Film Flam

NEA awards AFS, festival news, and 'Black Metal' seeks extras

"...now $75,000 closer to fruition after the National Endowment for the Arts awarded the nonprofit one of 80 Our..."

July 12, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

All Over Creation: Assumptions and Definitions

Seeing what's new in theatre requires letting go of old notions

"...be absolutely sure of what you're going to see before you see it, that every production can hold surprises..."

March 23, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Punch Brothers

"...marveled with 2008 debut Punch and garnered Grammy nominations for 2010's Antifogmatic. As the experimental turns of its progressive..."

March 16, 2012 Music Review by Doug Freeman

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...release Life Is Good, his 10th studio LP, later this year. – Thomas Fawcett Dee-1..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

The Spillover

SXSW Interactive loosens its belt, expands to 14 venues

"...that it's the big dog – so big that this year it will stretch across 14 Downtown campuses, from..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...filmmaking community definitively established itself as a vital hub for gore? Consider the evidence: At the time of this..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters

Tom Waits – rumor, myth, or fact?

"...Tom Waits tells Robert Ward in a 1976 interview for Syracuse New Times, touring behind his third LP, Nighthawks..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

When the Whip Comes Down

‘Some Girls Live in Texas,’ ravished by the Rolling Stones

"...Jagger leading the Rolling Stones through a July 18 performance in Fort Worth on 1978’s Some Girls tour, a..."

Oct. 19, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Samuel Barber: American Romantic

Conspirare revealed how this composer does go gentle into that good night

"...from the ensemble's three dozen singers with the righteous force of an Old Testament prophet, and its gathering volume..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Can't Stop the World

Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat

"...was a guy I met in Austin that worked for the Runaways, and when I moved to L.A., he..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Of Mice and Men

A relaxed tempo can't obscure the lyricism and dark beauty of Steinbeck's tale

"...of the land and raise rabbits. The rabbits are for Lennie, who loves to touch soft things, so much..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Austin Psych Fest 4

"..."We're doing this for the city of Austin," proclaimed Black Angels frontman..."

May 6, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Old Soul

Bill Maddox died violently under bizarre circumstances – and left a legacy of music, love, and friendship

"...got into drums later – by later, I mean before junior high," Barber recently recalled. Later, Maddox would also..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group

12:50am, Emo's Annex

"...a preposterous tale about being flown to Puerto Rico for a session with the Mars Volta that ultimately became..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Point Austin: News Not Fit To Print

Trying to find a silver lining ... anywhere

"...going to hell in a handbasket, but even allowing for that professional bias, it ain't a great moment for..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Austin Playhouse

The theatre plans to take off from Penn Field and make a new home at Mueller

"...held a gathering at his home to announce the formation of a new theatre company, Austin Playhouse. Ten years..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Saturday Preview

"...The League of Extraordinary Gz (1:05pm): This ATX hip-hop conglomerate, featuring members of Dred Skott, Southbound,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature

All Down the Line

Forget the Exile on Main St. reissue. Here's the 1972 Stones in all their cinematic glory, plus a 1981 bonus to make it a double feature.

"...Falling between this year's crossfire PR hurricane for 1972 Rolling Stones magnum..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Great Are the Myths

Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin

"...part of your youth in the central plains of this great nation, odds are you clocked some of those..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...won't deal you a bad hand. He'll simply wait for you to tire and overplay the odds. The man's..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Firsthand accounts of the Warped Tour and Delaney & Bonnie from the Riverboat Gamblers' Mike Wiebe and Bobby Whitlock, respectively

"...of the Attorney General in regard to booking policies for Lollapalooza. C3 Presents and its Lolla partner, the Beverly..."

July 2, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Robots May Break Your Heart

But the Riverboat Gamblers Won’t

"...Set times for the Warped Tour are decided daily through a lottery..."

July 1, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Lagniappe

Found country, the lost art of LP design, and Flatstock's rock, paper, scissors

"...Originals: The Legends and the Lost by Tony Russell (Oxford University Press, 272 pp., $16.95 paper) with Colin Escott's..."

June 11, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Luv Doc Recommends: Pachanga Latino Music Festival

Fiesta Gardens, Saturday, May 22, 2010

"...no outstretched torch of Lady Liberty lighting the way for clandestine nighttime border crossings, no bronze plaque beckoning tired,..."

May 21, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

What Would Owen Do?

Or, more to the point, what can't comic, screenwriter, and now-novelist Owen Egerton do?

"...He's like a walking full-color illustration for the term "hirsutorufous," and he might be the red-haired..."

April 30, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc Recommends: 82nd Zilker Park Kite Festival

Zilker Park, Sunday, March 7, 2010

"...as effective as a Labrador puppy in a bandana for attracting members of the opposite sex. It really depends..."

March 5, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Saddened by UT's Actions

"...am deeply saddened by not only the loss of Informal Classes but also the University of Texas' disregard for..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Postmarks

Off the Record

The Parlor family serves pizza by the slice at the Monarch, Zeale gets down with Grooveline Horns, and crunching numbers for South by Southwest

"...from Opeth, High on Fire, and Baroness that October before acquiring the building earlier this month. "It's a nice..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: You Go Where You Have to Go

Welcome to the new year ... same as the old year?

"...with work – my work and the work required for business – others with family, friends, interests, and small..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Grunge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'Picture book of people with each other'

"...Wayne State University Press, 168 pp., $27.95 Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and the End of the..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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