This Is Not a Movie

Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk embodies the importance of honest journalism

"...to be treated the same as crooks, bullies, and seatwarmers enrages me, and so I wanted to cheer with..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Alvarez, with her poignant new novel Afterlife; National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez, with her new novel, What Are..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Shut Up and Drum: Thor Harris Talks Politics and Humanity

We spent election day with local percussive rebel

"...homemade marimba. "You should make art that pushes everything forward, but in politics it's a little different. Bernie Sanders..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Opinion: Diversity and Equity in Times of Crisis

"...require hours of work and time to constantly move towards fluency...."

May 15, 2020 Column by Jeff Hutchinson

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

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

"...Pink Floyd fanatics be warned: This document contains NO music. Every word, 7,900 or..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Lit in the Time of Coronavirus

From emerging writer to potential vector at AWP in San Antonio

"...from over the mural of Texan cultures is etching backward capital "E"s inside of the floor-to-ceiling windows; the effect..."

March 12, 2020 Arts Post by Mark Gozonsky

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...music’s most impressive artists, she shook last night’s Academy Awards with an ostentatious and incisive opening number that made..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

American Hypocrisy Revealed in The Misogynists

“Self-righteous, smug and wicked.” Onur Tukel pulls no punches in this extended Q&A

"...its immediacy – and potentially its longevity. "I'm looking forward to see how this movie plays three or 10..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

An Immigrant Family Brings Iranian Cuisine to Austin

Chef Amir Hajimaleki and his family honor the fundamentals of Persian cuisine in all six of their restaurants

"...The executive chef and co-owner of award-winning District Kitchen + Cocktails and Oasthouse Kitchen + Bar..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...zero-budget Wakaliwood action movie studio. As for gamers, Console Wars blows the dust off the cartridge for a speed..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Headlines

"...War Drums: If this is 2020, we might be at..."

Jan. 10, 2020 News Feature

State and Local Politicians Respond to Soleimani Assassination

Officials and candidates comment on killing of Qassem Soleimani

"...legal, you needn’t consult either U.S. or Iranian officials. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi summarized the U.S. attack...."

Jan. 6, 2020 News Post by Michael King

Mickey and the Bear

Life on the front line of the opioid crisis

"...clutch of bad, black fate. Hank’s a hulking, broken Iraq war veteran suffering, in equal, awful order, from PTSD,..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SongwritingWith:Soldiers Helps Write the War After the War

Darden Smith, Mary Gauthier, and other songwriters combat PTSD one song at a time

"...military. All have experienced combat, from Vietnam through contemporary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some wear it more heavily..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Tim O'Brien's Love Letter to His Sons

In Dad's Maybe Book, the author of Going After Cacciato is going after fatherhood

"...that most of my life – my childhood, the war, the writing life, and even with the kids –..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Multicultural Refugee Coalition Celebrates 10 Years of Growing Roots in Austin

Texas transplants find space to grow

"...Program after serving as a marine in the Vietnam War...."

Oct. 11, 2019 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Official Secrets

True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War

"...shades of gray. Mention the name of the exiled Edward Snowden or the recently (again) incarcerated Chelsea Manning in..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Secrets and Lies: The Truth of Official Secrets

Martin Bright on the Iraq War, and being played by Matt Smith

"...the U.S. and its coalition of the willing invaded Iraq in 2002, the simple, bloody fact was that most..."

Sept. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bringing Real-World Trauma to Action Blockbuster Angel Has Fallen

Ric Roman Waugh flies on broken wings

"...Angel Has Fallen looks at the intergenerational trauma of war and military service and the addictiveness of action, all..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Reckless Kelly

"...outlaw anthem "American Blood" chronicles the anger of Americans toward the Iraq War...."

Aug. 16, 2019 Music Review by Reid Jowers

Rod Melancon

"...cover art and opening title track augur the Vietnam War, but this is an arresting South Louisiana apocalypse. Bayou..."

May 3, 2019 Music Review by Scott Jordan

Michelle Obama, and All Who Love Her

Becoming tour brings first lady’s grace to her Austin fans

"...I’m becoming someone who owns her story and experiences, warts and all...."

March 1, 2019 News Post by Nina Hernandez

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...a desperate fight for his own soul. Cast: Patrick Schwarzenegger, Miles Robbins, Sasha Lane, Hannah Marks, Mary Stuart Masterson...."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Vice

Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve

"...latest film, the Life of Dick quasi-biopic Vice: flashbacks, flash-forwards, news photographs and TV footage inserts, a narrator who..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Front Runner

Jason Reitman revisits a long-ago time when a sex scandal could ruin a candidate's shot at the presidency

"...in 1983. No G.H.W. Bush? No G.W. Bush? No war in Iraq? Afghanistan? Implicit questions arise throughout the course..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Crack Pipes

"...Studios ceased. And if a 2005 rocked by the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and the American political pendulum swinging..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Review by Tim Stegall

On Her Shoulders

A refugee's quiet advocacy is a tale of true heroism

"...In 2018, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its highest honor to two individuals who have spent..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Texas Book Festival 2018: War Reporting: The Fighters on the Ground

C.J. Chivers on capturing the lives of American soldiers now

"...synagogue in Pittsburgh, a vaguely troubled C.J. Chivers sat forward in his chair. With his shoulders tense up around..."

Oct. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Elizabeth Banicki

The Yellow Birds

Iraq War veteran's novel gets a sadly uninspiring adaptation

"...Two boys go to war; one comes back, not a man, just a broken..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Fox with a massive voice cast (including Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, and dozens more) in..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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