SXSW Panel Recap: Absurdity Sells: The Value of Playful Events

Keeping things weird for community, art, and profit

"...the theatre’s most popular and attention-grabbing events, such as Jaws on the Water, in which viewers watch the classic..."

March 13, 2018 SXSW Post by Tucker Whatley

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...more SXSW slots last year than any band, dropping jaws from Hotel Vegas to the Sheraton with their unhinged..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

The Epic of Dawnna Dukes

And what a year it's been

"...had legislative staff running personal errands for her. So jaws dropped when she turned up on the first day..."

Dec. 29, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: TV Christmas Episodes

Celebrate the season in Sunnydale, the Oval Office, and more

"...Imagine 30 million jaws dropping in the closing moments when Den coldly pulls..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bullet Head

A cracking good Tarantino-esgue heist film

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Other Worlds Goes Into The Black Hole

Disney cult fave for SF fest, plus final lineup

"...Every film studio wanted its Star Wars. Disney dropped jaws and stretched minds with The Black Hole, one of..."

Oct. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Weekend in Film

This week's big release is just another reason to not like clowns

"...Classics Suspiria and Close Encounters of the Third Kind..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

USA/Mexico

"...Turner in Same Sac, a local avant-doom trio rattling jaws with double-barreled distorted bass. Short-lived, the group gave way..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Straight Outta Calcutta

Sitar maestro Indrajit Banerjee, stoned synching Doom Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, and a bigger Breakaway Records

"...steady stream of shoppers enter with wide eyes and jaws dropped, uttering exclamations like, "Whoa – this place got..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips: Crocodile Encounter, Angleton

A toothy smile at this animal park means it's feeding time

"...extremities and kept a respectable distance from the iron jaws with a Pavlovian response to his presence. In his..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Gay Place

"...Die Felicia Presents Horror Classics Scream queens screen Jaws 3-D: killer sharks and one destroyed SeaWorld-type park. Sun.,..."

July 28, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Cinema, Vehicular

Green Screen Film Series returns to the Laguna Gloria Amphitheater

"...and violent made-for-television thriller regarded by Spielberg fans as "Jaws with cars." That contrapuntal rhythm extends to The Getaway,..."

July 7, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Xetas

"...dialogue. As Harris wrestles "sadness monsters" on standout "The Jaws," Petro completes its call-and-response with words of encouragement. Ultimately,..."

May 26, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

“Vivid Strokes: Contemporary Paintings From Vietnam”

In our tumultuous moment, seeing work by artists from nations that have known tragedy our own has not can be enlightening

"...presumably inanimate dragon is coiled at sharp angles, its jaws opened wide. It is so bright that it makes..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

DVDanger: What to Watch This Halloween

Part I: Slugs, zombies, and one-night stands

"...Earth," as one drunken housewife explains). Typical of the post-Jaws format of mutated beasts attacking an unsuspecting populace, there's..."

Oct. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda of MondoCon

Star Wars, Marvel near misses from the Mondo archive

"...Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: Matt Taylor's variant for his Jaws victims infographic poster...."

Oct. 27, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jack Garratt

Phase (Island)

"...SXSW 2016 as a certified buzz act, he dropped jaws with his six-armed approach to performance, gorgeously realizing his..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The French Connection

Golden moments at Austin Week in Angers, France

"...Andy Bianculli; and blues/soul powerhouse Jai Malano. who dropped jaws with her powerful pipes and swaggering feminism that came..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: Building The Iron Giant

Tim McCanlies talks behind-the-scenes of the animated classic

"...thrust together with someone, it's like the scene in Jaws where they're comparing their scars. Once we got past..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Casting Director Toni Brock on 30-Plus Years of Putting Texans Onscreen

The role of a lifetime

"...Dallas by the legendary Shari Rhodes (casting director of Jaws and Tender Mercies). "Remember," Brock tells me about that..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Bedside Manner: Guitar & Pen

Homework vs. live music ascension

"...was followed by my revisiting Peter Benchley’s follow-up to Jaws, 1977’s The Deep, but Lazlo started acclimating to his..."

June 22, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Digging up the Raiders!

The strange tale of Raiders of the Lost Ark remade

"...it was from the directors of Star Wars and Jaws.” He didn’t go in with big expectations “but by..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dan Patrick Excoriated Over Orlando Shooting Tweet

Lite Guv blames Twitter debacle on timing, not bigotry

"...So of course jaws dropped when professional homophobe Patrick tweeted this, six hours..."

June 12, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...giving them a biological and evolutionary logic. That’s why Jaws is scarier than the Loch Ness Monster...."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Don't Call It Street Punk

A new breed of punk rules Red River

"...promoting shows independently or Animal Train singer CJ dropping jaws with flamethrower vocals (accompanied by the muscled bass of..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Abbott Appoints New Education Commissioner

Education advocates criticized Morath for attempting to quietly privatize Dallas ISD

"...There are some clenched jaws in Texas education circles as Gov. Greg Abbott has..."

Dec. 25, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

UT Football: The Best and the Worst

Emerging Horns transition out of a season of gross extremes

"...signature 2015 manner – the young bulls escaped the jaws of defeat by avoiding being engulfed in another self-caused..."

Dec. 8, 2015 Sports Post by Kahron Spearman

A Safe Place?

Parties, alcohol, and attitudes are contributing to a high number of sexual assaults in Austin

"...to rip, tear, and bleed. It can involve broken jaws, black eyes, concussions, unwanted pregnancies, and STDs. For survivors,..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

What's Behind Door No. 4?

Immersive cinema experience comes to town

"...Austin is Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow (like their recent Jaws event), but it's "not quite the same level of..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Veronica's Room

Hang on for the second act of this Oh Dragon Theatre thriller – then hang on!

"...for a second act that leaves patrons collecting their jaws from the floor of the Trinity Street Theatre...."

Sept. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

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