SXSW Film Review: The World Before Your Feet

The art of walking … and doing little else

"...MacGuffin was Alfred Hitchcock's term for the goal that doesn't matter except to keep the plot..."

March 13, 2018 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Waiting for the Fall as Lily Topples the World

Director Jeremy Workman holds his breath with a domino artist

"...“Very, very, very tense,” Jeremy Workman says, referring to the setting of his new SXSW-selected documentary, Lily Topples the..."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Shane Pfender

The Luv Doc: The Friend of Your Friend's Enemy

If you’re the friend of your friend’s enemy, doesn’t that make you the enemy of your friend?

"...She and I have become really good friends in the last few years and she keeps calling me to..."

June 1, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

Wen Ren’s End-of-the-World Drama Last Sunrise Found Its Spark in China

Light in the dark

"...There can be no more definitive end of the world..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rainbows at Your Feet

Letters at 3AM

"...as though a rainbow collapsed and was crushed into the ground -- the Painted Desert, off I-40 in Arizona...."

Aug. 29, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

The World on a Shelf

"...in 1531, he forgot to bring seed stocks. For the Spaniard and his followers, it was almost a disaster...."

Jan. 29, 1999 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Uncancel the Olympics With a DIY Decathlon

How one man became the world's greatest athlete* (of his backyard)

"...When America's COVID-19 outbreak caused the cancellation of my beloved weekly musician basketball game, I..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Touch, The Feel

Three books that take on evil

"...Where were you two years ago when the first plane hit? Downtown, grabbing a second cup of..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Scott Blackwood

Who Will Be Nuked by the 819?

Austinites unleash a new postapocalyptic RPG on Twitch

"...Welcome, citizen, to the world of NUKED! It’s a land of mutants, magic,..."

Sept. 7, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top Chef Texas, Week 12: Attack the Block

It's a head-to-head matchup at the Pearl Brewery.

"...didn’t get her Rice Kurries on her plate in the Quickfire, a stark example of how high-stakes the Quickfires..."

Jan. 28, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Listening to the Bones

Bones tell a story at world's largest body farm

"...could happen in 24 hours or less. This is the kind of information we need to get in the..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Twerkin' for the Weekend

GirlFriend and Cheer Up Charlies' gAyCL brings fest fun home

"...not, however, a twerker. In fact, Edwards is certain there isn't enough alcohol in the world to get those..."

Oct. 1, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...The woman leans back into the sleek black sofa, her..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire

In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.

"...[From the Editor: Last week, aerialist Raven Hinojosa spoke with tight-rope..."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"..."If my feet could fit a railroad track..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...Think of the Puritan settlers, eking out a new life amid impossibly..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Dining for One at the Rubber Repstaurant

Austin’s Rubber Repertory provided, I mean, anything you desired

"...to sit on this review for a week, until the project was over. Because this thing, this latest happening..."

Jan. 27, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Lone Ranger

The legend of Jerry Lynn Williams

"...at Warner Bros. Records. It's dated 8/22/84, and at the top of the j-card is written "Shangri-La." There are..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Last Sunset

The day the DEA came for Dan Del Santo

"...This is the story of a family trauma. The loss of a..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Anne Sherwood

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

"...The great thing about presidents is their vulnerability. Nothing is..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...herself a fusion of different cultures, so why shouldn't the dances she creates be the same? "I am part..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...Like God and the Devil, - - writer Donald E. Westlake has many..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Eric's World

The Many Fanastic Colors of

"...Tarrytown, Eric Johnson's beige stone house is dwarfed by the tall trees that tower above it. Against their late-summer,..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Juliette Binoche and Trần Anh Hùng Sample The Taste of Things

The ingredients of the lauded French romance about cooking

"...France has given much to the creative world: in art, in literature, in cinema. But..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: 40% of $35 Million

Consensual sodomy with an A-lister is probably the best scenario you could hope for

"...A woman named Grace Gizenga who is formerly from the Democratic Republic of Congo recently emailed me for assistance..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

The Croods

Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.

"...Stoopid title. Sweet movie. And not the crack-your-teeth, cloying kind of sweet: DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Way It Is and Isn't

Ben Rubin's art installation at UT shows the gap between TV news in Cronkite's time and now

"...time – and not just because it kicked off the cocktail hour. That was the time, in the Central..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...Ellison. Not Pariah's album, which had not turned out the way anyone in the band wanted and shoulda been..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Luv Doc: Bitter Truths

The Hero gets it. Every time.

"...Dear Luv Doc, My wife tells me I’m a..."

June 12, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

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