Asian American Resource Center Fosters Community for Older Adults During Stay-at-Home

Seniors encouraged to share family memories with online story project

"...Before the Asian American Resource Center was closed alongside the rest of the..."

May 1, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

American Violet

This moving message film tells a story about a miscarriage of Texas justice.

"...in her small Texas town. Based on true events, American Violet tells a story about a miscarriage of Texas..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Filmmaker

Chris Smith's American Movie depicts one man's passionate struggle to make a film.

"...drunk, and permanently possessed, Mark Borchardt is a distinctive American character, one who defies all obstacles (external and internal)..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

My All American

Longhorn legend Freddie Steinmark gets his due in this sports drama

"...being used for info-dump purposes), this is Freddie Steinmark’s story, beginning with his early development as a gifted but..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kickstart Your Weekend: 'An American in Texas'

New drama could be the Iraq war's "American Grafitti"

"...The history of American cinema is filled with movies that put..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore wants to know where our money went.

"...of the court jester and self-appointed spokesman for the American people – are the very things that get him..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Deaf Austin Theatre's The Laramie Project

Enhanced American Sign Language adds depth, dimension to "testimony's ambitious sister"

"...Moisés Kaufman's docudrama The Laramie Project, first produced in 2000 and currently being staged by..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Opening the Case on the American Sherlock

Kate Winkler Dawson reports on an early master of forensics

"...tale about the early days of criminal forensic investigation, American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI...."

Feb. 12, 2020 Arts Post by Mike Berry

Hotel Project Sparks Downtown Skirmish

A proposed hotel complex at Eighth and Congress has had a particularly dramatic saga en route to Council

"...seeking a zoning change in order to build a 28-story project that promises a 210-room hotel, 110,000 square feet..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

SXSW Episodic: American Gods

It's old gods vs. new in Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman novel

"...seems in this show," actor Ian McShane said of American Gods as the Starz series opener premiered at South..."

March 11, 2017 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

American Caste

"...is the author of No Dancin' in Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change (1995), among other..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Ricardo Ainslie

Story of an American Music

Hector Galán's Songs of the Homeland

"...works, funders - even many who supported his previous projects - couldn't quite see his vision...."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

The Mayor's Story

Three contenders try to write a personal tale that will convince the voters

"...Every political campaign is an attempt to tell a story...."

Oct. 10, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...the Alamo and its various permutations, offshoots, and side projects – the HighBall, Mondo Tees, the American Genre Film..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

“1619 Project” Creator Discusses Race, Slavery, Trump Pushback

"...Wesley Lowery about the impact of the Times' 1619 Project, including criticism from President Donald Trump...."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Feature by Lilli Hime

Adding to Austin's Asian-American Cinema

Huay-Bing Law on his new short "June," now on HBO

"...there's a blindspot in the discussion. The position of Asian-Americans has often been a strained one, and their historic..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page

Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro

"...Caro would have been the one to tell the story of that growth. After all, that’s where his career..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part One

Four documentaries examine four film legacies

"...Dune and Lost Soul detail the near-misses on legendary projects that almost happened the way they were supposed to...."

Sept. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Change in Direction for the Texas Civil Rights Project

New leadership doesn't sit well with the old guard

"...the board of trustees for the Texas Civil Rights Project, a community lawyering organization known for taking cases others..."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"...novel by Raduan Nassar, this version of the prodigal-son story from Brazil is deeply pensive in its approach but..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Day Trips: Project Row Houses, Houston

Former shotgun houses get new life as art galleries

"...Project Row Houses lines up along Holman Street in Houston's..."

May 1, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Point Austin: American Horror Story

What can you say when you can't say "It's Only a Movie"?

"...what we'd missed. That's a procedure normally reserved for American Horror Story...."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Column by Michael King

'The Story of the America That Got Left Behind'

The Wire's creator, David Simon, speaks at UT

"...UT film instructor John Pierson inquired about Simon's newest project – a potential TV series set in New Orleans,..."

March 19, 2008 Screens Post by Wells Dunbar

From Stage to Page to Screen: Inside the Script of West Side Story

Tony Kushner explains the process of adapting a classic

"...and it's useless in America. There was no good American-English version of Mother Courage, and I really wanted Meryl..."

Jan. 31, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Everyone Who Met Him Has a Carlos Story

"...who met him has at least one good Carlos story if not more. It was when he began work..."

May 18, 2009 Postmarks

13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

The theme wasn't "stripper girlfriends and homo love," as one judge speculated (there was no theme), but gender, class, and orientation were more deeply considerable issues among this year's finalists than ever before. Here's a look inside the process.

"..."Romeo," a finalist in the 2004 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest whose merits she and her fellow judges were..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Crosstalk: The American Analog Set Due for Numero Group Reissue Treatment, and More Music News

Blaze Foley’s Outhouse online & Broken Spoke's historic marker

"...The American Analog Set’s reissue campaign is starting to hum, as..."

April 6, 2023 Music Post by Austin Powell

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part Two

The Editor and Reality, movies about movies

"...deep into that vein (see last week's column, The Story of Cinema: Part One, for more on that phenomenon)...."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Independents

Shirley Clarke and Ornette Coleman's common ground

"...the work of Buckminster Fuller and tells an odd story about his earlier desire to be medically castrated. Re-enactments..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

These American Lives

Documentarians Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price root out characters in the Mississippi Delta, the streets of Milwaukee, and, soon, summer camp in Michigan.

"...in Michigan. Inspired by a segment on NPR's This American Life, Beesley has set out to record the summer..."

March 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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