Viva Las Vegas

Behind the scenes of Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis and Love

"...reclaimed his throne on the Las Vegas strip. Attended by the likes of Gene Simmons, Laurence Fishburne, and Scott..."

Feb. 24, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Kacy Crowley Stirs Strange Brew

Singer-songwriter-booker soundtracks South Austin hot spot

"...South Austin destination, with a sound system custom designed by sound engineer Jamie Wellworth. Local singer-songwriter Kacy Crowley, who..."

Feb. 13, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Mister Smarty Pants Knows

"...Snow monkeys relocated to Dilley, Texas from Mount Arachi in..."

July 25, 1997 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

See what 2020 has in store

"...Start the New Year by celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the..."

Dec. 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Fantastic Fest Review: Overlord

J.J. Abrams enters the surprisingly deep zombie Nazi genre

"...rights crimes disguised as research has long been processed by pop culture into Frankenstein-esque plots of undead Wehrmacht. Of..."

Sept. 24, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...Festival films have a life cycle. Some drop by for a quick pre-release publicity boost, and some use..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

History Repeats

A writer and his artist aunt explore cave paintings and see more than just writing on the wall.

"...a small, flat stone with a re-created cave drawing by M.D. Davis, who is 20 minutes late for our..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Supporting Local Farmers and Ranchers Helps Everyone

Back to the soil

"...we'll see a couple of them who are affected by whichever inclement weather was passing by at that point...."

March 5, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Fantastic Fest Interview: Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Hold the Dark

Blood and snow in one of Netflix's rare theatrical releases

"...bleak and violent yet. In Hold the Dark, directed by Saulnier and adapted by Blair from William Giraldi's novel..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Traveling Barbecue Road

Visiting from Germany, Central Texas barbecue has won me over

"...meat. She told me: “Go to Lexington, go to Snow's, then you’ll understand.” And so I did...."

Oct. 3, 2012 Food Post by Takis Würger

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...Capitol dome. It was rescued from disuse in 1995 by The Public Domain theatre company, which shaped it into..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: Ice Fishing, Door County, Wis.

A trip to Sturgeon Bay

"...distance and the iron-gray sky. Tire tracks in the snow from the ATVs had turned to ice and reflected..."

Feb. 15, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Don't Bank on It

The folks at Dragon's Lair learn an expensive lesson from Bank of America

"...The process by which Dragon's Lair employees made night deposits is one..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Real Austin Stories

Austin's Exploding Documentary Scene

"...Howard, Ramona Diaz, Hector Galán, and Paul Steckler. photograph by Kenny Braun First things first: Can we finally agree..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Camp Cleanups Prove Challenging for Those Without Homes

Sweeping away lives

"...Sweeps (StS), told him that an underpass cleanup coordinated by the city of Austin was scheduled for that day...."

July 10, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas Book Festival Unveils Full Author Lineup for 2024

Matthew McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell headline

"...Mary Jo Bang, Raised by Wolves..."

Sept. 19, 2024 Books Post by Amaya Austin

Overlord

How do you make killing Nazi zombies this dull?

"...Directed by: Julius Avery. Starring: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, John Magaro,..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Monahans Sandhills State Park is a treasure among public properties in Texas

"...as sugar, the sand is in constant motion pushed by a permanent West Texas wind. It is a sandbox..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe Pass The Beta Test

How the indie filmmakers burned Hollywood down

"...the modern auteur. Instead, he’s a collaborator, as shown by The Beta Test (on VOD now), for which he..."

Nov. 3, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Need to Flip a Car or Burn a Building Down? Call EB3 Effects.

How brothers Everett and Craig Byrom went from building maintenance to making movies

"...Go to the Byroms' place in Southwest Austin, and there's a disemboweled cow..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

A look back at 2004

"...back at 2004, it was a crazy year with snow falling along the coast and pagan rock calendars being..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters at 3AM

Begging the Question

"...illustration by Jason Stout Young poets are beg- gars, begging the..."

April 2, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

How to Deter a Robber ... Politely

Writer/director Maria Bissell welcomes you to Wisconsin

"...older homes in rural areas, the house had been built onto and grown over the decades, and the trap..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Andrea Heimer: "Folk and Dagger"

In these narrative paintings, the complex human interactions of suburbia depicted are so strange and yet so familiar

"...that environment, evoking with precision and vibrancy both the human-built and the unfabricated world, is one way an artist..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Great World of Sound

David Wingo's success scoring film fuels his band Ola Podrida

"...Green's 2000 debut feature, George Washington, with original music by Wingo and fellow Austinite Michael Linnen (see "The Chord..."

May 24, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Food-o-File

Just Austin being Austin

"...new blood. The enthusiastic sponsorship of Saveur magazine demonstrated by Editor Colman Andrews (plus the attendance of 22 staff..."

April 11, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Carson McHone: Still Life, Still Alive

Potent Austin songwriter, now married and living in Canada, explores themes of attachment and longing, uncertainty and loss on new album

"...arrived back in Austin to the news that South by Southwest had been canceled. Like many who could, the..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Realms of Inspiration

Erik Hokkanen, Finnish and fiddling in Austin

"...babushka-wearing grandmothers, oddly painted furniture, and dumpling-cheeked tots in snowy backgrounds, looked decidedly, well ... Russian, Scandinavian. In a..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Nature news, scenic drive routes, and events all over Texas

"...the historic Mason County Courthouse building is nearing completion. Built in 1909, the two-story hall of justice was nearly..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Justin G. Dyck Would Do Anything for Jackson

Christmas romance movie maker delivers this year's chilliest horror

"...the soul of their dead grandson into her unborn baby's body. Isn't that what any doting grandparent would do?..."

Dec. 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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