Austin Used to Be Cool

"...the smoking ban, my friends and I will not be spending another tourist dollar in Austin. Remember, smoking doesn't..."

May 16, 2005 Postmarks

Be Cool

The follow-up to Elmore Leanard's Get Shorty is rife with star talent but short on inspiration.

"...Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin, Steven Tyler, Robert Pastorelli, Harvey Keitel and Christina Milian...."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Used to Be Cool, What Happened?

"...smoking ban passed and now you voted Starbucks the best coffee in town [“Restaurant Poll,” Food, May 20]? What..."

May 26, 2005 Postmarks

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...blocks of white broken only by a few black beams and accent lines like dark bars in an abstract..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cool World

"...Brad Pitt. Telling you that I liked Ralph Bakshi's Cool World a whole lot more than I expected to..."

July 17, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cool It

Based on the book by Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, this documentary approaches the problems caused by global warming without panic.

"...by: Ondi Timoner. Ondi Timoner's clear-eyed and commonsensical documentary, Cool It, makes the case that we have been poleaxed..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ain’t It Cool With Harry Knowles Set to Air on KLRU

Head Geek pacts with local PBS affiliate

"...Kickstarter funders for starting to think it had all been for naught. However, word has arrived today that the..."

Dec. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chill Places to Cool You Off

The summer heat is your enemy. Let these locales be your refuge.

"...have you covered with our list of places to cool off...."

June 13, 2016 Columns Post by Tucker Whatley

ACL Review: LL Cool J

Ladies by the thousands still love Cool James

"...The dichotomy of LL Cool J’s career was on full display for a late-afternoon..."

Oct. 2, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

AFS Doc Days Gets Cool With Miles Davis

Three day celebration of true tales returns for second year

"...the announcement that music biography Mile Davis: Birth of Cool will be the opening night picture, trumpeting in true..."

April 26, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mobile Games to Keep You Cool

When the heat is on, cool off with local apps

"...for four months (at least). Soon, full-grown adults will be dressing like toddlers and praying that the air-conditioner gods..."

May 15, 2015 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Cool It

Barton Springs info

"...hotter than Satan's kitchen at the ACL Fest, and between sets, we went across the street to chill out..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Who Will Be Nuked by the 819?

Austinites unleash a new postapocalyptic RPG on Twitch

"...a post-apocalyptic time where most of the population has been transformed by radiation and the very laws of reality..."

Sept. 7, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

8 Water Parks Near Austin to Keep You Cool and Active

Regular old lake just not cutting it?

"...approaches and the temperatures get hotter and hotter, a cool, exciting day spent at a water park or wave..."

May 14, 2019 Events Post

How Not to Be an Artist

Advice on how to be an artist

"...installation in its Infinity Booth, an open room just behind the restaurant with the ceiling and walls covered in..."

March 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Adam Sultan

Be Prepared

The secret to improv's split-second successes is in years of training

"...To see these six people performing this musical number together about the importance of being prepared at school..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

That’s So Cool: Celebrating Bob Johnston

The late producer’s staggering output somehow excluded his own renown

"...would start off all aglow on one topic then be tripping along covering a dozen more, offering fragments rather..."

Aug. 20, 2015 Music Post by Louis Black

Too Cool For School

Schoolhouse Pub is welcome addition to Manor dining

"...holders are DIYed from school supplies. The tickets peek behind mini marbled composition books. Every detail is repinnable, just..."

Sept. 24, 2013 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Water Parks, Swimming Holes, and More Options to Keep You Cool

Beat the heat with these H2Options

"...Who says you have to be miserable in these record-breaking Texas temperatures? Austin has an..."

July 18, 2018 Events Post by Eilish O'Sullivan

Trumpet Constant Ephraim Owens Won’t Be Rushed

New Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee substitutes kindness and ubiquity for a back catalog

"...play, not always just when to play. That's always been a big thing about him, his use of space...."

April 7, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

How Cool Is Austin

2010 snapshot of the ACPP 'five plans'

"...Cool: Fifty-three percent of city facilities now use GreenChoice (wind)..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature

'Birth of the Cool'

Bargains, film, and live jazz jazz up the Blanton's toast to midcentury modernism

"...Men right now, an exhibition like "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury" is as..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Cool Keeps On

Fourteen years after AICN woke up the Web, three Austin film sites carry on the tradition

"...In the beginning, the Geek God rolled an errant dolly loaded with..."

June 18, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Brings the Legend’s Legacy to AFS Doc Days

Biographical documentary captures the transformational jazz genius

"...The biographical documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool features acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson flattening the chronology and..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

I Will Be Heard: Mama Duke

Lyricist thriving at the intersection of Black, female, and gay wants Austin to "feel this energy"

"...erupt in laughter on a breezy Sunday night. Equally cool and smooth, Kori Roy swaggers through her 40-minute set,..."

July 29, 2022 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

What's Cool and Where It's At

What Austin teens are reading, wearing, eating, hearing

"...she didn't expect to see many teens that night because, "The music was before our time."..."

Sept. 25, 2012 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Resurrection of 'Cool'

Nick Lowe's power pop turns 30.

"...30th anniversary edition of Nick Lowe’s debut, Jesus of Cool. Hard as it to believe it’s been that long..."

Feb. 20, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Don't Be Silly, Brenner's High on Life

"...Alan Brenner, so let's name them in order and be done with it: 1) If you are ever at..."

April 16, 2004 Postmarks

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Fifty hard-boiled eggs

"...old, and I didn't trust my dad's insistence that Cool Hand Luke would be the VHS that we'd be..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Joey Keeton

Cool, 'Clean' Air Up North

Dispatch No. 1: Cool, 'Clean' Air Up North

"...look forward to going up to Toronto in early September for the Toronto International Film Festival. It's the biggest..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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