How Austin Made DC’s Blue Beetle Fly

Director and Fantastic Fest regular Ángel Manuel Soto reveals his own secret origin

"...it without any shame that Austin is my favorite city in the U.S., and it gave me my first..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...series - Leprechaun Returns - loses all its lucky charms. That's one of several special events this year, including..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Troy

This big-budget adaptation of The Iliad tries mightily, but the end result is the sound and fury of Homer undone.

"...Pitt does indeed look godlike here, and the surfer-kid charm he first trotted out in Thelma & Louise has..."

May 14, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Fest, Eastside Kings Festival, HAAM Day, Vein.fm, Monte Warden & the Dangerous Few, and more

"...dubby sounds from around the globe. – Kevin Curtin Eastside Kings Festival Antone's/Austin Vintage Guitar Shop/12th & Chicon/Justine's, Friday 9..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Successful Fifth Year for Austin International Drag Festival

Inclusivity, respect, and fabulousness are the rules of AIDF

"...and, as put succinctly by May May Graves, numerous kings and queens “taking down the patriarchy and looking cute..."

Nov. 20, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Saskia Henn

Sxsw

"...slot? And what about the Tejano Concert at the City Coliseum that same night -- all night? Matador showcase..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...a larger crowd to see this mega-group from Mexico City making a rare appearance in Austin -- they're a..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...acclaimed solo efforts like Dead Ringer or Aceyalone's Magnificent City, RJD2 partners with fellow Ohio native Blueprint as Soul..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...PAM HART QUARTET: In a city with many wonderful jazz singers, Pam Hart is one..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...the MMF makes pit stops at two of the city's more prominent genres: rap and folk. Now-local singer-songwriter Cory..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

ACL Friday by the blurbs

"...Wheel. What's old is always new with the modern kings (and Elizabeth McQueen) of Texas swing, cowboy boots planted..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...could out-drink you then kick your ass is Slum City. Their 2002 full-length, Hot Beef Rejection, is a surly,..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...then cut Let's Kill Saturday Night (Geffen) in Music City, Robbie Fulks is the Don Rickles of the Americana..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...of hard-knocking, post-blues, soul-kicking DIY-ers, including the Ends, Slum City, the Put-Downs, Teen Cool, and kid-kicking scene faves Ignorance..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...for skipping dinner to see the show, but the capacity crowd seemed more than content to be fed on..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...top off a hearty sausage meal. --V.W. LULING Luling City Market (6)..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...Garage In the waning hours of ATX's inaugural Weird City Hip-Hop Festival last September, Queens MC Homeboy Sandman paused..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...heart of storytelling, its deceptions, lies, and our own complicity. A masterful satirist, director Luna is a good candidate..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Qmmunity: Rocky Horror at Harry’s

Director Cupcake talks putting on an all-drag production of Rocky Horror Picture Show

"...the bar’s sound and lighting system fit for the kings and queens who perform there. “[We] knew there would..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Column by James Scott

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...Sauce Festival broadcast via Facebook – performers include electro-cumbia kings Como Las Movies, Aussie-Austin rockers Go Fever, and Colombian..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...the African word meaning "the King's daughters," this female Kingston quartet plies a retro-futurist synthesis of the deepest, dreadest..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Three for the Road

Dream team scions Warren Hood and Emily Gimble add up 58 years of Austin roots

"...comes straight from the front ranks of Western swing kings Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys...."

July 12, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Gay Place: BIG QUEER WEEKEND

This cram-packed week is kinda like Austin's mini-Pride

"...Rough Riders, Whiskey Shivers, and a special performance by Kings N Things. Kick it all off with free dance..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...the reason everyone loved Broken Social Scene. – Audra SchroederKINGS OF CONVENIENCE8pm, Antone's Eirik Glambek Bøe and Erlend Øye..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...HEIRUSPECS: Falling off the same Twin City tree that's brought us a Midwest movement of garage-hop..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...at You." The Cheetahs learned well from their Motor City forebears, and their raucous, bottle-breaking performance at last year's..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Day Trips

Huntsville ... it's more than just a prison town!

"...Forest, the Indian trading post is now a grown city with a major university, the center of the state's..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...Austin. Within the cavernous expanse of one of the city's largest houses of worship, Ferk says, she was overwhelmed..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...bands like R.E.M., the Replacements, and Husker Dü became kings of an industry-tagged "alternative" genre, we could have easily..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...in delirious, deep-fried debauchery. Two LPs in and the charm shows no sign of wearing off. – Luke Winkie..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

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