SXSW Film Review: It's Only Life After All

Indie folk legends Indigo Girls as warm and humble rock stars

"...In the SXSW documentary It’s Only Life After All, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray of..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Katherine McNevins

It's Only Life After All

Moving doc about the folk musical duo Indigo Girls

"...In the documentary profile It’s Only Life After All, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray of..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Katherine McNevins

Life After Gentrification

When you and your home both have to move

"...Sitting at a small table inside her cramped camper, Carolina Sanchez called for..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

'Is There Life After Lubbock?'

Jaston Williams, Joe Ely, and Jo Carol Pierce say, 'There is, there is'

"...flat land, high winds, and uncommon levels of creativity? All belong to that curious breed of Texan who survived..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Still Hazy After All These Years

The Seventies may be long gone, but counterculture comedian Tommy Chong is still here and still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music, and making people laugh.

"...I have to confess that when I called Tommy Chong at 8:30 on a Monday morning, I..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature

CD 25: It's a Small District After All

The congressional race in District 25 is not about race -- except when it is.

"...stretching from North Central Austin 350 miles south to McAllen and the border -- will face Hidalgo Co. District..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Life After Death

A new life for almost-forgotten author Mary Gavell

"...published writer in the spring of 1967, several months after she died. The editors of Psychiatry: Journal for the..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Life After the Classical Section

For two decades, he was the man Austin turned to when it wanted the best classical music on vinyl or disc, but the closing of Wherehouse Records has left Russell McCulloh with nowhere to sell Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven.

"...owners think of them as tires to be replaced periodically, McCulloh had become a respected part of Austin's classical..."

June 27, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Life After Sierra Blanca

"...soon as the November elections were safely passed and all repercussions for governor and proto-presidential candidate George W. Bush..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...They call it a lineup drop for a reason: South by..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

After Life

"...some drab, pre-computer-age social service agency. Most, but not all, of them are old; they speak Japanese and their..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In All Your Future Endeavors

A young writer comes to grips with his lot in life after graduation.

"...and hitching rides to and from work when Dad called. Mims, as we affectionately called her, passed away on..."

May 12, 2000 Features Feature by Kevin Wood

'Miami Connection' Connects After 25 Years

Grandmaster Y.K. Kim reels as his 1987 flop becomes a 2012 cult

"...many lost films that get a second burst of life. William Wellman's silent WWI drama Wings. The Bette Davis-starring..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...loyalty, selfishness, selflessness, murder, love, sex, and indigestion are all swirling around one another in Married Life, Sachs’ adaptation..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How the legacy of Townes Van Zandt more than met its match in 'some dumb New York girl'

"...who has just filled her cup: "You know," she calls after him, only half-kiddingly, "it's making me nervous that..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Bug's Life

"...boasts a more sophisticated quality of wit, A Bug's Life strikes a better overall balance of adult- and kid-friendly..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Standing Rock Pipeline Protests Bring New Life to Old Struggles

“It’s about all of us”

"...Nederland, Texas, the company a majority pipeline partner with Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners...."

Sept. 30, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

History Circles Its Tail

Gus Van Sant on the life of Seventies crusader Harvey Milk and the parallels between then and now

"...Harvey Milk, gets its wide release tomorrow, one month after voters in California passed Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

"...gambler, and man of leisure. I am a gentleman.    All the same, I must destroy Happy Jack.    The game..."

Oct. 25, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

How Austin's Queer Community Supports Its Own

Spotlighting the LGBTQ people and orgs looking after our health, youth, elders, and art

"...Not all revolutions are grand and not all radical acts are..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Arts Feature by Sarah Marloff

After Words

Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale

"...and lonely salesman (a sublime Alec Guinness) spends his life’s savings to stay at an upscale seaside resort on..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...In two years, Robert Schenkkan's LBJ drama All the Way premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; moved..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Will a Tax Credit Make Life Better or Harder for Texas Filmmakers?

Advocates worry plan would increase production but hurt local talent

"...It's rare that the sleepy Texas House Culture, Recreation, &..."

April 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

March Toward the Booze, Ye Thirsty Citizens All!

These fine tipples may be precisely the slaking fortress you seek

"...anything about St. Patrick’s Day? Who said booze is all about the Irish, or that the Irish are all..."

March 14, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What To Do After SXSW

David Foster Wallace. HRC Symposium. What else do you need to know?

"...So, after all that, what do we think of David Foster..."

Jan. 12, 2012 Books Post by Cindy Widner

My Life as a Zucchini

A poignant stop-motion coming-of-age tale

"...My Life as a Zucchini arrives in town with a boost..."

March 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is the drama every comic probably wishes he had made. In this life-affirming Italian "concentration-camp comedy," Benigni uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for telling a heartfelt story about a father who protects his son from the gas chambers by the use of the only weapons at his command: his quick imagination, outlandish buffoonery, and scrappy determination.

"...Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Marisa Paredes and Horst Buchholz. Life Is Beautiful is the drama every comic probably wishes..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shelf Life

"...and the paranoid self-reflexivity of Secret Cinema. In Shelf Life, Bartel has adapted a three-person, one-set stage play for..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ninth Life

"...Kim Pendleton, Bill Bolender and Linda Gehringer. Set in Dallas' boho arts community of Deep Ellum, Ninth Life is..."

May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carson McHone: Still Life, Still Alive

Potent Austin songwriter, now married and living in Canada, explores themes of attachment and longing, uncertainty and loss on new album

"...also now shuttered, hearing live music that would soon fall silent. Maybe you were wearing a bandanna mask and..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

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