What We Learned at the King of the Hill ATX TV Festival Panel

First look at season 14 gives hints at revival

"...the location came after he saw heard about how American petrochemical firms have built subdivisions in Saudi Arabia designed..."

May 31, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Dream in Your Heart, Cool Shoes on Your Feet

Pride still going strong in the Austin queer community

"...federal agencies. We’re cool Austin and Austin-area queers with dreams in our hearts and weird, trendy shoes on our..."

May 30, 2025 Column by James Scott

iLLfest, Perfume Genius, Röyksopp, and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

Keep your ears open for these shows

"...comrades hit U.S. arenas for their most extensive North American tour in four decades. As displayed on superb new..."

May 30, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Entanglements, Switchblades, and Tons of TV in the Week’s Events

Treat your weekdays like a weekend with these arts and culture happenings

"...you know, mysterious, but when film preservation freaks the American Genre Film Archive tease “a neon-soaked, cyber-robotic salute to..."

May 23, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Opera, a Laboratorio, and One Wild Nothing in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Shoegaze, black metal, jazz, punk, and more

"...goes on cool and soothing, weaving jangly guitars and dreamy sounds into something inspired by the enduring mood of..."

May 16, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Psych, Blues, and Conjunto Festivals Headline Our Crucial Concerts

This week's recommended live offerings

"...warped, groovy synth-pop, and Fletcher’s Puzzle offering disorienting jazzy dreamscapes with a cartoonish edge. Fans of outsider pop and..."

April 25, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Squirrels, Girls, and Other Pearls in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Acro-Cats, Earth Day, and all manner of arts and culture happenings

"...near their apartment. A pulsating synth score by Tangerine Dream sets the haunting, dissociative vibe and complements the plaintive..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Swans, Swine, and Serial Killers in This Week’s Recommended Events

Get out and get arty

"...political paranoiac Estus Pirkle was convinced that regular god-fearing Americans were endangered by communists, sex ed, cartoons, and dancing..."

April 4, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Self Portraits, Carnivals, and Cannibalism in Our Recommended Events

The weekend in arts and culture

"...Charisse in a truly iconic green dress during the dream ballet? Amazing. Being charmed by babyface Debbie Reynolds singing..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Our Recommended Events Include Broods, Books, and Barking Buddies

The weekdays are filled with events worth leaving the house

"...deliberate obscurantism became his defining trait, between the fever dream of Eraserhead and the corporate misfire of Dune, he..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

A Zambian family's long-buried secrets surface when a body is found

"...Shula’s disassociation comes on her own terms, through near-real dream sequences given unnerving life by cinematographer David Gallego (Embrace..."

March 21, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Album Review: Daydream Twins Cut Dream-Pop With Rock Melodies

Shoegaze band’s second LP Solstice for Embodiment

"...Solstice for Embodiment, Daydream Twins’ sophomore album, unfolds like a fuzzy memory. It..."

March 21, 2025 Music Feature by Angelina Liu

SXSW Film Review: On Swift Horses

In 1950s America, identity is imposed rather than discovered

"...buy a home and begin their pursuit of the American Dream. Julius takes a different route west, gambling and..."

March 15, 2025 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ivan Cornejo, Steve Wynn, Cardinals, and More Reviews From Thursday of SXSW

Sonic dispatches from Ireland, Mexico, and the Afro Diaspora

"...Caroline Drew Steve Wynn Talks Life, Music, and the Dream Syndicate..."

March 14, 2025 Music Post by Kyra Bruce

SXSW Film Review: Idiotka

Girls just want to Slay, Serve, and Survive

"...In Idiotka, director Nastasya Popov explores the American Dream through a reality TV competition where five working-class..."

March 13, 2025 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

Corrupting an Australian Paradise in The Surfer

Director Lorcan Finnegan on his new film with Nic Cage

"...the new drama starring Nicolas Cage receiving its North American premiere at South by Southwest after debuting at Cannes..."

March 10, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Advocacy, Art, and More Recommended Events

What to do this week that isn't SXSW

"...opinion? This film rules. We Luv Video guesses the American rating as PG, so bring the youth along to..."

March 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

35 Recommended SXSW Music Acts

From rock to new age to Irish traditional, these are the incoming artists to see

"...Maybe I’ve got an American grass-is-greener mindset, but there’s always seemed to be more..."

March 7, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Endless Soul Searching of Ageless Singer Tomar Williams

Tomar and the FCs frontman shares scores of stories ahead of the band's third album release

"...whatever we call that one root music from Black American culture. Luxuriate in the space between notes, space within..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Column by Raoul Hernandez

The Mystery Behind the Eyes of Parthenope

How Kierkegaard influenced director Paolo Sorrentino's new film

"...It is the dream of any actor to be plucked from obscurity by..."

Feb. 20, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Besame Mucho, Old Settler’s, and Other Local Music Fests Coming This Spring

Shindigs for country, blues, and Latin lovers

"...celebrate the Austin blues scene – and keep an American tradition alive. iHeartCountry Festival Moody Center, May 3 $81..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Music Post by Mattea Gallaway

A Mardi Gras Pre-Party, Improvised Intimacy, and More Recommended Events

Allow us to help sort your weekend out

"...the Sixties or Seventies, all soft, blown-out Technicolor and dreamy score with a meandering vibes-based plot. But in fact..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

As ICE Sweeps Reach Austin, Area Schools Prepare for Potential of Campus Arrests

State police will team with federal agencies in immigration arrests

"...lawns. It’s in indistinct suburbia, sort of like the American dream. Except the man in focus is handcuffed, and..."

Jan. 31, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Movie Duos, Rude Little Pigs, and More Events for the Week Ahead

Time to reflect and project

"...of a murdered feminist activist, 10 years after an American revolution has done nothing to improve the lot of..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Trans Rights, Comedy Nights, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Arts and culture to keep you entertained

"...these phenomena in her work, capturing images of Black Americans in her attempts to protect Black history and decentralize..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

ISHIDA Dance Company Brings a European Dance Sensibility to Texas

Getting emotional and experimental with as long as there is in me

"...balletic, as dancers’ gorgeous lines present in otherworldly motions. American choreographer Jacoby is another disruptive dance voice. She’s worked..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Witness This Weekend's Recommended Arts and Culture Events

Sarah Silverman, 80s Night, sustainable sculpting, and more

"...became king of the spaghetti Western by casting handsome Americans in top-notch Italian oaters with a sleazy twist. But..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Week Ahead

The Point, Wild Heaven, Chris Acker, and more

"...allow, whether with the Wasabi Big Band, his Great American Songbook ensemble, or with his own eponymous quartet, aka..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Critics’ lists and more thoughts on the year in film

"...to be the biggest: A three-and-a-half-hour evocation of the American Dream, curdled. Not a perfect film – that second..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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