Joan Jett & the Blackhearts/Rick Springfield/George Jones/Devo

"...a keyboardist, but at least one quartet of discerning backstage meet-and-greeters came to know the hat-and-scarf-wearing gentleman plinking at..."

April 1, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Wednesday Showcases

Stay planted on Wednesday night with whole showcases

"...on the ass of its post-thrash Poseidon, a pirate rampage from August. The quartet's third disc pegs its dirty/clean..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Interview: Chamillionaire

SXSW panels

"...effective way to get your voice heard in a Digital Age where "every dope dealer in the country's also..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: Expiation Day

If apologies are in order, the line forms here

"...couple of year-old, private e-mail insults to the city manager and other officials (see "City Council E-Mails Prompt Ethics..."

March 11, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Will Blog for Food

New stories – and problems – arise as foodie blogs proliferate

"...of cookbook marginalia and adaptations into the era of digital writing. Online social networking has also generated the phenomenon..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Sturgeon's Revelation

Beating the music business odds at SXSW

"...traverse as the music industry delves further into the Digital Age...."

March 4, 2011 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

When the New Thing Is Old News Already

Call it Murphy's nth Law of Computing: 'Any given program, when running, is obsolete'

"...an outsider, the American dependence on checks – for wages, for shopping, for rent – is alien and antiquated...."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Some (Re)Assembly Required

From mapping to extrapolating, recontextualizing the data we've been given

"...Increasing food shortages. Rising commodity prices. Tightening rare earth exports. Signs everywhere..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager with autism, confronting her child’s future. What will sustain..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Press Forward

Two exhibitions capture printmaking's experimental drive

"...that form's progress through experimentation with chemicals for developing images and changes in equipment, "Repartee" and "Advancing Tradition" reveal..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vinyl Ashes

A gray vinyl 7-inch with your exit songs?

"...largely why the song rules in the first place. Page's last little noodle at the end is so haunting..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Albums³

"...At the dawn of the CD-box-set age more than two decades ago, Dylan, Clapton, and the..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

There's a New Uncle in Town

Harry Knowles wants to reinvent Famous Monsters of Filmland for the digital generation

"...preview for a cool new movie – The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in something called Dynamation! And in color!..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sounding Off

Austin audio production firm the Production Block closes up shop after 35 years

"...to do a little less shaking hands with insurance agents," he explained...."

Dec. 17, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Adventures with Charlie (Faye) and Up Close with Eric Johnson

"...five years, Up Close, a more personal collection of space-age Texas blues and progressive clairvoyance, a small step removed..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

See Reverse Side for Title: Part I

If English first-wavers had trouble getting ahold of American roots music, Americans themselves weren't much better off, piecemealing together the foundations of today's national scene

"...near completely free-form essay held together by the most meager of conceits: the most important and influential bands from..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Wide-Angle Lens

The Ransom Center captures photography's history with striking breadth and focus

"...million prints and negatives, including that groundbreaking first photographic image by Joseph Niépce and the whole of the Magnum..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Sign of the Times: Emo's partners with Antone's as the Cactus Cafe's iconic years draw to a close and Daytrotter moves to town

"...the Fifth Street venue will be overseen by Emo's managers Jason Sabala and Bill Corsello, while booker Kevin Hoskins..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Gizmometry

Riding the circuit with Austin's mutant noisemakers

"...The door to Salvage Vanguard Theater opens, and out spills a whirl of..."

July 9, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Rise & Fall of EMI Records

The Stones for the Sex Pistols? No wonder EMI missed the digital revolution.

"...the record industry, EMI stumbled backward blindly into the Digital Age and has yet to recover, packaging and repacking..."

June 11, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

No Failure to Communicate

Caroline Koebel grew up without TV. She's been pursuing flickering images ever since.

"...and incendiary "All the House (Haditha Massacre)," collide wartime reportage and human outrage and create both a searing critique..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Work in Progress

How technology is shaping the way we tell stories

"...Us Stupid?" Even Douglas Rushkoff, an early evangelist for digital culture, asked "whether or not we are tinkering with..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Independent Lens airs The Eyes of Me, a documentary look at four students enrolled at the Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired

"...of Me as "an extraordinary look at four blind teenagers," but it is the teenagers featured in this film..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Media Watch: The Rag in the Modern World

Olde Austin Ragsters revive in a digital age

"...given day, a Rag post might pingpong through the digital atmosphere, creating the type of traffic the kids of..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Zombie Girl: The Movie

This is a "making of" documentary about the 2005 filming of the zombie film Pathogen, made by then-12-year-old Austinite Emily Hagins.

"...Austin resident Emily Hagins who, in 2005 at the age of 12, made her first feature film, a zombie..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Body as Canvas, Readying for Life in a Kill Zone

AFS Documentary Tour presents Tattooed Under Fire

"...the significance of the tattooing is. I mean, they're sages in their own way. So they opened their doors..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

The good, the bad, and the ugly: a look back at the year in Austin music

"...change to 93.3FM, which cleared the way for new Spanish-language station La Z on 107.1FM, cut several Austin areas..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Saturday

Punk, hardcore, hip-hop, oh my!

"...1:05pm, Black Stage..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Feature

Mothers of Reinvention

White Denim's Fits of maximum R&B

"...a gap in the tree line. From such a vantage point, a smaller, 27-foot mobile home can be seen..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

I Can Watch What Where?

Finding films for cheap on the Internet

"...knows traditional distribution models have gone haywire in the Digital Age. Festival films such as Mary and Max are..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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