Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America

'Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America' knits familia y raza together into a deceptively simple, if unspoken, universal truth with all the homespun efficacy of Rose Guilbault's maternal brood spinning ghost stories in a Yaqui Indian adobe near Nogales, Mexico, where the author was born

"...all the homespun efficacy of Guilbault's maternal brood spinning ghost stories in a Yaqui Indian adobe near Nogales, Mexico,..."

July 15, 2005 Books Review by Raoul Hernandez

Miró Quartet

For their second concert of the season, the lavish tone and flawlessness of the Miró Quartet served Beethoven better than Ives and Crumb

"..."Night of Electric Insects" and "Ancient Voices" – like ghost stories that dispose you to worry about night sounds...."

Feb. 20, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Two possibilities: It was either the work of the ghost of labor leader Cesar Chavez, featured on Fernandez's campaign..."

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Articulations

More bouquets for Lipstick Traces in The New York Times, and Austin theatre critics continue to take over the world

"...between rhythms and genres (nihilist satire, variety show mania, ghost stories). She and her actors knew when to parody..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...filming a Spanish-language feature, The Devil's Backbone, a savage ghost story set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Day Trips

"...visitors on a spooky walk through the haunted woods, ghost stories, and a hot dog dinner, Oct. 31. Reservations..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

AISD Notebook

"...old building had gotten so run-down and spooky that ghost stories about the place still live on. The new..."

Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Anil's Ghost

"...Anil's Ghostby Michael Ondaatje..."

May 5, 2000 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...have in place this time is we'll have a ghost page that as soon as we go to this..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...have worked so diligently to not only present accurate stories but adhere to strong journalistic values...."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column

Do We Really Need More Superhero Movies?

We asked local artists if we're approaching Peak Cape anytime soon

"...ending the brand – and so you get recyclable stories of good guys fighting bad guys or the latest..."

April 25, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

COVID-inspired anthology eschews cohesion for innovation

"...narratively deepest and most tenderly observed of all the stories, and the one that could stand best by itself...."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Innkeepers

With slow-burn shudders, Ti West's haunted-inn story provides a stellar model for creeping dread.

"...part, wanders around, helps Luke with his (abysmally designed) ghost-hunting website, and generally maintains a sense of complete postteen..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Shall Be First

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

"...and Latin dancing. 2:30-3pm2:45pmThe TroublePuppetShow – Song of the Ghost Ship, plaza, Bank of America, 501 Congress. Three-masted sailing..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Primary Source

"...of the events. If your history is informed by stories passed down from parents and grandparents, then you take..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Eternal Daughter

Ghosts of family bonds haunt Tilda Swinton in this continuation of The Souvenir

"...British television supernatural tale, The Eternal Daughter is a ghost story in the same way that Lenny Abrahamson’s class-riddled..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...Linear stories age with their storytellers. Each subsequent telling becomes less..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...novels, of which there are eight, and his short stories, of which there are four collections, ache with a..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Sunshine Ghost (Mr. Pink)..."

March 26, 2021 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...relationship as they bring to life songs from albums Ghosteen and Carnage. (US Premiere)..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

The Auto Memory Doll finally writes her own story

"...acts has become a regular issue in America, as stories that have built a world through books, TV shows,..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...Ghost Magnet Roach Motel 9pm, The Hideout Mexican, Japanese, and..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Five Dark Events to Beat the Heat

Nighttime distractions that flip off the sun

"...2206 William Bartonzilker.org Summon the NighTTIME Spirits With Austin Ghost Tours..."

July 21, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...[Ghost Notes] Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music (TCU Press) teams..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Your Satori Mind

Japanese guitarist and Boris collaborator Michio Kurihara, 'a mixture of science and feeling'

"...There's so much history to be uncovered, so many stories to be unpacked. As a member of White Heaven..."

July 23, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...scratching the surface. The documentary strand stretches from behind-the-scenes stories of the Muppets to the future of porn, and..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...revolution named Juan N. Seguin (Los Tejanos), and other stories with common threads: historically important figures whom conventional histories..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Justin G. Dyck Would Do Anything for Jackson

Christmas romance movie maker delivers this year's chilliest horror

"...car ride home we went, "Well, we need some ghost movies."..."

Dec. 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2019 You Haven't Seen Yet

Alien invasions, comedy exorcists, and searing commentary

"...If ghosts are merely the spirits of dead people, wouldn't that..."

Dec. 31, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Lace Crater

Ghostly romance reinvented, plus more DVD and VOD releases

"...good weekend in the woods, the party starts telling ghost tales, but these aren't the normal spooky stories. These..."

Aug. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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