Point Austin: Journalism and Memory

What we fail to remember, we will tragically repeat

"...get the populace riled up enough to support another invasion. Alas, once engaged for flag and country, it seems..."

March 30, 2012 News Column by Michael King

SXSW Encore: Eric Burdon

Animals frontman Eric Burdon put his stamp on SXSW 2012

"...the way of his musical vision. From classic British Invasion chartoppers with the Animals (“House of the Rising Sun”)..."

March 19, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

SXSW Saturday Interview

Cotton Mather reunites to relive one of Noel Gallagher's all-time favorite albums: 'Kontiki'

"...Even amid a surfeit of nods to the British Invasion, an underlying sense of time and place left a..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Against 'Chronicle' Being Stapled

"...Jan. 9], I am not pleased with the unwarranted invasion of staples in The Austin Chronicle. Generations of people..."

Feb. 15, 2012 Postmarks

Cotton Mather

"...In lesser hands, the second LP from Austin's British Invasion pop treasure Cotton Mather could've been a disaster. Recorded..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...out-of-body experience with each hit. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway. Can college dropouts John and Dave save..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Long Fringe Review: 'The Crapstall Street Boys'

A dark, sad tale and a new direction for Trouble Puppet

"...factory, You-lad discovers the sad secret behind the monster invasion...."

Jan. 26, 2012 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: I Heart Austin

Austin's music scene takes another heart-punch after the murder of Esme Barrera

"...when the stores sweep away holiday clutter for the invasion of red hearts and candy. Hearts even dominated my..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

APD Meets Residents About Barrera Murder

Chief Acevedo briefs residents and friends on the investigation

"...eternity” if you’re under attack or in a home invasion. Acevedo turned to a favorite subject: more officers are..."

Jan. 10, 2012 News Post by Michael King

2011 Screens Top 10s

Marc Savlov's Top 10 list

"...disenfranchised youth as it is a horror-comedy of alien invasion, Joe Cornish proves himself a master of the culturally..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Arts Events of 2011 in No Particular Order

How festival goodness and powerful art exhibits made 2011 a year to remember

"...memoir and subjectively charged film critique (featuring Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter's The Thing)..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Making the Case for Paul

"...trade” corporate-drafted bills. He courageously voted against the Iraq invasion, against bank bailouts, and against the USA PATRIOT Act...."

Dec. 31, 2011 Postmarks

Tuesday News Gay: Dec. 13

Queerty editor teams up with Gay Place for weekly news round-up

"...RICK PERRY'S ANTI-GAY AD STARTS A BIG, GAY GOP..."

Dec. 13, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

Drafthouse Films Gets Cannonized

Drafthouse Films acquires Cannon Films documentary

"...Statesman, by the way); Chuck Norris's Delta Force and Invasion USA; Charles Bronson's Death Wish franchise; the eternally supercool..."

Dec. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

When the Whip Comes Down

‘Some Girls Live in Texas,’ ravished by the Rolling Stones

"...“Miss You” with demonic keyboard funk is local British Invasion icon Ian McLagan, while Charlie Watts, who’s always driven..."

Oct. 19, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: In the Red

Republican plans for economic recovery could make things worse

"...is that in the Bush White House, before the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, those advocating that there should..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Run This Letter as Written or Not at All

"...And there is the question of how trash tree invasion, damage, and destruction of expensive public works is supposed..."

Sept. 27, 2011 Postmarks

Teaching You the Fear

Extraterrestrial

"...have some favorite films from the 1950s about alien invasions...."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Saturday in the Park

Saturday at ACL Music Fest 2011

"...the tent. Performing on acoustic instruments during this “Martian invasion,” as Welch referred to it, tested the duo's abilities..."

Sept. 21, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Talkin' Austin Teen Book Festival

Uglies author, Nick and Norah, and more

"...Jonathan Maberry (Dust & Decay), and Brian Yansky (Alien Invasion); moderated by Rosemary Clement-Moore (The Splendor Falls)...."

Sept. 15, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

My Children Are Becoming Heavy

When San Antonio rock ruled South Texas

"...the hip college town 80 miles north. The British Invasion birthed an explosion of garage rock out of South..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

This week, Your Style Avatar travels to Iran, Paris, and the land of sashimi

"...allowed to wear short-sleeved shirts. However, the "Western cultural invasion" has also led to criminalization of men wearing necklaces..."

June 24, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

TV Eye: Space Pioneers

Perfectly paired with Battlestar Galactica, Outcasts is a great intergalactic frontier drama

"...Earth as in BSG or trying to survive its invasion as in Falling Skies, the humans in Outcasts are..."

June 17, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Luv Doc Recommends: The White Party

Long Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, May 27, 2011

"...holidays in Majorca … or better yet, a Moorish invasion (smart money is on the Somalis). Whatever the case,..."

May 27, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Off the Record

Scouting reports on Austin Psych Fest and Reckless Kelly's Celebrity Softball Jam

"...best remembered for concocting Texas' answer to the British Invasion, the Sir Douglas Quintet, and spearheading Freddy Fender's comeback..."

April 29, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Day Trips

Texas avoided much of the devastation of the Civil War, but not all of it

"...a group of dock workers from Houston repelled an invasion on Sept. 24, 1862. A second unsuccessful Union assault..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Down the Line

The 2010-11 Austin Music Awards crown South by Southwest's Saturday night

"...blues grit and bassist Roy Cox de-mothballing his British Invasion look on the cover of the group's sole LP..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Rock the Block

Joe Cornish on working-class angst and alien invaders in Attack the Block

"...he gorged himself on that decade's cinematic diet of home-invasion monster movies like Critters and Gremlins. He said, "Like..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

sxswf: Famous People Looking Pretty

Conan on the carpet, 'Paul' and 'Bridesmaids,' too

"...to plug two different films – Paul, the alien invasion comedy she costars in, and Bridesmaids, which she cowrote..."

March 14, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of alien monsters. It turns a tower block into..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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