Bedside Manner: Got Opium?

Getting High and Low with Steven Martin, Nick Tosches, et al

"...to China." -- Emily Hahn, "The Big Smoke," The New Yorker, February 15, 1969...."

July 23, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Koko’s Suspension, El Naranjo’s Lamb Jam Win, Sushi Bar’s Guest Chefs, Uchibā and Yamas and Carve are On the Way, Bouldin Creek Dances a Foxtrot, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...what's happening in Austin's culinary scene – as wrangled from numerous PR releases, words on the digital street, and..."

June 7, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Verde Report: “The Show Goes On” as Austin FC Continues Magical Run to West Final

The Verde and Black are two wins away from the MLS Cup

"...It's serious now. Austin FC is two wins away from lifting the MLS Cup. A thought that would've been..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Travel news a year into the pandemic

"...the COVID-19 pandemic. Traveling is tough, but we’ve learned new protocols and become cautiously optimistic about venturing out again...."

March 5, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Are Kids These Days Bringing OOB the Laughter for Love’s Sake?

What dire agenda, we wonder, lurks beneath their odd & infectious joy?

"...talent coming to Austin's Out of Bounds Comedy Festival from all over the country this year. So many troupes..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Central Market + Maffei: Better Than a Halftime Show

We review the recent Chef’s Table class at the popular cooking school

"...can’t be Maffei. That’s gotta be, like, some linebacker escaped from a nearby gridiron.”..."

Jan. 24, 2018 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Stream Analysis

Dispatches from the couch

"...There's no avoiding this New World Order (no, not that one). Film distribution is..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Carolyn Cohagan's Time Zero

With her new YA novel and her program Girls With Pens, the Austin author promotes literacy as girl power

"...While researching her new science-fiction novel, Time Zero, Carolyn Cohagan discovered her passion..."

May 20, 2016 Arts Feature by Michael Berry

Rocky, Rambo and Rhinestones With Sly Stallone

Drafthouse chasing chickens for the Italian Stallion next month

"...and director, whose four decade long career has stretched from 70s social consciousness movies to searing portrayals of aging..."

Aug. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Penfold Theatre's Interactive Show The Control Group Lets You Fix the Future

The sci-fi drama by phone calls on you to correct a crisis in the time stream

"...Iliad, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and their holiday broadcasts from the Golden Age of Radio, among others – so..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019

Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer

"...– might we say – it’s looking v queer from over here...."

March 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

47 Nonstop, Unsleeping, Possibly Hallucinatory Hours of Improv This Weekend

The Hideout is doing that wild thing they do every year

"...that the action is nonstop, with so many troupes from the Hideout and all the other Austin improv venues..."

June 16, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: If There Be Thorns

Dear Lifetime, we need to talk

"...Oh, Lifetime. You have become my Moby Dick. From hell's heart I stab at thee, and yet here..."

July 15, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Japanese Madness Overtakes Fantastic Fest

Miike, Sono, and Studio Ghibli all added to lineup

"...The latest from Studio Ghibli, insanity from cult directors Takashi Miike and..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

First Authors Announced for Texas Book Festival

Marquee names run the gamut from Amis to Ziggy

"...the book world: fiction to nonfiction, local to international, new authors to old favorites – all that in just..."

July 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Sportswriter Michael Hurd Is a Cheesecake Genius

Sports and history are his beat, cheesecakes are his passion

"...Hurd’s love affair with cheesecakes began with a challenge from an Air Force co-worker in 1968. “Everyone was talking..."

March 22, 2013 Food Post by Angela Shelf Medearis

The State of Utopia

Karen Valby’s dispatches from a small Texas town

"...writing about a small American town, one relatively remote from the obsessive universe of popular culture. "I guess they..."

May 28, 2010 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

TV Eye

How to escape turkey afterburn and family overkill

"...why it's great that some thoughtful Hollywood executive, surely from a nutty family like mine, came up with the..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Red River Clubs Grapple With Downtown Homelessness

Beggars, hustlers, and dealers make you wonder how Downtown music keeps from going under

"...I pass to reveal a stalactite of snot dangling from his wet nose...."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...unveils its 2013 lineup, and guess what: A whole new batch of Austinites’ films will make their world premiere..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...planning now – you’ve got 108 features to choose from, not to mention a whole host of shorts and..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Final SXSW List: No. 10

Nas, Vince Staples, Lucius, and 198 more

"...Many notables listed on the final cull pull from the vast and varied world of hip-hop: cuddly producer..."

March 4, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Out of the Shadows

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

"...Jon Dee Graham, discussion spurred on by Graham's stunning new solo album, Escape From Monster Island. Graham says there..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Big Sweet Life

"...left Jon Dee Graham, he had just made his Escape From Monster Island, a critically lauded solo debut from..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...archives in June and July to see original material from Taxi Driver and A Streetcar Named Desire at the..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...in excessively tight shots that are also frequently filmed from curiously low angles. The overall effect is quite unsettling...."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Happy Trails to You

Writer-director Jill Sprecher journeys toward enlightenment in "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing"

"...her younger sister Karen co-wrote the indie feature, drawing from their own personal experiences of tedious temp. work and..."

July 5, 2002 Screens Feature by Piet Levy

Expectations of Future Growth

Third Time Lucky?

"...between touring and recording, Schlesinger scheduled four sessions in New York with Hentges, who along with bassist/songwriter Jude O'Nym,..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Fall Film Previews

September

"...The title has been abbreviated from The Chambermaid on the Titanic, though this French film..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

The Last Seduction

"...intent on her own agenda. Bridget shares a too-small New York apartment with her husband Clay (Pullman), a young..."

Nov. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

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