Magic Lantern Shines a Light on British Christmas Ghost Stories

Hang with the spirits of Christmas past

"...winds whispering around the doors the funereal grays of cloud and mist strain out the world beyond. What could..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright

With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment

"...from the blue depth of his fixed eyes. The cloud of piranha-like mosquitoes gulping my blood in the thick..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...naive Tore attempts to find some redemption among the cloud of teen hormones, and Benno seems perpetually on the..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Q&A Hole: What's the Best Thing They Got for Christmas?

And what's the best thing they gave? Nine citizens answer.

"...of "Holly Jolly Christmas" while high as a stratocumulus cloud made of morphine. So I tend to avoid shopping..."

Jan. 1, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...graphic-novel firmament, the brightest stars (although often with the darkest lights) were Daniel Clowes' Wilson (Drawn & Quarterly); Chris..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Man With Two Brains

Ghostland Observatory pulls back the curtain

"...The room is sparely lit, an acoustic dream in dark wood and black trim, designed to specifications by Austin..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

BPness, Part 2: A (Long) Line (of Boom) in the Sand

Notes from Kate's trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 2.

"...air-quality checks. They haven't revealed much. There is no cloud of gas odor – just fish...."

June 25, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Monument Cafe

Georgetown's Monument Cafe is a living testament to the classic roadside diner cooking of a bygone era

"...space boasts classic retro diner styling with accents of dark wood and chrome, Art Deco light fixtures alternating with..."

April 23, 2010 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Everyday Magic

Lee Barber returns to that place you go to find a song

"...know, you take a pencil and you make a dark line, then you make a light line, and together..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar Grinches about the crappy Christmas decorations on Congress Avenue and relates to one Nomi Malone

"...valiantly to tame her thin, damaged tresses into a cloud of curls. But while Know-Me gets to ascend from..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Ashes, Ashes

In UT's staging of this postapocalyptic fairy tale, we can't help be sucked into the magic of the infinite hole

"...to life in such a way that it's as dark (literally) as it is enchanting with sooty imagination...."

Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

How to Make a Piñata

Honorable mention

"...pearl earrings. Some Virginia Wolff, some Nina Simone, some dark chocolate. Here's the recipe for seven minute icing. This..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Jenny Browne

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...than Moe Tucker. The 2-CD I'm Your Girl on Dark Beloved Cloud, reveals plenty. (Opal Divine's, 11pm) -- Kate..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Denying Marisol

Third Place

"...the side of her leg, the silhouette of her dark head, the angle of her square nose, the coral..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Nancy Moser

Breaking Out

"I wanted to write a prison movie, and it felt like the Retail Rodeo was the perfect place to set it," says screenwriter and actor Mike White of his new film, The Good Girl.

"...If The Good Girl plays out under a black cloud, then the silver lining is the film's black comic..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Night Visions

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

"...isn't letting up, and you are somewhere in that dark, silent space between yesterday and tomorrow, between where you..."

July 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

At Home in the Outpost

R.O.'s Outpost, 17 miles west of Austin in the Hill Country, serves the kind of food, reviewer Mick Vann reports, that "the old folks grew up on, and the kind rarely found these days in our modern, fast-food, a-go-go world."

"...of pork loin, slow-simmered, Southern-style green beans, Cajuniferous and dark red beans, and blissfully spicy black-eyed peas with chunks..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...with the microbiotic world of the microorganism. It's a dark, mysterious world inhabited by bacteria, the toxins they produce,..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...decades. Onstage, she burns like a cigarette in the dark and her fiery intensity can be eerily bone-rattling. (Antone's,..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Robyn Hitchcock's Moving Pictures

Jonathan Demme Films Storefront Hitchcock

"...I firmly believe in keeping one foot in the darkness at all times...."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

It Came From Corsicana

Mrs. Telling Meets Mrs. Not Telling

"...designer friend -- with a wild, witchy, even primal, cloud of dark hair, and this combination resonates in the..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Saloon Sessions, Rock Legends, and Americana in-Between: Luck Reunion’s Laidback Reprisal

Waxahatchee, Lucinda Williams, and more at Willie’s ranch

"...set with an acoustic cover of Jason Molina’s “The Dark Don’t Hide It,” before reprising the song on the..."

March 17, 2025 Music Post by Caroline Drew

Theatre Review: The Filigree Theatre’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Factory on 5th production revels in the morally gray

"...exceptions to that rule. Take the Filigree Theatre’s deep, dark version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a gruesome,..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Art, Theatre, Film, and More Events for the Weekend

Take a peek at our recommended events

"...bay by offering not doorbuster deals but the cold dark comforts of heavy metal. That’s right: All Friday they’ll..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

S.L. Houser, TsuShiMaMiRe, and More Crucial Concerts

Plus country jams, doom metal, and a jazz tag team

"...Friday 11, Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Mini Music Fests Abound in This Week's Crucial Concerts

Country, hip-hop, pop, and more shows worth the cover

"...Riverside’s Come & Take It, continue their exploration of cloud rap and nu-metalcore – reenvisioning early Slipknot and Korn..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Aubrey Hays, Rod Gator, and the Bright Light Social Hour headline our recommended shows

"...Mississippi Gulf Coast-born Aubrey Hays howls a torrential cloudburst in 2021 single "Statue," backed by the screams of..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Music Column by Angela Lim

Residential Address: Jenny Parrott's Cozy Nest of Songs and Stories at Hole in the Wall

The Austin folk experimentalist offers a free-entry Friday time portal

"...like "Layin'" – which felt like a soft, red cloud of doo-wop thrown up against a dark, country-guitar skyline..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

You Deserve an Escape This Year, to Hotel ZaZa

Because you've totally earned this level of comfort

"...the bed, wow, was it some kind of nanotech-enabled cloud that was scientifically formulated for perfect sleeping? Because that’s..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Districts Set the Stage for the Politics of the 2020s

The city and state begin to show their work

"...to your attention the miraculous execution of the gerrymandering dark arts crafted by Senate Redistricting Chair Joan Huffman, R-Houston,..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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