Changes in the air at the Parish and Emo's, a new label on the horizon, Li'l Cap'n Travis gets a Friday Night Lights close-up, and a Grammy surprise for an old Texas Playboy

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

Phases & Stages

various artists

Forever Changing:The Golden Age Of Elektra Records, 1963-1973

screens

Actually Living With War

The latest AFS Essential Cinema series focuses on the films of the Middle East and North Africa

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

Film News

As Perry proposes $20 million for incentives in budget, two major productions open up shop in Austin

BY JOE O'CONNELL

Screens Reviews

Recent Releases

Taking a look at recent releases, from Johan van der Keuken to the St. Louis Cardinals

Film Reviews

Academy Award-Nominated Animated Shorts 2006

See this year's five nominees and some additional animated shorts.

Academy Award-Nominated Live Action Shorts 2006

And the Oscar goes to … see the five nominees and judge for yourself.

Breach

The career of Robert Hanssen, the brilliant real-life FBI spy whose exploits as a double agent caused a great many deaths, should be the mole story to end all mole stories, but it is not.

Eklavya: The Royal Guard

A stellar cast stars in this contemporary Bollywood film about the guardian of a dynastic legacy.

Music and Lyrics

Drew Barrymore plays lyricist to Hugh Grant's has-been musician in this Valentine's Day romantic comedy.

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

arts & culture

Warrior Voices

With a Spanish-language production of The Vagina Monologues, Austin Latinas are making themselves heard

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Personnel Department: New Hires at Conspirare and the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

Personnel changes at local arts organizations continue, with the arrivals of a new executive director at Conspirare and a new business manager at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts on Real: Secrets to building a successful theatre

Naughty Austin Artistic Director Blake Yelavich spills all about the creation of his theatre, Arts on Real, in his cover-story interview in the trade publication DramaBiz

BY ROBERT FAIRES

365 Days/365 Plays: Week 14

The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven plays directed by Kathleen Fletcher

When is a lion an ape?

Disney turned The Lion King into the 800-pound gorilla of Broadway musicals, which means it can sleep anywhere it wants, and the Lion sleeps tonight in Bass Concert Hall

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Culture Flash!

A pair of Austin-penned plays are fit for an elevator, a local's little yarn scores a big win, and two receive visual-arts prizes while one helps choose a big winner