Playing With the Big Boys

Teen filmmakers Rusty Kelley and Duncan Knappen land second HBO Family gig with "French Restaurant."

"...slow on the uptake, I realize he's digging the Big Boys logo emblazoned on the front. I'm getting old-school..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Ain't Nothing but a Good Time: or, How a Lowly 'Chronicle' Writer Learned to Play With the Big Boys

"...3-pointers like brimstone on the heads of the bewildered Cowboys. This is perhaps an appropriate image, considering that soon..."

June 20, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

Gaming's Big Boys Bully Austin

EA and SouthPeak sink their vampiritic teeth into Austin

"...bucking stock market no doubt) in Washington, D.C., for bigger backers in Virginia. What this means for their ability..."

Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Little Athletes, Big Dreams

Austin's youth sports boom is young athletes, big competition – and big money

"...team in a heartbreaking playoff loss to Klein, a big, bruising team from the Houston suburbs. After the game,..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Boys and Girls

"...by: Robert Iscove. Starring: Amanda Detmer, Heather Donahue, Jason Biggs, Claire Forlani and Freddie Prinze Jr.. There's a reason..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Big Eden

"...to his boyhood cabin in the sylvan hamlet of Big Eden, Montana, Henry Hart (Gross) jumps out the back..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Seeing the Future of Politics in SXSW Documentary Boys State

Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine look at the state of boys

"...because the lawmakers were all teenagers, attendees at Texas Boys State. If you don't know what Boys State is,..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

One Big Guitar

The return of the True Believers

"...Now, when it counts the most, these former golden boys are nervous. This isn't the time, place, or occasion..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Riding in Cars With Boys

"...lovely camerawork by Miroslav Ondricek, Riding in Cars With Boys nevertheless has a cobbled-together feel. At times, it seems..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bog Bodies, Blood Pulling, and Muppets: Making the Monster of Boys From County Hell

How Chris Baugh raised the evil of Irish vampire

"...are not sparkly, they are not sexy, and in Boys From County Hell, the bloodsucker is ancient, evil, and..."

May 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Catching Up With the Beekman Boys

Lifestyle gurus talk new ventures

"...and Brent Ridge, otherwise known as the Fabulous Beekman Boys of reality television fame...."

Dec. 2, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Stacey Abrams, Beastie Boys to Speak at SXSW

Nile Rodgers, Gwyneth Paltrow and more join the roster

"...ch-check it out: The surviving members of the Beastie Boys will deliver this year's Music keynote speech...."

Feb. 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: A Fresh Point of View With the Iké Boys

Eric McEver talks anime, obsession, and making friends with cats

"...filmmaker Eric McEver, writer/director of Fantastic Fest action-comedy Iké Boys, it's cats...."

Sept. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Colin Mochrie Goes to Summer Camp in Boys vs. Girls

The Whose Line is it Anyway? star talks nerves and narwhals

"...By the time Michael Stasko entered summer camp comedy Boys vs. Girls, star Colin Mochrie was discussing narwhals. "The..."

Jan. 12, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Will Gov. Perry's Cancer Concern Extend to Queer Boys?

HPV vaccine Gardasil may prevent some anal cancers

"...Remember Gov. Rick Perry's big campaign a couple years ago to make HPV vaccine..."

Feb. 18, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer

25 Years of Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

Rockabilly crew rolls into the Continental Club Saturday

"...celebrate 25 years together. For longtime Los Angeles rockabillyists Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, the milestone comes with..."

July 17, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Punk Weirdos Big Bill Finally Unleash Their Inner LP

Reining in the freak show while doubling down on the absurd

"...In 2010, years before he began freak-punk project Big Bill, the recent college graduate still lived in Lubbock..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Yates Lions Dare to Dream Big

Houston high school wins respect in 2010 UIL Championship series

"...the pre-SXSW traffic insanity on Red River, the UIL Boys High School Basketball Tournament, aka the State Championship series,..."

March 12, 2010 Sports Post by Anne Harris

Big Bill Record Review

Stand by Your Bill

"...from the meat of a group's material, but for Big Bill, it's an ethos. On the Austinites' first full-length..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Big 12 Power Rankings: Week 3

Ladies love the grillmaster

"...year the Pokes finally made the breakthrough to the big time, and joined the big boys in college football's..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Sports Post by John Razook

What You Know About Them Texas Boys?

Former Texas high school football players shine in NFL Draft

"...night lights, and now they are headed to the big time. These are the Top 5 former Texas High..."

April 30, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Mother's Boys

"...Redgrave, but nothing comes of them. It's all one big, silly, unexciting mess, and in the last 30 minutes,..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boys State

Austin-shot documentary tracks the future, confused leaders of America

"...son, a recent college graduate, had never heard of Boys State, but it was a plenty big deal when..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Mike Clark-Madison

Spotlight: Soft Boys

Austin Music Hall, 10pm

"...When the Soft Boys reunited for a few UK gigs in 1994, leader..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D Talk Trap, Basketball, Bogus Conspiracies, SXSW, and Their New Book

"We realized that all we do have, before this started and after it ends, is the three of us.”

"...By their own accounts, the Beastie Boys never spent much time considering their futures. Now that..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Bird Boys Brings Crime to 1970s Beaumont

Lisa Sandlin's characters try to solve the mysteries of themselves

"...Texas refinery town is the setting for The Bird Boys, as it was for Sandlin's first novel featuring the..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...Huong had done in the mid-Eighties. It was a big, smelly, noisy barn that endeared itself to the faithful..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

AISD: We Know What Boys Are Like

Proposal would turn Pearce and Garcia middle schools into single-sex academies

"...Do East Austin's middle school boys need to be taught separately from girls? Trustee Cheryl..."

Aug. 10, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Croy & the Boys’ Golden Rule of Honky-Tonks

Local outlaws convert country haters in new video

"...Last Thing” captures Austin honky-tonk favorites Croy & the Boys catching attitude from the snooty crew at a cocktail..."

Oct. 2, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...even compromise for a second." It came from Bennett's biggest fan -- Sinatra. -- Michael Bertin..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

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