King of the Ants

Nifty new thriller from Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator.

"...Sharp, Ron Livingston, Vernon Wells and Lionel Mark Smith. The title makes it sound like a horror film, I..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...The house lights are still up as the crowd files..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Inside and Outside the Curatorial Box

Husband and wife curators Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Regine Basha discuss the art of their profession.

"...being a curator all about? How do you influence the world through the art you select to exhibit? After..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

"Hector Carmona Miranda: Concrete, Plastic & Metal"

Sometimes you want more from the artist's 3-D printed busts and photographs of same, and sometimes you get it

"...Hector Carmona Miranda's "Concrete, Plastic & Metal" reminds me of 19th century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. The show..."

March 17, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

To Ancient Troy (By Way of Denver)

Ancient Greece and modern Denver may seem an incongruous pairing, but in the new Greek epic Tantalus, produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, they prove a striking fit, creating a work that's heroic.

"...Just before 10am -- ancient Greece and modern Denver. The two locales are so incongruous that their pairing seems..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin's Belle Redux: A Tale of Beauty & the Beast

In its striking concept and execution, Stephen Mills' take on the fairy tale was his most fully realized story ballet since Hamlet

"...In most stories involving Beauty and the Beast, it isn't difficult to tell which is which...."

Feb. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Experimental Response Cinema Rises to the Surface

Avant-gardians of Austin’s underground films

"...When the Experimental Response Cinema collective held its first screenings in..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The Defiant Deviant

The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more

"...The Takashi Miike Drinking Game goes something like this: one..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Waking the Dead

Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Centro-matic's Will Johnson find common ground.

"...It's not so hot that you notice, really, but the ants in Oakwood Cemetery are unbearable. It's almost as..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...is made by its people, objects, and places. Combined, they form our city's personality, its genius and fragility, its..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Kids Stay in the Pictures

When the Cinemaker Co-op and the Center for Young Cinema combined to make the Motion Media Arts Center, at least one thing stayed the same: the importance of kids

"...The trouble with owning an all-region DVD player these days..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'Never the Same Again'

Jesse Sublett's 'Rock 'n' Roll Gothic': an excerpt

"...Sublett is a contributing writer for and a friend of The Austin Chronicle; Lois Richwine, his wife, is a..."

May 7, 2004 Books Feature

"Other Forms of Life" at the Contemporary Austin

With her mysterious and compelling artwork, Huma Bhabha puts us face to alien face

"...I first came across the work of New York-based modern artist Huma Bhabha earlier..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Arts Feature by Sumaiya Malik

On the Lege

Trying to revive insurance for kids

"...In a reversal of traditional Capitol good-cop, bad-cop roles, the House pulled off..."

April 27, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

A Hundred Years of Shadows

One hundred years after "The Great Train Robbery," motion pictures have transformed consciousness into a Kingdom of Shadows.

"...One reference book says "The Great Train Robbery" was 11 minutes long; Kevin Brownlow's..."

March 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The 'Trash' Man

John Waters on tour, in Austin

"...Waters has titled his current touring comedic monologue World of Trash, which only a decade or so back might..."

May 14, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

"Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque"

The 20th-century Latin artists featured in the Blanton's exhibition "Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque" recognize beauty's tyranny with a special fervor, creating works that directly reject it with humor, boldness, and great intensity.

"..."Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque"Blanton Museum of Art, through Jan. 4..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Whore

"...Directed by: Ken Russell. Starring: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton and Antonio Fargas. It's hard to..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dagon

This H.P. Lovecraft-inspired fish story is so extreme that it borders on camp.

"...Godden. Director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna -- the filmmakers whose very first feature film Re-Animator in 1985..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

'Be Here to Love Me' captures the poetry and loss of the late great Townes Van Zandt

"...There was a time that this column would have been..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Endangered Species Conservation

'The Last Unicorn' takes a victory lap at the Alamo Drafthouse

"..."Don't you want to try something else?" Throughout the 1980s, this chorus rang out from video stores across..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

Post-Minstrel Syndrome

Blackface Is a white fantasy about the way things used to be

"...That's how the freshly minted placard on the shed door read as..."

June 20, 2003 Arts Feature by Verushka Gray

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...Jason Neulander Experimental drama. Now, there's a term to conjure dread in the heart of..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Inka Chicken's O.G. Peruvian Fare

The South American cuisine is having a moment in Austin's scene

"...Peruvian cuisine is having a moment in the Austin limelight. There's the Manor Road newbie, Yuyo, where..."

May 18, 2018 Food Column by Emily Beyda

Fantastic Fest 2014: How It Felt

Artist Amy Everson on trauma and truth

"...first calling: But that did not stop her taking the Best Actress award in the Fantastic Fest Next wave..."

Sept. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Lost and Found

'Tis the season when the future is used up yet then renewed by singing each morning out of each night

"...And lived in a very cool part of the City..."

April 27, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Capitol Chronicle

Lights On, Still Nobody Home: Entering the final innings, the lege scorecard is filled with zeroes

"...Where was the Legislature when the D's walked out?..."

May 23, 2003 News Column by Michael King

SXSW Announces Film Award Winners

Shithouse takes top narrative honors

"...Shithouse and sensitive grief counselling documentary An Elephant in the Room have taken the top awards at the SXSW..."

March 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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