Austin at Large: Beto in the Fast Lane

O'Rourke bounces right back into an adoring, ambivalent Austin

"...alley at 10th and Congress just as promised, bringing home (to a big Austin crowd) the live show he's..."

April 5, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Challenge of Playing Living People in Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field

The cast discusses how hard it can be getting into the skin of living people in Anna Deavere Smith’s play

"...This so-called "school-to-prison pipeline" hit close to home for Smith, whose mother and aunts were teachers in..."

March 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria

"...exploitative light shined, ironically, on itself in the 1995 HBO docudrama Indictment: The McMartin Trial, starring James Woods as..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

Film Flam: Linklater, Krisha, and Slackerwood

Awards all around, and a sad farewell to the popular film blog

"...Brush up your resume: HBO's The Leftovers is relocating to Austin to shoot its..."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Comedy

Really taking funny seriously

"...guide to select events through next Thursday. A Carlin Home Companion..."

March 9, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...the side of the road and drives the band home. (Also: Fri., 8pm, Cedar Street Courtyard.) – Kate X..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Panels

"...Globe for his role as polygamist Bill Henrickson in HBO's Big Love. "Out there in Hollywood," he told the..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bigger Stakes

Richard Linklater on remixing 'The Bad News Bears'

"...copy of the original film here in the director's video-gorged stomping grounds proved as easy as getting Major League..."

July 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

McCanlies, Texas

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

"...sold to Z Channel -- the L.A. version of HBO. As soon as I graduated, I threw all of..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Cheap Trick

DVDisc

"...for Hangovers DVD would have been a previously viewed HBO pay-per-view concert from some virgin locale like São Paulo,..."

April 5, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Next Step

They've made their films. They've done the festivals. Now, four filmmakers share stories about finding -- and losing -- distribution.

"...what? You blew the chance to buy into your neighbor's IPO in favor of seven courses in Final Cut..."

April 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Media Clips

The world’s major corporations have realized that the media can be big money, and they have invested heavily.

"...are the Warner Bros. movie studios and music labels, HBO, the WB television network, CNN and the various Turner..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Roll 'Em

March

"...a psychiatrist. Sounds awfully similar to the premise of HBO's The Sopranos; however, this movie stars Robert De Niro..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

"...Sundance channel for release as a CD and possible video. HBO and VH1 have also expressed interest in the..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

R Is for Rerun

"...guest stars. No more police chases, surveillance tapes, cutesy home footage, or videos revealing magicians' tricks. We're safe until..."

May 29, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Lucrative Gab

ichat Entrepreneur Andrew Busey

"...virtual conversation rooms set up by ichat have a home on their own website at http://www.ichat.com, including an eclectic..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature

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