Noir City Film Festival Redefines the All-American Genre

Black, white, and red all over

"...launch Muller to the heights of noir in popular culture, including several additional books and an ongoing role as..."

May 17, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Our picks from the usual onslaught of live music options

"...Globetrotters, Langston Hughes, and their younger conceptual progeny A$AP Mob, artist collective Diplomats (aka Dipset) is a Harlem institution...."

July 6, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

Council: Spring Has Sprung

A light agenda promises an early farewell

"...concerns "strategic outcomes related to economic opportunity and affordability, mobility, safety, health and environment, culture and lifelong learning, and..."

March 9, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Someone – Why Would Anyone – Vote for Trump?

With Leslie Bonnell, Arcie Cola, Lashonda Lester, Tim Doyle, and more

"...be along the lines of "hate" or "ignorance" or "mob mentality." But I've been thinking a lot over the..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Saturday SXSW Picks

"...moved to London, and assumed his rightful place as tastemaker/culture disruptor extraordinaire. Prior to such permanent jet-setting, "Pretty Flacko"..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Playback

Are Red 7 and Red Eyed Fly merging? That and whatever happened to the Strange Boys answered in this week's music news.

"...to pull the plug on Red River's renowned venue culture. Pipe down, voice of doom! New revelations suggest the..."

July 24, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Pastoral Nights & Pagan Rites

Two film series lie back and think of England

"...June, they reflect two very different sides of British culture. To Ritz booker Tommy Swenson, they are more kin..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker

This biography of the gambling, murdering Binion captures his wild character without trying to make him likable

"...detectives and other aficionados of the history of thug culture in America will feel a warm glow of assurance..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

The AggreGAYtor: July 2

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Women’s rights stay front and center as thousands mob the Capitol...."

July 2, 2013 Qmmunity Post

David Lindsay-Abaire: The Interview

The 'Good People' writer goes back to the old neighborhood

"...AC: Seems like that might be a bit of culture shock for a kid from Boston...."

May 11, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Chaos in Tejas Gets Mobb Deep

Havok and Prodigy to perform "The Infamous" and more bands added

"...celebration of all music underground has announced that NYC's Mobb Deep will be performing hardcore rap milestone The Undisputed..."

Feb. 25, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Eleven Minutes of Pleasure at the Ritz

American Genre Film Archive holding Reel One party Sunday

"...a blast. I vaguely remember a terrible Bay Area mob flick; A gorgeous lost Shaw Brothers flick; A nightmare-inducing..."

Feb. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Russian Drama Festival

Austin gets another taste of contemporary Russian drama, and so does actor Joey Hood

"...a base level, you're dealing with a completely different culture. I'm no expert now, but contemporary Russia is very..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chaos in Tejas: Damned If You Don't

Fest adds UK punk legends, plus Iceage, more

"...(Mexico) Integrity Iron Lung Kromosom (Australia) Long Knife Low Culture Lower (Denmark) Magic Circle Mammoth Grinder Manilla Road Marching..."

Jan. 10, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

'Miami Connection' Connects After 25 Years

Grandmaster Y.K. Kim reels as his 1987 flop becomes a 2012 cult

"...full of weirdness – I vaguely remember a terrible mob movie, a deeply disturbing German kids flick, and a..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame

How celebrity worship has metastasized into the defining American obsession

"...movie titans to find himself crushed by a fearsome mob of fans: "It's all – nothing! It's all a..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Thoughts on Grulke and on the Music Scene

"...if your world revolved around contemporary, or alternative, pop culture. Brent Grulke was a large part of making that..."

Aug. 15, 2012 Postmarks

Do Music Moguls Know a Secret About K-Pop?

"...stars," says Adam Ware, panel moderator and CEO of Asian-culture network Mnet. "Each band member plays a certain personality,..."

March 2, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Unschlocking the Undead

Colson Whitehead's Zone One

"...given the new zombie movement. However, Whitehead outruns the mob by making Zone One a very personal vision of..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Audra Schroeder

Saturday-Sunday SXSW Live Shots

Saturday night SXSW showcase reviews

"...that was trashed when Pol Pot erased the country's culture with his Year Zero policy. There were remnants of..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature

'Shock Corridor' and 'The Naked Kiss'

Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture

"...Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture. The filmmaker (and former newspaperman and pulp-fiction author) understood..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

Charlie Sexton and Stephen Bruton hang with the Dude, and Haunting Oboe Music's calender year

"...blasts Antone's on Sunday with Les & the Funk Mob as a benefit for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama...."

Sept. 19, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Point Austin: Meet the Republicans

The Republicans hold their convention while licking their wounds

"...In a sensible culture, parents who would keep their children ignorant of basic..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything

What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!

"..."Jungle Strut" to the bloodletting of "Soul Sacrifice," the mob's appetite was insatiable. Shimmering on the 2008 Coachella altar..."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...Michael Hall's Wild Seeds, the True Believers, and Doctors' Mob, WTR's music was rude, crude, and politically incorrect. There..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Completely Partisan Satire

"...whopping big deficit. Abortions would be handled by the mob, and the infant mortality rate would be through the..."

Oct. 4, 2007 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

"...Then excerpts of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819-1891). He says it's chaos out there!..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Looking for Las Vegas

An Austin playwright discovers Sin City by going to Louisville

"...This year: Vegas! Actually, it's an examination of American culture through scenes set in Vegas, but I'm focusing on..."

May 5, 2006 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

"...Greendale, was typically assaulted by some of the critical mob. I saw it in Toronto expecting nothing. I was..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

A Time to Cry

"...a conspiracy. JFK was shot after reputedly making the mob mad, who had helped him get elected in Illinois;..."

Nov. 8, 2004 Postmarks

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