Nearly 50 Food, Music, & Arts Festivals to Keep You Busy This Spring

From barbecue to burlesque, something for every Austinite this season

"...and every weekend packed with music, food, and arts festivals, craft fairs, and all kinds of cultural experiences. We’ve..."

April 3, 2019 Events Post by Alyssa Hiarker

What's Fantastic at Fantasia

Highlights from the Canadian genre fest, plus films you may see soon

"...The film festival calendar is a packed, year-round experience (and that's just..."

Aug. 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Road to Freedom

The Cost of Art III: How the Fusebox Festival liberated itself from charging admission

"...answer was: nothing. For its 10th anniversary, Austin's Fusebox Festival decided on a wild experiment: make every single one..."

July 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Another Earth

Shaky science fiction shacks up with a corny redemption tale in this Sundance Film Festival double award-winner.

"...with a corny redemption tale in this Sundance Film Festival double award-winner. What emerges is a film with a..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bike Stuff

The traveling 2008 Bicycle Film Festival rolls into Austin

"...taste of the world's largest venue, the Bicycle Film Festival, set for Friday and Saturday nights at the 501..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Rob D'Amico

Jailbait

The stage origins of this low-budget, indie prison movie are simply everywhere, but it is so fantastically acted that it inspires indulgence of its first-timers’ mistakes.

"...low-budget, indie prison movie, which played the Austin Film Festival in 2004. Born from a stage play and shot..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Burn, Aspen, Burn

Chasing Celebrity With a Basic Cable Nobody at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival

"...Aspen, Colorado, site of the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Howard was trekking up there and it seemed as..."

March 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Brad "Chip" Pope

Pin Gods

"...Austin following its previous run during the SXSW.97 Film Festival.Even if you're not the kind of person who longs..."

May 16, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Caro Diario

"...Diario is Moretti's eighth completed film, it is the first to receive distribution outside Italy. If his receipt of..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Happened Was …

"...First dates - the nightmare potential is boundless. Noonan directs..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...Fantastic Fest – the Austin-based film festival dedicated to horror, sci-fi, action, and other genre offerings..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Nightstream Review: Survival Skills

Bizarro educational video reframes the policing debate

"...But not every film is Survival Skills, a fresh look at the inanity of old educational VHS tapes where..."

Oct. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) may have had to go online for 2020,..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Attack of the Demons

Catch the Austin animated horror online this weekend

"...of Blood (another Now Streaming in Austin selection - look for a katama-wielding Easter egg here), Attack of the..."

May 23, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...So SXSW made its first announcement for film, so you've had your headliners and..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Schedules Supernatural Retrospective, Stephen Colbert, and More

2020 fest adds Samantha Bee, Diplo, Jack Dorsey, Disney Imagineers

"...be part of a Supernatural retrospective panel at the festival this March...."

Jan. 13, 2020 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...graphic novel Spinning, will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. (For times, see below.) Until then, and..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Pro Tips

What to see, where to be, and how to relax

"...a lot of SXSW films leading up to the festival kickoff, and we’ll be singling out some of our..."

March 4, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

In Real Life in Real Life

Cory Doctorow brings his newest work to the Texas Teen Book Festival

"...to be at this Saturday's jam-packed Texas Teen Book Festival at St. Edward's University. The man's got a few..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Seduced by Austin

Jesse Herman – hospitality pro, mover and shaker with the Austin Food & Wine Festival – is making his mark on his adopted town

"...and saw that he struck a business deal the first day. "I signed a lease on our La Condesa..."

April 25, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Fuel

Fuel is a two-hour infomercial for biodiesel and the virtues of other alternative energy sources that won the Audience Award for a documentary at Sundance.

"...something straight: Fuel is not a movie. It may look and sound and feel like a movie. It may..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

ATX Style at NOJF (or... Marcia Knows NOLA)

Austin takes NOLA by storm. Really, there have been lots of storms.

"...and Al play this Saturday at the New Orleans festival. Marcia is a Jazz Fest 30-year veteran; this is..."

May 1, 2008 Design Post by Kate X Messer

Talk to the Hand

The first ever Puppet Parts Film Festival

"..."I know I look like I break legs for a living," Vincent, a..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore's agitprop is a political scorcher.

"...that Moore’s film could actually prove to be the first in history to help unseat a sitting American president...."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Like Wildfire

Welcome to the 13th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival.

"...have it, the 13th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival promises to be the most impressive ever. Somewhere back..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...of the leading women tap dancers from the whole first half of the century, screen and stage...."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pokémon: The Movie

"...I noted when reviewing the ominously titled Pokémon: The First Movie, nothing said in a review will likely influence..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...reviews of various films screened during the SXSW Film Festival. (Reviews also ran in last week's "Screens" section.) The..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

The Best of the International Tournee of Animation

"...in one film the “best” of 25 years of festival animation is a risky proposition at best; at worst,..."

Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Brief History of Time

"...earlier documentary, Gates of Heaven, was a cheekily irreverent look at the little-examined subject of pet cemeteries.) Armed with..."

Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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