The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...hard), his well-paced, scrupulously researched fourth novel. Dooling writes almost exhaustively on the particulars of law, computer technology, and..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Austin Community Television's First Quarter-Century

"...a few aspiring social irritants. Kit Carson, now a quasi-famous name in film circles and then at the Texas..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Michael Bertin

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...gig and the band gladly obliged. Like Dizzie Gillespie's famous United Nations Orchestra, Lemvo's band Makina Loca is a..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Missive to the Ending Year

Letters at 3AM

"...his eyes. If he were white, he'd be as famous as Al Pacino. But we still require that our..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

The Usual Mayhem

A Potpourri of Book Reviews

"...an alternate world where he is not only a semi-famous country & western singer but a private eye sharing..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Feature

Pop Goes the Western

Bob Boze Bell Gets Graphic About the Old West

"...The first thing you notice are the heavily lidded, almost luminescent blue eyes. Wyatt seems to be emerging from..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Adonis Rising

Matthew McConaughey

"...all right, all right...!" McConaughey cracks one of Wooderson's famous lines from Dazed and Confused at my request. Jake..."

July 26, 1996 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Filmmaker and Film-Educator Paul Stekler Says Goodbye to UT

As he delivers his final class, the former head of UT-Austin's Department of Radio-Television-Film gives a commencement speech looking back on a career without a plan

"...with relevant lessons, often from the lives of the famous. Stories about what the speaker has learned in their..."

May 6, 2022 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

H. R. Giger, the Dark Star

Full Q&A with documentarian Belinda Sallin

"...In The Third Man, Harry Lyme infamously said the only thing Switzerland gave the world was..."

May 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Long Days of Journeys Into Nights

In quest of a simple metaphor

"...and against assembly-line work but more out of an almost gentle, Luddite dislike and distrust than a strident, ideological..."

April 17, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Genius and Jive

My roller-coaster relationship with Daniel Johnston

"...least to the greater creative community, that it seems almost generic to some. The rise and fall, the innocence..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Louis Black

War Made Easy

New echoes of Vietnam: 'Withdrawal would cripple U.S. credibility'

"..."Quagmire" is a word made famous during the Vietnam War. The invasion of Iraq and..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Norman Solomon

McCanlies, Texas

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

"...Secondhand Lions has been a famous script almost since it was written. During most of..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Lust for Life

Ahhh … the good old daze

"...GTOs were not the only groupies, just the most famous. In the late Sixties, they opened the backstage doors..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Out Front

Profile of newly minted solo artist Gurf Morlix

"...but with his new facial hair and eyewear, he's almost completely unrecognizable. This reporter had to scan the lineup..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Violators Will Be Punished

"...many popular venues booking amazing bills with zilch advertising almost single-handedly spawned what people today think of as Poster..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Yo! MTV Laughs!

The Long, Strange Trip to TV for Three Austin Comics

"...criss-cross the country, delving into smaller markets in an almost desperate search for fresh, new faces that will stand..."

May 30, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...• And talk about famous: Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage in the eagerly-awaited meta-comedy/commentary..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe

“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”

"...the influential singer-songwriter and visual artist who painted Austin's famous "Hi, How Are You" frog mural on the Drag,..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

ATX Television Festival: Denis Leary

Rescue Me, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, and blue collar blues

"...from my hometown of Worcester, Mass., so I’d seen almost every iteration of behavior. But as we were doing..."

June 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Q&A: Wyclef Jean

“I am the most famous Haitian in my century, right?”

"...throughout the entire world – I am the most famous Haitian in my century, right?..."

March 19, 2015 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

Undiscovered Jewels

Formula One visitors get a taste of Austin's best hotel dining

"..."whatever, whenever" service model for which W Hotels are famous is sure to be tested on F1 weekend, what..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

La Machinista

Honorable mention

"...Morales, so homely and plain, would make Perdita County famous?..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Lisa Carroll-Lee

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

Arts and culture to fill your days

"...org Family Eldercare’s LGBTQ division Rainbow Connections ATX, World Famous *BOB* speaks about growing older so tenderly. An example:..."

May 9, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem , more announced for 2024 festival

"...behind the camera. In what seems to be an almost complete list of titles for this year in film,..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fallen Leaves

Finland's master of understated absurdity shakes off retirement

"...Board having an amicable relationship with its country’s most famous filmmaker. Aki Kaurismäki’s Helsinki is filled with dusty factories,..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Haunting in Venice

The man and the mustache return in Kenneth Branagh’s third Hercule Poirot mystery

"...The film is an improvement in almost every way on Christie’s book, and a welcome course..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cobweb

There's something in the walls of this perfect summer nightmare

"...It almost feels like it's a betrayal that Cobweb is set..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Nope

Jordan Peele's sci-fi horror/satire on minor celebrity is a "yeah"

"...irritating and selfish sister, Emerald (Palmer), wants to be famous but she's not sure why or how. Next door,..."

July 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Minamata

Johnny Depp keeps it low-key in this bleak envirodrama

"...What better way to do that than get the world-famous Smith to take photos for Life magazine? Well, there..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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