Albert Maysles is a living legend, one-part of arguably the most influential documentary filmmaking team ever. In 2000, Chronicle contributor Anne S. Lewis spoke with Albert on the occasion of his visit to Austin; that piece is included in the newly published Albert and David Maysles: Interviews.

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It's no secret around our lair that James Whale's 1935 Bride of Frankentstein is a cut (and a stitch) above the rest of Universal's 1930's horror oeuvre. In fact, it's the best of the undead bunch, and it's playing at the Alamo Ritz this evening.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the first full bout of the Texas Rollergirls 2010 season.

How is Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst like a radical Muslim leader? Because he's decided to get all condemnatory about the play Corpus Christi, thus drawing unwelcome and extraordinary attention to a student production and causing nine plays to be canceled over safety concerns.

I’m writing this from on board MetroRail, trying out the wi-fi. It’s my second attempt to get on board; I wanted to leave Downtown at 3:45pm, but there were so many joyriders checking out the train while it’s still free (today is the last day), that only 27 people could board.

A friend of mine walked up to me while I was standing in line for a film at SXSW and without saying hello exclaimed, "You liked Trash Humpers?! I walked out." Such was the sentiment shared by a former student of mine and her boyfriend who, 15 minutes into the film asked for the check and left …

So the Texas Supreme Court became the latest legal entity to be dragged into the slow-burning legal argument over the $5 stripper surcharge – AKA the titty tax – after it heard the latest round of arguments in San Antonio yesterday.

We fell in love with Malcolm Ingram when he made Small Town Gay Bar, a little jewel of a documentary that meditates on living as a rural queer. For this year’s SXSW Ingram was back in the saddle with his new documentary, Bear Nation, which is about those beefy, be-bearded gay dudes who self-identify as “bears”. So how’d this one measure up? Read on …