Konnichiwa, Austin!

Celebrating Japanese animation and pop culture at IkkiCon IV

"...The first weekend in January, Austin embraces its inner otaku again as the IkkiCon Japanese..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: What Molly Wrote

Ivins and her kind

"...she offered it first to her editors in Dallas – just for the fun of it, knowing that the..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column by Dave Denison

Austin Has One as Well

"...I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers [Books, Sept. 30], I noticed her mention of Family Place,..."

Oct. 13, 2005 Postmarks

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Musicby John T...."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

Six Local Books for Foodies for the Holidays

Texas food for the eyes and stomach

"...man who shot the unforgettable images for those Franklin books noted above, following up his own Texas BBQ debut..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen

by Bill Bentley

"...Here, similarly bite-sized items on rock & roll and its offspring – from the King (Elvis..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life & Times of Kinky Friedman

by Mary Lou Sullivan

"...impressively, detailing the arc from Friedman's Sixties activism in Austin to his gubernatorial run in 2006. Sullivan chronicles the..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot From the Pit

by Sandy Carson

"...Were There contains a curious treasure singular to rock & roll. We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot From..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Books on Film

Inspired by the collective unconscious

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

Books on Film

On what makes a great book a great movie

"...my favorite book on filmmaking was written by fellow Austinite writer/director/stuntman Gary Kent. His memoir Shadows & Light: Journey With..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

Books on Film

Nick Offerman would make a great Teddy Roosevelt

"...Filmmaking book: My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel, because he has a way of seeing through things..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

Books on Film

Driven by street photography and war journalism

"...and talking-head sleepers that permeate the nonfiction media landscape.  ..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

Boys From Houston

Before ZZ Top, their precursors the Moving Sidewalks defined the Houston scene

"...Amidst the documentaries and books on assorted Texas music scenes of the Sixties comes..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Robert Plant: A Life

Robert Plant's now been a solo artists longer than he was frontman for hard rock's fab four

"...Robert Plant: A Lifeby Paul Rees It Books, 368 pp., $28.99..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Austin Represent

Texas artist whips out the leather in NOLA.

"...outdoor fest. Mychal Mitchell and Edward Bailey of Iona Books are set up selling heirloom leather journals and photo..."

April 27, 2008 Design Post by Kate X Messer

Better Books to Read Than 'His Dark Materials'

"...However, if, as has been quoted in the Chronicle [“Austin Bishop Checkmates 'Dark Materials' in Schools,” News, Nov. 16],..."

Nov. 21, 2007 Postmarks

Best Books of 2006

"...Unfortunately, I didn't find love in 2006, yet certain books impressed me. William J. Cobb's Goodnight, Texas (Unbridled) is..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Sofia Resnick

Music Books

"...Broadway Books, 151 pp., $12.95 (paper)..."

May 27, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Rock & Roll Books

Gift guide

"...Pantheon Books, 523 pp., $24.95..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...navigating a city, Nelson definitely won't be driving around Austin this weekend. "Three tickets my whole life, they all..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Shannon McCormick

SJGI GURPS Books

"...Vampire: The Masquerade (both originally published by White Wolf books) and gives them a modular context so they may..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Screens Feature

Recommended Austin Events

Highlights for your week in music, arts, community, and more

"...Thursday 25, Austin History Center..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column

Qmmunity’s (Non-Exhaustive) Guide to Local Queer Austin Biz

For anyone looking to start queering up their ATX experience

"...You want to live like a queer Austinite, but don’t know where to start? Whether you’re visiting..."

March 6, 2023 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Austin Author Gabino Iglesias Talks Spiders and Assassins

The horror writer guides you through the darkness at the Texas Book Festival

"...Devil Takes You Home if not for an East Austin brown recluse (may it rest in peace) and the..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

We Have an Issue: Best of Austin: Restaurants Finalists Announced

Vote now!

"...vote in the first round of our Best of Austin: Restaurants poll? The fruits of your labor are here!..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

How Estate Services of Austin Finds New Homes for Treasures Left Behind

In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help

"...will kill for it; men like you and me."  – René Belloq, Raiders of the Lost Ark..."

July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...Continuing work with Austin's Prizer Arts & Letters gallery, the multiformat artist debuts..."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

A Rhythmic Ray of Light: Austin Community College's Hip-Hop Production Instructor Ray LaManna

From prisoner to professor, he wants to change people's lives

"...traditional classroom environment, which is fitting: LaManna's class at Austin Community College, Hip-Hop Production 1372, represents the first of..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...then-23-year-old entered the Central Texas scene as a prodigy – singer, mandolinist, clawhammer banjo picker – and by now..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

11 Ongoing Events and Activities for Austin Kids

Local orgs and museums offer virtual and IRL options

"...Virtual Activities Austin Public Library..."

April 5, 2021 Events Post by Katherine McNevins

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