Causing Trouble as We Smiled: A Dusty Story

Playwright Timothy Braun remembers the canine companion who changed his life

"...him. With every idea I had, regardless of how impossible it would be to stage, he smiled and gave..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Arts Feature by Timothy Braun

Amid New Immigration Policies, Local Attorneys and Immigrants Navigate a Broken System

Lawyers say the system has been thrown into "chaos"

"...all facing a tall wooden cross. A sliver of light sneaks into the dimly lit room through colorful stained..."

July 26, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Travis County to Reject Marijuana Prosecutions

Officers can't legally determine what is weed and what is hemp

"...concentration of THC in a lab sample. Therefore, it’s impossible for them to discern whether confiscated cannabis is legal..."

July 3, 2019 News Post by Kevin Curtin

The Austin Women Dispelling Stigma and Moving Mental Health Issues Forward

From Sheriff Sally Hernandez to state Rep. Celia Israel, local women are changing the conversation

"...of crisis, have made it difficult (and at times impossible) for those suffering to get the care they need...."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Sarah Cook Invites Diners to "Be Here Now" at Kyoten Sushiko

An unlikely artist at Mueller's satellite iteration of Otto Phan's omakase restaurant

"...– "Man, you should just cook" – flipped the light switch on Cook's career plans. "The second that someone..."

June 28, 2019 Food Feature by Alexandra Detmar

Is Austin Big Enough for Both MLS and USL Soccer Teams?

Rival sports titans square off in soccer city

"...Littlefield told us, "a 5K race, the Trail of Lights, a concert, or any other kind of event on..."

June 28, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Opera's Silent Night

This production of the Pulitzer Prize winner powerfully creates the tension of the battlefield and just as powerfully lets it go

"...descending into barbaric hand-to-hand combat. Billowing smoke and flashing lights do little to distract from the screams of dying..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

2019 SXSW Film Venue Guide

Where to go, how to get there, and how to navigate the lines

"...Finally, single tickets are available for purchase, but are difficult-to-impossible to acquire at the smaller theatres. Your best bets..."

Jan. 29, 2019 SXSW Post

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Narrative and Documentary Feature Competitions, Headliners, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight sections, Visions, Global, Episodic Premieres, and 24 Beats Per..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback Punches Out

After six years and 388,000 words, "Playback" hands off the music column

"...talent replenishing our stages. It's been rewarding to shine light on new music, interview fascinating characters, and break news..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Review: Otello

Austin Opera staged a victory worthy of the Lion of Venice

"...His face is bathed in a sickly green light, emerald droplets of sweat betraying his fevered state. His..."

Nov. 20, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald‎

Fewer beasts, but a much better story, make this sequel magical

"...big baddie Grindelwald still rankles; was it really so impossible for Yates and writer/producer JK Rowling to locate an..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Land for Water

The city is asking voters to send more money to a little-known program that protects Barton Springs

"...upstream of Barton Creek. In a scenario that seems impossible for today's distracted society, as many as 800 people..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...night shoots (meaning reversed sleeping schedules and lots of lighting required) on a shoestring, during what became the wettest..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Sisters Brothers

A murderers’ row of great actors in this contract killer Western comedy

"...framed far away and in pitch black makes it impossible to divine the heroes from the villains. (In this..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blue Lapis Light's Belonging, Part One

The work's dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy

"...Jacques' 2017 work Belonging, Part One, each Blue Lapis Light dancer, whether on the ground or sailing through the..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Love, Gilda

The SNL original in all her shining joy

"...life and precise comic timing. There are beings that light this planet, shining brightly. And Radner shined. It is..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Texas Platters Hall of Fame

Pop polymath Mobley extols Solange

"...wore matching outfits on a stage bathed in monochromatic light and appointed with massive geometric monoliths. Every note played,..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Feature by Mobley

Minding the Gap

Sundance-lauded Hulu skateboarder doc surpasses Thrasher equation

"...old footage so smoothly that it would be nearly impossible to detect the transitions if it weren’t for the..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

AGLIFF Closing With Mapplethorpe

Festival adds major bio-pic, plus complete line-up

"...D: Jeffrey Walker Australia, 105 min Riot shines a spotlight on Australia’s 1970s Gay Rights Movement and the passionate..."

July 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hereditary

Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror

"...additional elements of uncanny disquiet – a ring of light, an almost subsonic pulsing, sudden shifts from day to..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kacey Musgraves – Everywoman

Texan’s taping, country and folk to disco, unites ACL

"...bedazzled saddle hanging from the ceiling began to throw light. The talent then launched the first in a series..."

June 7, 2018 Music Post by Abby Johnston

How Rooster Teeth Became an Online Phenomenon

9.5 million YouTube subscribers can’t be wrong

"...remain platform agnostic. The simple logic is that it's impossible to predict what future tech will actually look like...."

May 11, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

True Love and Lawsuits in the Wedding Capital of Texas

'Til death do us party

"...It's pretty much impossible to shut down a wedding venue in the Dripping..."

April 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

The Endless

Sibling banter and cosmic terror means observational comedy horror.

"...give the cosmos-mangling insanity a grounded truth and a light hilarity: building on the concepts of Resolution, and even..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Time Trial

Redemption denied in this lyrical tale from the cycling seat

"...of all their tires. It's hard to watch, but impossible not to be drawn into his raging against the..."

March 14, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez Goes Back to His Roots for New Reality Series

The rebel without a crew becomes a rebel with a cable show

"...how many movie makers don't shoot and cut and light their own films." While he's now famous as virtually..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

2018 SXSW Film Venue Guide

Where to go, how to get there, and how to navigate the lines

"...and Yen Tan, as well as free community screenings highlighting the work of local student filmmakers. 278 seats Lines:..."

March 1, 2018 SXSW Post

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...directors and a range of films that entertain and enlighten."..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Becoming an Enlightened Carnivore

Outrider helps facilitate responsible hunting experiences

"...easy, but finding more affordable single-day access was near impossible," says Crable. "I was just looking to spend time..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

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