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What destroys a neighborhood? How can bikes help? What's wrong with the Julia Roberts/Brad Pitt vehicle THE MEXICAN? A few answers to these questions---and more!---right here, right now.

"...her kidnapper (Gandolfini, the only redeeming quality in this film) if he was going to rape her, him replying..."

March 23, 2001 Column

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...$500 in a bank account that was used on film equipment, a camera, projector, etc. The "divisions" of Mad..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Page Two

How do we define Austin?

"...and look what has gone on in the surrounding Hill Country as well as in Austin. The argument about..."

May 12, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...great premiere and party, all to benefit the Austin Film Society's Texas Filmmakers Production Fund. Lots of friends, everyone..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...Our survey covers approximately 100 films that are expected to open theatrically in Austin between..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...It changed our entire universe. Everything we know. This country gave the world, and as far as we know,..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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Our readers talk back.

"...best part of this beautiful city – over the hill of South Austin where the people are the most..."

June 25, 2004 Column

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...sang and played a bleakly purist strain of melancholy country-rock. On the forthcoming album from his new group, he's..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Red Rocket

Simon Rex gets under the skin of this year’s most fascinating scumbag

"...Suzanna Son, Bree Elrod, Brenda Deiss, Ethan Darbone, Judy Hill and Brittney Rodriguez...."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...Like this country's forefathers, it came from England. Though it didn't originate..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...questions that obviously go through the whole of every society on the globe. Two hundred years ago, did we..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...a preference. He thumbed his nose at traditional African society and at the Nigerian military establishment, for he never..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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Readers sound off on a variety of touchy subjects: politicos, abandoned kittens, even the brachiation of apes.

"...Spotlight on Alvarez"], regarding the development project on Robertson Hill (aka the Bennett Tract). I obviously do not agree..."

June 15, 2001 Column

Those Crazy Kids Will Do Anything ...

"...KING OF THE HILL Paramount Theatre, Monday, April 5..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Feature

Day Trips

"...Western Vision looks toward the east in the Liberty Hill International Sculpture Garden. Artist Mel Fowler had a studio..."

July 31, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Alternate Universes

"...erasing his ethnicity, and rises to become the leading film producer in the new American goldmine of film. By..."

March 12, 1999 Books Feature

Gay Place: Gay as the Day Is Long

From Long to Fiesta and night to day, Austin Pride rolls on

"...flats and headed for the top of the small hill on the east side of the gardens. What happened..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Becoming Herself

What role the 'Universe of Texas' played in the life and art of Marcia Gay Harden

"...a Tony Award winner, an inductee into the Texas Film Hall of Fame, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the..."

May 21, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...bookending of Jimmy Cliff's classic The Harder They Come film companion, lit up with the same combustible energy as..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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Nichols Is Biased

"...actions have harmed anyone; in fact, a more rational society would consider his actions the normal course of business...."

Jan. 15, 1999 Column

Celebrity, South Austin Style

The Mayor of South Austin

"...and I couldn't wait to get out." What sends chills down his spine is what he calls the "Stepfordization"..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Reissues

"...healthy doses of gritty blues, low-down gospel, and hardcore country-western before being exposed to the big bands of the..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Taps ConsenSys Founder Joseph Lubin for 2019 Keynote

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency track programming comes into focus

"...Keynotes Shirley Manson and Lauren Mayberry (Music), Marti Noxon (Film), and Kevin Systrom with Josh Constine (Interactive) – SXSW..."

Oct. 9, 2018 SXSW Post by Bonny Chu

Art

Art Openings

"...(Mar 4); "N-O-N," Terra Children's Gallery (Mar 5); "Texas Film Art," Pro-Jex (Mar 5); "C-21 Expo -- Metamorfosis," Austin..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...and The Avengers are some of the stand-outs. Likewise, films such as The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...is usually cause for joy, but for thousands of filmmakers, it's the annual time of frayed nerves and to-the-quick-bitten..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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Our readers talk back.

"...Marjorie Baumgarten's Dec. 10 review of A Silent Love [Film], I was amused by her referral to Montreal as..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...of the horrors that face transgendered youth in this country, but you declined to do one thing that would..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column

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"...Why don't we talk about what really killed film ["Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?" June 21]? It..."

June 28, 2002 Column

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