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AFF alumni news, year's best music vids, & Sexy Sax in ATX

"...is going to be mighty busy come January. On the heels of the announcement Kat Candler’s new short, “Hellion,”..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

"Larry Graeber: Place to Place" at de stijl

In this collection of jazzy geometric mixed-media works and sculptures, the artist conjures wild characters in a self-contained universe

"...a landscape of forms and lines where nothing, not the ground or the sky, not even the air, is..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...The Texas State Capitol is currently playing host to an..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Interview: Girl

Writer/director/star Chad Faust heads into the dead heartlands

"...first hand. He and his wife spent much of the beginning of the coronavirus living an unexpectedly nomadic life,..."

Sept. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror Roundup

The best and the rest of the month's home releases

"...Occasionally, a horror film comes along that jolts the genre. In 2010, that was Gareth Edwards' microbudget and..."

July 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...Just before 10am -- ancient Greece and modern Denver. The two locales are so incongruous that their pairing seems..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down -..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

DVDanger: Horror in 150 Words or Less

Putting a stake through some recent terror releases

"...The post-Halloween season is supposed to be all mist and..."

Dec. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cicadas

Honorable Mention

"...Gentle Reader: a glint from the sidewalk catches your eye: it's the wing of a..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Billy Cope

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: Even with former Cher UK singer Mike..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Black Knight

"...Regan, Marsha Thomason, Kevin Conway and Erik Jensen. After the inexplicable popular success of Big Momma's House, no doubt..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...This is the most frustrating sort of book. Loaded with dense and..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions (Blue Note)..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

ARENA: Dressage to Impress

A starry & enchanted night of human performance in the Hill Country

"...2. You see their bodies moving in patterns across the wide arena of..."

April 26, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December

Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve

"...The thing about Christmas is that you know what's going..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: For All Reasons

Terry Allen's music reflects the Lubbock mindset

"...There used to be a sign that marked the West..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Begging the Question

"...by Jason Stout Young poets are beg- gars, begging the poem itself to tell them what it means to..."

April 2, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...Two weeks of rain in Austin. Good for the flowers, the lakes are up, the sun is vanquished...."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'You Were Our Father, A Veteran and So Full of Desperation'

Short Story Contest: Third place

"..."I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders"..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Kyle R M

Red, White, and Reckless

Reckless Kelly's all-American bloodletting

"...An odd calm settles over the infield of the Houston Astros' Minute Maid Park. The..."

July 4, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW 08 Film Reviews

"...Concluding with the Academy Award-nominated "Madame Tutli-Putli," the Animated Shorts program ends..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...deciding that he should be filming his time with them. A movie, he hoped, might bring attention and support..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

SXSW Film Review: Master of Light

SXSW doc winner finds a bright path through the shadows

"...Master of Light, winner of the Best Documentary Feature at this year’s South by Southwest..."

March 17, 2022 SXSW Post by Cody Song

Review: Stephen Mills’ POE / A Tale of Madness Is Pitch Perfect

Ballet Austin brings the master of the macabre to life (before killing him again)

"...Screeching violins underscore the tremulous strings of a mind gone wild, ominous percussion..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Demdike Stare

UK industrializers of witchery

"...survey of electronic and experimental sound design that occupies the space between compositional reclusiveness and music for the dance..."

July 9, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

After a Fashion

Art Institute presents a show, and the kids are all right ...

"...The Perfect Gentleman: The Pursuit of Timeless Elegance and Style..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

'Underground'

Exploring of what goes on beneath the surface – of our bodies, of society, of the cities in which we live, of the very planet itself

"...You know of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, right? It's a..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc Recommends: Bye Bye Bush

Hideout Theatre & Coffeehouse, Saturday, January 17, 2009

"...20, a fleet of black helicopters will descend on the White House lawn, their speakers blaring the Star Wars..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Mad Dog Blues: So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?

ONE Theatre Company brings some unique touches to Sam Shepard's Mad Dog Blues, but ultimately, the show is the portrait of a playwright living out his rock star phase -- self-indulgent and rather embarrassing.

"...You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?Hyde Park Theatre,..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

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Third-place winner

"...There's someone else...."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Andy Steinberg

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