Levitation Interviews

Sun., 5:25pm, Levitation Tent

"...soul maestro Leon Michels (Aloe Blacc, Lee Fields, the Arcs) – moves the needle toward R&B. Ahead of Levitation,..."

April 29, 2016 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Hideaway

A descendant of the father of our country in the Antone's House Band? For three decades now, believe it!

"...as one note suddenly soars into outer space and arcs back to Earth in a meteor shower. Then he..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Feature by Sarah Brown

The Staple Singers

"...comprehensive Staple Singers compilation, the 4-CD Faith & Grace arcs gospel into folk and soul with unconstrained humanity. Early..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Blues Lessons with Eve Monsees

Guitarist starts at Jimmy Reed and ends up in New Orleans

"...The new disc arcs from Chess Records to Third Man Records, so who..."

Dec. 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Filming 10-1

Documentary recounts the 2014 City Council campaign

"...There are a couple of dramatic story arcs: The first emphasizing the shift away from “at-large” elections..."

Nov. 30, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Good Field Swears It’s Just “Business”

Pop foursome welcome new disc with cable-ready song clip

"...The promotional clip arcs well enough that you wish for more episodes of..."

July 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Brand New Ancients and Hold Your Own

UK poet-rapper screams in both prose and meter

"...read aloud. Set in Tempest's southeast London 'hood, it arcs a contemporary tale of two intertwined families with more..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Texas Me

New Doug Sahm documentary and SXSW all-star concert resurrects Austin's cosmic groover

"...fiddle, and predominantly steel guitar, and as the film arcs into his teens Sahm started playing with black musicians..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Specht Speaks!

More Q&A with Migratory Animals author Mary Helen Specht

"...helping me see how to envision the larger plot arcs. I come from a short story background before writing..."

Jan. 15, 2015 Arts Post by Jessi Cape

Everybody Has a Secret Life in the Movies

Authors Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree eloquently show us how.

"...with, for one thing; but also, in chronicling those arcs of being, the writers relate them in such a..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Real Life: Cory Doctorow

Wearing goggles or not, he's in town for the Texas Teen Book Festival

"...structure of Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan, a series of three-book arcs that told a giant story that all fit together,..."

Oct. 15, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Time of Their Lives

Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'

"...examples of Hollywood three-act formula, with dramatically shifting character arcs; his more adventurous films, like Slacker, Waking Life, and..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...But 2001 is a narrative minefield: It's several disparate arcs held together by imagery, and it's rarely clear exactly..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'The Mend'

Two dysfunctional brothers spiral downward

"...By the end of the film, the characters' arcs are so muddied that there can really only be..."

March 11, 2014 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Nutshell Your Screenplay for Success

Austin Film Society partners with the Screenplay Workshop for Seminar

"...ideas free-floating in my brain." Scraps here, busted story arcs there – but not much came of my half-assed..."

Oct. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Reviews You Can Use

Find the gray area in 'The New Black,' or explore sweeping panoramas and unbridgeable divides in 'The Most Fun I've Ever Had With My Pants On'

"...spiritual impact. The Most Fun doesn't offer any overriding arcs or wistful internal dialogues; even when Andy is forced..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Brandon Watson

Welding a Bright Future

Local woman sparks her way onto HGTV show 'Brother vs. Brother'

"...decide to open your own studio, Creative Sparks and Arcs?..."

Aug. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Who the Hell is this Seth White?

And what, if anything, do RPGs and LARPing have to do with art?

"...just a zine and a website and several narrative arcs that he’s working on to manifest Unhinged. That wouldn’t..."

July 30, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

America's Mortal Goddess

AFS Essential Cinema enchants with Marilyn Monroe

"...no career peak when she died, yet the series arcs her growth by including her first role of real..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

The Men

"...Great albums have arcs. They have beginnings and ends, crescendos and centerpieces. They..."

May 31, 2013 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Free Comic Book Day: Picking Through The Shelves

The annual graphic giveaway is this weekend, so what should you pick up?

"...Hermes Press is reprinting two original 1930s Sunday story arcs from Buck Rogers in 25th Century...."

May 3, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Acid Mothers Temple

"...prog – often in one take. 2007's Crystal Rainbow arcs no exception, the best point of entry in recent..."

April 26, 2013 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Poets Perform for Texas Book Festival Tonight

Anis Mojgani and Derrick Brown read at Lavazza Espressions

"...directly embody the spoken word movement, are full narrative arcs punctuated by heavy lines and all caps and quick-tempo..."

March 25, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Critiquing the Critique

"...shown eyeballing each other from their respective terraces? The arcs of Farrell and Rapace's characters didn't just happen; it..."

March 25, 2013 Postmarks

Blue Öyster Cult

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"...radios appear." Patti Smith's initial foray into song spellcasting arcs from second BÖC scripture, 1973's Tyranny and Mutation, to..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss

Kiss drummer may be the only one in the original band with any integrity, but it's still a sorry tale.

"...it came off a cereal box, Criss' peak-to-bottomless-pit tale arcs similarly – Brooklyn-born high school dropout née Criscuola and..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

No Catharsis in 'The Comedy'

Rick Alverson and Tim Heidecker talk about savage reviews and the danger in grand gestures

"...is interested in is not creating these melodramatic character arcs, like Ebenezer Scrooge in the last two minutes of..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

‘The Comedy’ Is Not Joking Around

Rick Alverson and Tim Heidecker on their polarizing new film

"...is interested in is not creating these melodramatic character arcs, like Ebenezer Scrooge in the last two minutes of..."

Nov. 28, 2012 Screens Post by Shawn Badgley

Fully Committed

The title may describe Martin Burke's performance, but is the play worthy of his talents?

"...Sam stays in this job. His arc, and the arcs of the other characters here, are flimsy at best...."

July 13, 2012 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Fast Approaching Swiftly Gone

American Repertory Ensemble's latest conveyed the mood and form of good poetry

"...beats, motifs of reversal – uppercuts unwound into overhand arcs, for example – punctuated the thoughtful ebbing of the..."

June 1, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

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