The tunnel was a womb, so heavy was the yearn of a team to be reborn nine months after its previous game. The scene at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium before the Texas Longhorns took the field against Rice for the 2011 season opener Sept. 3 was almost psychedelic in anticipation. As 5-7 became 0-0, […]
HONOLULU — There’s the opening reggae strum of the ukulele and the “ooooh, ooooh” crooning as glassy as the wall of a 20-foot wave, as breezy as the tradewinds on a perfect day. Then the exotic becomes familiar. “Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,” sings the velvet-smooth voice, poised to flip into falsetto. “Who […]
Austin American Statesman 2011 To celebrate Stevie Wonder’s 50th birthday on May 13, 2000, Jody Denberg dedicated his two-hour Sunday night radio show on KGSR to the manchild whose records constantly strived for higher ground. Any worries that Denberg would have to pad the last half hour of the show with lesser tunes like “Isn’t […]
By Michael Corcoran When Sam Cooke heard “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1963, it was as if a whole new world of expression opened up. Cooke not only heard sweet poetry in the call for deliverance from struggle, he foresaw a shuffling of the status quo. The era of […]
(From January 2008) John Sayles’ new film “Honeydripper,” which centers on a small-town Alabama juke joint in 1950, is aswirl with thematic undercurrents, such as the hard-line choice between the devil (blues) and the lord (gospel) in the African American community. Opening with a shot of a rural black child stretching a screen door wire […]
When Bradley Bohac comes and goes from his house near Ramsey Park, his neighbors know. His Ford Mustang may look modest, but it packs a pair of 18-inch sub-woofers in the trunk, powered by a $2,000 amplifier to announce his arrival and departure in no uncertain terms. His windshield shimmers from a sonic overload […]
Elvis Presley played Austin four times before his Jan. 28, 1956 TV debut on the “Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.” First was March 17, 1955 at Dessau Hall, then Aug. 25 at the Sportcenter on Barton Springs Rd. He played the Skyline Club on Oct. 6, 1955 (after a matinee show at SWTSU in San Marcos) […]
It’s not because I don’t like to waste money or that I don’t know how to do it; the reason I don’t play the lottery is it’s a pipe dream with an equally extreme flip side. If you truly believe that you could be that lucky one in a million who hits all the right […]
