SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Simon Rumley (Red, White and Blue) gets dusty with Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word, which Neece called "a Texas..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...then I was listening to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, and all of those guys before rock..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Texas Tropes

Is Don Graham Really Texas' Literary Curmudgeon?

"...photograph by John Anderson..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

scanlines

Gabriel Over the White House

"...Paris Is Burning D: Jennie Livingston VHS Home Video..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Feature

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...stronger with this Jordan Peele-produced revenge flick. Described as "John Wick in Mumbai," this action-packed drama was inspired by..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Record Reviews

"...In "Man That I've Become," he's as black as Johnny Cash; in "You Inspire Me," he's as seductive as..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Reissues

"...version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and later replaced John Coltrane in Miles Davis' band. His major influences were..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...the national consciousness: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, King Rastus Brown, John Bubbles, Fred Astaire, Harold and Fayard Nicholas, aka the..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pearl Jam Barcelona (Epic)
Pearl Jam London (Epic)
Pearl Jam Dublin (Epic)
Pearl Jam Paris (Epic)
Pearl Jam Hamburg (Epic)
Pearl Jam Stockholm (Epic)

"...Pearl JamBarcelona (Epic)Pearl JamLondon (Epic)Pearl JamDublin (Epic)Pearl JamParis (Epic)Pearl JamHamburg (Epic)Pearl JamStockholm (Epic) "Vacation, all I ever..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

By Any Other Name

The history of Austin's cherished landmarks reveals the extent to which chance plays a part in who among their namesakes we remember and which fade with time.

"...to ask who was more important, Robert Mueller or John August Earl Bergstrom? (Mueller takes that one. Bergstrom, scion..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...subscribe to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Paris in 1948? Interestingly enough, that's the same year as..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Band Announcement, Part III

1,500 of some 2,000 showcasing acts now vetted

"...Marianne Dissard (Paris, France)..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Carnage

Roman Polanski directs this chamber piece about the demise of social decorum that's adapted from the play God of Carnage.

"...Polanski. Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly...."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jazz Sides

Naxos' latest Jazz Icons series has arrived

"...'63 & '70 (Naxos) Jimmy SmithLive in '69 (Naxos) John ColtraneThe World According to John Coltrane (EuroArts/Lower 5th) Billie..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Searcher

Wim Wenders on his sense of the right direction

"...teamed up with American playwright Sam Shepard to make Paris, Texas, the classic that follows an amnesiac man through..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

Bicycles, Roses, and Survivors

The Lance Armstrong Foundation and the spirit of its founder

"...Armstrong, his agent Bill Stapleton, and his best friends, John Korioth and Bart Knaggs – batted around the idea..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...D: Robert Wise; with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn...."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Waterland

"...Sinead Cusack, Grant Warnock, Lena Headley, Ethan Hawke and John Heard. History experienced as the personal instead of an..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grace Sorensen, and More Highlights From Sunday at ACL Fest

From The Breeders’ sustaining cool to GloRilla’s unfazed flow

"...engulfed by a shimmering red cape like an Elton John angel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O elevated the theatrics..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

The sometime Austinite tours the U.S. for the first time since 1969

"...for the band had been sown years prior in Paris...."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

SXSW Music: Second Band List of 2016

Tommy Stinson, Thee Oh Sees, Mercury Rev, and 212 more

"...Holy Oysters (Paris, France)..."

Nov. 17, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman

The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...from the law. I remember him framed in a John Ford doorway, the light just right, his head tilted..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black

SXSW 2013 Round Two: More Bands Announced

Big year for Bogota bands with a heavy playlist from Colombia

"...Coathangers (Atlanta, Ga.) Cold War Kids (Los Angeles, Calif.) John Wesley Coleman (Austin, Texas) Andrew Collberg (Tucson, Ariz.) Coma..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

My SXSW

"...Ahh, Austin, the Paris of Texas (with apologies to Paris, Texas). This is..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Harry Shearer

Hustle and Snow

At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery

"...at an event that can attract both scenesters like Paris Hilton and politicians like Al Gore – albeit not..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Festival of Lite

Arts writer Robi Polgar finds the true meaning of Chanukah, if not the true spelling ...

"...cheer and take too close a look at portly John Madden standing beside white-haired Pat Summerall: They merge into..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Robi Polgar

Live Shots

"...Paris is one thing. Snaking your way through the city's..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature

Lee

Underwhelming biopic of the underappreciated war photographer Lee Miller

"...script – credited to Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, and John Collee – is based on the 1985 biography Antony..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

The end of the rebuilt epic anime digs deep

"...that there's no epic combat: The opening defense of Paris is as bombastic as the franchise has ever got,..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Vanquish

Wooden Wick knock-off wastes Ruby Rose's star power

"...Vanquish’s female antihero goes full on ultramegabadass, a downright John Wicksian force riding through the Louisiana/Mississippi gulf coast night..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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