Day Trips: Good Ole Days, Brady

Antique emporium is a treasure mine of relics and oddities

"...D and J's Good Ole Days in Brady might be called a..."

June 1, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

How J.A. Bayona Made a Real Jurassic World

Director explains how his dinos are leaving the park behind

"...heart, emotion, and insight in the modern, CG-heavy blockbuster? J.A. Bayona, director of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, certainly thinks..."

June 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Comedy: Covering All Things Comedy

"Always own your work," Burr, Madrigal, and Benson tell SXSW

"...“You know you’re getting fucked when they say ‘It’s good exposure.’”..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

Hot Luck Fest Returns, Top BBQ Joints Revealed, Bordeaux Women Honored, Prep ATX Launches, Mangia Dies a Lizardly Death, and Somebody’s Gerrymandering Pizza

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Meanwhile, this very weekend boasts the goodness of Field Guide Festival from Urban American Farmer and..."

Oct. 20, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What's Historic?

Latest arguments over historic zoning sound like déjà vu

"...It's a tough but often subjective set of standards, ultimately reliant on individual judgment calls...."

Feb. 26, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Let's Go Gun Crazy

UT working group recommends allowing guns in classrooms, while a "mock mass shooting" and a "mass farting" protest in response bring out the national media

"...non-media, non-gun-nuts to show up was UT student Karthik Raja, who brought along popcorn to watch the entertainment, explaining,..."

Dec. 18, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Podcast the Myth: B.J. Novak Goes to Texas in Vengeance

The Office star explores the stories that Texas tells itself

"...It's early – early by journalism junket standards – in an upstairs room at Cooper's..."

July 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stubborn With My Goals: Impassioned MC J Soulja Stays Focused on Creating Opportunities in Austin Rap

"There ain't no trophies for that kind of shit"

"..."God has blessed me and I say that just being here because there's been times where I wanted..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

The People's Court

Justice of the Peace Races Not So Peaceful

"...to figure out which of the three races for Justice of the Peace will be the least peaceful. The..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature by Lee Simmons

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith and Isaac J. Bailey in Conversation

The two authors discuss Black Americans and life post-America

"...Is High: Life After the American Dream, and Isaac J. Bailey, author of Why Didn’t We Riot: A Blackman..."

Nov. 10, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

The Future's Still Bright

Barbara K, the woman who turned down $900,000

"..."And some people might even ask why I wouldn't just take the money from Ford and give it to..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...beat the impending downpour, followed by temporary evacuations of major events like Bose and NME’s Inn Cahoots showcase once..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Coach's Corner

Believe the hype. Longhorn freshman point guard T.J. Ford is something special -- maybe the best player in UT basketball history.

"...I was at the first Clay/Liston fight. I saw Jordan and Pippen play in two game sevens. Very special...."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"..."Raul's was a Tejano bar," says Skunks drummer Billy Blackmon. "The guys who..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

ATX TV Honors Michael J. Fox

Small Axe, Ziwe, Faking It make the must-see list

"...a spin (city, that is). ATX Television Festival has just announced that five-time Emmy and four-time Golden Globe winning..."

April 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Needful Things

"...Heston. Starring: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.t. Walsh and Amanda Plummer. Out of the almost 20-plus..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What’s a Grand Jury, and Is It Being Manipulated to Indict Police Officers?

More cops are being indicted, but why all the secrecy?

"...the Austin Police Department officers indicted by a grand jury convened by District Attor­ney José Garza. The city had..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Meet J Wagner

‘Californication’ fan: ‘Keep writing, keep touring, be thankful’

"...Meet J Wagner, Gregory Alan Isakov’s songwriting partner. He joins a family gathering, with my father Jon Dee Graham,..."

Dec. 23, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Big Turnaround (and Who's to Thank for It)

"...victory over the Anaheim Arsenal last night, which is just the kind of powerful inside presence the team was..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

A Few Good Men

Melodrama doesn't come more butch than this, and the performances reflect that intensity, although Aaron Sorkin's moral predicaments are given full scrutiny.

"...Directed by: Rob Reiner. Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollack,..."

Dec. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Doug Dorst puts the S. in 'Ship of Theseus' with this JJ Abrams Collaboration

The author presents his new literary creation at BookPeople tonight

"...Sabine, and it was sparked by an idea from JJ Abrams. Abrams is, of course, that producer-director whose various..."

Dec. 9, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Coach's Corner

Let's have a little historical perspective here. Rick Barnes is doing a fine job as the UT basketball coach, but he didn't single-handedly create the UT basketball program. That was Abe Lemmons, in 1976.

"...to snicker when he referenced dead, long forgotten generals, adjutants, and ministers of Parliament as "outstanding chaps" and often..."

March 29, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Willie's Reserve

Lukas Nelson parlays his DNA into Something Real

"...what I was writing about – broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I..."

June 26, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

City Hall Hustle: Everybody Now – Diversity is Good

What if they threw a race riot and nobody came?

"...hastily called cleanup conference addressing diversity? Why, diversity is good, of course...."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Five Things to Know If You're Thinking About Getting a Pet Rabbit

Bunny 101

"...but ferrets are a smelly handful, and goldfish mostly just provide a one-sided therapy session for lonely people. Hamsters..."

Feb. 19, 2018 Events Post by Josh Kupecki

Still a Good Thing

Lady sings the blues

"...Barbara Lynn Ozen hasn't lost her good thing. She lives in it, saying the first thing..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Kid's Got Moxie!

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

"...it is a four-year experiment in chutzpah, a wearying journey that, like most, wasn't supposed to take this long..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...of the Land Development Code Revision – no cool project names given (yet, at least) – and wouldn't you..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Explorers Club

Austin Playhouse's sublimely silly satire of Victorian pomposity ventures where other comedies fear to tread

"...when crossed, bring discomfort to our social contract. Nell Benjamin's The Explorers Club, now at Austin Playhouse, is a..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

10 Things to Do This Halloween

Check out what's going on this weekend?

"...9pm. 900 Red River, Austin If you love a good drag queen battle then the return of Drag Mortal..."

Oct. 28, 2015 Events Post by Allen Martinez

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