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"...loose-fitting clothing that covers arms and legs, using DEET insect repellent, and draining standing water. Quote of the Week..."

May 9, 2025 News Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...In the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project, the U.S. military trained bees to smell..."

May 2, 2025 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

SXSW Film Review: The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick

Anti-thriller mines wellness culture to unnerving effect

"...designer Danny Madden and composer Isabella Summers – all insect chatter, electronic buzzes, and unnerving cottagecore pianos and strings...."

March 10, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World , every MCU film reviewed

"...The best supporting cast to date, both human and insect...."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Valentine's and Beyond With This Weekend's Recommended Events

From dark stories to romantic dance

"...pièce de résistance: the chance to name a UT Insect Collection butterfly after someone you love, or a roach..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Visual Arts Review: Karim B. Hamid’s “Saturn Returns”

Lydia Street exhibit ponders subversion and deconstruction

"...honored their subjects while preserving anonymity, placing a winged insect over their faces. Where Hamid’s other work could be..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Nosferatu

A symphony of horrors is revived once more

"...threshold of Orlok’s decrepit castle, he is a fragile insect before a dark god, and so it is for..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 20-26

"...the food, boost its yield, improve its resistance to insect predators, and help it survive weather extremes. I invite..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The largest insect eggs are those of the carpenter bee: 16.5mm long..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Movies, Mothers, and 4th of July Fun Highlights the Week's Events

Make your holiday weekday worth it

"...in Love” (Special Jury Prize for Directing), and sexy insect comedy “Bug Diner” (Jury Award: Animation).   – Richard..."

June 28, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Day Trips: The Big Thicket National Preserve, Kountze

One of the first preserves turns 50 against all odds

"...hiking trails, two short hikes take visitors to see insect-eating plants. There are no campgrounds, but backwoods camping is..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Graham Reynolds Bugs Out With Insectum

New Golden Hornet collab project mines the sonic world of insects

"...from the hive mind of his Golden Hornet project, Insectum, points a musical microscope into the realm of beetles,..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Review: “Eye Moon Cocoon”

VLM's installation emphasizes environmental power of small gestures

"...a favor she carries out for a native Texan insect. “I was inspired by this random thought I had..."

Nov. 27, 2023 Arts Post by Meher Qazilbash

Meanwhile Brewing’s Free Birthday Bash and More Crucial Concerts This Week

From Jonathan Richman at the Continental to Saweetie at AFROTECH

"..."Here Come the Martian Martians" and "Hey There Little Insect." That's the popular line on Richman, anyway, who Austinites..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Unweaving the Tangled Web of Inspector Sun

Director Julio Soto Gúrpide on loving noir and insects

"...taking them to the USA – are all bugs, insects, and arachnids. Just, this being the golden age of..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Inspector Sun

Fun-filled animated comedy brings back whodunnits for kids

"...a spider, and everyone in this adventure is an insect, arachnid, or bug of some kind. They live, as..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Chronic: Ranking Halloween Candy in the Order I Will Devour Them After a Couple of Bong Rips

A fun-sized dopamine release

"...that's the second-most nauseating ingredient after "shellac," made from insect secretions...."

Oct. 27, 2023 Column by Kevin Curtin

ACL Interview: Meet Snõõper, Nashville’s Thrashing “Wiggles of Hardcore”

The propmaking punks bring their “mosh-quito” puppet to ACL Fest

"..."mosh-quito." Each set, a brave bystander dons the towering insect head before swarming the mosh pit. "He gets dented..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...entomologists say a bug is a specific type of insect that has sucking mouthparts. Ants, butterflies, and beetles are..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 30 - July 6

"...In the book Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Frank Cowan tells a perhaps legendary story about how..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Five Arts Happenings off the Walls and in the Wild

Historical celebrations on your doorstep and road trips worth the drive

"...Shawn Smith explores our complicated relationship with the insect world, investigating the darkly humorous marketing of chemical agents..."

March 31, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Review: Until Branches Bend

Gorgeous eco-drama about how a tiny beetle upends a town

"...splitting open a wormhole to reveal a nasty, crawling insect. When she shows the bug to her supervisor, he..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...peaceful Okanagan, a distraught cannery worker discovers an invasive insect that could threaten the livelihood of her entire town...."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Finn Meisner, Leslie Herzig, Producer: Gerd Gockell In an insect food farm, one lucky cricket survives its certain death...."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Golden Hornet Project: Tiny Large Sounds

Graham Reynolds & Company Are Gettin’ Buggy With It

"...Hornet hosts a fundraiser tonight for its recent commission: Insectum...."

Dec. 2, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chefs, Researchers, and Activists Write the Climate Change Cookbook

Redefining what sustainable really means at SXSW

"...“Clean Energy” of Food and The Psychology Behind Mainstreaming Insect Cuisine argue that mainstreaming not-meat (including crickets and other..."

March 11, 2022 Features Feature by Melanie Haupt

Death on the Nile

Brannagh's back for another ride under the detective's moustache

"...the sleuth’s flamboyant mouser looks like a hairy winged insect about to take flight. Christie delighted in describing her..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Five Things to Do Indoors This New Year's Weekend

From unmissable books to housebound horticulture, fill up your indoor Hogmanay

"...Austin, tree, oval leaves, silver bark – or Austin, insect, brown, wings, spiky legs – and keep honing those..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Are You Local? Crit Group Reunion Redefines What it Means to be an Austin Artist

Two-part retrospective exhibition brings local creatives together, and to the main gallery

"...delicate functions like ringing bells and interacting with an insect-sized camera that Montgomery made specially for them...."

Nov. 19, 2021 Arts Feature by Vivie Behrens

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 11-17

"...day to find he has transformed into a giant insect. Despite his feral imagination, however, Kafka had a pragmatic..."

June 11, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

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