Lulu Wang Introduces Us to The Farewell

Director talks identity, family, and Awkwafina's superpower

"...American cinema has a habit of conflating a film where..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From Bethlehem to Austin

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

"...It was the open space in Austin that initially overwhelmed me. I couldn't adjust to it. The ease with..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...125 films. 85 world premieres. 11 North American first time looks, and 51 feature debuts. The SXSW..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Yardbird's Blues

How the bone-out chicken-fried chicken breast is destroying American menus

"...a piece of fried chicken is functionally and formally elemental. Without a bone, chicken lacks its savory essence, its..."

June 29, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are women like? What is time..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Dish on Desire

In 'American Fiesta,' Austin's favorite economist / playwright / actor has plenty to say about what makes us want

"...chance these words describe thoughts you've had at one time or another. There's a better than average chance that..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...If, as Gertrude Stein once said about her hometown -- "there is no there there," she quipped --..."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

Revolutionary Score

The Founding Fathers' first declaration: 'We're an American band!'

"...Yeah, yeah, the Founding Fathers were rebels, patriots, philosopher-farmers. But more than that, they were a band...."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Sound of One Psycho Cracking

John Cale talks abut composing the original soundtrack for American Psycho

"...American Psycho, which opens nationwide this week, is a movie..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith

A conversation with the author of Stakes Is High

"...almost didn’t write Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, his insightful and sobering examination of the American..."

Nov. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Community Building

Ed Radtke's Speed of Life opens the 2009 Austin Asian American Film Festival

"...young teens who scrounge a living by stealing video cameras from tourists and then selling the stolen goods to..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...you’ve got 108 features to choose from, not to mention a whole host of shorts and music videos...."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Mad Money

Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah as janitors at the Federal Reserve who plot the "recycling" of currency that is pegged for destruction.

"...Directed by: Callie Khouri. Starring: Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah, Ted Danson, Adam Rothenberg and Roger Cross...."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...Film critics and I looked back at 2007 and came up with our list of the 10 best movies..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

La Onda Chicano

Tejano music, as a genre, might be on the ropes, but Sunny Ozuna – one of the genre's architects – is anything but

"...night of Saturday, April 22, unquestionably constituted a banner moment for Tejano music in Austin...."

July 21, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Letters at 3AM

As the semester begins, I present my high school seniors with the words of our great American authors and hope they provide a road map or the bread crumbs that can lead them through the journey of their lives

"...youth ... and how, though you don't hear Crane mentioned much now, he lives on in everyone influenced by..."

May 13, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Opinion: On Anniversary of Atlanta Spa Shootings, Asian Americans Still Erased in Texas

With the State Board of Education updating our history curriculum, we have an opportunity now to highlight Asian American narratives for future generations of Texas students

"...spa shootings on March 16, 2021, showed that Asian American women face a particularly terrifying threat of violence because..."

March 18, 2022 Column by Ashley Cheng

The Don Diego Trio Sends Greetings From Austin

Vittorio Bongiorno follows a rockabilly band from Italy to Texas

"...There are few more American musical genres than rockabilly, the pulsing fusion of rock..."

April 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lidia Bastianich Dishes on Her Favorite Way to Make Thanksgiving Turkey

An interview with the PBS star about My American Dream

"...a few days last week to promote her new memoir, My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and..."

Nov. 14, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Letters at 3AM

No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'

"...was all that wistful, reverent, carefully even-handed verbiage in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's Leaves of..."

July 22, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Closing the Books

A UT editor says he lost his job at the Center for Mexican American Studies for complaining about administrative malfeasance.

"...the University of Texas' West Mall office building, the home of UT's Center for Mexican American Studies, where for..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Cinema of Dual Citizens

In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.

"...Sometime in the late 1930s, the Hollywood dream factory started..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Scanlines

The American Patchwork Series

"...Blues Began: Appalachian Journey Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now Cajun Country: Lache Pas La Patate! D. Alan..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature

The Vanishing

"...who vanishes from a crowded highway rest stop, her tormented boyfriend who spends three years obsessed with learning her..."

Feb. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Table Ed Ward Built

Pioneering music journalist (1948-2021) wrote rock & roll history

"...Ward, who died Monday at the age of 72, welcomed me to the table – a table he helped..."

May 5, 2021 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Q&A: Michael Moorcock Plays Hawkwind

Sci-fi author joins two-day tribute to space rocker

"...The spirit of Hawkwind lands at Come & Take It Live this weekend in the form..."

March 28, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Dr. Seuss' The Grinch

Everyone's favorite Christmas misanthrope loses his edge

"...American literature’s favorite green-furred misanthrope has been revived yet again..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Neil Gaiman's Greatest Delights

Author Neil Gaiman brings his Dreamy self to Austin on Friday the 13th

"...The man who transformed DC Comics' old Sandman character from a science-based sort..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Importing a 'Low Winter Sun'

Lennie James and Mark Strong on being British actors in a US show

"...Two Englishmen walk into a American police station. That's not the..."

Aug. 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Animated Adventures of Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

The men behind 'The Secret of NIMH' visit Austin this weekend

"...From The Land Before Time to An American Tail, from Dragon's Lair to Anastasia,..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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