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Don't Leave Home
A strange trip to the Emerald Isle
"...It’s 1986, and an Irish priest returning from painting a landscape is met by..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)
South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more
"...the increasingly eclectic line of the Staves or fellow Irish balladeer James Vincent McMorrow. Slanted electro-pop melodies course around..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

#MeToo, Time's Up Panels Lead SXSW Speaker List
Conference speaker list also adds Sanders, Schwarzenegger
"...politics rather than his acting career. Mirroring that jump, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will be discussing his country's IT..."

Feb. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Dead
The shadow of Christmas past hangs long over Huston's classic
"...song to be a Bergman-esque treatise on grief and Irish identity. Yet in some ways, it's no surprise that..."

Dec. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

City Theatre's The Seafarer
Karen Sneed’s staging is shot through with compassion for the play’s hard-luck, hard-drinking Irishmen
"...lovable characters of McPherson's world, have a slug of Irish whiskey and forget what you've just read. I'll wait...."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

aGLIFF Best Bets
Film premieres and parties galore
"...Fri., Sept. 8, 7pm, Alamo South LamarFinally! The 2016 Irish dramedy starring Seána Kerslake comes to Texas at last...."

Sept. 8, 2017 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Beguiled
A steamy and engrossing Civil War thriller
"...while she’s out picking mushrooms. Farrell, employing his native Irish brogue as mercenary Corporal McBurney, enjoys the ministrations of..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott
"...Lynott (1949-1986) embodied contradiction. As portrayed in Cowboy Song, Irish journalist Graeme Thomson's account of his life, Thin Lizzy..."

June 16, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

DVDanger: A Dark Song
Director Liam Gavin on magic and loss
"...Gavin's feature debut, an Irish-Welsh co-production, received its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2016..."

April 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Fire
A delirious shoot'em-up comedy
"...place in Boston in the Seventies and involves the Irish Republican Army, maybe not. As always, however, with Wheatley..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup
Springtime in Texas means wildflowers and festivals abound
"...begins with the laying of the wreath for the Irish heroes who died at the Alamo. The festival fills..."

March 1, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Live by Night
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this period gangster drama
"...girlfriend (Miller) of a top mobster. Joe, a small-town Irish hood, agrees to the protection offered by an Italian..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tapestry Dance’s One Step at a Time
The rhythm tap company’s production offers not just wonderful dance but perhaps the most necessary commentary of this electoral season
"...arms outstretched, her feet sounding out percussive clicks part Irish folk, part jazz, we sense the presence of both..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Texas Craft Brewers Festival Debuts Beer List
The Texas-only beer celebration returns to Austin
"...Gabriel River Brewery Liberty Hill San Gabriel Texas Red Irish Red San Gabriel River Brewery Liberty Hill San Gabriel..."

Sept. 1, 2016 Food Post by Eric Puga

Worst Tour Stories Ever: Grupo Fantasma
"...today." The bartender overheard this and in his thick Irish accent replied, "Not in this country."..."

July 8, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Gonzalez

Eminent Domain
Rock Rose takes over North Austin
"...What it is: An Irish pub that takes football more seriously than football. The..."

June 24, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The Austin Music Atlas
A primer for the musically inclined
"...shows and videos on the walls around the stage. Irish pub B.D. Riley’s (204 E. Sixth) showcases exclusively local..."

June 14, 2016 Columns Post by Emily Gibson

Don't Call It Street Punk
A new breed of punk rules Red River
"...cynics would look upon recent activity at Red River's Irish pub Bull McCabe's and sneer that this iteration of..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

We're Still Here
Assessing the continuing black Austin experience
"...Legation, but other ethnic enclaves could be found. Swedish, Irish, Italians, and especially Ger­mans settled throughout Austin's old east...."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

A Royal Night Out
Fictional romp about the Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth on V-E Day
"...you’ve seen so many times before. Only the handsome Irish-bred actor Reynor as the AWOL airman and anti-royalist feels..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

My All American
Longhorn legend Freddie Steinmark gets his due in this sports drama
"...into Notre Dame is a family project. The Fighting Irish never call. Instead, high schooler Freddie – still gifted,..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The New Electric Ballroom
At the Vortex, the siblings of Enda Walsh's play can't move past a night from 50 years ago
"...the four characters in The New Electric Ballroom, by Irish playwright Enda Walsh. In the small fishing town where..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

The Unwanted
Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story Carmilla is given a Southern Gothic edge
"...A modernized riff on Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1871 novella Carmilla, Wood’s film..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Showcases
"...Gibson Room A day after St. Patrick's Day, the Irish delegation keeps the celebration going at Maggie Mae's, kicking..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

’71
A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting
"...Dangerous Places author/adventurer/maniac Robert Young Pelton eying the Provisional Irish Republican Army stronghold and booking a flight. Adventure tourism..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Sea
This undersea actioner stars Jude Law as a submarine captain leading a team of Brits and Russians in the recovery of a sunken fortune.
"...the very least we get to see the forever-watchable Irish actor Smiley (The World’s End, Black Mirror, and almost..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Short Films
This live-action group is unified by a general desire to tug at the heartstrings.
"...A slice of Northern Irish history provides the setting for “Boogaloo and Graham,” a..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet
Vampires, hip-hop, cults, and odd romance are our unreleased faves
"...police officer (played by Pollyanna McIntosh) at a small Irish police station, when hell comes knocking in the trench..."

Jan. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Eye: Books Are a Slanket for Your Brain
Read your way through those visits with the in-laws
"...to mordant humor, the English have nothing on the Irish. This late novel by an overlooked Irish wordsmith is..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Letters at 3am: Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey
The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination
"...shifted his thoughts to his great-grandfather Sullivan. His brutal Irish wit bewildered the adults and charmed the children. He..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

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