Everybody's Fine

"...Paradiso, may seem like a sympathetic and sentimental view of old age but just as Cinema Paradiso hid a..."

June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Monte Montgomery

Texas Platter

"...Monte MontgomeryLive! at the Caravan of Dreams (TMG) The first thing to know about..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

American Independents

Shirley Clarke and Ornette Coleman's common ground

"...a commission to make a jazz film. The crux of the film, however, was not the music, but rather,..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

Mars Music store goes the way of Halley's Comet.

"...Two weeks ago, I reported that the Austin outlet of Mars Music wasn't in danger of closing, even though..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

All the Hill Country's a Stage

No matter where you are in the Hill Country, you're never too far from a theatre. From Boerne to Kerrville, Marble Falls to Uvalde, community theatres are enthusiastically serving up choruses of "76 Trombones" and Odd Couples with a Lone Star twang, as well as some theatrical surprises.

"...nearly as numerous or as celebrated as other staples of the region; nevertheless, they dot the territory in such..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

The Lost ARC

"...The story in a nutshell is this: The owners of the building had kept their tenants from expanding, which..."

April 23, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Bitten by the Bug

Trumpet Phenom Roy Hargrove

"...Leading an 11-piece band of internationally renowned musicians through a two-and-a-half month tour takes..."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Dinosaur

"...would, indeed, give voice to the prehistoric characters instead of allowing the more realistic grunts and rumbles of the..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Racing Stripes

Just as the titular zebra, Stripes, is not really a horse of a different color, this kids picture is not a movie of a different stripe.

"...Gary Bullock and Caspar Poyck. Stripes is the name of a zebra who thinks he's a horse. But just..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After the Storm

Austin's Louisiana exiles remain suspended between before and after

"...rented in New Orleans for 15 years, the bodies of two of her former neighbor's rottweilers were piled on..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Folk Alliance Featured

Events open to the public

"...@ Flamingo Cantina: Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreamsz (NYC), the Burns Sisters Band (Ithaca, N.Y.), the..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Music Feature

Levitation Live Shot: Pink Mountaintops, Ryley Walker, Christelle Bofale

East Sixth trifecta reckons the heart of psych weekend

"...be the ideal artist for Levitation, exuding the spirit of the event in its full range of contradictions and..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Natural Science

Rush

"...flickered out in Austin. It got reconfigured. Not so of the local pit stop for Rush’s 1993 capitulation Counterparts...."

April 24, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...In addition to announcing its after-dark Midnighters slate, today..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Finding God in the Gumbo

Once in the Ninth Ward and now in the Hill Country, the Smoking for Jesus Ministry serves up Real New Orleans Style fare with a side of spiritual nourishment

"...you Hurricane Katrina, decimating your entire community and way of life? The answer for one New Orleans East church..."

May 4, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...Reynolds thinks big and keeps his fingers in lots of pies. He's composed symphonies, string quartets, operas, and film..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...None of us much want to spend our leisure time contemplating..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...good book to read. We hope to inspire some of your choices with these reviews, but we hope just..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night blurbs – hip-hop Picks and slept-on Sleepers

"...Copper Gamins 6pm, Mexican American Cultural Center The pride of Mexico City, the Copper Gamins – singer/guitarist Jose Carmen..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Texas Platters

"...to revive it, not a second generation Black Crowes rip-off who so shamelessly owe their melodies, arrangements, and phrasing..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Review by Your Side

Wrapped and Ready

"..."Have yourself a bloody little Christmas." Oh, there's plenty of the regular old drama standards and entertainment for the..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...In "LOOPS: a Portrait of Caddie Life," directors M.R. Dahr and Stephen McFarland present..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by John Razook

Decade on the Vanguard

No. 10 looks like the best Salvage Vanguard birthday ever!

"...idea that you could get people under the age of 30 to go to theatre by treating plays like..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Coach's Corner

"...boarding pass with the number 122, you're shit out of luck. I know otherwise bright people who think Southwest's..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

James Michener (1907-1997)

"...Southwest Texas came to Austin to view his collection of American art on the UT campus. I sat cross-legged..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Books Feature

Stompy Jones

"...in the state's university system -- two hours south of San Francisco on the coast -- is like that:..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...my neighborhood and you'll get more than a "Taste of Honey," bub. To devotees of the Tijuana Temple, the..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review