Dust to Glory

The Baja 1000, the longest off-road race in the world, is captured on film by Step Into Liquid's Dana Brown.

"...by: Dana Brown. The thrill of racing is hard to capture on film: The confines of the screen always..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mystic Western Game Jam Looks to the Stars

Local game collective Juegos Rancheros needs you to pick your favorite

"...the merciless sun, myriad stars, and endless possibilities of glory, disaster, redemption, and damnation...."

July 5, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...especially during the era celebrated in these pages, 1988 to 1995. It was the age of Dangerous Toys and..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music

Local passion projects with singular visions

"...for $20. Because such an unlikely score demands tribute to the forces of random fortune, Roper founded Attic Ted,..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...chiller Us will be this year's opening night movie, today the festival confirmed it will close with the new..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Reviews

"...Dust to Glory..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

On the Nightshift: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Keep Running

At Moody "with the white-hot light of the oncoming train”

"...“Austin, Texas! It’s my honor tonight to introduce to you a band that needs no..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Steel Wheels

Scenes from the Railroad Revival Tour

"...Tuesday’s performance at Waller and Fourth Street with a celebratory rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Train Is Bound for..."

April 27, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

A Closer Look at the Paramount Lineup

Spike Lee, Amy Heckerling to present films

"...May we direct your attention to the newly released slate for the Paramount's annual Summer..."

May 15, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

A young Texas writer who found success in Hollywood, and a new book of photographs by one of Austin's most experienced photographers.

"...anyone -- in Hollywood who would be quite eager to make a movie out of this material. Of the..."

March 16, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Longhorns Face the Horror of Leach-less Tech

In search of …

"...on in a vaguely Polish accent as we drove into the Heart of Dryness. Our goal was to find..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

When the Saints Go Marching In

"...bloated from holiday consumption that my mind has ventured into a candy-coated alternate reality? I ask because according to..."

Jan. 4, 2007 Sports Post by Robert Gabriel

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...for its 2018 event, and you can look forward to more than 280 great guests to attend, among them..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Play On!

In the backstage comedy Anton in Show Business, playwright Jane Martin wittily paints the contemporary stage as a madhouse overrun by loons and lunatics so preoccupied with money, image, and themselves that they can hardly be bothered to create art. And the State Theater Company's production takes us inside the insanity with an air of playfulness that keeps the audience primed for a good time.

"...themes and characters, real classic stuff, you know, demanding actors of range and commitment -- and the company totally..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial debut, Lost River. But now..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...critics have put their heads – and pens – together to recognize the year's most exceptional work in theatre,..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2019

"...tragedy. All hail Bong Joon-ho! 2) Long Day's Journey Into Night..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

John Prine / Bruce Springsteen

"...Devils & Dust (Columbia)..."

May 6, 2005 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...Every time Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in the late..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Devil in the Details

Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?

"...smoked, and spewed out his true feelings for professional historians. "Most historians say no one will ever know. But..."

May 17, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

Black as Your Lungs, Black as Pitch

First-Place Winner

"...I woke up as the smell and sounds seeped into my room. When I opened the door into the..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Greg Koehler

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...the boilerplate tensions accompanying the Cuban missile crisis crept into the American pop charts that it seemed as though..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...1982-83 Chronicle History: By August of 1982, Sarah Whistler had moved out..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Collective Projections

Women Make Movies

"...Debra Zimmerman "We believe that women have something special to say about women," says Debra Zimmerman, executive director of..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature

Modest Mouse

"...Eight long years since their last album, the Washington State collective's sixth LP reveals limited departure from their..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

The Cowboy Song

Thin Lizzy's 'Cowboy Song' comes alive in rodeo vet turned Red Dirt ranger Ryan Bingham

"...smoldering summer night in Marfa, the kind that seems to linger all year long. The sign outside one shotgun..."

June 5, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM

No country gets two centuries anymore. The 21st will be China's century. That's what $4-plus a gallon means, and nothing can stop it. We're heading for a modern Dust Bowl.

"...Paul Volcker, a pillar of the Establishment with access to economic information beyond our reach, wrote recently: "Circumstances seem..."

April 29, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...Jacqueline Specht photograph by Bruce Dye If 1997 put forth the question..."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Mixed Up Signals

"...Signals" ["Council Watch," Vol.17, No.30]. However, I would like to clarify several points made in the article...."

April 24, 1998 Column

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...To your average American, even if he is an aficionado,..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

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