SXSW Documentary Goes Inside the Eclectic World of John Aielli

The spirit of radio lives in Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience

"...There was never another DJ like John Aielli. The host..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Liminal Lone Star State: Iliana Sosa’s El Paso in God Save Texas

HBO docuseries screens at AFS Cinema this weekend

"...Iliana Sosa was filming La Frontera, her episode of the new HBO series God Save Texas, there was a..."

March 1, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...TV Festival schedule is packed with big releases like The Fall Guy and Road House, but now it's added..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Artificial Eye: Oren Soffer on Filming The Creator

Behind the camera of Gareth Edward's revolutionary sci fi blockbuster

"...One of the closest relationships on a film set is between the..."

Dec. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The House That Built DJ Shani Hébert

Decades in the making, The Groove Temple arrives on KUTX

"...There's a difference between needing help and helplessness. Shani Hébert..."

March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page

Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro

"...Cities are always in flux. Looking out of the window of the Fairmont, I mention to Lizzie Gottlieb..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Fest, Eastside Kings Festival, HAAM Day, Vein.fm, Monte Warden & the Dangerous Few, and more

"...What do music and hot sauce have in common? They both cause your body to release endorphins. Those brain..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin at Large: The Cost of “Whatever It Takes”

Project Connect hits a patch of rough news but – so far – stays on the tracks

"...30 years, Austin civic leaders and scenesters negotiated among themselves, and then with the larger community, within a frame..."

April 15, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Getting Behind The Tender Bar With Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan

The challenges of authenticity (and George Clooney's acting class)

"...Accuracy in a biopic can come down to the smallest recognizable detail. Like the brown cord jacket that..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Opportunity to Reimagine Public Safety Is Here Right Now. Will Austin Take It?

“We want everything that can be done outside of the police, to be done outside of the police.”

"...At their April 20 work session, the members of the Austin..."

April 30, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

SXSW Interview: Jacob Gentry Runs the Tape on Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Director talks the influences on his period techno-horror

"...Before there was hacking, there were broadcast signal intrusions: strange incidents..."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All the Neighborhood's a Stage in the Drive-Through Vortex Odyssey

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

"...Here we are, six months into the big coronavirus pandemic shutdown of 2020, and cabin..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

AutFest Texas Changes the Narrative on Autism

Tonight's online festival lets the community tell its own stories

"...Every year dozens of film festivals celebrate the craft of independent filmmakers - too often leaving the..."

Sept. 13, 2020 Screens Post by Naomi Brady

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) may..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"...As a lens, the coronavirus epidemic extends into all realities of Austin's..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

To The Lighthouse With Director Robert Eggers

On superstition, isolation, and trained seagulls

"...There are those that think of the sea, and the..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Orson Welles Refracts Noir in The Lady From Shanghai

It's the maverick director versus the world at AFS Cinema

"...its lopsided happy ending or enormously bloated budget. Yet these hindrances that would otherwise beset other directors were sometimes..."

June 28, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

The Past, Present, and FuturX of Latinx Performance in Austin

The current surge of Latinx theatre and dance in Austin speaks to both tradition and pioneering new directions

"...This past Friday, I was talking with a fellow theatregoer at the Mexican American Cultural Center about how that..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Arts Feature by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

Getting a Read on the State of Anti-State Bookstores

Brave New Books and Monkeywrench Books keep thinking outside the mainstream

"...Around the turn of the century, Slacker-era Austin was on its..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Taylor Prewitt

Staging Building the Wall Before Trump Builds His Wall

Robert Schenkkan races to get his latest work on stage

"...Robert Schenkkan had no time to waste. The playwright couldn't afford the years it took to craft..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Panels: The Future of Food and Drink

Highlights from the 2017 food track

"...look like an endless stream of celebrity sightings and themed cocktails. But in between the madness, culinary experts are..."

March 12, 2017 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Seeing Life’s Brevity in the Art Poles of South First

Street art goes vertical in South Austin

"...did someone die? Photographs of people are stapled to the pole, along with artificial flowers, toy army men and..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Fringes of Cinema

Zack Carlson celebrates the creative spirit with new Vice series Outsider

"...filmmakers – outcasts and outliers working so far off the grid that it's insane to judge their work by..."

June 3, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...Whale. Castle. Carpenter. Craven. Fulci. The great names of horror. But maybe there's another, less..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: The Boy and the Beast

Anime with heart, brains, and action

"...With Studio Ghibli seemingly headed into the history books, everyone seems to be looking for..."

Sept. 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drowning in Mystery on The Midnight Swim

The water calls to director Sarah Adina Smith

"...like Australian metaphysical mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock, where the characters are engulfed by the wilderness. She said, "What..."

July 6, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Adam Green is Digging Up the Marrow

Indie horror auteur road-trips his new film this week

"...There are monsters in the air, and Adam Green knows..."

Feb. 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Greatest Train Movies Ever

Before "Snowpiercer" opens, a ticket for the best films on track

"...weekend we'll be getting a sneak cinematic peak at the joys of life on the rails...."

June 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...When American audiences think about British horror in the 1970s, they tend to think about the Gothic high..."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Farmers’ Market Report: Dec. 28-29, 2013

Good luck for the New Year – it would be a shame to waste it

"...It is the last weekend of 2013, so this is your chance..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

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