Comic Book Snobbery

"...verbal tête-à-têtes in the media as it boils down to the analogy of negotiating with a daughter to see..."

July 24, 2012 Postmarks

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board agreed to a sit-down together in the offices of The Austin..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

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Our readers talk back.

"...Clark-Madison's SMA Story: F..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Column

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...the adaptation of the massively successful TTRPG (that's table top role playing game). There have been big-screen takes on..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Lee Leffingwell: 'Think Long-Range'

The incumbent mayor defends his record

"...Lee Leffingwell: Well, I think first and foremost has to be – we all have to be proud of..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

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Our readers talk back.

"...Openly Taking StanceDear Editor,..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Column

Star Wars Memories

In honor of Star Wars Day, Austin’s creatives talk about how the Force changed their lives

"...From a galaxy far, far away to the world's imagination, tales of the Jedi and the..."

May 4, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...When Hasmukh Patel was shot to death in his San Antonio convenience store in 2004,..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Qmmunity: Let the Haters Eat Cake

Plus, beer that gives back, storytelling for Stonewall, and more LGBTQ events

"...like it's an inaccurate representation of where I'm at today. Buy rainbow clothing, cake, jewelry, or make your own..."

June 21, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Way We Ate

'Historic Austin Restaurants': an excerpt

"...In her newly published Historic Austin Restaurants: Capital Cuisine Through the Generations, longtime Austin..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Food Feature

Local Gaming News-Bites

For those not following every game developer's Twitter feed

"...Gaming stuff is always happening in this happening town. I'm doing my best to keep up with it..."

April 27, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Thanks!

"...Editor:..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Column

History Rewritten by The Mandela Effect

Sci fi tragedy gets its world premiere in Austin

"...David Guy Levy apologizes. The director is still in the middle of getting his head..."

Oct. 22, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Goes for the Big 10

Kevin Smith's 'Tusk,' 'ABCs 2' and 'V/H/S 3' in first titles

"...Lamar and the relocated Highball (and when we chatted to FF founder Tim League last moth, he assured us..."

Aug. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Holliston' / 'Knights of Badassdom'

A double bill of Joe Lynch genre comedies

"...But once in a while film arrives, a film foretold with ill-augur, that has the dedication, fascination and weirdo..."

April 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Recording the Day India and Pakistan Split in Partition

When one nation became two separate countries, it reshaped world history. Now Austin podcaster Neha Aziz is telling the personal stories behind that severing.

"...Imagine waking up and being told that you, your friends, your family, have a month..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Books In My Possession, Which I May or May Not Read

A consumer guide to recent purchases

"...not so much. Name a classic any self-respecting high school sophomore should have plowed through first semester – quick!..."

Dec. 1, 2011 Books Post by Wells Dunbar

Food-o-File

Remembering Julia Child

"...of the things we considered was asking mutual friends to request some signed copies of cookbooks from Julia Child..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...Editor:..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

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

"...unmade every day. It takes a pretty special film to bother making a documentary about a film that never..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Machete forever, startup crawl, On Story, & a script reading

"...a hell of a CV, which spans from Heat to Bubble Boy to King of the Hill and culminated..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips

The sleepy Texas town of McMahan is for sale and $215,000 gets you the whole kit and caboodle

"...McMahan, Texas, is for sale; lock, stock, and barbecue joint. The five buildings that make up..."

May 26, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Whither Rock?

ii.

"...Before that moment, bands who struggled to make a living in cheap towns like Austin were..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Gina Arnold

Meowabunga! The Acro-Cats Ambush Austin Again!

And we squee with delight at their uncanny and kawaii antics

"...Felis domesticus, to be specific...."

Nov. 15, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Light It Up

Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

"...are still faced with the strategic decision of how to effect a social structure that is responsive to their..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wall of Separation

Neighbors of Hyde Park Baptist Church Take a Final Stand Against Its Proposed Parking Garage

"...We wanted to say that it would all be over this week:..."

Feb. 2, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Full Franklin

It's been 60 years since a biograpy of Benjamin Franklin has been written; Austin author H.W. Brands' The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin makes up for lost time.

"...Franklin? The question is bizarre but necessary. Unlike George Washington, for example, Franklin was not a galvanizing, commanding military..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Fall into fun!

"...Any time, a trip to the Hill Top Café near Cherry Spring, between Fredericksburg..."

Aug. 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Everything Went Black: I Was Dead Before Dead Was Cool

Shoot him in the head. He's dead, he's all messed up

"...do you expect from a 46-year-old who first latched onto the living dead well before he hit puberty?..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Of Flesh, Blood and Boners

"The Final Member" gets phallic, plus "Dracula" and "Ravenous" bite

"...go on, at least after the rest has passed to dust? In most religions, that piece is the soul...."

June 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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