SXSW Film Review: My Father Die

Patricide on the bayou

"...monologue that flows through this Mississippi River revenge fable My Father Die. Must be true, because he’s pretty damn..."

March 15, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Song for My Father

An epic and personal reminiscence of Don Walser and what he meant to Austin

"...rejected wholesale everything that had come before it. To my knowledge, nobody from the "songwriters guitar pull" at Headliners..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

The film story of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's tough road to success is so melodramatic that if it weren't real it would be laughable.

"...outings – The Field, In the Name of the Father, and the Oscar-winning My Left Foot – were all..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Life in The Real World Kult

Please Take My MTV

"...to be called a complete-ist. Yes, as a teenager my bedroom was plastered with posters of Duran Duran. Yes,..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature by Adrienne Martini

My Gang Don't Bow Down

Big Chief Kevin Goodman sew, sew, sews a new history here in Austin

"...his home's troubled past, and a chance to start over.My Flag Boy and Your Flag Boy..."

May 5, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Preps for Last Inmate to Die in 2013

State will end the year with 16 inmates put to death

"...death this year. He was convicted and sentenced to die five years ago for the 2007 murder of Texas..."

Nov. 29, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Mitigation Appeal Denied, Abel Ochoa Set to Die

He'll become the first person executed in Texas in 2020

"...in the living room, talking with her and their father and playing with the kids...."

Jan. 31, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...to music, and claim outright they're "too dumb to die." They just might be right. A quarter-century of skewering..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Hundreds Die-In at Texas Capitol to Demand Movement on Overdose Crisis

Legalizing fentanyl test strips is only step one, advocates say

"...family history of addiction and mental illness. Her brother died from overdose and her father died by suicide after..."

Feb. 20, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

All Over Creation: Die Another Dad

Puzzling out the meaning of the theatre's Summer of Dead Dads

"...after a summer spent immersed in plays featuring a father's death as a fulcrum for drama, I'm feeling a..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Somebody Has to Die

The conviction of Robert Springsteen in the yogurt shop murders leaves many questions unanswered.

"...Yogurt! shop. On December 6, 1991, Eliza Thomas, 17; Amy Ayers, 13; and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, 17..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'You Were Our Father, A Veteran and So Full of Desperation'

Short Story Contest: Third place

"...of the 27th, the commander and leader of Continental soldiers declined his usual private breakfast and hot bath. He..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Kyle R M

My Favorite My Favorite Murder

When comedians Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstack talk homicide, people listen

"...It takes several ingredients to make a murderino. The most obvious and universal:..."

April 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

'In the West': Living Portraits Avedon Would Die For

The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985

"...of a theatrical equivalent: speaking portraits related to the audience through the form of monologue. He developed the idea..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

You Had Me at "E"die

Nurse Jackie: FIX ME!

"...Oh, Edie Falco, you've got me crushing like a crushed up..."

June 19, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Afrodisiac

Femi Kuti carries on his father's legacy

"...Femi responsible for carrying on the legacy of his father's musical creation -- Afrobeat -- but Kuti the Younger..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Donnybrook

Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak

"...of another backwoods cousin, 2016 Mississippi River revenge drama My Father Die. It depends on its grueling hardships, on..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...team scheduled the breakout trifecta of Pod, He Never Died, and We Are Still Here. So how does SXSW..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...early Nineties. Her increasingly more frequent gigs please her myriad fans, passionate about Hickman's thoughtful, pop- and rock-edged compositions...."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...person older than 65. As an out-of-state student in my first semester, I only knew one individual who fit..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Austin Filmmakers Make International Festival Waves

Watch out Chicago (and Montreal, and Edinburgh, and London)

"...debuts: The Devil's Candy, which was one of the audience favorites at Fantastic Fest 2015 (read our review), and..."

July 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: The Still is Still Moving to Oliver Rajamani

ATX’s Romani Lone Star makes another auto doc, My Mind

"...orchestra. I’ve been listening to him since childhood, because my father was a big fan of his arrangements. Andre..."

Nov. 10, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

How I Got Hitched

Marc Savlov on how Hitchcock was a family affair

"...Alfred Hitchcock's weirdly accurate line drawing of himself on my right forearm. Upon seeing it, you either know what..."

Oct. 15, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Tuber

First place

"...In my son's story, the sun rises and sets without mention...."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Mark Grayson Mayer

Do Right Woman

Polly Parsons, only child of Gram Parsons, comes full circle in Austin with the Hickory Wind Ranch, sober living for women

"...was 5 years old when the news of her father's death at the Joshua Tree Inn came on the..."

July 31, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...Anywhere – Lari Burson would've known what killed her father last summer, within about 24 hours of his death...."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM

Death is not a separation, but a living presence.

"...you never left. And as your friends and family die you discover that nobody ever really leaves. They reach..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...he had no doubt what he wanted for his father’s murderer...."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...had gone down – even if people in the audience didn't," wrote Davis about his defeat, residual steam still..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Arab Star

Texas journalist Aziz Shihab on Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine

"...journalist Aziz Shihab may be best known as the father of San Antonio poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and he..."

July 20, 2007 Books Feature by Michael King

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