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David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today
"...styles of indigenous Texas music – rock, gospel, honky-tonk, polka, blues, and conjunto – in a prelude (heavy on..."
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Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner
Food Events
October 4-11
"...and drink specials, a petting zoo, crazy lawn games, polka music, whole animal roasts, and contests; schedule online. Banger's..."
Oct. 5, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Tour de France 2012: Stage 18
The Manx Missile makes a move
"...Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas • Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Thomas Voeckler (France)..."
July 20, 2012 Sports Post
Tour de France 2012: Stage 16
Will Wiggins be the first Brit in yellow?
"...BMC Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Thomas Voeckler (France)..."
July 19, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski
Tour de France 2012: Stage 15
Significant other Twitter wars and more
"...BMC Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Fredrik Kessiakoff (Sweden)..."
July 17, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski
Tour de France 2012: Stage 12
Bradley Wiggins wears the yellow
"...BMC Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Fredrik Kessiakoff (Sweden)..."
July 13, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski
Tour de France 2012: Stage 11
Fabian Cancellara abandons the Tour
"...BMC Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Thomas Voeckler (France)..."
July 12, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski
Tour de France 2012: Stage 10
Bradley Wiggins on top
"...BMC Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Thomas Voeckler (France)..."
July 11, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski
Tour de France 2012: Stage 5
Germany's Andre Greipel wins the stage
"...Green Jersey (best sprinter): Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Liquigas • Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains): Michael Morkov (Denmark)..."
July 6, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski
Pachanga Latino Music Festival
Live Shot
"...sound of a century in Ruben Ramos' cumbia-kissing big-band polka, as handsome as its anointed Gato Negro out front...."
May 18, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Talking About Talking About Talking About 'Girls'
Oh boy
"...snarky, bangs-having, Ray-Bans-wearing writer type with a surfeit of polka-dot dresses and an education that prepared me for, well,..."
April 22, 2012 Screens Post by Sarah Smith
SXSW Wednesday International Bands
Wednesday's just the beginning!
"...Andean highlands with a dash of hip-hop, punk, and polka...."
March 16, 2012 Music Feature
Bambarabanda
SXSW Showcase Reviews
"...cornucopia of Southern Colombian folk styles into prog rock, polka, funk, punk, rap, ska, and so on. No genre..."
March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets
SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers
Thursday blurbs slim down from the Wednesday bloat
"...of musical styles that incorporates everything from funk to polka and its hometown kapishka. Nine years active before releasing..."
March 16, 2012 Music Feature
Willie Nelson
DVDnds
"...blistering jam in "Bloody Mary Morning" and an uncredited polka with a fiery interlude between Mickey Raphael and sister..."
Jan. 27, 2012 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Food-o-File
Jettison your DiGiorno: Bola Pizza comes to your freezer
"...Bola frozen pizzas – Truffle Daisy, the Godfather, and Polka Dot – rolled out earlier this month. The pizzas..."
Dec. 23, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Zax Restaurant & Bar
Zax still serves it
"...to 10pm, Zax will celebrate Oktoberfest with a live polka band, locally made bratwurst from Smoky Denmark, and a..."
Sept. 30, 2011 Food Review by Kate Thornberry
Luv Doc Recommends: 'Never Heard of 'Em' Book Release Concert
Threadgill's World HQ -, Sunday, July 24, 2011
"...think you can waltz into Austin (or two-step or polka or watusi) and experience the same heady success and..."
July 22, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc
Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming
'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more
"...in rural Texas—and the old-timers who come there to polka. Professional Director: Skylar Nielsen Metal-fabricator Neil Youngberg never planned..."
Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Day Trips
The Frydek Grotto commemorates a miraculous event and serves as a cohesive element for a small farming community
"...sausage, the women bake kolaches, and everyone enjoys the polka bands and festivities. The public is always welcome to..."
Jan. 28, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Urban Tejano
Tortilla Factory pulls down a Grammy nomination as Best Tejano Band as the almost four-decade-old local institution gets ready to reinvent the genre
"...muscular cross section of rancheros, boleros, and the occasional polka, with thick threads of rock and jazz. They thrived,..."
Dec. 24, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Gay Place
The Gay Place shares its deepest, darkest confessions
"...of erotica where writers and readers of all stripes, polka dots, and zigzags (OK, we'll spell it out: women,..."
Dec. 10, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer
Off the Record
Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up dust at Waterloo Park while Lyle Lovett closes down Studio 6A
"..."Weird Al" Yankovic ("Another One Rides the Bus"). The polka/parody kingpin and pop culture punching bag rewarded in kind..."
Nov. 12, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell
Interview
The other king of pop sounds off on his newfound indie cred
"...the course of my career, I've done everything from polka to gangsta rap. My band is comprised of extremely..."
Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker
Off the Record
Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel's Top 40
"...Poodle Hat tour. He opened with "Angry White Boy Polka."..."
Nov. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell
Luv Doc Recommends: Jon Blondell CD Release
Elephant Room, Friday, July 9, 2010
"...nerdiest of music forms, edging out even classical and polka. If music were math (and essentially, it is), jazz..."
July 9, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc
Wheel! Of! Fish!
Weird Al. In Austin. How did that take so long?
"...The polka-lovin', accordian-playin', nerd cred-innovatin' cultural icon was in town for..."
May 25, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Piñata Protest
"...Chicano punk on Plethora. Kicking off with the breakneck "Polka Time," the quartet empties its novel cadre of bulletproof..."
May 21, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly
Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen
"...Austin's Oat Willie's head shop its bony figurehead in polka-dot shorts. Yet it was the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'..."
March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser
The Czars Were Brightly Shining
"...Romanticism into the realms of Dixie rock, lounge music, polka, heavy metal, and more, with instrumentations that include a..."
