Crimes of Passion and Desperation in Love & Death

In HBO Max's Love & Death, director Lesli Linka Glatter and star Patrick Fugit revisit one of Texas' most infamous murders

"...first for Lesli Linka Glatter. “Everyone has a story,” she says, and hers is as good as anyone’s. Before..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Unsheathe your broad sword and unpack your boom stick. South..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW

Our favorite musical moments from the fest

"...designer Alex Griff. What began as a shapeshifting jellyfish, alien internal organ, or dragon's spine grew into a churning..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Pause the Game

The Luv Doc loves a good metaphor

"...Saturday night because I was on the Xbox and she was trying to talk to me and it was..."

June 21, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap

After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real

"...there was no sparing any expense on Alita herself. "She's the lead character," he said. To make her look..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...about a devil (David Tennant) and an angel (Martin Sheen) who play a bickering odd couple as they try..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...to win back his girlfriend only to find that she and his family have done what they always wanted..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

HBO's The Leftovers Finds New Life in Austin

The second coming

"...Texas," Mimi Leder says from a corner of the Sheraton bar in Downtown Austin while scenes were being shot..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

New Name, Same Game

S-Comm's end hasn't lessened the fear of deportation for Travis County's immigrants

"...live with daily anxiety of being deported. Looking for Shelter..."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

DVDanger: NSFW

The return of Eurosex with 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Under the Skin'

"...Johansson plays a corpse. That is how she is first seen, a dead body dumped by a..."

July 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Definitely Maeby

15 minutes with Alia Shawkat

"...that debuted at SXSW Film on Saturday. In it she stars as a Brooklyn lesbian at a personal crossroads..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...Kat Candler’s Hellion, starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis (she showed a short film of the same name at..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Ruby Jane's no longer the innocent

"...herself as a songwriter and singer first. Last week she released her first album in that vein, Celebrity (Empire..."

June 29, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Mother's Little Monster

Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton on the complexities of their Columbine-inspired collaboration

"...red-headed, androgynous, fashionable, and regal, yet looking as though she might be a near relative of David Bowie's alien..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: The Way of the Strayhorn

Carole's for Austin. Is Austin for Carole?

"...in and start raising lots of sand, "Carole" (as she prefers this go-round, apparently having jettisoned "Grandma" in order..."

Feb. 6, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: A Time of Peace and Light

Snapshots for swiftly passing days

"...massive implosion of the known and routine, has rendered alien all the once-familiar, mundane geographical formations of modern life...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Column by Louis Black

'Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers'

Marrit Ingman's new memoir: an excerpt

"...an odd couple of action heroes surrounded by weird-ass alien thugs. Untie me and I'll untie you. Amid the..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...Harvey and I had moved to California -- and she kind of moved around ... moved to California for..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offered a metaphor for the modern age, one in which the monster is the unacknowledged dark side of the inventor or creator.

"...first volume of poems, an English girl named Mary Shelley published Frankenstein. Her novel has been in print ever..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"..."She likes to rearrange the furniture," motions Nancy Graves toward..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.

"...not actually be a fictitious creation of the anti-environmentalists; she plays the role of the constantly complaining liberal that..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...woman languishing in a small Indiana town outside Chicago. She was badly disfigured by a childhood fire -- a..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Reflections

"...Bass, says with satisfaction that one of the things she loves about Bass is that he doesn't hit her,..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Lost in Space

Performance Artist Sally Jacques Lives Life on the Edges

"...Heaven knows it consumes Sally Jacques. She is forever giving herself over to the consideration of..."

June 5, 1998 Arts Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...with the best of 'em, which is exactly what she did on last year's stellar, criminally ignored CD, Knocked..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Ever the Spoils

Two University Dramas Tackle Women After War

"...The Love of the Nightingale In stature she was very tall," writes Dio Cassius, the author of..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Get Out the Bootstraps

Cause Texas Ain't Takin' Care of You No More

"...do this for a living," Kathy says, between gulps she takes from a plastic liter of Coke. "You could..."

June 13, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Sxsw

"...the alt-country realm pull on the heartstrings by the sheer strength of melody as deftly as the Volebeats. The..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...that if my mother had not married my father, she would've married Tony Bennett. If you knew the passion..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...eye still views as a pigtailed tomboy, announces that she is pregnant. So George, in a desperate effort to..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

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