Snapshot: Side Project Sundays at Kitty Cohen’s

Don’t call it a sidepiece – these artists are pouring a lot of creativity and energy into their second and third bands

"...of us have both at this point," says Tiffany Harelik, local author/publisher who, alongside Austin-bred photographer Letitia Smith, co-founded..."

April 27, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

The Clouds Are Ghosts

"...The Clouds Are Ghosts..."

March 12, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Chronolog Radio (Feb. 17)

Just an old-fashioned love song

"...6) The Clouds Are Ghosts, “Marionettes” (The Clouds Are Ghosts, 2014)..."

Feb. 17, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Clouds Are Ghosts

Rock Box

"...The Clouds Are GhostsHarbinger..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

SXSW Music List No. 9

Spoon, Atmosphere, Charles Bradley, and 243 more added

"...of the puzzle – remembering that the biggest names are always revealed last...."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Clouds Are Ghosts

"...The Clouds Are GhostsFractures..."

April 25, 2014 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Free Week Speed Dating

"...Jim James comparisons. The synthesized melodrama of fivepiece the Clouds Are Ghosts inhabited similar New Age territory but proved..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Gay Place

This year's Top 10 local queer heroes & LGBTQ stories

"...house burn down. From Monica Loera's death to the nightmare that was our presidential election (and all the shit..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Playback: Lovers Rock

Announcing the Austin Music Awards and more Valentine's Day mash notes

"...until after a year or so, but we were aware of each other's music years before that...."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Personal Shopper

A ghost story exploring the ineffable

"...of its proceedings. Many aspects of writer/director Assayas’ story are open-ended, and demand that the viewer suss out their..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Strawberry Fields Forever

Future Clouds & Radar float to the magical kingdom of … Peoria?

"...taps into similar dimensions as the leader of Future Clouds & Radar. The local quartet, completed by bassist Josh..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Naked City

Throughout the five-week trial of the Branch Davidians' case against the federal government inWaco, the ghosts of 84 people killed at Mount Carmel haunted the courtroom.

"...the four-week Branch Davidian trial in Waco, there were ghosts. The last one was heard from on the afternoon..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Think film festivals are all about dour, arty indie pics? Yeah, that’s not..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Where the Wild Things Roamed: Visiting "The Misfits" Shooting Set

Savlov visits the set of John Huston's "The Misfits"

"...down to flat patches of silty playa. All around are the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and above that,..."

June 28, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Universal Talent

From 1961 to 1992, Julioeloy Mesa worked in the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Industry and Art, making movie posters that earned international awards, exhibitions in museums, and even a permanent collection in the Library of Congress. Though he now lives comfortably in Austin, Texas, Mesa's artistic struggle continues.

"...It is rare to have talent endorsed by a government, rare for..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Silver Lining

The Octopus Project's Avalanche instrumentalism

"...is like walking into a Tim Burton film. Amplifiers are disguised as ghostly creatures, the black walls are lined..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...Contreras, whose 2022 memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...and Dennis Widmyer (the duo behind satanic Hollywood starlet nightmare Starry Eyes), this new version of the King classic..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Gift of Words

Corrido

"...Take all the lingering ghosts and graying sages out of the American desert, and..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature

Top 10 Shows in 2003 That Shed Light in a Dark Year

"...The choreographer set this site-specific work in a cavernous warehouse space, close and sweltering in the summer heat, but..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Growth Spurt

Nine Shows That Transported Me

"...citizens of Tuna and what it's given them. Their farewell gesture -- changing costumes onstage for the first time..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

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

"...with pastels, drenching four-part harmonies and hazy guitars in clouds of reverb. Imagine a softer Midlake. Led by former..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Page Two: Nightmares on Main Street

New media, same old story

"...stridency, one can buy into the ever swifter tornado clouds of cataclysm: end of days, death of the republic,..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by Louis Black

"Splitting Aguas: The Eighth Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition"

Throughout "Splitting Aguas," Mexic-Arte's eighth annual showing of works by young Latino artists, there's a sense of our planet being trashed, but the show is far from a downer, as its featured artists boast a fierceness of voice that is invigorating and a wit that is refreshing.

"...Aragón, which, with their bright, shining sun and fluffy clouds and cutely rendered chickies, duckies, puppies, and kitties, might..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...Ladies of a certain age are no doubt squealing about Wild Flag, the "supergroup" of..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Night Visions

Director Alison Maclean and author Denis Johnson on Jesus' Son, a soulful, darkly comic take on life and death as a junkie

"...Consider that the rain isn't letting up, and you are somewhere in that dark, silent space between yesterday and..."

July 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Sxsw

"...better? Look, just calm down. So what if there are over 700 bands playing this year's South by Southwest..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature