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Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

Theatre reviews! Film reviews! The Summer Smut Issue! Get your snipes here!

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

Mueller re-development is a rip-off and "affordable housing" is a sham.

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

Raves for Marc Savlov's recent article on Ecstasy.

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

A New Drug for a New Millennium

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

Love Supreme frontman Noah Lit shares his interests and disinterests - and talks about his band occasionally.

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

Buckminster Fuller believed pieces of things could be combined in new ways to create a powerful new dynamic. Now, playwright Alice Wilson is combining her words with Bucky's life for a dynamic new solo show. Wayne Alan Brenner gets the story.

A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

Something happened to local singer-songwriter.

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

Any Given Sunday bites, but no worse than the Coach's prognostications last week. Old wisdom: The Colts are the best in the league. New wisdom: Titans may be for real.

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

For years he'd blamed his sister for destroying his comic book, a book worth over two grand today. Looking back at a painful memory brings Wayne Alan Brenner that much closer to understanding why losing that darned comic book at age seven meant so much.

Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

Three former Capital Metro board members and two former employees claim that the transportation agency attempted to put Longhorn Railway, its costly freight rail operator, out of business.

Greg Beets sends up Austin's wacky pop-punk-cum-Saturday-morning-send-up band, the Peenbeets.

Three decades after its debut, Jesus Christ Superstar may not seem a radical piece of musical theatre, but Austin Musical Theatre's new production just may return the rock opera to its revolutionary roots.

A timeline / discography of Doug Sahm

A father beams as her records his daughter's first season as a middle school football player.

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

Readers respond to Zero Tolerance, the Longhorn Pipeline, and Being John Malkovich.