Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Warm up for summer with frozen margs and fests around Texas

"...Goodnight Invention Convention Historic sites and museums bring together inventions in their collections from 1836 and 1929, some that..."

May 1, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic

"...lacks the narrative or conceptual discipline to turn those inventions into something functional. It's rare to watch a film..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles, and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 4-10

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "All things are inventions of holiness," wrote poet Mary Oliver. "Some more rascally..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

An Intermediate's Guide to Marijuana Edibles

Now is the time to bake and get baked, in the comfort of home

"...mother, but that’s not why all these new edible inventions bubble up. It’s the weed. And so, I am..."

April 20, 2020 Food Post by Alice B. Toker

Day Trips: History of the Frozen Margarita

We’re all going to need a frozen margarita when this is all over

"...hot Texas day are one of the grandest culinary inventions of the modern world...."

April 3, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Sixties Baltimore is unveiled in this new crime novel

"...Neither Tessie nor Cleo are whole-cloth inventions on Lippman's part; their stories are inspired by the..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Local Designer Looks to Perfect the Modern Storage Container

Rebecca Finell’s Zip Top Kickstarter raises over $1 million

"...of a Renaissance woman. She won awards for her inventions as a young child, went on to major in..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Food Post by Melanie Laporte

Awakened Bean Delivers Coffee, Vegan Donuts, and Positive Vibes

Local roaster infuses its treats with consciousness

"...to focus on coffee, vegan superfood donuts, like most inventions, were born of necessity...."

Oct. 5, 2018 Food Feature by Alisha McDarris

Bart Layton on Secrets, Lies, and American Animals

How the documentarian turned true crime tropes on their heads

"...this, I didn't feel the need to take huge re-inventions, and exgagerate the whole thing. It felt like it..."

June 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Writer Explores the Contradictions of Ted Kennedy in Chappaquiddick

Telling the tale of the shattering of Camelot

"..."because I thought there were just too many writerly inventions in this thing, and I wanted to break it..."

April 6, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Revolutionizing Batteries With Sodium

UT professor looks to jump from the lab to the marketplace

"...help this battery make that jump. "We get early-stage inventions presented," says Nichols, of his science commercialization office. "But..."

April 21, 2017 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Know Your Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin and the blockchain laid bare

"..."The blockchain is one of the most important inventions of the 21st century," says Peter Kirby, CEO of..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Johnny Holden

The Luv Doc: A Post-Jambox Era

You start dropping big bombs and everybody gets hurt

"...era. Technological advances have not only brought us amazing inventions like wireless Bluetooth earbuds, they've also brought us the..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Trevante Rhodes on His Role in Moonlight

UT alum discusses the acclaimed coming-of-age drama

"...Comtemporary American Art." She wrote, "One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century is the African-American male –..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Pan

Peter Pan origin story goes off the plank

"...following 2012’s misbegotten Anna Karenina) cooks up some nifty inventions, all airborne, like the squalling Neverbird, a delirious trip..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mother's Day Cookbooks

Tasty reads for (almost) every mom

"...shares recipes and techniques for recreating her very stylish inventions at home. There's everything from stacked cakes inspired by..."

May 7, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Manufacturing Innovation

Will the next big thing be a product of inspiration, perspiration, or just dumb luck?

"...many good ideas, including some of history's most celebrated inventions, start out utterly useless. The classic example is the..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Mood Indigo

Michel Gondry's latest presents us with an elaborate yet handmade artifice that's thoroughly charming until its color drains away.

"...Gondry’s signature homemade aesthetic perfectly animates the nutty inventions that are commonplace in this particular world: an overenthusiastic..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'The Tesla Project' / 'Lifecycles'

We need more science – and more art shows inspired by science – as pleasing and stimulating as these two

"...with related works inspired by the man and his inventions and pigeon-loving peculiarities...."

July 11, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Tesla Project: A Celebration of All Things Tesla

Sure to be the most current event this weekend

"...by 15 artists inspired by the man and his inventions...."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Good Eye

Your new style columnist, alas, is not the world's most stylish woman

"...impacted bowels, and hated Oscar Wilde and other modern inventions. Nonetheless, toward the end of his life, as Henry..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Column by Amy Gentry

Mazzy Star

"...Hope Sandoval kept the nocturnal reverb for her Warm Inventions band, and despite the ubiquity of her former act's..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Jump for Joi

SXSW Interactive announces Joi Ito as its next hall of famer

"...Lab – the institution that has contributed to such inventions as the Amazon Kindle, Guitar Hero, the XO Laptop,..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Day Trips

'Daytrips' jumps the pond to burn some rubber in Scotland

"...Scots have given the world many wonderful inventions, but the shoulder on a road is not one..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Ecstatic Highs, Then Bluer Than Blue Can Be

Last shots to see Michel Gondry’s ‘Mood Indigo,’ still no U.S. distro

"...signature homemade aesthetic perfectly suited to the totally nutter inventions that are commonplace in this particular world: an overenthusiastic..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: An Unhappy Spirit

It's not easy to get a hippie in-law to stay at a hotel

"...So, rather than being annoyed by the idea of..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.

Howard Kaylan comes out of his shell

"...Flo & Eddie, member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Inventions, and possessor of an eclectic résumé that's too massive..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

Moving Sidewalks

Sun., 11pm, Reverberation stage

"...that followed Gibbons into ZZ Top via Don Summers inventions like the spinning bass and a fur-lined square guitar..."

April 26, 2013 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...mainstream since 2007. Armed with everything from traditional silk-stringed inventions to piano and guitar, Baishui calls his trio of..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

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