Playback: Sound on Sound Gets Medieval

Sound on Sound’s über headliner: 23 acres of Sherwood Forest

"...While the lineup unfolds typically varied, including "Playback" favorites Death Grips, Protomartyr, Thundercat, Fidlar, Big Boi, and Carcass, the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Blxpltn Streams New York Fascist Week

Austin electro-punk duo unloads second LP

"...by ...Trail of Dead bassist Autry Fulbright and Ringo Deathstarr singer/guitarist Elliott Frazier, diversifies Blxpltn’s stylistic profile. “How Many..."

Oct. 31, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sound on Sound Fest’s Renaissance

Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Death Grips get medieval

"...Purity Ring, Australian songstress Courtney Barnett, explosive noise trio Death Grips, and ATL rapper Young Thug...."

June 28, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest 8

Fun Fun Fun Fest finally arrives

"...the lineup in July, FFF8 has weathered cancellations including Death Grips, Big K.R.I.T., Action Bronson, and Mykki Blanco, adding..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fun Fun Fun Fest Lineup Revealed

November 8-10 festival washes 86 acts onto Auditorium Shores

"...Slayer, FLAG, Descendents, Quicksand, Death Grips, Judge, the Locust, Subhumans, Gojira, the Impossibles, Body..."

July 9, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Austen, Say Hello to Austin

Three local authors toast Jane Austen at BookPeople today

"...200 years, but she's still got us in her grips. Three Austin authors gather at BookPeople today for afternoon..."

May 19, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Fun Fun Fun Line-up

Danzig Legacy and Donald Glover join Slayer, Odd Future

"...Society Total Control (Member of Eddie Current Suppression Ring) Death Grips Touche Amore Defeater Mind Spiders OBN III Shapes..."

Aug. 1, 2011 Music Post

You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.

"...Callar) has hidden that vision of Wolverine, that conflicted death dealer, within a grimy, gritty crime drama that sears..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Elizabeth Crook’s The Which Way Tree

Chasing revenge on the Texas frontier in this remarkable new novel from the author of Monday, Monday

"...That's one way Elizabeth Crook grips you in her latest novel: pitting vulnerable humans against..."

March 9, 2018 Books Review by Robert Faires

Shaun of the Dead

This "romantic comedy … with zombies" has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death.

"...matching Wright’s note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death. North London ne’er-do-well Shaun (Pegg) has just been dumped..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Mueller Will Gentrify

"...For Charles Rector, only lifetime, not death...."

March 5, 1999 Column

Dark City

Stunning visuals highlight this story in which a city's inhabitants are the victims of some cosmic experiment being conducted by a race of aliens.

"...much of the intervening time trying to come to grips with the tragic on-set death of that film's star,..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ondine on Edie, On Warhol, on Ondine

A 'Chronicle' reprint

"...appropriate that she has become a bigger star in death than in her life. In the wake of this..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mental Health Care Meltdown

The mental health care system for Austin and Travis County is increasingly overwhelmed, with no relief in sight.

"...Hampton can't comment directly on the June 11 shooting death of Sophia King by APD officer John Coffey. They..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

One More for Her

Dale Watson turns his grief into an album.

"...Song. It's purely about someone trying to come to grips with a horrific tragedy, and it's painful to hear..."

July 27, 2001 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Gross In

Is any writer in Austin as revolting and entertaining as Andrew Hilbert?

"...not some hateful person, but a person coming to grips with a present he can't change and a past..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by François Pointeau

Personal Effects

"...Ordinary Paradise is an account of her mother's early death from ovarian cancer and its emotional aftermath. Not only..."

April 16, 1999 Books Feature by Stacy Bush

What Happens to Us

First Place winner

"..."Let's play Death of a Salesman," she says. "We haven't played in..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessica Rutland

Dead Man Walking

The extraordinary new opera Dead Man Walking takes its audience on a journey from a place of horror and abhorrence to one of comprehension and compassion, a place where we may see the humanity of a murderer, and in Austin Lyric Opera's potent production we feel each step taken on its long and stony way.

"...yet by the time this man faces his own death by execution, a nun will say she loves him,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Michael Ventura observes the great John Cassavetes at work on the set of his next-to-last movie Love Streams.

"...he also discussed the picture with everyone from the grips to visiting Peter Bogdanovich, he also needed to hear..."

March 8, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...them to deal with issues of heroism, prejudice, and death. (Mar. 10)..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Feeding Pigeons

Toddlers have a lot of cartilage, don't they?

"...We did the Secret Santa drawing for my office..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Clint Eastwood: Good, Bad & Ugly

Hey, at least Sondra Locke didn't show up

"...Walter Kowalski, a crotchety, drunk, racist relic mourning the death of Detroit, Anglo-Saxon omnipresence, and his version of the..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...McCarthy) – As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Miss Witherspoon

This satire on reincarnation amuses but has trouble transcending its own gags

"...During life, we seek to understand death and, most pressingly, what happens after death. Many take..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Page Two: Return of the Independents

'SXSW Presents,' season three

"...should be self-explanatory. The Texas hot-button topic of the death penalty is raised in State vs. Reed...."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Exhibitionism

Salome: Under the Veils, No Heart

"...more young, toothsome flesh, until the king, in the grips of his passion, finally consents to behead the prophet...."

May 21, 1999 Arts Review

Grey Rain at Graceland

"...dead not quite dead. An odd suspension of disbelief grips me -- for hours of tapes I've forgotten who..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Texas GOP's Book Bans Are the First Step in Anti-Public Education Crusade

Banning books (for Jesus!)

"...subjected librarians and school board trustees to threats, including death threats...."

June 30, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Best Music We’ve Seen So Far at SXSW 2023

An insightful Jeff Tweedy, sunshiney Armani White, and more

"...love is dumber than you think/ Singing songs of death and doom/ With all the voices inside you.” The..."

March 14, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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