Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 18-24

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1922, Aquarian author James Joyce published Ulysses, a novel recognized as one of..."

April 18, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Opportunities to Amplify, Educate, and Trailblaze in This Week’s Events

The week ahead is looking bright

"...on April 5 to make your call.   – James Scott SXSW EDU..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...on women along the way. Cast: Christopher Tramantana, Asa James, Celester Rich, Richard Cooper, Sam Gilroy, Ron Palais, Michael..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Room Next Door

Old friends reconnect amidst a cancer diagnosis

"...the script dares to quote the final lines of James Joyce’s “The Dead” in a desperate attempt to add..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bird

Danger, nature, and coming of age in Andrea Arnold's latest

"...Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan, Jason Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce, Frankie Box, Rhys Yates, Joanne Matthews and Sarah..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bill Campbell: Blues Me or Lose Me

Remembering the late, great guitarist

"...Kenneth Threadgill and his quartet of Chuck and Julie Joyce, Cotton Collins, and Campbell playing a devoted night of..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Taste of Things

Charming touching tale of love between two middle-aged chefs in 19th-century France

"...given a significance in description only matched by novelist James Joyce’s setting of the Christmas feast in “The Dead.”..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...school’s matron divides them. Cast: Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ameripolitan Awards Return to Austin for Ceremony’s 10th Anniversary

Ray Benson, Augie Meyers, and Flaco Jiménez will be honored Feb. 18

"...Fox, Lisa Pankratz, Rick Trevino, Brennen Leigh, Melissa Carper, James Intveld, Rosie Flores, and, curiously, Britt Daniel...."

Dec. 15, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...Jackson (Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion) Tania James (Loot) Paulette Jiles (Chenneville, A Novel of Murder, Loss..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Emerald Fennell's Saltburn to Open Austin Film Festival

Promising Young Woman followup leads first title drop

"...interrupted by a stranger seeking to belong.Starring: Michelle Fairley, James Nelson Joyce..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Caught

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

"...unlikable editor of The New Yorker (Robert Pierson), and Joyce, the thin-skinned freelance journalist who wrote Bo’s story (Rebecca..."

Aug. 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Fusebox, Alejandro Escovedo, alexalone, and the Ballinger brothers lead our recommendations

"...Brennen Leigh, Amber Digby, Marti Brom, Summer Dean, Teri Joyce, Janet Lynn, and Kathryn Legendre, while Shinyribs' Kevin Russell..."

April 14, 2023 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

Long-Awaited Reforms at Austin Police Academy Just Aren’t Happening. Why?

How the fish rots

"...discussion of how the academy trains around racial profiling. Joyce James Con­sulting, a firm that offers workshops on how..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Blonde

Treatise on fame turns Marilyn Monroe's life into a horror story

"...The second adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 2000 novel, Blonde is in a way..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Beats Per Second titles that includes metal master Ronnie James Dio (DIO Dreamers Never Die), prog pioneers King Crimosn..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 6-12

"...19): Poet Ezra Pound wrote a letter to novelist James Joyce that included the following passage: "You are fucking..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 4-10

"...championed and promoted with gusto were 20th-century literary icons James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, William..."

June 4, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Faster Than Sound: KindKeith Has What You Need

A dreamy alternative R&B debut and a few major venue reopenings, too

"...studio, moved here for a job offer from owner/bandleader James Petralli, connected through the singer's mother being best friends..."

May 14, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Outlays Another $3.5 Million

City program supports 28 venues with ongoing grants as national Save Our Stages funds stall

"...Alongside Garza, venues now work primarily with consultant Joyce James on the "Equity Strategic Plan" requirement of the..."

April 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Pays 73 Venues

Ongoing funding under Phase 2 to begin in March.

"...Equity training begins this month with consultant Joyce James. Completed plans aren't required of venues in order..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Audits Highlight Problems at Police Academy

“It comes down to the culture”

"...The second report, from Joyce James Consulting, is essentially a compilation of prior reports..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

In Live Music Preservation Fund’s First Week, 79 Austin Venues Applied for Relief

The slow road to dedicated venue funding now moving fast

"...that: “music venues must work with racial equity consultant Joyce James on long-term plans for diverse booking, hiring, and..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Venue Relief Pending as COVID-19 Spike Stalls Restarted Gigs

Also, sampling Flobama's beats, and remembering landmark pianist Margaret Wright

"...funds, music venues must work with racial equity consultant Joyce James on long-term plans for diverse booking, hiring, and..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The word quark comes from a whimsical book by James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake. Hence, why not describe them with..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 13-19

"...for fake claims, followed by Tolstoy's War and Peace, James Joyce's Ulysses, and the Bible. I hope you won't..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Relic (Australia) D: Natalie Erika James Screenwriters: Natalie Erika James, Christian White When Edna, the..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...and hallucinogenic rabbit shite. Cast: Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris, Alice Lowe, Samuel Bottomley,..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Winner by Karl Stevens

Here's the latest from that Boston badass of sequential art and reverie

"...if Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck can be effectively compared to James Joyce’s Ulysses – and it can – then it..."

July 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fear & Loathing

Travis County says goodbye to a coyote-killing machine

"...to coyotes, with Texas congressman and ag industry champion James Paul Buchanan asking it to "wipe them out" in..."

Dec. 22, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

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