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Justified creator Graham Yost exits Kentucky for the ATX Television Festival

"...I located my Elmore Leonard paperback that has the short story "Fire in the Hole," upon which Justified is..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Now Streaming in Austin: "Angus and the Boys"

Austin crime short shows the power of manipulation

"...Angus, the central figure in Austin filmmaker Sam Cooke's short thriller "Angus and the Boys." Cooke said, "Angus has..."

March 29, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Wild Rose

Jessie Buckley roars in this outlaw country tale (only the country is Scotland)

"...It’s barely 10 minutes into the film, and Rose-Lynn Harlan (a star-is-born Buckley) has already blown through Wild Rose..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Darwin's Nightmare

This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.

"...and other ordnance for Africa’s countless war zones. In short, they ferry in death to the birthplace of human..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Psycho Beach Party

Prairie Oyster Productions' staging of 'Psycho Beach Party' is trashy, but it's meant to be: a campy, albeit loving, send-up of all things beach, all things Sixties, and all things Hitchcockian

"...transitions between the scenes and reminded me of Laugh-In; Harlan Short's surf god Kanaka, all pecs and male flesh,..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Going Up

A profile of Austin’s pre-eminent honky-tonkers, the Derailers

"...a country song, you have to understand that a Harlan Howard song and a Brill Building song aren't that..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Adventures of Power

All Power wants is to be the best possible air drummer he can be.

"...a rhythm that no one else hears. His father, Harlan (McKean), could never afford to buy him a real..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW 08 Film Conference

Snapshots from the SXSW 08 Film Conference

"...Speaking Truth to Power: Harlan Ellison holds court..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

For 2001, a Kubrick Odyssey

In this biographical film documentary, legendary film director Stanley Kubrick is exposed by his brother-in-law and frequent collaborator Jan Harlan for the artist and family man he was.

"...Jan Harlan's Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) often feels..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Harlan County, USA

"...Harlan County, USA..."

June 23, 2006 Screens Review by Toddy Burton

A Sort of Legend

Author Neil Gaiman is a fantastist and storyteller. Marc Savlov talks to the author and reveals why he's also a legend. Sort of.

"...paperback collections: F. Paul Wilson, Peter Straub, Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Claire Danes, others. Quite an assemblage of rank..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Neighborhood Watch

"...Association, and worked with Barbara Kopple [Wild Man Blues, Harlan County, U.S.A.] on a Bruce Davison film about a..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Page Two: Love and Creation

An approach to the SXSW Film Festival

"...Sharp Teeth: Even taking into account how many awards Harlan Ellison has won and how many honors he has..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...housing costs by increasing the supply, and for Watson’s short-lived deal with the Department of Public Safety to patrol..."

June 14, 2024 News Feature

Presidio by Randy Kennedy

For his debut novel, Kennedy creates a road story that portrays the harsh West Texas terrain beautifully and fills it with sympathetic characters.

"...cars. He returns home to find his younger brother Harlan living a meager existence in a tiny storage shed...."

Sept. 14, 2018 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Getting a Read on the State of Anti-State Bookstores

Brave New Books and Monkeywrench Books keep thinking outside the mainstream

"...to anarchism, a term the layperson may see as shorthand for an absence of government but that falls short..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Taylor Prewitt

SXSW Film: Family Matters in The Overbrook Brothers

Austin filmmaker John Bryant draws on his own childhood traumas

"...road movie about two sparring siblings (played by Nathan Harlan and Mark Reeb) who discover they're adopted and set..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

It Came From the Idiot Box

Small-screen sci-fi: TV themes

"...often nihilistic sci-fi teleplays from the likes of writers Harlan Ellison and Stefano himself...."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Wonder Stories

The unbound adventures and outrageous duets of a life spent with science fiction

"...Close childhood friends of mine started reading science fiction shortly after we learned how to read (though it took..."

July 25, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Dead Man Walking

The extraordinary new opera Dead Man Walking takes its audience on a journey from a place of horror and abhorrence to one of comprehension and compassion, a place where we may see the humanity of a murderer, and in Austin Lyric Opera's potent production we feel each step taken on its long and stony way.

"...break. When the grief-stricken parents sing, it sobs in short bursts of strings. Masterfully evoking familiar music -- gospel..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Goosebumps Rising

Enduring Books in the SF Realm

"...his trademark retro-eyewear (ridiculous yet endearing, and let's see Harlan Ellison try to pull that off), lounged about, basking..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Catching On

No Depression Magazine

"...of covering the alternative country scene. In just two short years, the magazine that draws its name from a..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...from Austin for many years, producing unique works of short fiction usually categorized as horror, fantasy, or science fiction,..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...name by one of America’s most important science-fiction writers/satirists, Harlan Ellison. Jones was a reputation-protecting pseudonym, since the movie..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Reflections

"...Debra Eisenstadt's short "The Guest," which precedes Big Monday, is a vivid,..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Books on Wheels

In Austin, bookmobiles aren't just a thing of the past; they're the literary wave of the future

"...From the Forties magazines to Isaac Asimov's series of short stories to the origins of mass-produced sci-fi as wartime..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

A Honky-Tonk Song

Profile of piano man Earl Poole Ball

"...the Jimmy Swan TV show in Hattiesburg and a short-lived marriage, with Ball hitchhiking the 30-or-so miles from Columbia..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...material, radio performances, and studio tracks, Trail is nothing short of a brilliant assemblage of a decade's worth of..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...former bassist for the Lemonheads, is based on a short story by British writer Ian McEwan. It takes place..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Slamdance Interview: The 23-Year Wait for Bliss

Inside the unexpected sequel to 2001's Virgil Bliss

"...the set of future Virgil Bliss and Bliss cinematographer Harlan Bosmajian’s graduate thesis film. “We were in Buffalo, New..."

Jan. 23, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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