Summer Movie Events

"...The Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...Highlights of the Midnighters slate include the world premiere of the..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Who ranks 16th among 21 industrialized nations when it comes to achievement in science?

"...The word "chicago" is derived from a Fox Indian term..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...DAMNATIONS TX: With Half Mad Moon (Sire), the Damnations TX are poised to take over the world...."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Myra Breckinridge Video stores killed the revival houses. Video and the old movie channels on..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Jared Harris, Karl Geary, Elina Lowensohn, David Lynch. From the director of the bizarre cult hit Twister comes this..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Thomas Rayfiel's Colony Girl

"...Colony Girl, an adult character says to a group of teenage girls: "You're not kids anymore. You're some grotesque..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Books Review by Martin Wilson

Lion in the Streets

In its staging of Judith Thompson's play Lion in the Streets, the tale of a ghostly girl who wanders the streets searching for her life, Kia Productions mines some deep material, with a passionate cast that takes the work to the edge -- and sometimes, unfortunately, too far over it.

"...Lion in the Streets: Something Wild Blue Theater,..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Two young men agreed to settle their differences in a way that went terribly wrong ["Justice..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Column

Letters at 3AM

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offered a metaphor for the modern age, one in which the monster is the unacknowledged dark side of the inventor or creator.

"...In 1818, a year before the birth of Queen Victoria and 10 years before Edgar..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Alejandro Escovedo

"...Alejandro EscovedoStreet Songs of Love (Fantasy)..."

July 16, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Eurydice

The best way to describe Different Stages' retelling of the myth: beautiful

"...City Theatre, 3823-D Airport, 474-8497..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Getting Married

Different Stages has fun with Shaw's dissection of the institution of marriage

"...The Vortex, through Dec. 6..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Polygamist Prophet Update

FLDS leader Jeffs asks that rape-as-accomplice trial be moved; in different case, judge orders him to pay up

"...Imprisoned polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs, leader of the breakaway Mormon sect the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Polygamous Prophet Update

Court hears testimony of alleged victim of "spiritual marriage" arranged and presided over by Warren Jeffs

"...The child bride known in court records as Jane Doe..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

"...Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazerby Sena Jeter Naslund..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Review by Stacy Bush

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...depicts a woman boxer, eyes blackened and bleeding from the teeth, but smiling. Indeed, the cassette on prolific San..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' burns with violent passions and dark deeds, and Austin Lyric Opera brings this torrid tale to blazing life

"...Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Famous! King's Inn on the shores of Baffin Bay has been serving crowd-pleasing seafood since 1935

"...The King's Inn outside Riviera at Loyola Beach changed its..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

1999 Austin Film Releases

A complete list of all films released for theatrical runs in Austin in the calendar year 1999 and eligible for consideration in the Top Ten.

"...Following is the complete list of all the films released for theatrical..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Closed Doors

"...Todd make strange bedfellows. One is subtle and introverted, the other loud and extroverted. She is slick, while he..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Scanlines

Time Indefinite (1993)

"...Swansea from director Ross McElwee's Sherman's March and subject of the eponymous Charleen Ross McElwee is a modern master..."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...Some of the more interesting stories in the history of cinema..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

Television shows are using direct addresses to the audience more and more. What hath Ferris Bueller wrought? Also, say goodbye to Boy Meets World and, quite possibly, Sports Night.

"...Maybe it's the literal size of the television set that makes it..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

October Previews

"...THE ACID HOUSE..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...Robert Christgau Harvard University Press, $29.95 hard Pop culture aesthete/connoisseur and senior music critic for the Village Voice, Robert..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Wrapped and Ready

"...season were a song it might be sung to the following refrain: "Have yourself a bloody little Christmas." Oh,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

"...generally worthy article, "Kaplan Crunch," [Vol.17, No.15]. She raises the concern that Austin Community College may be "changing its..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Column

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY A group of strangers, played by an all-star..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Something for Everyone... Jack's Back... and It's Hell

"...Tis murderous crime, crime, the nemesis of neglect!" So ran the caption beneath a..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Books Feature

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