From the Vaults: Herzog's Ecstasy of Truth
Werner Herzog on documentary filmmaking
"..."I'm after some deeper truth, said filmmaker Werner Herzog to Austin Chronicle interviewer Marrit..."
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March 1, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
Video: ATX6 Addresses “That Gun In Your Hand”
Local music ambassador project addresses school shootings
"...20, 1999, I was enrolled at a small university in Illinois when the phone rang. A professor of mine..."
Feb. 12, 2020 Music Post by Chris Brecht
Last Men in Aleppo
Picking up the pieces of the Syrian Civil War
"...result of the Syrian Civil War. President Bashar al-Assad’s bombing campaign against resistant pockets of his own people destroyed..."
June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
SXSW Film Review: The Truth vs. Alex Jones
Doc follows families taking on conspiracy theorist
"...worlds turned upside down. Twenty children, six adults, murdered in the span of eight minutes. For the next 10..."
March 12, 2024 Screens Post by Madeline Duncan
Green Day to Crowd: “Tonight Is a Celebration! Austin, We’re Alive!”
The punks reflect on 30 years of F.S.U.
"...I've become quite reflective in my latter millennial days. It's made me appreciate so..."
Sept. 12, 2024 Music Post by Cy White
In Remembrance of Raúl
Friends and colleagues of poet/activist Raúl Salinas pay tribute
"...News of Raúl Salinas' death came swiftly. Accepting it will take a little..."
Feb. 22, 2008 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta
Poetry in Emotion
Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.
"...It was a haunting image: a woman in an enormous white bed, in..."
Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December
When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?
"...a legend silk-screened on a trucker cap. I walk into a packed Chelsea gallery and before I can untangle..."
Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane
'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'
UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp
"...Art existing in the midst of genocide is a paradox that..."
Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
DVDanger: Brawl in Cell Block 99
Vince Vaughn and Udo Kier on being the heavy
"...There's an old saying: Big dogs don't need to bark. Truth is, the..."
Oct. 15, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Ring in the HollyDaze
Holiday Movie Previews
"...With nearly 40 films in release this holiday season, it's harder than ever for..."
Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Truth Hurts
Rowdy Stovall's Mexican Sunrise was inspired by
his real life, whether it be football injuries or run-ins with
satanists
"...few friends travel to Mexico for some margaritas and dancing. Throwing caution to the wind, you swallow a countless..."
June 22, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker
10 in Focus
Alma
"...In works of documentary cinema, the proximity between subject and..."
March 13, 1998 Screens Feature
Short, Quirky, and Totally in Control
Chicago documentarian discusses the inspiration behind four of his most popular short films, showing at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour on Wednesday, Dec. 6.
"...Palazzolo says he's considered "sort of a hippie icon" in his adopted hometown, even though, he points out, at..."
Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Jimmy LaFave in the Present Tense
Honoring the local musician’s commitment to life
"..."Don't want to get out of this car," sings Jimmy LaFave at the beginning of "Blue Nightfall." Then..."
May 12, 2017 Music Feature by Dave Marsh
Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville
Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades
"...This isn't really the return of "Page Two." Instead it's a ... well, not a review exactly, but..."
Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black
The Truth Will Set You Free
"...The failure of the mainstream music press to unglamourize drug use -- and in..."
Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Top 10 'It's Alive!' Moments in Dance, of Those Events I Happened To See in 2010
Recalling the times in 2010 when contemporary dance and ballet showed a pulse
"...In 2010, both ballet and contemporary dance were proclaimed flatliners..."
Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz
Crime Month: In the Dark Podcast
Why did a boy's murder go unsolved for 27 years? Just listen.
"...Stranger Things has it right: The Eighties really were a hard..."
July 11, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones
DVDanger: Horror in 150 Words or Less
Putting a stake through some recent terror releases
"...is supposed to be all mist and mellow fruitfulness. Instead, the home-release racks have been bloodier than Jason Voorhees'..."
Dec. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Walkabouts, Rallies, and Carnaval in This Weekend’s Recommended Events
The chilly weekend is heating up
"...HELP! My Vagina Is Trying to Kill Me..."
Feb. 21, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott
Donald Trump Relies on Eugenics Concepts, UT Prof Argues in New Book
Examining modern effects of the American eugenics movement
"...“They’re poisoning the blood of our country”..."
Aug. 16, 2024 News Feature by Neha Kondaveeti
Art in Motion, Pride Kickoff, and More Weekday Recommendations
Arts and more to keep you busy
"...Native America: In Translation..."
Aug. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Keeping Cesar Alive
Actor Ed Begley Jr. explains how he was inspired to write a musical honoring his friend Cesar Chavez
"...or film – say, his smoothly professional hotel manager in Best in Show, his sexually liberated hairdresser on Six..."
Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Smoke Gets in Your Mouth
Taylor
"...up your sleeves, because this is one place where eating is a serious campaign whose end may require massive..."
May 21, 1999 Food Feature
Murder in the Suburbs
Good Luck Penny
"...Found in a Dumpster behind Roger Scaggs' office, this garbage bag..."
Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy
Lost in Space
Performance Artist Sally Jacques Lives Life on the Edges
"...A simple question, usually answered simply: at the office, in a traffic jam, on the couch. Most of the..."
June 5, 1998 Arts Feature
Documenting Disaster
Alive in Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History & Memory Project
"...week, as poet and educator Abe Louise Young was graduating from the University of Texas' Michener Center for Writers,..."
Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez
SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon
Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list
"...the movies at this year's hybrid event. The stellar lineupreally ignites with the world premiere of Apollo 10 1/2:..."
Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Wobeon and Beyond
World music festival rings in a delirious local debut
"...rewarded amply. March 29 & 30, we missed the Austin Urban Music Festival for some post-SXSW decompression in Port..."
