Gay Place

This week it's all about the Tops and the Bottoms, loves. How do you like your 2013?

"...train, are straightup wrong. It's not about big city folk saying 'Oh we knew that already,' it's about small..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

The Talented Mr. Isaac

Scenes from an interview with the star of the Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

"...shitty attitude. Set during the emerging Sixties New York folk scene, the struggling – and self-sabotaging – performer Llewyn..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Jeff Winkler

Playback: Priced Out?

Soon, Austin’s golden geese – musicians – will be priced out of the live music capital

"...› Housecore Horror Fest triumphed in its first year with good attendance..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The AggreGAYtor: October 18

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...American Horror Story is back on the tubes. Spoilers!..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Qmmunity Post

LoneStarCon 3: Lessons From My First Worldcon

Oh, the mistakes I’ve made in my first gathering of the genre faithful

"...1. Con folk tend to be friendly and respectful. I don’t know..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Metallurgy: Black Sabbath (Live Shot)

Even 40 years on, the heavy metal pioneers still draw blood

"..."War Pigs." For the next two hours, that spearheading folk-blues detonation – as damning today as when it was..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Waltz Across Texas

Is the Broken Spoke being edged off South Lamar?

"...jazz and big band, while still loving the country, folk, Western, and bluegrass they'd been raised on in more..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Children of the Grave

Black Sabbath sunders the Frank Erwin Center

"...For the next two hours, that spearheading folk-blues detonation – as damning today as when it was..."

July 28, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

Playback

Crooked Bangs sings en français, Western Medical pulls plug on the big machine, and UtopiaFest finds a soul-stirring hero ankle-deep in the mud.

"...winged demons, and wolves gnashing iron teeth. The lyrical horror, sung in a low, minor howl, matches the local..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Walk With a Wild Child (Possibly a Sociopath)

Chaos and creativity in the Zellner Bros.' 'Kid-Thing'

"...new, and there're extremes of excitement and beauty and horror because it's all fresh and you're just trying to..."

July 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...Sixth Patio; Sat., 10pm, Mohawk Patio Given its high-gothic horror-movie fashion sense, the Black Belles would be a natural..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

"...lives of Finland's indigenous Sami people. A rough, gruff folk up to their arms in reindeer meat and snowdrifts,..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Thursday Interview

Oakland's one-woman eye of violence

"..."I hear horror stories about jet lag, people getting in accidents. But..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...Dungen breezes through an acoustic session of pastoral, Swedish folk for the Ice Cream Man's Road Trippin' Web series...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Fantastic Fest Won’t Stop Announcing Awesome Stuff

May the Schwartz be with all of us

"...Bunraku, a sneak preview of Darren Bousman’s terrifying new horror-thriller film, Mother’s Day (featuring a bravura performance by Rebecca..."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Can you hear me now? Local musicians and OTR get some much needed hearing aid while Jody Denberg signs off from KGSR.

"...that?" asked Dayton afterward. "He's the father of the horror-rock genre."..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM

America's ideal of liberty shaped the country's finest authors

"...years – if that was "progress," it was also horror. "In a real dark night of the soul, it..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...setting, there is a wealth of insanely great job-related horror stories. Like this one:..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters @ 3AM

Samuel Adams gave Americans a vocabulary both for revolution and for the building of a republic

"...(The idealists shudder. "Horrors, we owe our Revolution to corrupt backroom finaglers!")..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Matt Rebholz: The Golem

A parade of spooky black-and-white fever dreams in which we're less alive than the soulless being from folklore

"...The golem, that soulless being from Jewish folklore shaped from mud to serve man's ends, has been..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

What's Happening?

Ruta Maya toasts the Summer of Love

"...Love Frappucino be next? An iSummer-of-Love pod? Oh, the horror...."

Aug. 24, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

A Geezer Remembers South by Southwest

Post-SXSW geezer moments.

"...to the 1920 silent film Der Golem, a German horror classic. With an incredible rack of effects pedals, Lucas..."

March 20, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

TV Eye

The Panel Channel

"...Festival and Conference brings many notable film and TV folk to town next week. Most of the AFF events..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Return to Sin City

Gram Parsons, back in a big way even if he never left

"...Gram changed his name. In 1963, Parsons formed a folk group called the Shilos, who performed throughout Florida. On..."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...in 2005 with the Some Girls-infected Gimme Fiction (Merge). Horror-machine Stephen King counts himself a fan, and Austinites are..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Film News

Bob Hudgins, successor of Tom Copeland at the Texas Film Commission, isn't wasting any time; plus, Andrew Shapter, Lunafest, and more

"...know Copeland. Of particular interest to Lone Star film folk is Hudgins' key role in creating a program of..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"..."Oh my God," groans a voice, horror dawning. "There's millions of them."..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live

"...their own. And we turn from their faces in horror, precisely because they look just like us. Really it's..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Motorcycle, is a punk rock version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Weird lyrics, saucy choruses, cheerleader chants, and..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Film News

The stars are out already – just look around; plus Guadalupe Arts Center groups regroup and more industry news you won't find anywhere else

"...Still Smoking: Film community folk victimized by the Guadalupe Arts Center fire are pulling..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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