Things can change in a hurry in the league nicknamed “Not For Long.” Before Sunday, Tony Romo was tagged unlucky in the clutch and Vince Young was an immature brat, run out of Nashville like he was real country music. But dramatic road wins led by those supposed head cases have shaken up the NFC […]
Some people use it all up in a hurry, performing in a way that longevity can’t get next to. A 23-year-old London soul singer who cancels a North American tour due to vocal chord hemorrhaging. A quick-cutting running back from Kansas who’s a rookie sensation in 1965 and severely ligament-damaged in 1968. The singer pushes […]
Has there ever been a worse weekend for DFW sports fans? First, there was the thing with the bats and balls we’re not even going to get into, then the Dallas Cowboys lost 34-7 to their hated rivals in TV’s Sunday night feature game. The only things that could make it worse would be Dirk […]
(originally published in Dec. 2008, but valid today) Singer-songwriter Charlie Faye had finally felt at home in a place all her own. In April, the 27-year-old native New Yorker moved into the longtime musician enclave of cottages on Wilson Street in South Austin, where her rent is $495 a month. “I’m sure there are plenty […]
Originally published in 2001 On this, the 100th birthday of the greatest musical genius America has ever produced, it’s appropriate to recall all that Louis Armstrong has given us. Besides presaging swing with his work in the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1924 and laying the foundation for bebop with his flights of improvisation, Armstrong was […]
WIMBERLEY — The guy on the phone said he needed to have his videocassette recorder fixed, as soon as possible. “But we don’t do that sort of work,” a man with a stately English accent answered. The fellow with the broken VCR persisted. “C’mon, man, give me a price. There’s a show tonight I need […]
“Hap-py flight! Hap-py Flight” is what the St. Louis Cardinals chant after winning the last game of an away series before heading back home. They had won something like 14 of those “getaway games” in a row. But on Monday night at the Ballpark in Arlington, that chant was nullified by another three shouted syllables. […]
by Michael Corcoran A 4-0 start, including revenge wins on the road against UCLA and Iowa State, had some Longhorn fans thinking their team had a shot against mighty Oklahoma on Saturday. But since the game is played in the Cotton Bowl, not the Coddle Bowl, the prized blue chip recruits of Texas didn’t have […]
Symbolized by the black-fisted defiance of the 1968 Olympics, the late ’60s was the beginning of the era of the Angry Black Man. You had Muhammad Ali questioning which side was the real villain of the Vietnam War and the piercing observations of Richard Pryor making Bill Cosby’s gentle recollections obsolete. The country was polarized […]
We all know about Janis Joplin singing at Threadgill’s, Austinite William Sydney Porter gaining literary notoriety as O. Henry and baseball great Don Baylor growing up in the Clarksville neighborhood. And you knew Gucci’s main man Tom Ford grew up in San Marcos, right? But did you know that Chicago deep-dish pizza was invented in […]
