Fashion, Heritage, Ballet, Puns, and More Weekend Events

Arts and culture to fill your days

"...Thursday 8 & Saturday 10, AFS Cinema..."

May 9, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

A Redhead, Pink Pony, and Kaleidoscope in This Weekend’s Events

Arts and culture to keep you entertained

"...Hays County Youth Poet Laureate.   – Brant Bingamon AFS Doc Days..."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Art Prom, Pup Crawl, Eeyore’s Birthday, and More Recommended Events

A smattering of ways to fill your weekend

"...Friday 25 - Sunday 27, AFS Cinema & Galaxy Highland..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Art, Eggs, Kink, and Sleaze in This Weekend’s Art Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar consideration

"...Austin Kink Weekend has arrived. Events spanning all four days will tickle every one of your fancies. Need a..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Movies, Theatre, Trivia, and More Recommended Events for the Week

Art and culture abound

"...I saw this was back in the ol’ sweaty days when Hyperreal Film Club screened in Hotel Vegas. I..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Self Portraits, Carnivals, and Cannibalism in Our Recommended Events

The weekend in arts and culture

"...Thursday 27, AFS Cinema..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Ravyn Lenae, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in music with a little help from these recommendations

"...greatest record store in the known universe for three days only,” that’s MY line. (See “Playback,” May 5, 2017.)..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Jubilant Dance, MedFest, and More Weekend Recommendations

Find the right fit for your going-out vibe

"...We’re all operating from that point a little these days, anyways.   – James Scott David Cross: The End..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Recommended Events for This Week’s Cooling Temps

Fairies, succulents, and lowriders in this weekend’s suggested happenings

"...cover band, Dude Ranch.   – Richard Whittaker Sunny Days..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Matilda, The Matrix, and Mixers in This Week’s Recommended Events

Get nerdy, brooding, and out there with these suggestions

"...Monday 12, AFS Cinema..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Kyle Henry Calls for a National Family Intervention in Time Passages

AFS Doc Days selection delves into the challenges of family archives

"...longtime home of Austin this week as part of Doc Days 2024, Austin Film Society’s annual celebration of true-life..."

May 2, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...fans? That’s what Alejandro Cabrera examines in his new documentary about how the Skywalker saga has found a particular..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Storytelling, a Book Trail, Markets, and More Arts Events

Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week

"...Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month a few days early, local collective atxGALS rounds up a roster of..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: A House Is Not a Disco

Portrait of the Pines on Fire Island moves and shakes

"...A House Is Not a Disco, the debut feature-length documentary by actor Brian J. Smith (Sense8), celebrates the hedonism,..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

Sound Unseen Brings Fugazi, Cyndi Lauper Docs to Austin

Minneapolis-based film fest spotlights local links for Austin leg

"...Joseph Pattisall, Jeff Krulik (director of the headbanging sociological doc "Heavy Metal Parking Lot"), and Austin's own resident Fugazi..."

Oct. 19, 2023 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Slices of Life at AFS Doc Days

Memory, subjectivity, and nudism all under the truest of lenses

"...AFS Doc Days, AFS Cinema's annual exploration of the best,..."

May 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: It's Only Life After All

Indie folk legends Indigo Girls as warm and humble rock stars

"...In the SXSW documentary It’s Only Life After All, Emily Saliers and Amy..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Katherine McNevins

SXSW Doc Rewinds the Truly Horrible The Star Wars Holiday Special

Wookies go Vaudeville in A Disturbance in the Force

"...things that were made at the same time,” explained documentarian Jeremy Coon. “The reason it’s worse is because it’s..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Recommended Austin Arts Events

Our weekly pick of the top art events to get you out of the house

"...historical pilgrimage itself: Conspirare's Path of Miracles premieres 600 days after the company's last in-person concert...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Todd Haynes Melds Sound and Vision in The Velvet Underground

New music documentary reframes the New York quartet as experimenters and innovators

"...the essay in his press notes for his new documentary The Velvet Underground (screening this weekend as part of..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Austin Film Society’s Doc Days Returns

Third edition opens with Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground

"...Austin Film Society’s Doc Days, a celebration of the best in filmmaking’s true..."

Sept. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films

The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics

"...Mark your calendar: July 15. AFS Cinema, the two-screen theatre operated by Austin Film Society,..."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cinemas and Coronavirus: How Theaters are Responding

New seat layouts, increase hygiene all promised

"...employees test positive, the Drafthouse will pay for 14 days of quarantine sick leave: after that, employees will start..."

March 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...sense. The domains he inhabited are perplexingly varied: publisher, documentary film subject, humorist, sports commentator, sexual argonaut, nonprofit spokesman,..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...Dear Luv Doc,..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

The life and pain of the jazz great in his own words and music

"...as large as his contribution to music. Stanley Nelson’s documentary aims to examine that cultural legacy. The birth of..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Brings the Legend’s Legacy to AFS Doc Days

Biographical documentary captures the transformational jazz genius

"...The biographical documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool features acclaimed filmmaker..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

AFS Grant Winner Over the Rainbow Explores Scientology Beyond the Drama

Finding empathy where there is none

"...her own world, like the subjects of Jeffrey Peixoto's documentary Over the Rainbow, which explores the lives of Scientologists;..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Cold Case Hammarskjöld Uncovers a Crime Too Terrible to Stay Buried

An assassination to hide an atrocity

"...The unassuming Danish documentarian has more than flirted with danger in search of..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFS Doc Days Gets Cool With Miles Davis

Three day celebration of true tales returns for second year

"...Doc Days, the Austin Film Society's documentary mini-festival, comes back..."

April 26, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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