Remembering the Classics

Texas Film Hall of Famer Michael Barker reflects on Austin's film scene

"...That hasn't stopped him from quietly becoming one of the most important figures in film to have ever emerged..."

March 4, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Drifter

Mike Flanigin's accidental (and all-star) organ-grinding

"...Mike Flanigin? Singer Kat Edmonson, executive producer of Flanigin's The Drifter, is happy to explain...."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Truth Is Out There

Patrice Pike emerges from the "jam band thing."

"...There. Patrice Pike has just addressed the million-dollar question without..."

June 7, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

What's the Big Idea?

"...kinds of social responsibility -- for "civic entrepreneurship" -- then what would it do differently? Here are a few..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Message of Dreams

Violet Crown Winner Lisa Sandlin

"...her most recent collection of short fiction, Message to the Nurse of Dreams, received the Austin Writers' League's Violet..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

The Evil of Two Lessers, Part II

"...September 19th: "Our popular culture owes a duty to the fragile world of children. The market is not the..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Who Gives a Damn About Big Range Austin?

The answer might be a lot closer than you think

"...Here comes the Big Range Austin Dance Festival again, for..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Can't Hardly Wait

This better-than-average teen sex comedy looks at a bunch of seniors on the night of high school graduation.

"...when you thought everyone in Hollywood had forgotten about the good old days of the teen sex comedy (Porky's,..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: C is for Clown

Rampant coulrophobia on DVD and VOD

"...Who weeps for the clown? After the ventriloquist (shudder) and the mime, is..."

Oct. 8, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Movies and Shakers

The production companies behind – and ahead of – the boom, and how they might be able to help you

"...a production company, but we don't do development in the traditional sense of finding material, hiring a writer, writing..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

ColdTowne Theater: Always in Motion

The comedy venue is home to diverse audiences and performers, but needs a permanent home of its own

"...as it is compelled to change its state by the forces impressed."..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...Deep inside the airplane-hangar warren of music business offices that comprise Soundcheck..."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...script almost since it was written. During most of the past decade it has been regarded as one of..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Jesus Saves

With the city facing its biggest budget crunch in a decade, city manager Jesus Garza has begun to make some tough financial choices.

"...Suggest to Betty Dunkerley and John Stephens, the city's former and current CFOs, that citizens may be..."

May 25, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rent Party Blues

Are post-boom rents killing the Austin music scene?

"...Downtown, lines mark the spots. Two clubs with the longest lines appear to..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Love Nest

First Comes Love...

"...powerful as any ever sucked into a hypodermic needle? The normally laid-back population of the Texas capital slips in..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Page Two: Pay-to-Play City Politics

When it comes to Austin's independent businesses, the City too often is part of the problem

"..."The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Echo Chamber

Horse + Donkey collides with Echo & the Bunnymen's Heaven up Here

"...a split second, by an event or conversation. For others, it's later – weeks, months, years – before the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...Locals call it "The Y": the congested intersection in Oak Hill where Highway..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Information Wants to Be Worthless

Money was never the most interesting thing about the Internet. Which is a good thing, since now it's gone.

"...next South by Southwest Interactive. I don't know why they still call it that, though. They used to call..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

A Room With a View

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

"...like a grown-up version of what's in Austin." Steve Wertheimer is standing on the debris-strewn platform that in a..."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...artists to play on more than 75 stages throughout the Texas capital. Among the international, national, and hometown musicians..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

No Commitment Necessary

As the economy takes a dive, many high tech workers find themselves stuck on the temping treadmill

"...Over the last month, headlines have heralded more than 4,000 layoffs..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

TCB

Fun Fun Fun doesn't disappoint, the Dixie Chicks leave Bush for Britney, and a Red tide sweeps through club land this week.

"...over Changes are afoot, somewhat, at Red's Scoot Inn. The relatively secluded Eastside venue at 1308 E. Fourth was..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...company of anti-socials who are constantly trying to subvert the system but you brought it out of us. Every..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...Songs Sung and Played on Guitar at the Same Time (Shockorama)..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Neighborhood Watch

Sustainable Neighborhoods group advocates 'family-friendly' north side development

"...Unless their habitat is preserved, species can go extinct...."

March 22, 2013 News Feature by Robyn Ross

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...The SXSW Film Festival announced today its 2012 feature film..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Say Anything

Eric Bogosian Comes Clean

"...I had to describe Eric Bogosian, I'd call him the raw nerve of the American cultural psyche. I've been..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

There Will Be Food

Austin's film catering gurus learn how to make do in a changing industry. Spoiler alert: The answer is never pizza.

"...Kay Wheeler. She sits inside her sweltering food truck, where she's preparing a catered meal for about 10 people...."

June 14, 2013 Screens Feature by Jeff Winkler

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