Cine Las Americas Review: 7th Annual Femme Frontera Filmmakers Showcase

Short films selection looks at border life through multiple lenses

"...selection covered a range of subjects, from documentaries on ghost towns to a young romance hindered by the border...."

June 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Texas Book Festival Lineup and Schedule Goes Online and IRL

Big names for hybrid celebration of literature and literacy

"...Tracy Anne Hart (Seeing Stevie Ray) and Michael Corcoran (Ghost Notes).* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30..."

Oct. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: A Fresh Point of View With the Iké Boys

Eric McEver talks anime, obsession, and making friends with cats

"...whose passion is going around the world and photographing ghost towns. She's released a photobook of Chernobyl, and that..."

Sept. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cowboys Versus Witches in The Pale Door

Austinite Aaron B. Koontz's weird, weird West

"...Creek Old West Town in sleepy Guthrie: not a ghost town, but that period feel of an authentic Western..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...at the Muleshoe and Gulla wildlife refuges between the towns of Muleshoe and Morton, northwest of Lubbock. During the..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Esther's Follies Meets Scooby-Doo in The Haunting of the Tavern

In this new murder mystery comedy, chasing Emily the ghost leads to some real high jinkies!

"...eventually. After unmasking crotchety old greedheads pretending to be ghosts or ghouls or eerie what-have-yous for a half-century now..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Secret Culturalist Dave Thomas

Pere Ubu/Rocket From the Tombs frontman tag teams ATX

"...question. Since the early Eighties, I’ve lived in a ghost town. Cleveland itself became a ghost town at that..."

May 18, 2017 Music Post by Michael Toland

Macon Blair Wins Sundance 2017

Grand Jury prize-winner tops the list of locals done good – and bad – at Park City

"...among the next generation. Winner (Runner-up): Other Texas Film Towns..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American Priyamvada Natarajan,..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

HAAM Sampler

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians benefit day donations

"...the best bills of the day. Feral post-blues duo Ghost Wolves followed the openers, and doom pop prize the..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Royal Headache’s Destructive Joy

Aussies pound out the The Breakfast Club of punk

"...space here. There’s not a whole lot of little towns to play. Basically, if you have any respect for..."

Aug. 13, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips: Glenrio, Texas

West Texas ghost town was once a popular stop on Route 66

"...Glenrio's dot on the Texas map marks a ghost town. The skeletons of once-bustling hotels, gas stations, and..."

July 3, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Weird, Weird West

Giddings gets retro-futuristic for Weird West Fest

"...in Texas, you have all these cool Old West towns, with real Old West history. In this case, we're..."

Dec. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Ghost town a reminder of Texas' industrial history

"...the final remains of one of Texas' most famous ghost towns. Like a towering gravestone, the red-brick smokestack along..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Family Affair

Austin's archeological imprint Heavy Light Records uncovers Texas history one record at a time

"...century disappear," Waggener laments. "When we visit these old towns and go to the old city center, you see..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Point Austin: Capitol Craziness

April Fools' can't compete with this year's legislative follies

"...town's major employer) will create dozens of new Texas ghost towns. Even should the Senate draft eventually serve to..."

April 1, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Can Austin Withstand Multiyear Drought?

"...to meet other than that of a few small towns along the banks of the Colorado River and of..."

Jan. 12, 2011 Postmarks

Letters @ 3AM

The United States failed because its people overvalued their ideals and undervalued their resources

"...no permanent support-structure – stores, services, etc. Gradually, farming towns across the country looked like ghost towns, or ghostly..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

"...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Washington Irving (1783-1859). Not a ghost story but a satire about American materialism – already..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

People in the small towns of the West and Midwest are watching their communities, and their way of life, shrivel and die.

"...be, less cultivation. Then you come upon an almost ghost town, one of hundreds across the West and Midwest...."

March 30, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Tales That Must Be Told

Previewing the ninth Cine las Americas

"...emotional truths. Bikes drift over scorched salt plains like ghost ships; geese are clubbed to death for dinner; the..."

April 14, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Figurines

"..."Volle" Volden's mechanical snare snaps. The banjo-laden honky-tonk stab "Ghost Towns" fleshes out the sound here in much the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...the ideal of Nowhere is so appealing. Tiny, faraway towns have a persistent pull on the restless imagination of..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Las Cazuelas

Some time ago, a friendly reader e-mailed with the suggestion that we simply must check out the taqueria at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Chalmers

"...the state in east central Mexico known for its ghost mining towns and beautiful rebozos (woven shawls). Restaurant owner..."

June 24, 2005 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...write songs about giant squids that eat entire seaside towns. – Audra SchroederAPOCALYPTICA9pm, Flamingo Cantina It's been nearly a..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

M83

Record review

"...M83Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute) How programmed music can resemble nature so closely..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Friends of Dean Martinez

Texas platters

"...relish. Elm and company have been skulking through Japanese ghost towns like "The Winter Palace" since their Sub Pop..."

April 23, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Hill Country Happenings

As the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival approaches, Virginia B. Wood sets the table.

"...even more rural dining experience, visit the Hill Country ghost towns of Welfare and Waring, where good food and..."

April 4, 2003 Food Feature

Day Trips

"...as it appeared on the map, it became a ghost town...."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Sporting Life

John Posey's Father, Son & Holy Ghost is football on the field on the stage.

"...years, and while it does really well in football towns like Austin, he's found that people relate to it..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

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