Faster Than Sound: A Festival Blooms in the Desert

Amid concern over a new C3 festival, homegrown Marfa Myths strives to grow with the Texas city

"...when ACL Fest promoters C3 Presents proposed a three-day festival just outside town, an estimated audience of 5,000 prompted..."

May 3, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...Award winners of the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival...."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Start your SXSW Film Festival planning now: the annual celebration of screens large and..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Heavy With Tradition, Old Settler's Music Festival Springs Eternal

We talk to Sierra Hull and spotlight favorites for next week’s campout

"...three years in a row – "It's tradition." True traditions, though, involve understandings and customs passed down generationally or..."

April 15, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Rancho Alegre Fundraises to Save Their Conjunto Festival During AmplifyATX

Cut from city arts funding, Alegre aims to raise 35k this week

"...Organizers of the Rancho Alegre Conjunto Music Festival say the spring festival is in danger of not..."

Feb. 28, 2023 Music Post by Chad Swiatecki

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional reviews can be found in last week's..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Faster Than Sound: Unbounded Agency for the Underrepresented

Anita Obasi’s parties make space for queer artistry, Jay Wile’s croon tricks fans of Frank Ocean, and more recommendations for KVRX Fest

"...Jeannelle Ramírez kicked off the first year of her Future Traditions Festival, which links Latinx musicians and multimedia artists...."

May 10, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"...opportunities in this year's Cine Las Americas International Film Festival of the Americas to experience those dreams. Some films..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Moscow Now, Here

The New Russian Drama Festival opens a hotline to the culture of Russia today

"...the featured playwright at the second New Russian Drama Festival...."

March 9, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

More From 'Iconoclast' Country

W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford

"...are going to have an impact deep into the future, for generations of people to come. So we decided..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...The Sundance Film Festival released its first programming wave this afternoon, announcing its..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...The SXSW Film Festival announced today its 2012 feature film lineup. Click through..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Serious Business

The first Texas Barbecue Festival

"...Oct. 9, for the First Annual Central Texas Barbecue Festival. We can promise plenty of great barbecue, ice-cold beer,..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Early Warning: The Lege is Coming!

Tribune Fest offers a taste of things to come

"...only mixed pleasure offered by last weekend’s Texas Tribune Festival – a three-day policy immersion for wonks and wonkabees...."

Sept. 26, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Aaron Frazer’s MCU of Soul

The Indications’ drummer and soul crooner introduces himself at ACL

"...rare double-header at the 2021 Austin City Limits Music Festival...."

Oct. 7, 2021 Music Post by Austin Powell

America's Ethnic Music Mantle

"...classical composers, who were turning increasingly to local folk traditions for inspiration. Lighthearted and lively, the polka quickly spread..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...can provide: advance information on over two-thirds of the festival's showcases. Already, in the last two issues, somewhere in..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

The Last Shall Be First

New Year's Eve becomes a cultural extravaganza with First Night Austin

"...Bridge. The first three hours are designated a family festival, then a Grand Procession down Congress Avenue and over..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe and throughout the ages. With..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

They Hear America Singing!

Grammy-nominated Conspirare brings together 600 voices in search of our national sound

"...here for what may well be the largest choral festival in the nation this year...."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...ice and navigate appropriate territories for understanding and possible future accord. That said, this group has agreed that continuing..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Peace Through Pie

A sweet honoring of Martin Luther King

"...area restaurants at the Austin Area Heritage Coun­cil's Cultural Festival following the MLK March. For details and schedules, which..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Ghosts Are Good Company

AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema

"...to the pursuit of financial success and a bright future...."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...Buddhists, and Protestants wrestle caringly with their spirituality and traditions, but that the last Jew in Austin left some..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...perhaps destined for greatness. After being discovered by Odd Future leader Tyler, the Creator, the gifted lyricist released an..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...pleasures (the lure of the street) and the established traditions of family and home life. At the heart of..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...centuries. It might seem strange, then, that the Fez Festival might not exist today had it not been for..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Gay Culture in Focus

"...Southwest's first and most successful gay and lesbian film festival admits that, at times, he lacks perspective on his..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Outsider Art

Music on the margins

"...with it. Too much reverence for past forms and traditions, and the future dries up; too much self-assured indifference,..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...or Walkmans, much less the Internet, downloading, iPods, music festivals, extensive rock music media, and rock on TV (except..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

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