Mug Life

Austin isn't a world-class beer destination, but it's close

"...It's difficult to overstate how hungry the Austin beer economy..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Food Feature by Eric Puga

DVD Watch: ‘Life Is Sweet’

What a gorgeous ensemble of oddballs and misfits

"...the end of his director’s commentary to confide that Life Is Sweet is his least favorite film. Even Leigh..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...Are you a Girlie Night fan? Swoon for sing-alongs? Only go in for arthouse and foreign fare, merci beaucoup?..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Unraveling Shakespeare's Life

Dr. James Shapiro tackles the Bard one slice at a time

"...Whether or not you believe William Shakespeare really wrote all those plays, you can probably concede that..."

March 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

The Kids Are All Right

A grin-cracking great portrait of a modern American family in minor and major crises.

"...Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson. The Kids Are All Right, a grin-cracking great portrait of a modern American..."

July 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Double Life

Splitting the difference between Peter Schickele and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach

"...The actor whose role takes over his life...."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...You shall preserve me from trouble..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: And It Was All Right

Notes on a life saved by rock & roll

"...water that are his chore to carry but then falls asleep. While out of it, Mickey misses that the..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Louis Black

All That Remains

Roxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago, leaving her family with only memories and investigators with few clues

"...The dreams are all strikingly similar...."

July 3, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously.

"...Swinton, Richard Jenkins, David Rasche and J.K. Simmons. Burn After Reading, the new film from the Coen brothers, won’t..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Dream of Life

SXSW celebrates the best of what I am and what I believe

"...South by Southwest is only one week away. Check within this issue on how..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.

"...to hell, as Argento’s supremely distasteful (but no less challenging or accomplished) film describes the ever-decreasing maelstrom of psychic..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...The space is small and austere: fluorescent bulbs and walls of bare brick,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Friday After Next

"...Beastie Boys if it weren't for Ice Cube's West Coast-only tag. Friday After Next is the third in the..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amusing Ways of Life

Three Central Texas traditions continue to make fun a destination.

"...Thomas Carnivals It's a flawless spring twilight at the Founders Day carnival..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Anne Harris

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

"...Ken Burns territory, this expansive documentary on the multi-tiered life of Russian émigré-cum-novelist-cum-philosopher Rand is nothing if not ambitious...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Life in The Real World Kult

Please Take My MTV

"...I am not a freak. I prefer to be called a complete-ist. Yes, as a teenager my bedroom was..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature by Adrienne Martini

Heartless Bastards A Beautiful Life

Erika Wennerstrom's extraordinary personal and artistic journey reaches a new pinnacle

"...a solo turn from the lead vocalist, A Beautiful Life emerges not just as a reset, but as a..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Austin Dance India Calls on Us All to Respect Mother Earth

Multimedia, multicultural production Sacred Earth Stories appeals to the heart

"...Anuradha Naimpally believes those who don't listen with their brain might..."

June 28, 2019 Arts Feature by Sumaiya Malik

The 12 People You Meet at Sam’s Town Point, Austin’s Real-Life Roadhouse

You’d never know the South Austin honky-tonk is there, but wait 'til you meet its cast of characters

"...musical axis. Lately, the city's least visible venue – geographically speaking – has emerged as a happening scene. [inset-1-right]..."

April 26, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

How Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" Became the Most Valuable Song of All Time

Buffett began composing the song after visiting a local Mexican restaurant

"..."It's been a pretty good song," Buffett casually responds. "No,..."

July 21, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk

Her father's death and daughter's birth upped the stakes of the singer's finest work

"...and reserved around people she doesn't know. During his lifetime, Richard Elkin collected 600,000 pennies...."

April 14, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Sanctity of All Life?

Notes on David Joseph's death

"...“We do value the sanctity of all life here at the department. So yesterday’s events, as..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Post by Kahron Spearman

Only Bowie

Long lost 1995 Austin compilation wields a license to freak

"...month today, Bowie Year continues proving – in wave after seismic wave (tune in to the Grammys Monday) –..."

Feb. 10, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

B.B. King Saved My Life

He played blues so we can find a way through ours

"...They called him “King of the Blues” for the past 50..."

May 15, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

A Wild Pitch of a Life

No No: A Dockumentary chronicles the legendary life of pitcher Dock Ellis

"...If you know only one thing about the pitcher Dock Ellis, it's probably..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

All My Love

C-Side Records' family values

"..."We've never done one of these before and didn't really know what to expect. All we brought was a..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

'The Sporting Life': Pocket Billiards

"...   Bar games, pub games, or parlor games – call them what you will, but there is no denying..."

Oct. 16, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

... And Justice for All?

Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost depicted the grossly mishandled trials of three Arkansas teens. With Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, part of the Texas Documentary Tour, they return to the scene of the crime.

"...their careers documenting the soft and rancid underbelly of small-town America. In eight years and three films they have..."

April 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

All Done Up

"...too much freedom in deciding what to wear, and it's not a pretty picture. But let's not beat ourselves..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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