Getting Political With The Tree Play and Robin Hood: An Elegy

Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects

"...have never met the likes of Danitra Vance, Rhodessa Jones, Maya Angelou, Nadia Davids, just to scratch the surface..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Testament of Youth

The luminous Alicia Vikander stars as a woman coming of age amid World War I

"...Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Dominic West and Jonathan Bailey...."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hold My End Up

Delta Spirit frontman Matt Vasquez returns to his roots: Austin

"...were sick of southern California," explains Vasquez. "We all love Long Beach and the time we had there. There..."

June 5, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Reckless Kelly’s Fields of Dreams

Everybody wins at the Braun brothers’ celebrity softball jam

"...team would include Mattingly as coach and my father, Jon Dee Graham, “screaming as the umpire behind the plate.”..."

May 29, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Sweet Spirit Tour Diary

On the road with Spoon

"...Jon, our bass player, is usually radio head, the person..."

May 26, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Our Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2015

The summer movie season has begun, and we've got opinions

"...with her long-suffering family in this film directed by Jonathan Demme from a script by Diablo Cody. (Aug. 7)..."

May 1, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Ten Minutes with Sally Timms

Brit-punk siren on her band’s new documentary and longevity

"...the Marchesa Theater, 8pm. Director Joe Angio, and bandleaders Jon Langford and Sally Timms will be in attendance for..."

April 16, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Q&A With Comedian Tig Notaro

Showtime documentary airs Friday

"...as she travels around the country with fellow comic Jon Dore, performing in backyards, small living rooms, and cornfields...."

April 15, 2015 Screens Post by Andy Campbell

Siempre Selena

Game changer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez prompts Corpus Christi's inaugural "Selena Fest"

"...being your typical Tejano player. The scene where actor Jon Seda (as Chris) is auditioning for Selena's dad, Abraham..."

April 10, 2015 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

The Sun Also Rises

Out of tragedy blooms East Cameron Folkcore.

"...the Borrowers. Led by "Cadge" Moore, "Deadweight" Mongeon, and Jon "Baggage" Pettis, they laid down bruising, bluesy riffs with..."

April 3, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

ATX Television Festival Justifies Your Love

June fest celebrates Justified, Drunk History, and more

"...series. Yost will be joined by Boomtown executive producer Jon Avnet, producer Fred Golan, and cast members Neal McDonough,..."

March 25, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...an actual soul and no need for a thesaurus, lovers say "The Beigeness" is the finest piece of UK..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...Yawn 9pm, Valhalla Second LP Love Chills released last fall, this Chicago fourpiece trips out..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Gay Place: One Queered Up Year

This way a gay, that way a gay: Steer here, queers

"...Love. on the Rooftop Rebecca Loebe, Patrice Pike, Buggaboo, Ginger..."

March 20, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

All or Nothing

Ian McLagan: Small Face, Face, auxiliary Rolling Stone, A-list sideman, Austinite

"...Little Walter, back Howlin' Wolf," reflects Bump Band bassist Jon Notarthomas of McLagan's mid-Sixties blues apprenticeship. "He was proud..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Comedy: Covering All Things Comedy

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

"...Feel That Way), Al Madrigal (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart), and Doug Benson (Doug Loves Movies podcast, Super..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

New Model for a Funny Business

Bill Burr and Al Madrigal's All Things Comedy lets the folks making jokes own more than the laughs

"...known as a correspondent on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart – and fellow comedian-actor Bill Burr co-founded All..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

25 New Local Parallels

Austin acts cover their own on compilation out today

"...a song to cover, bands typically dig for universally beloved source material and avoid contemporary compositions. The connection between..."

Feb. 16, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"..."Last year, Neece said, "all those filmmakers that we love had films ready to go." 2015, by contrast, is..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Guitar Pedals

Gas prices are down, so the boutique guitar pedal boom is up

"...Eddie Van Halen's whirling undertow on "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love." Chorus rings in the 12-string-style overtones of early Pretenders..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Miraculous Sound: Jamie Wellwarth

Austin engineer acquiesces to online fund for his surgeries

"...Beloved local sound engineer Jamie Wellwarth, a regular at the..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Q&A Hole: Killing a Human?

With Jon Lebkowsky, Marc English, Rowan Hagemann, and more

"...Jon Lebkowsky, Web Strategist & Digital Culture Maven: That's a..."

Jan. 26, 2015 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Music: List Four

First of regular Friday blasts notches total acts past 1,000

"...Jon Langford (Chicago, Ill.)..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Music Post

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Vampires, hip-hop, cults, and odd romance are our unreleased faves

"...The American falling in love abroad: From Roman Holiday to Before Sunrise, it's been..."

Jan. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Year in Movies, and in Moments

What didn’t make my Top 10

"...I filed my Top 10 list this year, as..."

Dec. 31, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ian McLagan: All I Wanna Do

Ian McLagan's swan song

"...AC: On "Love Letter," the organ is mixed really high and it..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Science-Fiction Cinema

Water wars

"...all, if it wasn't for Texas-shot All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, writer Jacob Forman and director Tom Hammock..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ground Plan

Lisa Scheps' Christmas gift to the local stage scene is a new performance venue, Ground Floor Theatre

"...Off the Stage and on the Air, this lifelong lover of the stage ran her own 100-seat venue, play!..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced

Boyhood, Kumiko earn multiple nods

"...Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole Boyhood Producers: Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland Love is Strange Producers:..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Rosewater

Jon Stewart makes his directing debut with this story about a journalist's imprisonment in Tehran.

"...Directed by: Jon Stewart. Starring: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Haluk Bilginer,..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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