Honey, I'm Home

The bees of Block 21 get busy on top of the W

"...When Austin's first streets were laid out in 1839, one of..."

May 17, 2013 Food Feature by MM Pack

Full Hearts Can't Lose

The 21st annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...Place: "Better This Way" Benjamin Reed has lived in Austin for 15 years. His short stories have appeared in..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Monica Riese

'Farm-City, State' Documentary Film in Progress

Local filmmaker explores Austin's sustainable food movement

"...itself with healthy, organic produce from local farms? Local filmmaker David Barrow poses this question in a documentary focusing..."

Jan. 8, 2013 Food Post by Carla Crownover

AFF2012: Billy Bob Thornton Steers 'Jayne Mansfield's Car'

The actor returns to the writer/director's chair

"...Calling Austin his "second home," Billy Bob Thornton presented his new..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

FF2012: Tim League Speaks!

What not to miss, why not to miss it

"...Eight days of the most outrageous films, games, and only-in-Austin diversions for the young at heart (and those that..."

Sept. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

From the Vaults: Robert Rodriguez's Early Years

"Ismael Jones and the Eyes of the Devil" debuts and "El Mariachi" at 20

"...Rodriguez filmed El Mariachi. To celebrate the occasion, the Austin Film Society and El Rey Network threw a little..."

Sept. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fall Film Festival Season Takes Flight

Programming updates from AFF, Fantastic Fest, and aGLIFF

"...For film fans, fall in Austin is a bottomless buffet: Just as soon as you've..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Illumine Honorees Announced

Douglas Brinkley, Sarah Bird, Joe Ely to be awarded

"...The Austin Public Library Friends Foundation shines a light on Texas’..."

Aug. 19, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Wise, Warm, and Always Welcome

Austin is a quieter place without Brent Grulke

"...not just to South by Southwest or to the Austin music scene but to music and the greater creative..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Film Flam

Fest news, Alamo expands, script to screen, + 'Hunger' game

"...Austin-based but Madrid-born, filmmaker Mario Troncoso has a great excuse..."

March 26, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Step Right Up

The terror and the wonder of the Museum of the Weird

"...If you're an Austin resident, you've probably walked past the crowded storefront at..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

‘Computer Chess’ Needs Humans

Andrew Bujalski’s in-production film looking for extras

"...you’re one of the dozen or so people in Austin who didn’t extra in the upcoming Slacker 2011? Here’s..."

Aug. 22, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Where the Beards Are

Meet the Austin Facial Hair Club, reality TV's unlikeliest new stars

"...Throw a can of Lone Star in Austin and you'll hit a dude with a beard. And..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Food-o-File

Sushi film nets award, food trailer troubles, chefs scramble, and a mysterious hiatus in this week's food news

"...Kudos to Austin filmmaker Mark Hall, whose new film Sushi: The Global..."

June 24, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Off the Record

Across the Borderline: BettySoo travels abroad with Doug Cox, Monte Wardens discovers Kevin Ahart, and Ancient VVisdom collaborates with Charles Manson

"...Kevin Ahart might be the best Austin singer you've never heard. He's a smooth crooner putting..."

June 17, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Most Valuable Player

Making a movie in Austin? Dana Wheeler-Nicholson's your gal.

"...Film Festival attendees may think of her as the Austin actress. She strutted down the Texas Film Hall of..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Slack to the Future

Slacker at 20

"...20 years, or nothing much. In a city like Austin (as if there were any other cities like Austin),..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hickenlooper Lobbies for 'Casino Jack'

George Hickenlooper on his Jack Abramoff film

"...Hickenlooper, the director of Casino Jack (which opens in Austin this Friday at the Arbor Cinema) was in town..."

Jan. 5, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everything's Coming Up Polish

Highlights from the fifth annual Austin Polish Film Festival

"...history? Make a rabbit the lead. That's what Polish filmmaker Bartek Konopka did in his masterful "Rabbit à la..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Suspended in Time

The community song of Wilson Street awaits its next refrain

"...up. Other rental properties in this slice of South Austin have been detoxed and gentrified over the last decade,..."

Aug. 13, 2010 News Feature by Amy Smith

Making It Right

Austin-based Students of the World strives to make it a better one

"...of Michigan student Sam Wolson, one of the main filmmakers on both the Make It Right doc and a..."

July 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Buy Local, Get 'Happy'

Help Austin film The Happy Poet see the world

"...but it's also a bigger-picture distillation of any indie filmmaker's aspirations. And Mars is plunk down square in the..."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The State We're In

Yep, it is broke, and Turk Pipkin wants us all to fix it

"...condition of our planet and its people. But for Austin filmmaker Turk Pipkin, it's more like a clarion call...."

Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bryan Poyser to Do the 'Dance

Local filmmaker will screen his dark comedy 'Lovers of Hate' in Sundance's Narrative Feature Competition

"...Festival competition film lineup. Making the cut this year? Austin native son Bryan Poyser...."

Dec. 2, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Size Matters

Making sense of Austin's microcinema scene

"...started with a microcinema, really. A vital element of Austin's cinematic community was born and blossomed around Richard Linklater's..."

July 17, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Crime and the City Solution

How safe do you feel exiting the Sixth Street/Red River Austin music crucible at 2am?

"...its self-proclaimed world capital. While the teeming heart of Austin's entertainment district at closing hour is rarely what anyone..."

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

512 + 1

Non-native filmmaker Kevin Ford got here as fast as he could

"...going to die off," says Jake, the procrastinating, post-Slacker proto-Austin partier in Kevin Ford's bitingly smart, frequently funny, and..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Luke Savisky: Creative Capitalist

Creative Capital helps Austin's projector of large-scale images get his work that much larger

"...Austin filmmaker Luke Savisky likes to work large. For his..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

TV Eye

Galán and La Guerra

"...on the small screen: First off, PBS has hired Austin filmmaker Hector Galán (Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads)..."

April 27, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Champion of the World Cinema

Chief curator Chale Nafus on the Austin Film Society's latest Essential series, South by Southeast: Films of Thailand and Vietnam

"...lunch with Chale Nafus, director of programming for the Austin Film Society, and I was disheartened to find out..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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