The Iron Giant

If the top-notch story weren't enough, the film also boasts some spectacular animation and a great score.

"...local fisherman who claims to have seen a giant metal alien of some sort crash just outside of town...."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Owls, Hooters & the Devil: Graveyard Part II

Graveyard Part II

"...North Carolina, confessed to the band’s “Evil Ways,” walking metal’s “Thin Line” between a “Blue Soul” and “Satan’s Finest.”..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Five Recommended Austin Arts Events this Weekend

Instead of just staring dully at that Roseanne reboot, right?

"...a variety of media – including porcelain, glass, and metal? Because that’s what you’ll encounter at ICOSA Gallery this..."

March 29, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

S-L-A-Y-E-R Siege

Sold-out Moody Theater takes a beating

"...jersey, the unholy tie between brute sport and thrash metal roared...."

Nov. 19, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Sxsw

"...lava sound of Skrew roared furiously on their last Metal Blade outing. That bodes well for the band's upcoming..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Six Concert Picks to See This Free Week(end)

Primo shows at no cost, from Yung Bambi to Amplified Heat

"...shrieks into Free Week, gathering the city's most fearsome punk/metal noisemakers under a party-positive banner. Whereas Discreet and God..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Vox Lux

Pop star drama is all off-key

"...onstage, Portman is almost emotionless in her delivery; her metallic makeup disturbingly recalls the cold metal of a gun.)..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Revelations: A Gen Z Writer Witnesses the Eternal Battle of an Iron Maiden Concert

Waving flags and fighting monsters with the hallowed NWOBHM troopers

"...the Moody Center, surrounded on all sides by beer-bellied metalheads whose tour shirts could probably be stitched into a..."

Sept. 14, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

No Prayer for the Dying

Iron Maiden returns to Austin after 25 years

"...own genre via the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal,” matched the song’s suite-like steeplechase of Gothic riffs and..."

Sept. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Napalm Death, Cattle Decapitation/Pack of Wolves, Lions of Tsavo

Live Shots

"...South by Southwest Sabbath, 2009: Red 7 hosts a metal assembly longer than your average workday as headlined by..."

May 1, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...Chicago's Sybris describe themselves as art rock, Eighties heavy metal, and folk. Or picture an indie rock Ekova/Cocteau Twins..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...the line between denim-clad retro rock and outright doom metal on 2015's Stoned at the Throne, whose sludgy riffs..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Saturday Picks and Sleepers

Saturday night SXSW blurbs

"...best projects. The original run by his spiritually inclined psych-metal trio lasted just long enough to be perfect. Michael..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

The Lights of Texas Are Upon UT

What is UT doing about its light pollution?

"...on July 6 that it will be replacing existing metal halide fittings at seven municipal buildings with more energy-efficient..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Whispers of Heaven

With Whispers of Heaven, choreographer Sally Jacques invites us to steep in visions of loveliness in a hard place, to ease into beauty as we would a hot bath

"...in a slow and graceful drizzle. From the hard metal rafters of the industrial warehouse drop luxuriant lengths of..."

June 24, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...Pieces an essential part of any anthology of American metal. (Back Room, 9pm) -- Michael Bertin..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Local Game Poems

Big things come in small interactions

"...to the public, M. James Short has shown his death-metal-inspired walking simulator at local conventions and meet-ups. Seeing it..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Chaotic Platters

"...psychedelia, but make no mistake: This ain't any dream-pop/black metal mélange called metalgaze. It's the real deal – eyes..."

May 23, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Lions of Tsavo

"...the clangor of an auto factory as to classic metal. Atmospheric arpeggios lead into unsettling riffs and feral vocals..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night of SX handicapping

"...of CSP's psychedelic rent party. Maxi-single "I'm Unsatisfied" on Metal Postcard is its own documentary. – Raoul Hernandez Callers..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Rage and Ruin

Red 7 gets a Marxist makeover

"...of 42 degrees, the only one of the four metal bands selling swag was the worst of the lot,..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Zeppelin 3

"...in Oslo’s Viking Ships Museum, “Immigrant Song” pounds ancient metal memory at 20 knots a clip on the two..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

They Might Be Angels

For Blue Lapis Light, dance artists Laura Cannon and Nicole Whiteside become heavenly creatures

"...and getting the scrapes and the cuts, and the metal is so hard, to finally get to let go..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gladys Poorte and Naomi Schlinke

D. Berman's joint exhibition of work by Naomi Schlinke and Gladys Poorte is an illumination of the "creatorly" power of the artist in process art

"...and hells in playful junk, in plastic, wood, glass, metal, and liquid-filled objects – which, as the subject matter..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Varekai

Cirque du Soleil's 'Varekai' begins with Icarus tumbling from heaven but then leaps skyward again with acts that convey the thrill of flight

"...above the floor; a woman bends herself around a metal hoop high in the air; men launch themselves from..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

All Good Thoughts, All Good Food

The symbolism and celebration of Tet, the Vietnamese new year

"...(symbolic of the five elements of Viet philosophy – metal, wood, water, fire, and earth – or of the..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Hightower Report

Fake Texans sue 'True Blue' ones; and Ashcroft cracks down on legal, peaceful dissent

"...music, and genuine Texas atmosphere. It's in a corrugated metal building that used to be a garage. It's the..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...-- it's nothing more than a large room with metal chairs and a few cheap decorations. "The building that..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

Movie Titles for 1996

"...HARRIET THE SPY 2.0(H.C.)7/12/96 HATE4.0(M.B.)7/19/96 HEAVENÕS PRISONERS2.0(M.S.)5/24/96 HEAVY3.0(M.B.)9/27/96 HEAVY METALRevival(M.S.)3/8/96 HEIDI FLEISS: HOLLYWOOD MADAM3.0(M.S.)6/21/96 HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE.5(M.S.)3/13/96 HEMP REVOLUTION, THE2.5(M.B.)1/19/96..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Screens Feature