroiled in an open-and-shut case that won’t stay closed. Engagingly cast with the likes of boss Erainya
Book Review
January 1, 2000
Art of the Boot
Tyler Beard is Texas’—and thus the world’s—top authority on Western wear, and his latest tome is this kicky compendium on the sole of the American West. The author, who lives on a ranch near Goldthwaite, tracks the history of the cowboy boot, tips his hat to 28 custom bootmakers around
Film
January 1, 2000
Set Piece
How the West was fun: Scenes from the making of Bull-Fighter, an independent film I produced in South Texas.
Feature
January 1, 2000
A Murder on Campus
A fraternity, a bid-night party, a random act of violence, an unnatural end: the life and death of Southwest Texas State University junior Nick Armstrong.
Feature
January 1, 2000
Annie, Get Your Gals!
Various specimens of that celebrated species, the Texas woman, captured on film by photographer Annie Leibovitz, who used to be one herself.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 2000
The Race Is On
The changing of the calendars marks the start of the presidential campaign (this time we really mean it), and George W. Bush is still the favorite to win.
Feature
January 1, 2000
A Heavy Weight
In this corner, convicted rapist Tony Ayala of San Antonioonce a rising star of pro boxing, now an ex-convict on the road to redemption. And in this corner, his pastthe toughest opponent he's ever faced.
Face
January 1, 2000
Blake, Tres, and Brandon Davis
One family's racket.
The Ex Files
January 1, 2000
Judith Ivey
Judith Ivey's drawl recall.
Texas Classics
January 1, 2000
Border Skirmish
Américo Paredes.
Business
January 1, 2000
Racks to Riches
Can Houston's SuperStand become the Barnes & Noble of magazines: an upscale national chain of superstores catering to affluent, educated consumers? Read all about it.
Behind the Lines
January 1, 2000
11/26/99
Texas A&M, November 26, 1999.
Around the State
January 1, 2000
Around the State
The Houston Grand Opera tells a long, long story about love, hate, and a problematic potion. Plus: Austin takes note of the state's hottest Latina performers; Dallas and San Antonio direct themselves into the film spotlight; Port Arthur sings "Happy Birthday" to its most famous daughter; and Dallas gets keyed