Psych, Blues, and Conjunto Festivals Headline Our Crucial Concerts

This week's recommended live offerings

"...Friday 25, Radio/East..."

April 25, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...year’s opening night title: Now Charli XCX closes the six-day celebration of cinema with her digital quest to make..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel

"...faces on Mount Rushmore. One of two presidents whose birthday has traditionally been celebrated as a national holiday. The..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Balloon

Astounding true story of an airborne Cold War escape

"...Germany in a home-made balloon that they had constructed day by day, buying parts and cloth where they could,..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

In Memoriam

Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

"...Driskill to spend the night. He showed up a day later, drunk and broke...."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature

Open Letter to Vanessa Leggett

We're all in trouble, along with Vanessa Leggett, if the governement begins defining who is and who is not a true journalist.

"...material for a book on the 1997 murder of Doris Angelton of Houston, the wife of Robert Angelton, whom..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

No Mercy

The case of James Allridge raises familiar questions about the Texas justice system

"...a writer who got up and preached in church," Doris Clendennen told the Associated Press. "But he never got..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Call Me Brother

Austin-made incest comedy is more Dogtooth than American Pie

"...on his matter-of-fact deadpan delivery, and his new wife, Doris (Uribe), is a tad too sweet and genuine for..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Letters at 3AM: Snyder 'R' Us

Despite the illusion of autonomy, we have been colonized by the Oligarchy

"...In The Four-Gated City, Doris Lessing wrote: "In any situation anywhere there is always..."

June 13, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...of official heterosexual hysteria, the Texas House voted 81-58 Tuesday to prohibit gay people from serving as foster parents,..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Hightower's Hoedown

Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour kicks off in Austin.

"...Promised an all-day county fair of music, fun, and platitude-free progressive politics..."

March 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Pearl Harbor

"...the point that December 7, 1941, was a terrible day not only for the servicemen and women directly involved,..."

May 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Old Hollywood Tales

"...home, and it's a royal pain. I now have daytime hours that are foreign to me. I get to..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Live Shots

"...25th Kerrville Folk Festival was going to run 25 days, I was one who predicted disaster. The normal 18..."

June 28, 1996 Music Feature

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page

Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro

"...“Toni Morrison and my father were very, very close. Doris Lessing would come and stay with us several times..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet

In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love

"...Jeanine Tesori and lyricist/book writer Brian Crawley based on Doris Betts' short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim," Violet is a..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...your band if you'll have us." The show airs Sunday night on mtvU. Earl's Future..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

A Closing Credit for The Alamo at 409 Colorado

June 27

"...but so much less treacherous than, say, one of Doris Wishman's bad girls gone worse. There was food. There..."

June 22, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• The City Council has a long agenda today (Thursday), including the return of the Dreaded Champions' Zoning..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...choices (yes, even the food choices) we make every day, I told the audience, quoting the work of Charles..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...when Suzanne's boss asks her to work during their holiday road trip in Sri Lanka. Cast: Sathya Sridharan, Anastasia..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...this year's South by Southwest Film Festival lineup, released today...."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...Ray Campi wrote his first song on the last day of 1949 and left Austin at the end of..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Madeleine Leigh, HONK TX, and Eclipse Mania Leads Our Crucial Concerts

Find some sounds to match the celestial sights this week

"...Thursday 4 - Sunday 7, various locations..."

April 5, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Luv Doc: Gracious Acceptance

The Luv Doc postulates on why 69 was invented

"...active and satisfying sex life. We're currently on a six-day streak, and just before that we were on a..."

June 2, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Something to Live For

"...middle of what he would later call his sinful days. "At that time," he wrote, "I was a jazz..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Public Notice

Little Toots & Twangs

"...for us to invest in the kid musicians of today -- brimming with drive, yet struggling for resources...."

July 5, 1996 Column by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...They're just part of today's list of films added to the Festival schedule (running..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...student at the University of Houston, saw JFK the day before he went to Dallas...."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Two Guys Walk Into a Bar

Lou Perryman and Sonny Carl Davis drink, dish

"...of the pending DVD release (from Watchmaker Films) and Friday night's Alamo Ritz premiere of the restored and remastered..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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