Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...horror sing-along canon. Busting the genre out of the American high school and transplanting the action to the dour..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Review: Bombino

Desert rocker goes to town

"...erstwhile Omara Moctar knows how to play to an American audience raised on rock & roll. Alternating between reggae..."

Oct. 1, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Funding Balance

Some Austin politicos think qualified candidates of average means are deterred from running due to low contribution limits

"...a sign of a thriving democracy when only the ultra-wealthy can hold public office. And yet, nobody seems willing..."

Dec. 11, 2015 News Feature by Jack Craver

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...Eric Wagner, this Chicago outfit throws back to the American doom metal pioneered by his former outfit. The band's..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Connecting a Whole Community

Austin and Google Fiber move to bridge the digital divide

"...the ConnectED initiative – a plan to connect all American schools with high-speed broadband access by 2017. As for..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

How Do You Spell Trouble?

The Soska sisters on breaking the rules in the alphabet horror anthology ABCs of Death 2

"...in 2012 with their second shocker, medical body horror American Mary, where they saw the first installment The ABCs..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin's New (No) Sex Institute

Nascent think tank enters the culture wars

"...details masturbation practices, and another looks at how asexual Americans use pornography. It's the type of research that is..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Austin’s New (No) Sex Institute

Nascent think-tank enters the culture wars

"...details masturbation practices, and another looks at how asexual Americans use pornography. It's the type of research that is..."

March 3, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

A Journey Into 'Graceland'

Director Ron Morales talks kidnapping and guerrilla film making

"...slipped behind the lens for 2008's drama about an American child in the Philippines, Santa Mesa. It's hard not..."

April 26, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...Yassine Enterprises and, by all ordinary measures, a true American success story. Chubby, balding, always smiling broadly in photographs,..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

33 1/3 Roundup

33 1/3's latest batch of music for your brain

"...Cheese' by Hank Shteamer Continuum, 176 pp., $12.95 (paper) 'American Recordings' by Tony Tost Continuum, 224 pp., $12.95 (paper)..."

July 15, 2011 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

That frazzled local who looks like he just stepped out of American Pie is actually one of the hottest DJs and producers going

"...in his corner. Gartner's a superstar DJ signed to Ultra Music, one of the largest electronic music labels in..."

May 13, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

He Needed a Hero

A regular schlub turns caped crusader in James Gunn's Super

"...three to the ongoing multimedia discussion/deconstruction of the Great American Superhero: Is Rainn Wilson's everyman Frank D'Arbo crazy like..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Announcing the 2008-09 Austin Music Awards lineup and sneaking past the velvet rope at Pangaea, while Andrew Kenny trades American Analog Set for the Wooden Birds

"...entrepreneurs escape behind velvet ropes and chilled Champagne. The ultra lounge does so well those two nights, in fact,..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Thomas Frank's 21st Century Corruption Theory

A Q&A with the author of What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

"...this guy's rise to wealth. This kind of classic American story of this guy building his fortune...."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Energy News: New Ethanol, Electric Power Reports

One warns of unintended consequences of rapidly rolling out domestic biofuels; other focuses on energy efficiency, renewables

"...a report co-released recently by ED and the Washington-based American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The report, which focuses..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Unbelievably Incredible

Fantastic Fest II is for real

"...(the squishy Haribo ones from Bonn, not the crap American molar-rapers), and I'm screening a handful of films slated..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...bill is written to do. Well, except get more ultra-right-wing money and votes...."

June 17, 2005 Column

Austin @ Large: (Jennifer) Gale Force

The vote in the AISD board elections suggests too many Austinites are just not paying attention

"...opponent. (Conversely, Gale's absolute worst boxes were the primarily Mexican-American Eastside boxes, from Seventh Street down to the river.)..."

May 28, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Short Cuts

New digs at dirt-cheap prices for filmmakers, plus Alan Watts' summer camp for kids, a free film series at UT, and some sticky fingers over at News 8 Austin.

"...film-centric "communal living environment" a stone's throw from the ultra-cool Sanrio store at Highland Mall? Ranch Studios is opening..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Naked City

"...attempt to defeat [our] valid petition" against the project's ultra-dense zoning...."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

After a Fashion

Let us not forget the reason for the season, people … club crawls and parties!

"...to the annual Chronicle holiday party, held at the American Legion Hall off MoPac (which I refer to simply..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hits!

Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel

"...produced TV ads. Although K-tel's buffet-style MO seems quintessentially American, the company was actually founded in Winnipeg, Ontario, by..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...doesn't forsake his space-rock past with Denton veterans MK Ultra, as his band's wild forays into supercharged drone-punk and..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Media Clips

The top 10 media events of 1999.

"...1. Austin American-Statesman goes anti-enviro ballistic: Right about the same time the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...and playing method as odd and intangible as the ultra-weird history behind the theremin -- the vanguard of music's..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...place amid the beautiful yet foreboding desolation of the American Southwest. Anderson makes you feel like you're in the..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Downtown Developments

"...lying around, you could move into one of these ultra-hip downtown lofts in an old warehouse building fitted out..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature

Scanlines

The Hunt for Red October

"...intending to run nuclear missile tests right off the American coast. While the Soviets and Americans work together to..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Screens Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...night delivered the first official city rebuke to the ultra-controversial Triangle Square project...."

April 17, 1998 News Feature

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