Playback: The Austin Music Industry Awards Come of Age

Kevin Curtin reverses his “awards are bullshit” stance

"...I should say I'm honored to be winning a fourth consecutive Best Music Writer plaque, but let's face it,..."

March 2, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice: On and Off the Rails

Debating a Downtown rail station, AISD land purchase

"...Capital Metro to establish "a public plaza and a permanent downtown rail station" on Fourth Street, and to begin..."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Letters at 3AM: The Curious Case of the Missing Quotation

Jimmy Carter says the U.S. has no functioning democracy at present, and the press goes silent

"...judgment on the night of July 16 at a German-U.S. nonprofit called Atlantik-Brücke (Atlantic Bridge) in Atlanta, Ga. Der..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Film News

Film News eyes the horizon for another Spy Kids installment

"...Rodriguez Eyes Fourth 'Spy Kids'..."

July 17, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...To political campaigns, getting out the vote is a numbers game: Get enough of..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

Page Two

Here in filmtown, 'Slacker' is on DVD (finally) and 'Louisiana Boys' is on 'SXSW Presents.' Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.

"...Any significant cultural evolution almost always represents many unidentified, underappreciated, and/or barely noticed strands coming together to..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...advises Philly's Relapse Records (Relapse.com), and three more suitable commandments never existed for metal in the nü millennium. Leavening..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...conditions, which among other things restricted the total density, mandated additional parking, and required specific pedestrian improvements in the..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

No Other Land

A Palestinian-Israeli team produced this Oscar-nominated documentary about displacement in the West Bank

"...is resistance. In these terrifying times, it’s become a mantra of the right that the media is the enemy,..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Back to Black

Amy Winehouse biopic gives you all the details you’ll recognize from the singer’s tragically short life – but not much beyond that

"...Taylor-Johnson. Starring: Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville and Therica Wilson-Read...."

May 17, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

A young ape dares to question if maybe humans aren't the enemy after all

"...it became a cry against animal testing and for humane treatment of humanlike species. When Rick Jaffa and Amanda..."

May 10, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Beast

Sci-fi romantic drama about two lovers (Léa Seydoux and George MacKay) with multiple past lives, all tortured

"...through some of that angst and get over the man (MacKay) who has been her woulda, shoulda, coulda across..."

April 26, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Verde Report: Top 10 Reasons for Austin FC Optimism in 2024

In a league as fickle as MLS, a club’s fortunes are never more than one offseason away from pulling a full 180

"...for Austin FC as the Verde and Black missed out on the Major League Soccer playoffs for the second..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

About My Father

Sebastian Maniscalco wastes his paternal comedy material on a bad De Niro flick

"...Directed by: Laura Terruso. Starring: Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, Anders Holm, David Rasche..."

May 26, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Fusebox, Alejandro Escovedo, alexalone, and the Ballinger brothers lead our recommendations

"...for five nights of captivating music and mixed media performances. On Thursday at 9pm, Dorian Wood brings her poignant..."

April 14, 2023 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

Lost Illusions

Balzac's media satire is still bracingly, scathingly topical

"...economic opportunity drove this liberal, anti-royalist segment of the Fourth Estate to bend the rules. It’s this lucrative pursuit..."

July 8, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

We Have an Issue: Struggling to Find the Words

In this week's issue, we explore Austin's response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade

"...I've written about abortion rights – and the horrifying dismantling of those..."

July 1, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...a cyclone chorus of his inked and illustrated iconography. South by Southwest reconverging physically this March likewise resurrected Austin's..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...SXSW Online’s programming announcement teased other intriguing conversational partners: Samantha Bee and Amber Ruffin, repping the still-rare representation of..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Belushi

More than laughs, more than addiction: a charming, tragic portrait of the Blues Brothers star

"...and The Blues Brothers, he was unmatched as a fourth-wall-busting, pratfalling, charming, effortlessly brilliant genius of laughter. What ate..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Martin Eden

Bafflingly relocated Italian adaptation of Jack London's novel skates by on charm and cheekbones

"...deteriorates into a dissolute literary celebrity, ranting and raving about “isms” of every sort with all the pedantic conviction..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...Brenda Ramos wanted to talk about the loss of her son, Mike, about what his..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Marriage Story

Driver and Johansson are note perfect as a couple falling apart

"...delivers a soliloquy that lists the things each loves about the other. Charlie is the director of a boho..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...When we talk about the LGBTQ rights movement, so often the focus falls..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Texas Teen Book Festival: This Weekend!

More books and authors than you can shake a dystopian future at

"...Here’s the fourth annual event, occupying a paper-packed, author-crowded, and thoroughly literate..."

Oct. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback – Lukas Nelson: Real as Promised

Lukas Nelson is a chip off the ol' Willie

"...on Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real's eponymous fourth album, a sort of mid-career summary that will go..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Big Short

The financial meltdown of 2008 is treated with terrific comic spin

"...The director of the sublimely silly comedies Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega Nights: The..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gay Place: Back in Black

Gays, guerrillas lead the way to Halloween

"...BLACK They're baaaack and wearin' blaaaaack. Drink. Talk. Make out (all-gender-inclusive, anti-isms/ists, pro-make-out spaces). Thu., Oct. 22, 6-9pm. Swan..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Mom and Apple Pie

Celebrating the new America

"...This started out as a tribute to the articles I couldn't get..."

July 3, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...you'll want to say you caught Shamir at a South by. – Luke Winkie..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

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