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"...to fuel your annual program of retail therapy… and Desert Door’s amazing sotol will be showcased at the Driskill..."

Nov. 22, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Watch: Trouble in the Streets’ Desert Dystopia

View West Texas post-apocalypse on new “Mad Science” vid

"...a dusty, dystopian short shot in the West Texas desert, supporting the fiery sounds of “Mad Science” off the..."

June 29, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Myth and Culture Mingle in Annalise Gratovich’s Complex Prints

Review: "Carrying Things From Home" at Flatbed Press

"...pay homage to her Ukrainian heritage. The flora and desert-tinged color palette nod to her Texas home. One of..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Faster Than Sound: A Festival Blooms in the Desert

Amid concern over a new C3 festival, homegrown Marfa Myths strives to grow with the Texas city

"..."We're living through a culture clash in Marfa and elsewhere," declared Goldman. "Will Marfa..."

May 3, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Better Living Through Circuitry

"...In fact, Reiss' documentary, which attempts to demystify the culture of those all-night bacchanals known as raves, is full..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sotol: The New White Lightning

Three military vets find purpose, identity, and craft in Desert Door distillery

"...From the outside, the Desert Door sotol distillery and tasting room out in Driftwood..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...and his Muppety sidekick Flat Eric were an international pop-culture phenomenon), Rubber is a road movie in the most..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stargate

"...someone would fuse the science fiction movie with the desert tribe movie and the slave uprising movie and the..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Last Days of Chez Nous

"...living in this foreign (and, to him, less civilized) culture is evident. Also in this house are Beth's teenage..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indoor Queers Club

Stay home and cool off with Qmmunity’s movie, book, and TV recs

"...Here’s the Qmmunity crew’s curation of crucial queer-centric pop culture for all y’all in the Indoor Queers Club...."

July 13, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...Caro, Douglas Brinkley, Cheryl Strayed, Naomi Wolf), plus pop culture personalities branching out (Jewel, Tony Danza)...."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Edibles in Isolation

Send Me to a Desert Island, but Let Me Have My ...

"...Banished to a desert island, I'll go quietly if I'm allowed to bring..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: Santa Fe, N.M.

Art and food in the enchanting city of Santa Fe

"...Land of Enchantment. Surrounded by mountains with a mild desert climate and the soft architecture of the adobe buildings,..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Sour Notes Ride It Out

Life’s tedium and passion captured in black & white

"...Notes play tonight at Hotel Vegas with Crocodile Tears, Desert Culture, and Hex Boyfriend...."

May 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire

Obama's expansion of the war leads nowhere

"...the past century we have steadily constructed a national culture (and corporate economy) that increasingly honors, promotes, and openly..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Column by Michael King

This Kitty's Got Claws

Teeth tears into everything from abstinence programs to rape culture. Is Austin grownup enough to handle it?

"...spider in Lord of the Rings, and Sarlacc, the desert-pit-dwelling creature from which Luke Skywalker rescues himself in Return..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Swingers

“You’re so money and you don’t even know it.”

"...Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Van Horn, Alex Desert, Heather Graham and Deena Martin. “You're so money and..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

L.A.: Drastic Space

Letters at 3AM

"...most drastic landscape and most drastic city: the Mojave Desert and Los Angeles. Isn't it drastic, that all across..."

May 23, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

History Repeats

A writer and his artist aunt explore cave paintings and see more than just writing on the wall.

"..."These people say something about culture," Zintgraff says and takes a light pull on his..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Separate Lives

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham / Ibrahim 6

"...Tunisian director Nacer Khemir's hallucinatory tale Wanderers of the Desert (1986) is a colorfully chaotic depiction of life on..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...in Marfa. Spanning 2,200 square miles of West Texas desert, Marfa is the most rural and least active of..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...fitting that the fest ends with another Oscar hopeful: Deserto Particular (Private Desert), Brazil's contender from last year...."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...the dark and reckless new ethos of online celebrity culture. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...law, discovers a violent gang of thieves at a desert motel and hatches a plan to steal their loot...."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ingrid Goes West

Hashtag: #thisisyourlife

"...dog Rothko (if nothing else the film eviscerates contemporary culture with a knife to the heart)...."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...was so crappy, and since "solo drumming" and "popular culture" are rarely used in the same sentence, one expected..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Austin Chefs Return to El Paso to Support Migrant Families

Locals head back to their hometown for Annunciation House benefit

"...we'd get to cook over open fires under the desert stars of our hometown, and use that dinner to..."

Sept. 23, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Into the West

Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek's Cutoff

"...I wasn't calling it a Western. I kept saying "desert film," staying away from the word "Western."..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Iraq Comes Home

Wounded Warriors return to the Thin Blue Line

"...well have been thousands of miles away, in the desert of Tikrit, Iraq, where he was stationed for nearly..."

Sept. 19, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Looking for Las Vegas

An Austin playwright discovers Sin City by going to Louisville

"...This year: Vegas! Actually, it's an examination of American culture through scenes set in Vegas, but I'm focusing on..."

May 5, 2006 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

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