Amyl & the Sniffers, Beach Fossils, the Veldt, and More Reviews From Levitation’s Saturday and Sunday

Standout sets to wrap the Halloweekend music festival

"...but memorably so. – Raoul Hernandez Turnover and Beach Fossils Swap Decade-Built Styles..."

Oct. 30, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

Beach Fossils

"...Beach FossilsClash the Truth (Captured Tracks)..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Amyl & the Sniffers, Beach Fossils, the Veldt, and More Reviews From Levitation’s Saturday and Sunday

Standout sets to wrap the Halloweekend music festival

Nov. 3, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

The Seven Skeletons of Lydia Pyne

The local science historian debuts her new book about famous fossil hominids

"...She knows them up-close and personal, these seven famous fossils that mark points in human evolution, and she knows..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips

At the Mineral Wells Fossil Park, visitors are guaranteed to find 300-million-year-old fossils and may keep what they find

"...U.S. where visitors are guaranteed to find 300 million-year-old fossils and can keep all they find...."

May 14, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dinosaur-Track Rescue Mission Under Way at UT ... Slowly

Bureaucratic hurdles not withstanding, legendary fossils could soon have new home.

"...itself, which was built in the 1940s when the fossils were first brought to the university from the excavation..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature by Justin Ward

Day Trips: Big Bend Fossil Discovery Center

Discover Big Bend National Park’s fossilized past at new center

"...the more than 1,200 species of plant and animal fossils found in the park. Many types of fossils were..."

June 21, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Ladonia Fossil Park

North Texas riverbed a treasure chest of ancient bones

"...Sulphur River is such a good place to find fossils because during the Cretaceous period (around 100 million years..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Whiteside Museum of Natural History, Seymour

Ancient history comes alive near where the bones were found

"...may have the most famous collection of bones and fossils that you've never heard of...."

March 3, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Preserving the Future of the Texas Memorial Museum

After years of neglect and underfunding, Austin’s only natural history museum reconsiders its role

"...Deco building containing the state’s natural history. There are fossils discovered in Onion, Shoal, and Bouldin creeks; taxidermied displays..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Claire Stevens

Day Trips

If plans proceed, the Mineral Wells Fossil Site may become only the fourth public park in the U.S. where visitors can keep the fossils they find

"...park in the U.S. where visitors can keep the fossils they find...."

Nov. 27, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Ammonite

History takes second place in this paleontology biopic as passions are unearthed

"...vision is less craggy and more smooth, like the fossils his subject, eminent Victorian paleontologist Mary Anning (Winslet), hunts..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

East Cameron Folkcore

"...suggest evolution amid their frustrated revolution. Simultaneously released EP Fossils likewise expands previous range, cutting field recordings with acoustic..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Fat Possum Party

"...Therapies Son's inverted George Harrison guitar licks and Beach Fossils' one-manned drones serving as ample appetizers, Fat Possum's party..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Loxsly

"...LoxslyTomorrow's Fossils..."

May 15, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

MP3: Loxsly “Battalions”

Digging up Tomorrow's Fossils

"...OTR back in December , Loxsly’s new album, Tomorrow’s Fossils, is a loose concept album: “There's a scientist that..."

April 29, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Letters @ 3AM

Science is an endeavor, an investigation, a body of knowledge, but it is also a behavior

"...everywhere across the globe"; "it divides rocks with familiar fossils from those with no fossils or only fossil bacteria"..."

May 23, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Intelligent Briefing

In 'Nobelity,' nine Nobel laureates offer straight talk on the planet's future

"...met at a party and started talking about Texas fossils, and Katie was able to date these fossils, and..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...camps unearth mysteries about the preserve with sessions on fossils, Bee Creek, birds, and all of the preserve's treasures...."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Music and Lights at Levitation 2023

"...Beach Fossils at Stubb's on Sunday..."

Oct. 30, 2023 Photo Gallery

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Flying Lotus, and Oneohtrix Point Never to Play Levitation 2023 on Halloween Weekend

The multi-venue Austin music festival expands, October 26-29

"...trio Unwound. Other leading acts, announced today, include Beach Fossils, BADBADNOTGOOD, Amyl & the Sniffers, Ty Segall & Freedom..."

June 28, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Five Exhibits Beyond Mere Eye Candy

Form and substance balanced in these thought-provoking works

"...Through Feb. 18. 411 Brazos. northern-southern.com Tyrell Gallery: Future Fossils..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Digging Up the History of the Texas Memorial Museum

From star of the Texas Centennial to overlooked gem

"...Early 1900s Texas academics raise concerns that fossils and archaeological discoveries are being shipped out of the..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Where the Wild Things Are

What's going on at Texas Memorial Museum?

"...natives who recall childhood trips to see the dinosaur fossils in the Hall of Geology and Paleontology or the..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Faster Than Sound: KindKeith Has What You Need

A dreamy alternative R&B debut and a few major venue reopenings, too

"..."Guitars are overused," says Salazar. "I'd made enough Beach Fossils-esque indie records at the time to be like, 'I..."

May 14, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips: SHSU Natural Science and Art Research Center, Huntsville

The bug stops here

"...bugs and butterflies stuck on pins, organize boxes of fossils, and glue together 500-year-old Caddo clay jars found stored..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Walking Waller Creek Is a Tour Through Wildlife, Wild Flora, and Wild History

Take this self-guided tour from UT's Office of Sustainability, and learn how much wildness this waterway is home to

"...evident, the tour notes, in visible fault lines and fossils of cephalopods in the creek...."

July 31, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Have Austin's Magicians Vanished for Good?

With the coronavirus shutdown, it's now you see 'em, now you don't

"...of magic paraphernalia and puzzles and automata and outsized fossils clutter: It's too tidily arranged, too well-balanced in presentation,..."

April 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Find fall foliage in Texas and stop and smell the roses

"...Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind Oct. 19-March 22, 2020,..."

Oct. 3, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

"Randall Reid: Past and Present" at Davis Gallery

The man who reassembles the past's artifacts has his own past's artifacts assembled for all to see

"...displayed across the gallery walls like so many beautiful fossils in the cliffs at Lyme Regis, the arc of..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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