Down the Rabbit Hole With Something in the Dirt

Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson explain their favorite conspiracies

"...supernatural mythology in which you filter everything through an internet search. It started with sun gods, went to fairies..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

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

"...risks her career and family to verify an extraterrestrial radio signal before her access is cut off. Director in..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Brief Guide to the Yard in South Austin

Encountering the true ATX spirit in our bustling modern metrop

"...back in the days before Al Gore invented the internet. As if the One True Austin were somehow inextricably..."

May 13, 2022 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

After 22 Years, It’s a Wrap for East Austin Stories

UT RTF brings the long-running documentary shorts initiative to a close

"...366K. That course code in the UT Radio-Film-Television prospectus has unlocked careers for many filmmakers. It's the..."

May 6, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Pirates

Teens navigate the UK garage scene in this turn-of-the-century tale

"...He meets up with high school pals and pirate radio broadcasters Terrell (Jordan Peters) and Kidda (Reda Elazouar), intending..."

March 12, 2022 SXSW Post by Joe Gross

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...on June 7, 2022) Nabil Ayers with journalist, moderator, radio host, emcee, television reporter and podcaster Andy Langer..."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Found Footage Phenomenon

New documentary unspools the reels of fake-real films

"...sort of found journal-esque style.” Even listening to the radio could cause a “found sound” panic, as Orson Welles’..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Ben Kweller hits the Continental Club stage, Threadgill's auctions some history, and more

"..."Where I live, the internet is so horrible that I can barely do anything..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

UT's RTF Department Changes Focus During the Pandemic

Safety on the set

"...TV industries right now, but UT Austin's Department of Radio-Television-Film is solving a very particular variant of that conundrum:..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: Alex Coke Plays Saxophone In His Driveway

ATX tenor titan stops, looks, and listens – then blows!

"...Just as radio, records, cassettes, CDs, VCRs, Tivo, and the internet changed..."

July 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...If video killed the radio star – which ... it didn't – what hath..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...Maybe this is the promise of the internet generation: Now that we can communicate one with another,..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Qmmunity: 50 Years Queer History

Everything you need to know to make the best of Pride Weekend

"...fabulous Pride party with Austin Black Pride, Pink Elephant Radio, and sounds by DJ Shante. Get ready to drip..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Faster Than Sound: What Sparked Joy at SXSW Music

Marie Kondo-ing my Festival experience, with scooters and shooters in the giveaway pile

"...at SXSW 2019 wore cowgirl hats. Repping the recent internet explosion of Western wear, female rappers drew the Festival's..."

March 22, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Luv Doc: A Few Thousand Words

Even a few thousand words from a fake doctor are not enough to fix years and years of dysfunction

"...OK, in the interest of the readers who won't..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Playback: Compose Like a Pro

Graham Reynolds teaches musicians how to score ... film

"...and garner major league projects like National Geographic's forthcoming Internet Age docudrama Valley of the Boom. [inset-1-right]..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Primer to CinemaTexas Rewind

From Jester Auditorium decades ago to AFS Cinema, present day

"...talked to each other and somehow lived without the internet, or video rental places even, some young cinephiles in..."

April 13, 2018 Events Post by Danielle White

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Thompson With Great Difficulty Alice Sits, Hannah Kenah Wraith Radio, Chris Fontanes..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...still just stuck in some construction zone." Besides the radio gig, Bearden's best known for the long-running Tuesday night..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Starf**king SXSW

SXSW’s bubble burst? Sure, okay – if you say so. Leave the starfucking to us, then.

"...Angeles, another stood at the top of the stairs radioing down sightings of incoming stars, and seven others riffled..."

March 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...– because as the sole rational soul on an internet comment section responded to our show review, the landmark,..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

OUTsider Fest's Wild Roots

The third annual international queer arts festival returns this week

"...Stone joined the University of Texas-Austin faculty in the Radio-Television-Film Department, where she founded the ACTlab, an early academic..."

Feb. 14, 2017 Arts Post by Rachel Van Middlesworth

Playback – Carnegie Bound: Gary Clark Jr.

Gary Clark Jr. strips down on his way to Carnegie Hall, hardcore duo Street Sects kills the lights, and Savannah Welch makes her first public appearance since losing her leg

"...as "censorship" and blamed "an extremely small minority of internet crybabies that feel they have the right to decide..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Point Austin: Welcome to Media World!

"Alternative" invasion conjures thoughts of contemporary journalism

"...stories that the dailies (and certainly the TV and radio stations) neglected, and from angles disdained in official journalism..."

July 8, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Playback: Triple Crown Ends Historic Streak

San Marcos' Triple Crown ends its live music streak, White Ghost Shivers lose a founder, and Twine Time host Paul Ray hospitalized

"...a mustachioed Borghesi has become a ubiquitous, yet unattributed Internet meme known as "Rich Guy" – so pervasive that..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Turnt Up

The Weird City Hip-Hop Festival returns as a single-day rap off

"..."I was the definition of a late-Nineties, early 2000's Internet nerd/hip-hop dude," explains M.O.S...."

Oct. 23, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Q&A: Mike Watt

Econo-jamming bass man headlines an alternate ACL

"...fanzine kind of mentality would transfer over to the Internet with dudes setting up their own websites. I didn’t..."

Oct. 1, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Enigma Wants YOU

To be all you can be

"...Basically, back in the day before television, radio, and newspapers, you’d go see the circus because that..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Music Post by Marc Savlov

aGLIFF Announces Lineup

Austin's favorite LGBTQ fest drops next month

"...his boyfriend, Mo (Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio), who have recruited their best friend, Polly (Kristen Wiig),..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Pressley Ups the Ante

Defeated Council candidate now claims “thousands” of uncertain votes

"...stealth Tea Party extremism, accompanied around the margins by Internet-nutty theories about fluoride, smart meters, smartphones, and 9/11 conspiracies...."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Michael King

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