TV Eye

The best of the new fall shows

"...the one that got away. Delayed by world events, and some shows scrambling to tidy up their story lines..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta frees her inner dork, with big ups for The Lone Gunmen and BattleBots, among others. Also, a partial Oscar ballot.

"...As I wandered through last week's SXSW Interactive trade show for free..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Faster Than Sound: Versatile Electronic Producer Qrion Finds Calm in Austin

I Hope It Lasts Forever arrives Friday at the Concourse Project

"...from her hometown of Sapporo, situated on the northernmost island of Japan...."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Gets Virtual

VR film pioneer Jessica Brillhart announced as 2019 keynote

"...SXSW has already announced Garbage singer Shirley Manson and Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry as Music keynotes, Instagram CEO Kevin..."

Nov. 27, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

'Don't Let It Get Weird'

SXSW Comedy bits: Maron offends Franco, Adomian in your face

"...patriarch Scott Aukerman – an annual South-By fixture – and partner Reggie Watts (the Shaffer to his Letterman, if..."

March 11, 2013 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Hey, Kat, What's Up With Fridays at the Velv?

Ramzinski gives us the lowdown on the hoedown

"...with Kat Ramzinski is what the show is called, and it's the regular Friday night show at the Velveeta..."

July 20, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts/Rick Springfield/George Jones/Devo

"...Wave of 30 years ago was exclusively English, Canadian, and/or synthesizer-based. Joan Jett's Blackhearts included a keyboardist, but at..."

April 1, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Fun facts from the Festivus for the rest of us

"...of us, a two-day alternative holiday for all the freaks and geeks. Transmission Entertainment's fourth annual fall classic, which..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Melville in Cubicle Hell

Tyro film director Jonathan Parker brings "Bartleby the Scrivener" back to the future. And who better to ride shotgun than freaky, geeky Crispin Glover?

"..."You're just jealous because I'm a real freak and you have to wear a mask," says the Penguin..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Dancing About Architecture

L.A. vs. Austin -- Tinseltown wins.

"...every club in town following Maggie Mae's (nonexistent) lead and instituting a "pay to play" policy, I decided the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

The legend of James Dean, and TNT's take on it

"...a legend. I saw his movies, but didn't really understand how deeply he spoke to a generation of post-World..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

So what's snapped Belinda Acosta's bra strap this week? It's the announcement that the Wonderful World of Disney will remake Brian's Song.

"...It's bad enough that NBC canceled Freaks and Geeks and Fox was too short-sighted to continue..."

May 4, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

For those of you yawning through The Mole and gagging through Temptation Island, Survivor is back, here to remind us what we liked (and loathed) about "reality TV" in the first place.

"...After three increasingly embarrassing episodes of Temptation Island (Fox) and the same number of perplexing episodes of..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Television's millennial celebrations may have been short on crises, but they were long on global partying; also, the latest in midseason changes, including the addition of a quirky new show called Malcolm in the Middle.

"...And then we woke up, and it was over. No..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Gangsters, vampires, and conspiracy theories : the best television had to offer in 1999.

"...swimming pool. The first season of 13 stunning episodes stands alone as a glorious paean to the possibilities of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Good TV shows don't go to heaven, they go to Barnes & Noble; also, Larry David's HBO special is worth the price of cable.

"...Oh, I tuned in to a couple of favorites, and caught some of the new shows (Once and Again..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

For Mature Audiences Only

How did Kevin Smith prep to make a movie about two kids making a porn? Years of research.

"...Kevin Smith's new film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, is exactly what it sounds..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Thursday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...have a sharp ear for pop acts with smarts and class, and tonight's offerings are the cream of the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Page Two: Let's Get Lost

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest

"...South by Southwest begins tonight (Friday, March 9) and runs for nine days. This issue is devoted to..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Coachella

Where else can you see Iggy Pop & the Stooges back to back with Morrissey, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, and Nine Inch Nails? Nowhere but in this rambling, celebratory documentary, which covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back, slow-fi charm of the actual event.

"...are somewhat curious about – the contemporary musical spectrum and you haven't yet attended the annual Coachella Music and..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lust for Life

The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania

"...ballroom with scores of future Austin High alma maters and materettes sitting in the aisles and shouting out their..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Knocked Up

Although it’s extremely funny in bursts, Judd Apatow's new comedy flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act.

"...Mann, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr and Harold Ramis. The attraction that exists between wisecracking, hirsute..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Gracie

Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) tells this more-or-less true story of one New Jersey girl's struggle to play soccer in the male-dominated sports world of the late Seventies.

"...Directed by: Davis Guggenheim. Starring: Christopher Shand, Carly Schroeder, Elisabeth Shue, John Doman, Andrew Shue, Julia..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

A standout, a gross-out comedy that makes its audience go "awwww" as much as it goes "ewwww."

"...Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Gerry Bednob and Shelley Malil. Surely The 40-Year-Old Virgin has broken some..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Celluloid Zealots on the March

IFC's 'Ultimate Film Fanatic' gets Austinized

"...began last fall with a group of self-confessed film geeks – über-geeks, to be fair, the kind of rabid..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Big Move

Blogging revolutionary Mena Trott outlines her company's latest advance

"...The brain child (and love child) of San Francisco dot-commers Mena and Ben..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Music DVDs

"...the Canadian super trio's four decades of progressive hammer and thought, the nearly 20-hour Time Machine (also available on..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Music Legends Honored at AMAs

Susan Antone will receive the first-ever Margaret Moser Award

"...Last year, despite the all-star house band and one-of-a-kind tribute performances to Ian McLagan and Austin..."

March 1, 2016 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Podcasts

So local you don't have to leave your house

"...one of Austin's busiest comics, with national TV appearances and gigs all over the country, but he keeps it..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...a celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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