Lovecraft and Rest Stops: Rebekah McKendry Takes to the Road for Glorious

Inside the pandemic roots of the new cosmic horror comedy

"...Jackson rest stops are made to look like Mississippi antebellum architecture. They’ve got these massive colonial columns, and they’ve..."

Aug. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Looking in at Austin’s Last (Known) Slave Quarters

Black history in hiding

"...year, they will restore the slave quarters to its antebellum appearance and establish a range of programming that puts..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

Alice

Southern slavery drama with a twist

"...(Palmer)? She’s a slave living on a plantation in Antebellum Georgia who, at the start of the film, is..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ways of Remembering: A Racial Geography Tour of UT-Austin’s Campus

Dr. Edmund T. Gordon's virtual tour illuminates the university's complicated history

"...our nation's larger history, weaving together Littlefield's role in antebellum Texas, the Civil War, Manifest Destiny, and Reconstruction –..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Antebellum

Time-mangling racism allegory can’t be saved by its good intentions

"...year that honor was bestowed on mysterious slavery drama Antebellum. The pitch – Janelle Monáe seemingly traveling through time..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...the event’s headline grabber. She’s starring in the film Antebellum, set for release in April...."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Taps ConsenSys Founder Joseph Lubin for 2019 Keynote

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency track programming comes into focus

"...artists including Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Lady Antebellum, Michael Bublé, Selena Gomez, Keith Urban, Ariana Grande, Flo..."

Oct. 9, 2018 SXSW Post by Bonny Chu

Mobley

"...people are still running, not unlike runaway slaves escaping Antebellum patterrollers: "Right pacin' left, the back roads are walkin'/..."

May 11, 2018 Music Review by Kahron Spearman

Is ACL Fest Local Mobley Austin's Bill Withers?

First-weekend act transforms hardship into post-genre pop

"...Not unlike slaves of the antebellum South, where certain boundaries could determine the vigor in..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

American Honey

Youths hit the road in this rambling epic

"...Honey (the title of which comes from a Lady Antebellum song). Arnold (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights) has long had..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rhiannon Giddens Reanimates Black Feminism

Antebellum bandleader untangles African-American music history

"...and “Up Above My Head,” marking Giddens’ ascendency to antebellum blues bandleader...."

April 26, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

ACL Preview: Jidenna

Full, uncut Q&A with a true G

"...black man to be evoking the style of the antebellum south...."

Oct. 8, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

ACL Fest 2015 Sunday Interview: Jidenna

2015 Jidenna meets 1973 Fela Kuti

"...black man to be evoking the style of the antebellum South...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe

A little extra Austin food news

"...dish features fried catfish filets crusted in Anson Mills Antebellum cornmeal, hand-cut Kennebec fries, and Fixe signature tartar sauce...."

July 24, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Point Austin: Racism and Heroism

Reflecting on the Charleston massacre

"...disfigures UT-Austin's South Mall, installed explicitly to celebrate the antebellum South and the UT founders' determination – if they..."

June 26, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Foodie Is an Ethnocentric Word

Searching for diversity in culinary Austin

"...cannot be understood without some historical perspective. During the antebellum years, slavery forced black women into cooking for others...."

April 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Playback: Meet the New Texas Music Czar

New Texas Music Office director, new Rock N Roll Rentals branch, and a new Foot Patrol fetish!

"...Austin's music cognoscenti by selecting Nashville pop trash Lady Antebellum to headline the inaugural. No surprise, then, that cries..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Bless Their Heart

Olamaie's Southern is everything but down-home

"...But the cocktails were inventive; my favorite was the Antebellum ($11), a sassy twist on the Cosmopolitan...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin Film Festival: Setting as a Character

Location, location, location

"...of the action. In reality, it is an old antebellum fort that Fukunaga stumbled upon...."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

The Plantation at Comal Bluff

Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin

"...existence, as well as its relationship to the Sneeds' antebellum estate, helps to complete a story on Austin's southern..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Sam Ramos

iHeartRadio Country Festival... Why Austin?

Inaugural Countrypalooza bowed at the Erwin Center Saturday

"...radio superstars: Eric Church, Jake Owen, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line,..."

April 1, 2014 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Keepin' Up With the Jones Family

The Jones Family Singers hear the spirit speak in Austin

"...the original African-Americans sang in the fields of the antebellum South to soothe their souls. While they couldn't sing..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...off The Priceless Slave, exchanging the Middle East for antebellum Louisiana. Inspired by a strange portrait of a slave-owning..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Django Unchained

As entertaining and subversive as Django Unchained is, Tarantino's latest also suffers from a certain slackness.

"...accompany the film’s action, which is set in the antebellum South. Another comic moment comes when the newly freed..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The AggreGAYtor: December 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...as a rabid militia who time traveled from the Antebellum south, perhaps returning money from white supremacists would be..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Off the Record

OTR goes country with Mike & the Moonpies and Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas

"...chant. Most impressive was the feisty return of Austin's anti-Antebellum ladies, the Dixie Chicks, who proved still "Not Ready..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Electric Lounge's second act on the Eastside, catching up with Scratch Acid and Austin's other Voice contestants

"...Team Cee Lo though, being asked to perform Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" and Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love,"..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Luv Doc Recommends: FronteraFest Short Fringe

Hyde Park Theatre, Thursday, January 13, 2011

"...elevator; The Priceless Slave, the true story of an antebellum slave architect; Dirty, Nerdy and Unemployed, poetry by Jacob..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...were required to serve on slave patrols in the antebellum period, so that was a state-imposed way of imposing..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Heads in the Sky; Feet on the Ground

Interview with artist Leah DeVun

"...whose figures seem to be so placed in the antebellum South but is adamant that the work is about..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

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