Iorek Is Hot! The Sun Is Gay!

Andy hearts Iorek!

"...Confession time: I love the Golden Compass! The books and the movie, and I..."

Dec. 12, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...Halloween is coming early to Austin this year – or rather, Halloween..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...There are two kinds of vampire. Sexy and pained, or..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Opera’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sharp Sondheim staging could benefit from some musical raggedness

"...Legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won the 1979 Tony..."

Feb. 1, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Deer, Otoboke Beaver, Nikki Lane, BLK ODYSSY, and more recommended live shows

"...The Deer Album Release..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

Enter the Domain With Other Worlds Austin

Sci-fi film festival adds world premiere, new score, and award winners

"...Techno-allegories, futuristic thrillers, and Anne Hathaway obsessives: The latest round of announcements for sci-fi film festival Other..."

Nov. 5, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror in 150 Words or Less

Putting a stake through some recent terror releases

"...The post-Halloween season is supposed to be all mist and..."

Dec. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Darkness on the edge of Springsteen

"..."Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau." – Meat Puppets,..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...Is evil something that we do, or something that we allow to..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Long Fringe @ the Hideout

"...FronteraFest, the oldest and largest performance festival in the Southwest, is..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Anti-Death-Penalty Nun Talks “Bible Belt” and “Death Belt” in Austin

She calls execution the “apex” of a flawed punitive system

"...Sister Helen Prejean’s walk into the dark world of death row began with letters...."

April 11, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

The Black Angels Confront a Violent World

New LP Death Song soundtracks a society on the brink

"...Winter went out like a lamb and Austin's spring continues..."

April 28, 2017 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

New Graphic Novel is Dark, Urban, Sorcerous

Chris Miskiewicz and Palle Schmidt’s THOMAS ALSOP rocks Manhattan

"...You know there’s a tradition of mixing the mystical arts – magick,..."

June 1, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Akashic's 'USA Noir' Takes You Hostage in a Good Bad Way

This new crime anthology's got more swank items than an uptown fence

"...She walked into my office like a short blond angel making a..."

Nov. 6, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The American Analog Set’s Heavy Return and Seven More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Pelvis Wrestley, NOOK Turner, the Teeta, and more

"..."Paper Cuts" features new songs and music videos from Austin artists. Listen to our playlist on the @austinchronicle Spotify...."

Nov. 3, 2023 Music Column by Austin Powell

Austin Beer for the World Cup

Let your favorite local brew determine who you’ll bet on to win

"...It’s only hours before the start of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and..."

June 13, 2018 Food Post by Eric Puga

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...2015 is less than a month away, and today the festival announced some of its biggest titles ever, with..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hands That Feed

The groups that care for Austin's hungry could sure use a few more helping hands

"...The sweep of headlights cuts the night in two. The..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Off the Record

An all-star tribute for a Red Headed Stranger, Girl in a Coma awakens with help from Joan Jett, and Tia Carrera constructs its Electric Ladyland

"...its local release ("Texas Platters," May 4, 2007), Girl in a Coma's debut, Both Before I'm Gone, has landed..."

May 9, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...Nothing ever conveyed the exuberant joy and bitter heartache of..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Touched by a Charlie's Angel

John August, screenwriter of Go and the upcoming Charlie's Angels, on breaking into the biz and turning pop culture into mainstream cinema.

"...When Doug Liman's 1998 L.A. triptych Go arrived in theatres, many audience members didn't know what to make..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...I walk the dog at twilight so I can glance in strangers'..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

The Prophecy

"...D: Gregory Widen; with Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Viggo Mortensen,Amanda Plummer. VHS Home Video..."

July 12, 1996 Screens Feature

Empathy for the Devil

Discourse on Evil

"...Memnoch the Devil..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Books Feature

“Jos Howard Demme: Bad Boys, Good Dogs, Everyone Else in Between”

This solo show at ATM Gallery / Studio is both romp and nightmare – Dante's Inferno dressed up like a clown

"...Howard Demme's hallway is both romp and nightmare, Dante's Inferno dressed up as a clown. I love you more..."

April 21, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Wild Bunch

"...When I first saw The Wild Bunch in El Paso in 1969, my reaction..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Ramirez Berg

Gregg Allman: Still No Angel

Legendary figurehead continues bottling that ol’ black magic

"...Last I tried to see the Allman Brothers, they canceled due to Gregg Allman’s liver..."

Jan. 3, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Black Angels

The Black Angels get their war on

"...band's performance can actually make you feel like you're having a flashback. Such is the dark charm of Austin's..."

March 3, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...illustration by Jason Stout You know you're in for a long, hot summer when the weather has..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

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