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Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners
Austin-linked films Blinders, Horton Foote win
"...Paper Tiger took the top honors in the freshly-announced Austin Film Festival audience awards...."

Nov. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: "Pussy Talk"
Kim Tran's crude, hilarious sex comedy turns the tables
"...Welcome to Now Streaming in Austin, highlighting locally made titles to watch while self-quarantining. When..."

June 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration
Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors
"...So many Austinites doing live shows (or even something resembling what we’d..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Film Festival Announces Audience, Jury Awards
Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain takes top award in both
"...as one of the big winners at this year's Austin Film Festival...."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bianca Del Rio Targets Austin in It’s Jester Joke
Nothing’s off-limits in her comedy tour, at Moody Theatre Nov. 7
"...in town. Season six RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and comedy drag queen Bianca Del Rio sashays back into Austin..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills

Star Stand-Ups Descend on Austin
Dates just announced for Rock, Silverman, Crystal
"...Austin, are you ready to Rock?..."

Dec. 6, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Film Fest Review: Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse
Cali comedy duo blow up some seriously sweet and smart doomsday heart
"...Bad times make for good, subversive comedy, which partly explains why this gleefully absurdist, end-of-the-world, road..."

Oct. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Moontower Comedy: Jen Kober
Hairy lesbian tales on the comedy trail from the Louisiana comic
"...Watch out, Austin, and lock up your daughters. Or your moms. Louisiana-bred..."

April 23, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

First Look: Inside the New Cap City Comedy Club
Mary Lynn Rajskub gets opening night honors at new Domain site
"...up Nordy's, Louie V.'s, and Neiman. Now it's also Austin's far-north outpost for laughs. Tuesday night, Cap City Comedy..."

July 14, 2022 Arts Post by Rod Machen

Moontower Comedy 2018: Shmanners
Travis and Teresa McElroy demystify social dos and don’ts
"...Maybe it’s counterintuitive to kick off a comedy festival with a show about how to behave –..."

April 16, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

New Live Comedy Show Is Doper Than What, Exactly?
Heckle Her Productions goes all Nineties-style with latest comedy gig
"...like, a skadillion Wayans family members into the national comedy zeitgeist. Remember? Also, that Jim Carrey guy...."

July 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Food Goes Well With Comedy?
Jim Gaffigan can tell you – and does in this Q&A
"...The Chronicle gets the popular stand-up, who returns to Austin on Oct. 23, to come clean on his cleanliness...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Not Everybody Is In This Weekend's Austin Sketch Fest
But that doesn't mean we've forgotten The New Movement
"...And as much as local comedy attention is focused on that star-studded Fest right about..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre
Highs and lows from Austin’s stages in their first real post-pandemic year
"...– both fantastic and unfortunate – taking place on Austin-area stages. 1) When Actors Have the Upper Hand..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Austin Playhouse's The Norwegians
Revised revisiting of this dark comedy remains a guilty pleasure
"...Wolfe as Gus and Lowell Bartholomee as Tor) in Austin Playhouse's and director Lara Toner Haddock's production of The..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Lights, Camera, Stupidity in Austin-Made Satire
Bryan Connolly's Make Popular Movies spoofs how films are (and aren't) made
"...30-page script, devoid of dialog, and decided to use Austin's improv comedians to give it life. Fortunately, producer Mohit..."

March 31, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

How Austin's Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces
After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside
"...your computer but from actual theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs?..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced
The Critics Table's picture-perfect year
"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of stage productions,..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018: Picks
In the bounty of improv, sketch, & stand-up, some of our picks
"...the final dog days when the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival shows up to provide a week of comic..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

2017 Austin Sketch Festival: What to See
Maybe all of it, yes – but OMG let’s not be ridiculous
"...The Austin Sketch Festival kicks off tonight and goes madly, gloriously,..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Film Society Announces 2015 Grants
Newcomers and established names get AFS boost
"...money for indie filmmaking is even tougher. As the Austin Film Society announces the winners of the 2015 AFS..."

Sept. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc Recommends: Out of Bounds Comedy Festival Headliners
ND Austin, Sunday, September 6, 2009
"...the process? You may not think it's funny, but comedy is an important part of sanity maintenance. Somehow you..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
"...and Gia Carides. Remember that running sight gag in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery that had various fruits,..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Elders: Meet Doris “Sue” Bilich, Creative and Comedy Queen
Nearly seven decades of Austin memories
"...Melvin, who passed away earlier this month. The North Austin home they purchased in August of 1975 after touring..."

April 26, 2024 News Feature by Maya Wright

Austin Filmmaker Emily Hagins Says Sorry About the Demon
Hagins brings her horror-comedy home for Other Worlds Film Festival
"...invisible cameo. They're all melded together in her new horror-comedy, Sorry About the Demon, which she called "a take..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Austin Filmmakers at the Lake Travis Film Festival
Get out of the city and enjoy a big weekend of movies
"...dedicated to bringing movies out of all the familiar Austin festival haunts and out into the suburbs, but that..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm
The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest
"...Two instant Oscar hopefuls have been added to the Austin Film Festival, with the addition today of Wes Anderson's..."

Sept. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Lineup
Dave Not Coming Back, Golden Arm this year's headliners
"...but that's not stopping the online version of the Austin Film Festival from adding two marquee features - diving..."

Oct. 1, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Scare Package
Join us for our live tweet-a-long of the horror-comedy tonight
"...Welcome to Now Streaming in Austin, highlighting locally made titles to watch while self-quarantining. Comedy..."

June 18, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: The Golden Rut
The awkward and hilarious reality of going nowhere in Austin
"...Welcome to Now Streaming in Austin, highlighting locally made titles to watch while self-quarantining. Austin..."

May 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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