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"...Jacks will be crunched because baby, it’s minor league baseball time once again in Round Rock. Though this writer..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

South by Southwest Film & TV Festival Announces Audience Awards

Audience and jury love Bob Trevino Likes It

"...You, SXSW audiences went with a hard hitting passion project: Monkey Man, the directorial debut of The Green Knight..."

March 18, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

South By Memories

Austin filmmakers recall some of their most memorable moments at the hometown festival

"...“South By 2014, we had our baseball documentary (No No: A Dockumentary), and coincidentally the band..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Varsity Mural Finally Complete With New Image From Slacker

Empty 13th frame now filled by the iconic Teresa Taylor

"...Paul Minor, who had worked with Brooks on the project, nodded. "I've been looking at this blank space for..."

Dec. 7, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sudan Archives, Ben Kweller, and More Highlights From Saturday at ACL Fest

Texans Angel White, Blakchyl stood out under an annular eclipse

"...artist, who advocates for mental health through his Busyhead Project nonprofit, before “New Perspective.” “My job is to bring..."

Oct. 15, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Behind the Wheel With Deezie Brown

After five years of fine-tuning, the perfectionist producer and rapper rolls out 5th Wheel Fairytale

"...a Houston flow on "Peso." No amount of journalistic projection is gonna will Austin frickin' Texas into a national..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Project Connect’s Light Rail System Threatens to Close Austin’s Historic Burger Joint

Dirty Martin's on Guadalupe faces displacement

"...The system, called Project Connect, would dramatically expand light rail and bus service..."

July 22, 2022 Food Feature by Ky Miller

We Have an Issue: Always Be Bustling

Pride events, cultural fests, celeb sightings, and Project Connect progress fill a packed calendar

"...through town to play a show and some sandlot baseball (that'd be Jack White), a trend piece about the..."

June 3, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

What We're Listening to This Week

A cross-border collaboration, Good Looks, Adrian Quesada, Skloss, and Letting Up Despite Great Faults

"...The latest project from Austin's Golden Hornet composer's lab is a whole..."

April 8, 2022 Music Column by Chad Swiatecki

Three Music Writers Descend Into the NFT Craze at SXSW

One NFT-fatigued, one NFT-Curious, and NFT-skeptical

"...a lab,” when asked about her attire. Scrolling text projected on the walls during the live-coded “algorave” DJ set,..."

March 18, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Richard Linklater's Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood Touches the Animated Stars

Glen Powell talks life on set of the Austin director's latest

"...Richard Linklater was doing press for his semi-autobiographical college baseball movie, Everybody Wants Some!!, he mentioned to me that..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Russell Wayne Groves In the world of Major League Baseball no one has created a mythology like Nolan Ryan...."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...No, J.Lo's ex didn't leave Sunday Night Baseball to become a rapper. Eastside newcomer Roderick Brittenham exudes..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Fusionistic bumps of psychedelic hip-hop, Austin-spawned project Slug emerged last spring with the Origins EP, oozing..."

May 21, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Open the Crypt Door to The Mortuary Collection

How two days of filming in Austin saved Ryan Spindell's horror anthology

"...of the best in Austin on this little weird project [and] I was honestly so sad to leave."..."

April 23, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Man's Land

Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides

"...of him. Days away from starting a minor league baseball career with the New York Yankees, he chooses to..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Gift Guide: Homegrown Food and Beverage Favorites!

Skip the old-school impersonal and go boldly local this season

"...Nolan Ryan spent 27 years pitching for Major League Baseball, but he bought his first cow at just 10..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spirit Adrift's Nathan Garrett Lands His Astral Metal Rocket in Bastrop

Ride into the light

"...debate team and competitive choir" – of which stuck baseball (pitching) and music...."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Queens of Pain Shows Commitment to the Sport

For the love of Roller Derby

"...and would stop the film becoming too much inside baseball (or rather, inside Roller Derby). Winston said, "I haven't..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: Josh Baca Perfects Zydejunto and Mexicajun

Los Texmaniacs accordionist dishes his own Hot Tamales

"...the older boys to work and football practice and baseball practice. It’s been going pretty good...."

Sept. 22, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Slabs, Screw, and Stories from the Country: Deezie Brown & EC Mayne Soundtrack Bastrop County

Candy Blue Like Screw reclaims Texas rap heritage

"..."I always promised him an album," reveals the project's sonic architect, who Mayne still calls Devin. "When we..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

How OPA Design Studio Makes Austin's Elite Brewery Taprooms

Stephen Oliver does his tap dance

"...Another dazzling OPA team project is the recently minted Beerburg Brewing in the Hill..."

July 24, 2020 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Forklift Danceworks Goes "On the Job" With Essential Workers

The company's new audio series gives voice to city employees and what they're doing during the pandemic

"...Job" were in Forklift productions such as The Trash Project and PowerUP – shows built around the movements of..."

May 22, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Now Streaming in Austin: The Bob Zula Returns

Coming-of-age comedy-drama comes to Amazon

"...and learning that the only thing harder than playing baseball is filming it...."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Daniel Johnston's Death Begins Its Reverberations Around the Globe

“He’s legendary, but he was first a legend in his own mind, then he became a real legend.”

"...to Spill, the Preservation All-Stars, the Districts, and Modern Baseball. Early last year, Johnston appeared at the Mohawk in..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58

Eccentric singer-songwriter reportedly died of heart attack

"...to Spill, the Preservation All-Stars, the Districts, and Modern Baseball. Early last year, Johnston appeared at the Mohawk in..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Tons of Texas travel news for the dog days of summer

"...spots to luxury Airstream trailers. Music, workshops, and sandlot baseball are all part of the celebration on Sept. 26-29...."

Aug. 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Comedy: Doug Loves Movies Podcast Recording

Doug Benson and friends give South By a fond, filmic farewell

"...the answer is anywhere between standard computer print-out to school-project poster.) Sunday’s two non-poster outliers were, by turns, topical..."

March 18, 2019 SXSW Post by Rosalind Faires

15 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SXSW 2019

A few words about some of our favorite films coming to the fest

"...met Beto O’Rourke in April 2017, on a sandlot baseball field where Modigliani’s Texas Playboys, an Austin amateur hardball..."

March 7, 2019 SXSW Post by The Screens Staff

Director John Lee Hancock and Office Space Go Into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

Classic comedy and Texas writer/director to be awarded March 7

"...Hancock established his reputation as screenwriter of his sophomore project, the Kevin Costner/Clint Eastwood dusty crime story A Perfect..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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