Terror Has Your Number in Drop

Director Christopher Landon on his latest nail-biter coming to SXSW

"...would never come, the film’s designers built their own interface. Landon said, “It was about designing something that felt..."

March 7, 2025 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Santosh

A newbie cop in India navigates a corrupt system and a murder investigation

"...writer/director Sandhya Suri has shifted her attention from the interface of British and Indian culture that was the focus..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: More Transit and Housing Options in More Locations Are Critical for Austin’s Future

The executive director of Transit Forward on the positive environmental impacts of greater density

"...1,700 buildings? Scientists show that the more the “wildland-urban interface” is contained, the easier it is to defend homes,..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Column by Bill McCamley

It’s Gonna Be a Long, Hot Summer – Again

City and county brace for drought, wildfire season

"...Since then, the number of homes in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) – the transition zone between developed and undeveloped..."

May 24, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

SXSW Panel Combines Brain and Computer Power Through Neurotech

The future is here and kinda terrifying

"...how recent breakthroughs broaden the horizons for brain computer interfaces (BCI)...."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Madeline Duncan

The City Tries to Fix Its Website – Again

City is looking for a new team to rebuild austintexas.gov

"...all users to understand with its college-level language, non-intuitive interface, and tangled links...."

March 1, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

UT-Designed Tech Could Revolutionize Oil Spill Cleanup

Researchers achieved over 99% oil-water separation

"...gel-coated mesh roller can selectively adhere oil at the interface of the cold seawater on the bottom side and..."

Sept. 6, 2023 News Post by Oscar Rodriguez

Blue Beetle

Latest DCEU flick can't cram the Chicane experience into superhero duds

"...are full of confusing bluster, and the Beetle suit interface is filmed almost exactly like Tony Stark’s POV shots..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Voters Want Strong Police Oversight. Will the City Deliver It?

Oversight undermined

"...addressed several specific areas where OPO operations have direct interface with APD operations. Similarly, this memorandum does not list..."

May 26, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Five Arty Reasons to Visit the Blanton

As the art museum gets an exterior makeover, don't miss the beauty inside

"...The "Day Jobs" special exhibition explores the interface between the creative work of artists and the seemingly..."

May 12, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Rep. Vikki Goodwin, HD 47

“... Actually figuring out solutions to our epidemic of gun violence”

"...million or more the authority to enforce a wildland-urban interface building code to mitigate wildfire risk; Austin was the..."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...A skeuomorphism is a form of user interface design for metaphors, such as the crumpling paper sound..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Back-to-School Guide: Stores to Shop Your Way Into Austin Music

Dress for the job you want: stylish scenester – plus recommendations on record shops and instrument stores

"...strumming songs in your dorm room or the audio interface you need to produce your contemporary bedroom-pop masterpiece. Get..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Be It Flood or Fire, Austin Is Preparing for Disasters to Come

Austin residents must be prepared for hell or high water

"...of these are located in what's called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI (pronounced "woo-ee"), which is just what it..."

May 27, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Opinion: Wildfires Are Coming to Central Texas. Be Prepared.

As we move into the summer, a drought has enveloped Texas, increasing the risk of wildfires in the Austin area

"...first major city in Texas to adopt a wildland-urban interface (WUI) code, which serves as an audit of transition..."

May 20, 2022 Column by Vi Burgess

Deep-Pocket Donors Fund Right-Wing School Board Candidates in the Austin Suburbs

Drama outside of town

"...County faces ever-mounting wildfire risk, especially in fast-growing wildland-urban interface areas outside Austin to both the east and the..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

SXSW Music Spotlight: Sloppy Jane

An avant-garde record that journeys from the center of the earth

"...“When something is just beautiful, it’s hard to interface with,” she explains. “Making something beautiful with access points..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

New Lawsuit Again Aims to Remove Endangered Status for Warbler

TPPF refuses to leave the birdies alone

"...the edge of their available habitat, or the wildland-urban interface, requiring large uninterrupted spaces like those protected in the..."

Jan. 28, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

On the Stage, On the Screen: Austin's Theatres Embrace a Virtual Future

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

"..."so I had a baseline for dealing with virtual interface and theatre." Having recorded all those shows also meant..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

CODA

Bawdy, touching and exhilarating fishing family drama takes a different look at deafness

"...one who is not deaf, making her both their interface with the hearing world and an outsider in her..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

hellsite.austin.gov

Everything needs to be online now. Austin is a world-renowned tech capital. Why can’t the city get it right?

"...vending. Clicking it shows one immediately how the Alpha interface differs from the existing page...."

June 11, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

In the Earth

Ben Wheatley's unexpected eco-horror is sinister and hilarious

"...life. Nonsense, argues Olivia (Squires), who sees a biological interface that almost creates a brain beneath the surface, a..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Review: CODA

Bawdy-sweet coming-of-age gem is effervescent and original

"...Deaf Adults, and she's their point of most immediate interface with the speaking population. She may not be deaf,..."

Feb. 4, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frank Wo / Men Collective's Virtual Show Offers a Warped Sense of Control

In K ! :D D: Ö, you get to not only watch these kinetic provocateurs move through virtual environments, but also influence their actions

"...and you – you, the audience, with your digital interface – can influence both the environments and the characters'..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Election Day Live Coverage for Travis County

Tracking the local races

"...be navigating a new (seemingly improved!) Elections Results Reporting interface (and you can too!): umm Travis County has a..."

Nov. 3, 2020 News Post by the News Staff

This Is Not a Movie

Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk embodies the importance of honest journalism

"...notably for The Independent and most especially on the interface between the Western and Muslim worlds, Fisk is one..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"...issues of agency that inform it. Through a user interface, viewers will connect to the work and be able..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...Ferguson head-wrap series that follows, and the Joe Ely interface at the end. In these pixels, the music verges..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Luv Doc: A Bad Case of ZTSD

The Luv Doc has a fat Santa's bag of helpful advice

"...by the everybody-must-wait-their-turn, democratizing technological limitations of the Zoom interface...."

June 12, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Parallelogramophonograph Goes Virtual

Local improv troupe storms the internet with live yes-and comic relief

"...trying to troubleshoot internet connections and upload/download speeds and interface issues, not rehearsing how we would use it. We..."

March 17, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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