Coffee and Cigarettes

Jim Jarmusch's new brew is lukewarm.

"...Molina, Steve Coogan, GZA, RZA, Bill Murray, Bill Rice and Taylor Mead. Jarmusch’s latest is a movie about resonance...."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

"...elegiac tone poem than an indictment of human banality and the evil that men do. Morris has long been..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Praise and Lamentation

Saying goodbye and a final thank you to Clifford Antone

"...Moan Snaking Through the Night: The Body, the Heart, and the Soul; the Man, the Club, and the Music...."

May 26, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Uncle Staple and Austin’s 13th Annual Independent Media Expo

The weekend of fannish revelry and indie-comics celebration returns

"...Marchesa location to release a weekend of fan-mobbed revelry and DIY merch and so much indie-comics-and-related-subcultural-goodness at Austin’s Millennium..."

Sept. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc Recommends: Rock and Roll at Ruta Maya

Ruta Maya, Saturday, February 7, 2004

"...Usually when a beloved Austin institution moves and sets up shop in new and shinier digs, there..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Gimme Danger

Welcome to the fun house

"...Stooges remain as iconic today as they ever were, and this Jim Jarmusch documentary is a loving, loud, and..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

RZA Sez: 'It's (Nearly) Your Birthday, Jim Jarmusch!'

Happy (almost) birthday to Jim Jarmusch, no stranger to paradise!

"...We watched Stranger Than Paradise over the weekend and ended up so engrossed in the John Lurie Experience..."

Jan. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival Review: Gimme Danger

A real cool time hanging in Iggy Pop’s fun house

"...Ann Arbor proto-punk godheads Iggy Pop and the Stooges remain as iconic today as they ever..."

Oct. 17, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Make It Work

Music to get down with

"...on Jan. 10 about the inseparable connection between music and exercise, “They’re Playing My Song. Time to Work Out.”..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Off the Record

SXSW News and Carryings-On

"...Red, White, and Woodie..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

A Few Quick Questions: Jim Jarmusch

'Coffee and Cigarettes' opens in Austin on Friday, July 23.

"...Austin Chronicle: Why an anthology film with Coffee and Cigarettes?..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Hidden Costs of Free

Is free Wi-Fi killing coffeehouse culture?

"..."Coffee. They should freeze it, you know? Fill, like, an..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Dead Don't Die

After the vampiric bite of Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch shambles through this zombie flick

"...Chloë Sevigny, Eszter Balint, Rosal Colon, RZA, Danny Glover and Carol Kane...."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From Bethlehem to Austin

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

"...ease with which I could get in a car and drive from my new South Austin home to Little..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

Hey Sailor, Pt. 2!

More of Austin's GLBTeratti welcomes you with open arms and tells you what's hot about our town

"...you will see, Austinites are scary-proud of their town. And we figured that you are getting so much "official..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature by Kate Getty

His Films, His Way

Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It

"...West Mall publicizing their festival. A guy, a student, and obviously interested in film, sidles off-course and strikes up..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...of said object, elegantly unwrapped, into your sad little hands. You know that saying "It's the thought that counts"?..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Letters @ 3AM

Every contributor to a newspaper – not least, the letter-writers and ad designers – creates an artifact precious to history

"...once upon a time my mother was a newspaperwoman, and it was only fitting that I should be a..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...never studied with him, but in such places names and faces were generally familiar to everyone. He spoke quietly,..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...The Kids dropped a mixtape last spring, Gone Fishing, and must still be waiting for a bite since their..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

A League of Their Own

"...Studio City backlot than the campus paved with espresso and daydreams depicted in his film. We have film festivals,..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Step Outside

California's Smoking Ban... Coming to a Club Near You?

"...for a New Year's Day hair of the dog. And out on the sidewalk, a few more moping about..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Picnic in a Cemetery

Food and Festivities of Dias de Los Muertos

"...Brightly-colored flowers and ribbons strewn throughout the little cemetery near the Art..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Food Feature

Love Nest

First Comes Love...

"...slips in summer into a citywide swoon. Laziness, procrastination, and most varieties of decadent behavior are broadly indulged; swimming..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Food Issue Extra Helpings: Picking

What could possibly be the reason for the way I eat?

"...taste buds had been hindered by decades of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol...."

Feb. 19, 2014 Food Post by Jordan Gass-Pooré

Don't go Home Hungry: Festival Eats Not to be Missed

"...missed, but if none of them suit your needs and you want something away from the relentless foot traffic..."

March 9, 2012 Food Feature

512 + 1

Non-native filmmaker Kevin Ford got here as fast as he could

"..."Tomorrow is a new day, and the old ways are going to die off," says..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...ran in last week's "Screens" section.) The symbols (RP) and (WP) indicate regional and world premieres. BATTLE FOR THE..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Austin Shakespeare’s Present Laughter

Lifted by wonderful performances, Austin Shakespeare's take on the Noël Coward backstage comedy is a delight to watch

"...the main job of an actor is to commit. And no one commits more fully than Garry Essendine. A..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

When Is Austin Comedy a Sure Thing?

Maybe on a Wednesday, definitely on a Saturday

"...It’s Wednesday again in Austin, Texas. And even on a Wednesday – because you are in..."

Feb. 3, 2016 Arts Post by Spencer Beghtol

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