Fantastic Fest 2015: “Satanic Panic: Evilspeak”
Original Alamo programmer Kier-La Janisse, Satan, return
Fantastic Fest 2015: April and the Extraordinary World
Steampunk animation mixes science and alternative history
Q&A: Mike Watt
Econo-jamming bass man headlines an alternate ACL
Fantastic Fest 2015: “Portal to Hell”
Down in the depths with Roddy Piper
New Tweet Dreams Show Debuts at ColdTowne
Improv comedy show taps into the subconscious via social media
Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup
John Singleton and Chris Cooper to be honored
Wilco’s Flawless First Night at Stubb’s
Jeff Tweedy & Co. air new LP and then some during epic set
Wine & Swine Releases Talent List
Today’s Austin food news.
Tellers Debuts Downtown on Friday
Motivational speaking realtor is Austin’s newest club owner
Bringing Body Cameras Into Focus
Public Safety Committee considers new technology
Austin’s One Ounce Opera vs. Nickelback
Almost literally. And that’s just part of this event.
Wagner Joins Austin ISD Board
Failed 2014 candidate takes position by appointment
Council Preview: Marriott Pays Up
Thursday ends fee dispute, broods contact teams, and welcomes torment
Fantastic Fest 2015: Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman measures the weight of human consciousness
Fantastic Fest 2015: Zinzana
How to make a nation’s first genre film
10 Must-See ACL Artists
A short list of non-headlining artists you’ve got to see
Fantastic Fest 2015: “The Mill at Calder’s End”
Rod puppetry and Gothic horror resurrected
Drinking for a Cause
Today’s Austin food news
Kraftwerk Reboots in 3-D
Friday’s first set screened a three-hour extravaganza
UT Students Want to “Boot the Braids”
Campaign against Wendy’s heats up
Fantastic Fest 2015: The Boy and the Beast
Anime with heart, brains, and action
Mark Knopfler Repaves Telegraph Road
Dire Straits driver dusts up Music City southwest
News Roundup: Butterflies, Buffoons, & Bastrop
Debacles over courthouses and task forces
Fantastic Fest 2015: Follow
Owen Egerton’s claustrophobic horror debut
Fantastic Fest 2015: Zoom
Body image and identity crises in an M.C. Escher world
Fantastic Fest 2015: Baskin
Drag me to Turkish hell
Fantastic Fest 2015: Camino
Zoë Bell on the run becomes a real leading star
Fantastic Fest 2015: High-Rise
J.G. Ballard adaptation becomes Wheatley’s first masterpiece
“For the Love of Meat”
“For the Love of Meat” 2015, NR, 54 min. Directed by Jeff Jones, Matthew Johnson, Brandon Gonzales. The documentary visits with some of the top barbecue pitmasters in central Texas (Aaron Franklin, Tootsie Tomanetz of Snow’s BBQ in Lexington, and Wayne Mueller of Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor) to learn what it’s like to make…
Fantastic Fest 2015: Darling
Madness and murder in Manhattan
Fantastic Fest 2015: Ruined Heart
Another love story between Christopher Doyle and his camera
Fantastic Fest 2015: Assassination Classroom
Japanese students, lots of guns, and an unkillable alien teacher
Fantastic Fest 2015: Remake, Remix, Rip-Off
Rewriting the cinematic history of a nation
Fantastic Fest 2015: Green Room
Blue Ruin team pits punks against neo-Nazis
Fantastic Fest 2015: The Wave
Norwegian disaster film is gripping and naturalistic
Fantastic Fest 2015: Untangling the Doglegs
Director Heath Cozens on Japan’s disabled pro-wrestling league
Fantastic Fest 2015: February
Baby, it’s cold outside. Could it be … Satan?!
Fantastic Fest 2015: Yakuza Apocalypse
Miike’s vampiric gangster film features gore and Keroppi
Austin Has a Pizza Party
Today’s Austin food news
Chronicle Recommends: Teacher Films
Get schooled with this month’s movie picks
Fantastic Fest 2015: Demon
Polish ghost story comes wrapped in tragedy
Fantastic Fest 2015: The Lobster
Being alone sucks, but it’s better than being a lobster
Will Johnson’s New Paradigm
Song sage on baseball, house concerts, and wisdom from Neil Young
Amateur Porn Film Festival Comes to Austin
Dan Savage’s Hump! Tour rolls in for some kinky fun
Going to the Dogs
Eric Tang presents the next phase of his Austin diaspora research
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Alex Gibney’s doc penetrates the church’s cloak of secrecy
Captive
Ripped-from-the-headlines movie about a hostage crisis defused by a devotional book
The Intern
Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro star in savvy but irksome film
Hotel Transylvania 2
The Universal monsters reunite for another animated kiddie fling
The Green Inferno
Eli Roth’s long-delayed cannibal movie has passed its shelf life
Stonewall
A Midwestern boy comes out amid the backdrop of the Stonewall Riots
A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
An Austin woman confronts Internet cruelty with compassion
Pawn Sacrifice
Fictionalized tale of famed chess bout between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky
Meet the Patels
Funny family documentary from a brother-and-sister filmmaking team
The New Girlfriend
A Frenchwoman discovers the secret hidden by her best friend’s husband
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon
Hindi romantic comedy
Subramanyam for Sale
Telugu film
The Take-Out
To be real
Page Two: You Always Remember the Dance
First steps, two step
Headlines
No City Council meeting today (next regular meeting is Oct. 1) – but they’re still working up proposed new regs for short-term rentals, focused on “party houses” and a moratorium on new licenses for non-owner-occupied STRs. See “Short-Term Regs Getting Longer …” Sept. 25. Massive cuts in services provided by the Texas Health and Human…
Luv Doc: What Is Love?
A philosophical examination of Haddaway’s classic 1993 dance hit
The Lawyer and the Hitman
An Austin lawyer and heroin dealer has been arrested for hiring a hitman
Short-Term Regs Getting Longer … and Longer
Council split on regulating Type 2 STRs
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Texas has more doctors in its Legislature than any other state – six, all of them Republicans. According to Paul Booth, an English history researcher at Keele University, the first known use of the F word was in medieval England almost 1,000 years ago. Horses can sleep standing up because their legs have a unique…
Closing the HIV Gap
More education, preventive tools needed
Public Notice: Trash Talking
More recycling and composting is about to take place in Austin
Liberty Kitchen
Houston restaurant group makes waves in Austin
Lanier High Wins Federal Grant
Full Service Community Schools grant will provide social services and continuing education
Trailer Parked
The yin and yang of food trucks and bars
Car2Go Closes Ranks
The blue-and-white cars are now available for a smaller range of Austin
Following the Fantastic Owen Egerton
Local Renaissance man premieres his feature debut
Austin Playhouse’s The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard’s play receives a remarkable revival with a seasoned cast
The Art of Shock and Horror
Nicolas Winding Refn on his new book of classic film exploitation posters
Face-to-Face
A new law requires in-person visits for Texas jails, but it’s not clear if Travis County is exempt
Darling Mickey
Prolific director Mickey Keating dials in to the Sixties
Blue Lapis Light’s Edge of Grace
Blue Lapis Light leaves its epic aerial work for an intimate and uniquely compelling dance on scaffolding
Believe
Moving Panoramas flicker to life in the aftermath of a home invasion
The Hightower Report
Who says America doesn’t need unions?
Moving Panoramas Record Review
Transportive albums are rare. From the outset of the opening title track – where one becomes a number of singular independence and strength – the Austin trio lures the listener into an anesthetic dream of enveloping chords melting against hypnotic rhythms. Leslie Sisson’s voice and guitar winds with patient urgency, the calculated shoegaze tension calling…
“I’ll Be It” at Pump Project
The exhibit of four Austin artists’ work at Pump Project exposes the fun of objecthood
Playback: Bob Dylan Goes Electric – Again!
Fifty years ago, Dylan and the Band went electric at Austin’s Municipal Auditorium
Day Trips: National Public Lands Day
National Public Lands Day puts a shine on America’s best idea
All Power to the People
AFS Doc Nights brings out the Black Panthers
Freud’s Last Session Opens in Austin
Actor David Jarrott turns producer to get a drama about Freud and C.S. Lewis onstage in Austin
Gay Place: Computer Love
The robots come to town and teach us a li’l history
Feeling an Elephant
The Toronto International Film Festival’s inexhaustible breadth
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex ended their inaugural season last Sunday with a stirring three-goal comeback in Vancouver to beat the Whitecaps FC 2, 3-2, on goals by Romain Gall, Tony Rocha, and an 85th minute winner from Kris Tyrpak. Now, after a tough season on and off the field, the Aztex organization pivots to trying to…
Gricelda Silva, Equal Parts Pragmatism and Whimsy
For five years, the actress has been among the busiest and best on Austin’s stages
Kid Stuff
Pure Spoon’s search for a better baby food
A Safe Place?
Parties, alcohol, and attitudes are contributing to a high number of sexual assaults in Austin
Quote of the Week
“People get stuck in jail because they can’t afford bond, so they plead guilty – often to charges that might have been dismissed – so that they can get back to work. It’s unconscionable.” – Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, discussing jail safety standards at the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice meeting Tuesday
Responding to Rape on Campus
Universities generally have internal systems set up to deal with sexual assault by and of their students. The below list of resources for students is not intended to be an endorsement of the efficacy of any of those systems; for an in-depth look at the University of Texas’ efforts, see “Fighting Sexual Assault,” May 16,…
Point Austin: Those Who Sow the Wind
The national GOP continues to perpetuate its permanent culture of extremism
Saving the Church Bees
An estimated 1 million bees removed from church wall
