David Sedaris and the Art of Ignoring

Austin-bound, the author adds a new descriptor: controversial.

"...the theatres had rules, everybody had to wear a mask, and there were plastic barriers up when I would..."

April 28, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Stop, Drop, and Shop

Qmmunity advises on what local places are best for gay gift shopping this year

"...TLGS, Project Transitions' Top Drawer Thrift, and queer- & Black-owned vintage purveyor (and frequent Qmmunity gift guide rec) Ephrance..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by James Scott

Wrestling Legend Dustin Rhodes Keeps Steppin'

The Austin native continues a family legacy with a new TV show and a revived career

"...In professional wrestling, they call it the crimson mask. Dustin Rhodes, a giant of a man with soulful..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...whose face is obscured by an unnervingly shifty stocking mask, goes overboard trying to figure out who killed his..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hart's War

"...drudgery of POW life and the sort of internecine black-marketeering that keeps the cams and driveshafts of camp life..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Five Things to Head Off the Hex on Friday the 13th

Shake off the curse of this mini-Halloween

"...say Friday the 13th without thinking of everyone's favorite hockey-mask-wearing slasher. If you wanna see that machete coming straight..."

May 13, 2022 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Preview: Voivod

Nuclear winter’s never far from the Canadian thrashers

"...first U.S. show. We came out with the gas mask and smoke machine and bullet belts...."

Oct. 23, 2014 Music Post by Adam Ganderson

Qmmunity: Spring Has Sprung and So Has Austin's LGBTQmmunity

Producers of Filth drag collective pledges safety, The Little Gay Shop’s queer art market, and more

"...month, the pledge calls for performers to wear face masks while off-stage, arriving as show-ready as possible to avoid..."

March 26, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

You Can't Be Serious

"...Dear Editor, You can't be serious? Armed white male mask instructions? [“How to Assemble Your Armed White Male Mask,”..."

Oct. 30, 2017 Postmarks

Thanksgiving

Eli Roth's fake trailer gets a real (and really fun) slasher

"...at least a little with the maniac wearing a mask of John Carver (the first governor of Plymouth Colony,..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dashcam

POV horror comedy punishes you with the real worst person in the world

"..."why won't you just die" unwitting villainess of POV pitch-black comedy horror Dashcam...."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rondo and Bob

An Austin film legend's obsession with a Hollywood monster

"...of people who remembered it, like Chronicle co-founder Louis Black and Austin American-Statesman columnist John Kelso. It's also very..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Respect

Bloated Aretha Franklin biopic lacks her glitz and power

"...the clean, digital look of Respect by mimicking archival black & white television footage as well as the 16mm..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

It's a Wage Shortage – Not a Labor Shortage – and It Disproportionately Affects Women and Persons of Color

It's a complicated economic situation, but one easy solution is increasing pay for restaurant workers

"...wage, but because of the desire to not pay Black people, to basically perpetuate the idea of free Black..."

May 28, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Initiation

Updated campus slasher flick gets the tech right, but not much else

"...The killer wears a black hoodie, an MF Doom mask, and a utility belt...."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Shane Pfender

Qmmunity: City Launches LGBTQIA Quality of Life Survey

Fill out the survey by April 30

"...trans Austinites (similar to studies commissioned for the city's Black, Latinx, and Asian American communities), and it will serve..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

The Far Out Lounge Focuses on Food, Safety, and Austin Musicians

More than a venue

"...organizations, to "keep the sense of community." Relationships with Black Swan Yoga, Redeemer Small Batch CBD, MOD Fitness, Eastside..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Jana Birchum's Top 10 Photos of 2020

"...Headquarters, May 30, 2020 Staff photographer Jana Birchum writes: “Black Lives Matter and Mike Ramos Brigade protesters climbed onto..."

Dec. 17, 2020 Photo Gallery

We Have an Issue: If Dog Rabbit

Why taking the long view is essential to curbing COVID-19's spread

"...If wearing a mask means hospitals aren't too overtasked to respond swiftly to..."

June 19, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Wild Goose Lake

Chinese noir stumbles over its own remarkable style

"...Chinese writer-director Diao opens the followup his 2015 murder-mystery Black Coal, Thin Ice with a scene that is more..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Not Even Borderline

"...they've preserved the Woolworth's lunch counter where four young black men started the sit down movement to protest the..."

Oct. 30, 2017 Postmarks

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...small group – many of whom had marched in masks – stayed behind to confront him...."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Good Kill

Ethan Hawke pilots drones over Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert

"...any blind-eye view of a world solely defined by black and white hats. The battle fought in this film..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Death Race

All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.

"...by Paul Bartel in 1975) already know, played the masked driver Frankenstein, a racer in a two-lane-blacktop version of..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Counting Water'

Third-Place Winner

"...thought I'd miss, now that he wears the oxygen mask for his apnea. It's dead quiet there too...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Carolyn Lindell

Page Two

When Gravity Fails: Notes on the influence of Ed Lowry, 'Crazy Mama,' and not sweating the small stuff

"...bombs or weapons; this was about telephone chicanery – black boxes, lineman's phones, and the like – ways of..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Bargains in the Mist

Where to find the missing link

"...Toy – Makes sounds, multicolored – $13.99Lucy in DisguiseMonkey Mask – Plastic monkey mask – $4.99..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Features Feature

Darkness Falls

"...of floaty, airborne attacks rendered purely in shades of black -- you can barely tell what's going on half..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

"...money wasn't really what you lost. Vegas constructed a mask of glamour over its unforgiving lust; Reno never had..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings

"...(M.B.) 4/24/98 BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS 3.5 (S.D.) 9/11/98 BLACK DOG 0 (M.B.) 5/8/98 BLADE 3.0 (M.S.) 8/21/98 BLUES..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

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