Circumstance

This Iranian film about two girls who begin a secret relationship is as much a political statement as it is a love story.

"...teenagers in heat. Tehran's a tough town to be young and in love in; it's made even more fraught..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

At the Corner of Starlight and Springtime

R.I.P. Ellie Greenwich

"...Ellie Greenwich died last week. Hers was a passing that received enough..."

Aug. 31, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Lemon Tree

This moving Israeli film tells the fraught story of a Palestinian widow whose lemon grove is threatened when the country's defense minister moves next door.

"...– her husband, seeking work outside of the country, died of a "weak heart" years before – and it..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tom Dowd & the Language of Music

Dowd recorded and engineered the legendary Atlantic sound. He recorded and engineered Bird, Coltrane, Aretha, and Skynyrd. Introduced Allman to Clapton. Standardized 8-track recording. Oh, and he helped make the atomic bomb.

"...Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler scouted talent, Dowd, a young physics student straight out of the university, recorded it..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Innocence

"...both pushing 70 and look nothing like the starry-eyed young lovers we have become accustomed to seeing in the..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Extreme Days

"...director Eric Hannah's unforgivably tedious tale of four fresh-faced young corporate drones-to-be who embark on one last, crazy summer..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Kid

"...Levitch and Lauren Eckstrom. Joseph Mazzello, an uncommonly good young actor (Jurassic Park, The River Wild), stars in this..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

"...Tom Peters walked into the shop today -- he died in 1991 -- he could go right back to..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Faster Than Sound: Contextualizing Broken Spoke Owner James White

Honky-tonky lifer died of congestive heart failure at age 81

"...White died last Sunday, Jan. 24, due to congestive heart failure...."

Jan. 29, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mickey and the Bear

Life on the front line of the opioid crisis

"...companion. (Although it’s never expressly mentioned, apparently her mother died young, of cancer, another victim of the toxic legacy..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Maps to the Stars

David Cronenberg's film, with a script by Bruce Wagner, is a darkly humorous moral fable aimed at Hollywood.

"...the game. The daughter of a movie star who died young (in a fire, natch), Havana is jockeying for..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Twelve Tales from A.J. Croce

‘I’m proud of my father for mak[ing] people’s world a better place’

"...Croce (“Time in a Bottle,” “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown”) died in a 1973 plane crash when he was 2,..."

July 3, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal

Josh Hancock, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dead at 29

"...there is where we head our separate ways. Hancock died at about 12:30 Sunday morning in an auto accident..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Like a Hurricane

Jim Jarmusch + Neil Young + Crazy Horse

"...Jim Jarmusch (l) and Neil Young Two months have passed since this interview with Jim..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

ATX Conjunto Constant Chencho Flores Dies at 91

Accordionist bridged decades of music on Sixth Street

"...who performed all over Austin beginning in the Forties, died Sunday, Jan. 10, at the age of 91. Friends..."

Jan. 13, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Interview: Cheetah Chrome

Dead Boys guitarist releases first solo studio disc

"...American punk legend. Dubbed by Rolling Stone’s Charles M. Young as “the angriest-looking humanoid this side of Johnny Rotten,”..."

March 15, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Here We Go Yet Again

Michael Ventura revisits his "Letters at 3am" Columbine column

"...Nineteen years ago – May 28, 1999 – the..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Chronolog Post by Michael Ventura

Better Git It in Your Soul

Why listen to jazz's greatest bassist Charles Mingus today? The Creative Opportunity Orchestra's monthlong Mingus Among Us series has answers.

"...compositions of Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. As a young man, he studied classical bass with Herman Rheinschagen, learned..."

June 16, 2006 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

In Memoriam: Rodolfo Mendez

Remembering the founder of Ballet East Dance Theatre

"...East Dance Theatre and its guiding light since 1978, died Sunday evening, May 5. He was 74...."

May 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Never-Ending Conversation

AIDS activist, Cleve Jones leads this year's AIDS Walk

"...by 1985 in San Francisco alone, 1,000 people had died from AIDS...."

Oct. 18, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Back to Babs

Barbara Lynn at Antone's tonight

"...music that I still do. Also, some of the younger music, pop music like Elvis. In fact, I recorded..."

July 29, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Hostage

Bruce Willis is called back to active crime-fighting duty in this new thriller.

"...is no different. The crime is a doozy: Three young thugs take a rich family on the hillside hostage..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

"...mix to make it their own. Lord knows what young ears who stumble across these newly sprung secrets may..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

One Dead, 13 Injured, Two in Custody After Weekend Shooting

Douglas Kantor, a 25-year-old tourist visiting Austin from the Detroit area, died Sunday

"...a 25-year-old tourist visiting Austin from the Detroit area, died Sunday, June 13, after being shot along with 14*..."

June 18, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

“We Were Very, Very Lucky”

City bids farewell to political and literal father Gus Garcia

"...Gus Garcia, former mayor and longtime public servant, who died last month at the age of 84. Dozens of..."

Jan. 7, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Ernie Kovacs

Breaking the fourth wall with the legendary comedian

"...over, I'll drive/ Is this the way Ernie Kovacs died?/ Bend over, I'll drive" – The Cramps..."

May 12, 2017 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

10 Minutes with the Alvin Brothers

How a near-death experience became a Big Bill Broonzy tribute

"...while touring with the Blasters in Spain, Phil Alvin died and was brought back to life. Dave Alvin co-fronted..."

Aug. 7, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Motherland

"...are mentored by their homestay hostess, Hazel, whose daughter died in the 1990s. "God has a way of soothing..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

A Poem for Raúl

A poem for Raúl Salinas by Erika Gonzalez.

"...that grew among cemented floors and walls – that died each day only to be reborn – turtle coming..."

Feb. 24, 2008 News Post by Belinda Acosta

Song of America

"...an abducted settler white woman, and Chief Noconas, the young warrior led the Kwahadi Comanche in treacherous attacks against..."

Dec. 27, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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