Why Him?

What if your child brought home James Franco as your new son-in-law?

"...Directed by: John Hamburg. Starring: Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Zoey Deutch, Megan..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Menacing Behavior Under the Dome

Witness removed after threatening senators that dare to vote against sanctuary city bill

"...There was initially confusion over Clay Laird's testimony, because somehow he had been listed as against..."

April 15, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...filed a class-action lawsuit against Robertson Co., its DA John Paschall, the city of Hearne, and several others over..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Here Are Your Winners for the 42nd Annual Austin Music Awards

Austin’s favorite albums, artists, and instrumentalists of 2023

"...Wild Child, “Dear John”..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by The Music Team

Gay Place Top 10s: IIIII-dentity!

Ring it in gaily!

"...GirlFriend (Ezra Edwards!) & DJ Side One Track One (John Laird!). Thu., Dec. 31, 7pm. Cheer Up Charlies, 900..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: Merry Soxmas

Ebony Stewart holds a sock drive as the holidays are upon us

"...GirlFriend (Ezra Edwards!) & DJ Side One Track One (John Laird!). Thu., Dec. 31, 7pm. Cheer Up Charlies, 900..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: 'Mo-tivator

Erica Nix wants to PUMP. YOU. UP!

"...GirlFriend (Ezra Edwards!) & DJ Side One Track One (John Laird!). Thu., Dec. 31, 7pm. Cheer Up Charlies, 900..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Sour Notes Tour Diary

Local indie troupe cruises NXNE and all points between

"...It’s Side One Track One blogger John Laird’s birthday, and our tour kickoff at Holy Mountain...."

June 28, 2013 Music Post by Jared Paul Boulanger

Daytrips

"...Kenneth Laird's Bar-B-Q Pit in Llano has moved indoors. This may..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Column

Wit

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a terminal-disease drama that still has the power to move us

"...heroine is an academic specializing in the verse of John Donne – specifically, the Holy Sonnets that roil with..."

March 23, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Tosca are no Slackers, Pong bounces back, the Dicks still hate the police, and Ken Lieck finds a new journalist pal in this week's "Dancing."

"...14 date out at the Backyard. It was Daniel Johnston, not Tosca, who played Linklater's most recent shindig, the..."

July 6, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

What's Old Is New

On Margaret Moser's bedside books, older is better

"...Beauty by Anna Sewell, 1955 The Crofter & The Laird by John McPhee, 1969 The Oxford Companion to Irish..."

July 28, 2011 Books Post by Margaret Moser

Riding Giants

A creative wipe-out from the director of Dogtown and Z-Boys

"...for years before it became a popular haunt; and Laird Hamilton, surfing’s current hero of the new frontier, who..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What a Piece of Work Is Woman!

After four centuries of being berated, belittled, betrayed, bullied, battered, and butchered by the men in Shakespeare's plays, the women have had enough. They're ready to speak out, to give Will a piece of their minds. And in playwright Susan Kelso's Roses and Thistles, they do just that.

"...many people are likely to know Constance from King John or Emilia from The Two Noble Kinsmen? For that..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Dembanger D: John Berardo Screenwriters: John Berardo, Lindsay LaVanchy, Brian Frager Ellery..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Articulations

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

"...Alfre Woodard, Christine Lahti, Mary McDonnell, and the Doors' John Densmore in one in Los Angeles. Austin's event can't..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney

"...model the big screen's proverbial glass slipper. Fritz Lang, John Ford, Josef von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, and Joseph L...."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

On Swift Horses Rides Into SXSW

ATX true crime series The Yogurt Shop Murders also joins fest

"...forcing Lola to confront her dark past. Cast: Emma Laird, Fionn Whitehead, Zar Amir, Adwoa Aboah (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 5, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...But James' Johnny Rotten sneer sounds parodic enough to suggest his involvement..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...Lead Actress Katherine Catmull, John Barbara Chisholm, The Totalitarians Sarah Marie Curry, The Revolutionists..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Collapsing Beams at the Mercury, Asleep at the Wheel Beams into Your Home, SXSW Marches On

"...Lovett, Miles Zuniga, and Ann Richards. Finally, Texas Terri Laird has been seen recently on an oft-repeated E! special,..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Alamo Drafthouse Goes Into the VOD Business

Alamo on Demand to offer curated selection of films

"...members of the booking team including Weird Wednesday programmer Laird Jimenez, Champagne Cinema and Afternoon Tea creator Sarah Pitre,..."

May 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Turns Out Final Weekly Band List

De La Soul, Mavis Staples, Ximena Sariñana highlight 10th lineup drop

"...Barry Dean, Luke Laird, Ashley McMillen (Nashville, TN.)..."

Feb. 28, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...Book: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Roadie

The shot about midway through 'Roadie' that travels from her sparkling shoes slowly up to her beaming face – that's Margaret Moser.

"...punky do that I later went to Texas Terri Laird to maintain...."

March 2, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas

"...fiction right now, a lot of great writers like Laird Barron and Wilum Pugmire. Southard: Some John Langan stuff...."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Happenings

September 6-12

"...ELIZABETH EDWARDS Presidential candidate John Edwards' wife speaks and signs copies of her book,..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature

Book Reviews

Winter's Tales

"...in Best American Short Stories 1994, then selected by John Updike for Best American Short Stories of the Century...."

Jan. 28, 2000 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Dancing About Architecture

Five Days Makes One Weak

"...teamings of the week included the Old 97s and John Doe, a near-nekkid "Texas" Terri Laird (as always, not..."

March 27, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck