Holy Spider

True crime drama is an indictment of theocracy and misogyny

"...Something evil lurks in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. As Muslim pilgrims flock..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spider Sculptures, Gore Feasts, and More Arts Events

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

"...appropriately raven-haired Shawn Sides.   – Wayne Alan Brenner Holy American Burnout! With Sean Enfield and Diamond Braxton..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Playback: Holy Mountain and Red 7 in Danger of Losing Leases

Could the Red River Cultural District be losing two of its landmark live music venues?

"...in point: neighboring Seventh Street clubs Red 7 and Holy Mountain are fighting to renew their leases in the..."

May 15, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Shayda

An Iranian mother and daughter find refuge from family violence in a Melbourne women’s shelter

"...known for playing street-tough investigative journalist Arezoo Rahimi in Holy Spider, Ebrahimi places Shayda somewhere between the terror of..."

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: KUT/KUTX Will No Longer Manage the Cactus Cafe

University station terminates "disheartening" negotiations and Spider House Ballroom changes ownership.

"...the Cactus Cafe to our partners at the Unions." Spider House Ballroom Reopens Under New Ownership..."

May 28, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Whiskey Shivers’ Guitarist Jeff Hortillosa

Illustrious Hippopotacorn spins off a spidery solo debut

"...an itch. Just in time for Halloween, Return to Spider Island shows off the guitarist’s “artistic yackety-shmackety.”..."

Oct. 24, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Former Red 7 Space Lands a Music Venue

Hotel Vegas honcho Jason McNeely will be the booker

"...River’s Seventh Street corridor, notably the shuttering of clubs Holy Mountain and Red 7. Today’s news brings hope to..."

Sept. 23, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2022 Awards Short Lists

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads nominee pack

"...• Close • Decision to Leave • EO • Holy Spider • RRR Best Documentary..."

Jan. 4, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 Films of 2022

"...6) Holy Spider Everyone is gaga for true-crime stories these days,..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...HOLY SPIDER D: Ali Abbassi Denmark, 2022, Texas Premiere, 115..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zeppelin 3

"...“D’yer Mak’er,” forever first time, mortgaged Houses of the Holy next. My first year of high school brought 1979’s..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Bob Dylan Goes Electric – Again!

Fifty years ago, Dylan and the Band went electric at Austin's Municipal Auditorium

"...that didn't constantly change was the uncertainty about everything." Holy Mountain's Last Hurrah..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Berkshire Hounds Talk Breakup and Reunion

“We’ve definitely matured/been beaten down over the last five years”

"...broken up with the line, “When found day-drinking at Spider House last week, Campo admitted his bandmates abandoned him..."

Oct. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Chris Cubas Headlines Cap City on July 4th!

And July 1st and 2nd and 3rd, too – how ’bout that?

"...Road, having rescued the two comedians from a wolf spider that was at least the size of a Buick..."

June 30, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

There Goes the Neighborhood

North/South/Central – redistricting the live music capital

"...For Holy Mountain partner James Taylor that's not soon enough. Paired..."

July 25, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Boy Erased

Joel Edgerton goes to gay conversion therapy's heart of darkness

"...no bogeymen or ghosts – except maybe for the Holy Ghost, I suppose – make no mistake: Boy Erased..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playback: Forty Nights

Forty nights of live music? Piece of cake.

"...Xetas @Holy Mountain (May 30)..."

July 11, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...into strict Catholic care and prepared for her First Holy Communion. Cast: Lauryn Canny, Bryan Batt, Nora-Jane Noone, Cooper..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

The Gender Unbound Art Fest will spotlight the work of trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming artists and musicians

"...corner for this all-ages event. Fri., Sept. 23, 5-9pm. Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth, 512/480-9562. $10. www.girlsrockaustin.org...."

Sept. 23, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

The Gay Place

It's Coming Out Month big time in Austin this week

"...about the warm, open, gay-friendly, and inclusive community at Holy Family American Catholic Church at this week's Jamaica (see..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...White Williams (1:45), Ghosthustler (2:30), Bodies of Water (3:!5), Holy Fuck (4), Cool Kids (4:45) Beerland: Rock-A-Round Entertainment presents..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Gay Place: Diva Dish

Just another "average" week in sparkly, spangly Gay Town in the A-town.

"...HOLY FAMILY JAMAICA & FALL FESTIVAL Austin's most inclusive, open,..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Column

Top 10 Food News Stories of 2017

"...3) Spider House Sexual Misconduct Allegations Accusations of sexual harassment and..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Of Course, Music Is Never Your Sole Identity

But even what brings the music to you can be a part of it

"...But the other night, there was a small jumping spider in my bunker – possibly a female Phidippus regius,..."

Oct. 5, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Key Biscayne

Second Place winner

"...names of women he'd loved; guns and bullets and spider webs; faces of the friends he had lost. This..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Remy Barnes Klein

Letters @ 3AM

Cyberspace is nowhere and everywhere, a place where the articles on www.michaelventura.org hover and hang, nailed to a virtual wall like paintings in a museum

"...deserving eyes alike. The shrink, she said, "What in holy fuck am I supposed to do with a dream..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...Dirty Plotte and Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve and the holy navel-gazing trinity of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth;..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Public Notice

Public Notice straps on the skates, picks some flowers for mom, and finds out if it is eligible to donate to the Mother's Milk Bank….

"...the horizon, it's easy to imagine letting the most holy of holidays slip through the cracks, finding yourself on..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Playback: Hanging in the House of Songs

The House of Songs, Hotel Vegas on tour, and Terminator Too: Judgment Play

"...me," says McNeely, whose Hot Burrito production company booked Spider House before moving to Hotel Vegas two years ago...."

Jan. 23, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Gay Place

May Day! May Day! May Day! It's May, gays!

"...THE GREAT CHURCH OF THE HOLY FU*K! Hole-y, hole-y, hole-y. Annie Danger leads as flocks..."

April 25, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

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