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The Funny Doesn't Have To Be Over

Still kicking yourself you didn’t get in on the ground floor with the Moontower Comedy Festival? You’re gonna kick yourself even harder when you see the comedy chops on-camera in Inside Joke, a behind-the-scenes web series hosted by Kerri Lendo and John Merriman. Read More | Comment »

10:31PM Sun. Apr. 29, Kimberley Jones

The Hungry Todd Rungy Show!

Sometimes competitive eating
can make you want to throw up. Read More | Comment »

10:29AM Mon. Apr. 2, Wayne Alan Brenner

Fotos De Mi Alma Photo Auction Tomorrow

Latinitas, the first digital magazine made for and by young Latinas, celebrates 10 years of operation this spring. In order to fund its programs – the girl-empowering website, which nets 30,000 readers a month, and vigorous community outreach – the organization will hold its annual Fotos de mi Alma photography auction tomorrow. Read More | Comment »

12:22PM Wed. Mar. 28, Kimberley Jones

Bringing Sexy Math

In Saturday's Creating the Code: A BBC Transmedia Documentary Convergence panel, Adrian Hon (CEO/co-founder of Six to Start) explained how his game company and the BBC got the masses excited about math. (See what I did there?) The answer: a multimedia treasure hunt using TV, Web, and social media. Read More | Comment »

3:11PM Mon. Mar. 12, Ashley Moreno

'Undergrads: South' Debuts at Digital Domain

Actor/scholar/novelist/documentarian/performance artist/awards show host James Franco is famous for having his finger in a lot of pies. Now the new media maven is fixing his attentions on the University of Texas. Read More | Comment »

9:19AM Sat. Mar. 10, Kimberley Jones

This Modern Love

Though we've always been a touch put off by the menacing directive implicit to its name, fact is, Funny or Die has an eye for video hilarity. This week, the humor site cast said eye on a trio of Austin filmmakers. Read More | Comment »

12:18PM Wed. Feb. 15, Kimberley Jones

Internet Blackout Day: Jan. 18, 2012

If you're a regular visitor to the Chronicle site, you may have noticed the colorful faces of our featured stories are missing from the home page today. If you're a student, you may have spotted a massive Wikipedia outage. (Or, depending on your studiousness, it may be more appropriate to swap "Wikipedia" for "Reddit." Either way.) Read More | Comment »

2:10PM Wed. Jan. 18

Where ShowGO Needs You to Go Now

Even if we can't nail down precisely what the dang thing is called – The Show!, The Show! Austin, or The ShowGO, we dunno – we can say with absolute confidence that the local film/arts/comedy showcase is doing interesting work. Read More | Comment »

4:11PM Tue. Jan. 10, Kimberley Jones

Rejection Is Good for the Soul, and Also Viewer Hits

Local filmmakers David Ward, John Ramsey, and Jack Dreesen submitted a trio of videos to Doritos' annual "Crash the Super Bowl" contest for fan-made commercials. They got rejected, but they struck gold anyway. Read More | Comment »

2:25PM Thu. Jan. 5, Kimberley Jones

Summer Anne Burton, FTW

Austin illustrator Summer Anne Burton’s first love may have been baseball – witness her Every Hall of Famer project, in which she pays tribute to the immortals of Cooperstown – but she throws a curveball in her debut comic “Hit Point.” Read More | Comment »

12:14PM Sun. Dec. 11, 2011, Kimberley Jones

'Local' Filmmaker Spotlights Farms

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting Christian Remde and writing a feature on his ambitious undertaking, The Twelve Films Project. The penultimate film, Local, is out now. Read More | Comment »

10:28AM Tue. Dec. 6, 2011, Melanie Haupt

Hilah Cooking: Success Tastes So Good

They grow up so fast. Read More | Comment »

2:40PM Sat. Nov. 12, 2011, Monica Riese

The Rap Against Netflix

Boy, did Netflix have another lousy week. Not only did the company announce Monday that it had lost 800,000 subscribers in the last quarter, but a rapping band of stuffed animals has now devoted a whole song to inspiring insurgency against the company. Read More | Comment »

4:38PM Fri. Oct. 28, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Compose Yourself

Late summer arthouse darling Drive drove the kids wild (and sometimes drove them to bizarre acts of derring-do). SXSW Film is catching the Drive wave with its just-announced conference session with Drive's composer, A Conversation with Cliff Martinez. Read More | Comment »

2:00PM Wed. Oct. 26, 2011, Kimberley Jones

If Book Jackets Could Walk, and Woo

We always thought books were living things. Read More | Comment »

4:06PM Tue. Oct. 25, 2011, Kimberley Jones

The ‘Infinite’ Arm of DFW

So maybe you, like me, have been hunching the shoulders and slunking in shadows since David Foster Wallace’s death in 2008. Casual readership of his many works won’t fly anymore: Only completists may apply. Maybe the new Decemberists’ video for “Calamity Song,” which explicitly references Infinite Jest, will apply kick to pants? Read More | Comment »

10:23PM Mon. Aug. 22, 2011, Kimberley Jones

'The Future of the Internet is Cats'

That it's Friday afternoon just shy of the work whistle blowing is as good excuse as any to watch internet cat videos, but a new local short aims for something more ambitious. Read More | Comment »

4:54PM Fri. Aug. 19, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Stephen Colbert's Super PAC <i>sort of</i> endorses Rick Perry
 

That's Parry With an -A

If you're like us, you've found Stephen Colbert's ongoing misadventures forming a Super PAC both informative and hilarious. But in a new commercial directed at Iowa voters, he's thrown some of his Super PAC's pack 'o cash behind Rick Parry. That's Parry [sic] – keep reading for the logic behind the misspelling. Read More | Comment »

2:25PM Wed. Aug. 10, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Silent But Deadly

The perfectly delightful if, ahem, underproducing blog Bangable Dudes in History breaks down Buster Keaton's hotness in handy pie-chart form. Read More | Comment »

4:43PM Wed. Jul. 13, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Lamebook on the Go

The Austin-based Facebook lampoon Lamebook debuted an iPhone app last week, which means wherever there's a signal, there's snickering sure to follow. Read More | Comment »

3:41PM Wed. Apr. 27, 2011, Kimberley Jones

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