Checking In: Shinyribs’ Frontman Kevin Russell Keeps His Fingers Crossed & Washed

Concern in a quarantine for Austin’s pied pipers

"...food and generally not annoying each other. I have taken up bike riding as a means of getting away..."

March 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...Milton and the boys. Billed as “the Colonel from Kentucky” (though he was from Chico, TX), Calhoun played solo..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Bob Dylan

"...Fresh off Ken Burns' Country Music revisiting a bearded and reverent Bob..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Music Review by Scott Jordan

Documentary Cowboys Shows That Some Are Still Out on the Range

If you thought cross-country cattle drives were the stuff of legend, this Austin Film Festival showing will make you think again

"...While Force and Langmore might have taken different paths to the world of filmmaking, both share..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Find fall foliage in Texas and stop and smell the roses

"...foliage report, which begins mid-month, on the park’s website. Weekends the park can often reach capacity, so visitors are..."

Oct. 3, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Texas Rangers Get Wrangled Into "Bonnenghazi" Drama

Scandal surrounding House Speaker Dennis Bonnen burns on

"...hour; when members reappeared, a quick unanimous vote was taken to open the Rangers' investigation, and the hearing was..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

What’cha Watchin’?

Who knew News Editor Chase Hoffberger was a sucker for despot propaganda?

"...The Vietnam War (PBS) Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's latest effort is meticulous and..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Column

Austin Film Festival Review: Mansfield 66/67

Did sexess spoil Jayne Mansfield, or was it … Satan?

"...666 triptych, please) and the Hollywood Babylon gang – Kenneth Anger, for the most part – have to work..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

MondoCon Keeps the Fans Happy

Movies, comics, posters, and music highlight MondoCon Year Two

"...culture collectibles, selling prints, toys, even sweaters, and this weekend it gathers creators and collectors in Austin for the..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part One

Four documentaries examine four film legacies

"...Director Daniel Farrands has become the Ken Burns of American horror, first tackling the Voorhees mythos..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sonic Highwayman Dave Grohl

Foo Fighters frontman documents ATX culture and tradition

"...AC: Have you gotten any feedback from directors? Did Ken Burns call you up and say, “Good job, Dave”?..."

Nov. 20, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Grohl Call

Nirvana drummer, Foo Fighter, and documentarian Dave Grohl passes it on

"...AC: Have you gotten any feedback from directors? Did Ken Burns call you up and say, "Good job Dave"?..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...with both Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Kentucky Cycle who grew up in Austin, and OSF Artistic..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Hunted'/'The Grapes of Death'

Horror auteur Rollin abandons vampires for mental decline

"...had scarcely been box-office barnstormers, and so he had taken commercial refuge in France's nascent and burgeoning adult-film industry...."

April 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

America's Music at Austin's Libraries

Austin Public Library gets noisy for this music doc series

"...Jazz (March 26): International Sweethearts of Rhythm, excerpts from Ken Burns' Jazz Country and Bluegrass (April 2): High Lonesome:..."

March 26, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

'Rappahannock County'

A new song cycle views the Civil War from one small corner of Virginia

"...Civil War in all its epic sweep? If you're Ken Burns, you go macroscopic and spend 10 hours of..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra

This program devoted to the New World Symphony altered our sense of the work

"...tone for the era in a manner similar to Ken Burns' documentary style, it was the conversations extracted from..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Point Austin: The Legacy of Solidarity

Film of the 'Austin Chicano Huelga' recounts a city's transformation

"...and a little too heavily influenced by the current Ken-Burns-watch-the-camera-move aesthetic, is an extraordinary historical document and a vital..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Video: Flying Over the Bike Boulevard (With David Byrne!)

City of Austin video shows future Rio Grande/Nueces project

"...a supporter of cycling. Kind of gives it a Ken Burns feel, doesn't it?..."

May 4, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...7pm, Kenny Dorham's Backyard..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...film and ingeniously animated archival photos that are like Ken Burns by way of Terry Gilliam. They bring Hicks..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Showcases

Thursday

"...strings and polish the brass from last year's The Ken Burns Effect. Gypsy-folk duo A Hawk & a Hacksaw,..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Eye of the Media Storm

On the block, the Statesman fiddles while the industry burns

"...have done is largely play defense," said industry analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell, a consulting firm...."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Los Angeles, I'm Yours

Thom Andersen sets the story straight on the city he loves in 'Los Angeles Plays Itself'

"...store in The Public Enemy). He bridles at liberties taken with the city's architectural gems, like the 1893 Bradbury..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

From the Ground Up

Dagoberto Gilb on Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature

"...offer snapshots of the times from which they arose. Taken together, Hecho en Tejas is a historical and cultural..."

June 29, 2007 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season

'Life sucks, and then you die. And then it still sucks.'

"...Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Jackson (PBS/Paramount): Ken Burns conveys the hard-fought life of Jim Crow America's..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...good as there is – on a par with Ken Burns' Baseball, and ... well, the cupboard's a little..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

House Arrest

Both Anna Deavere Smith's script for 'House Arrest' and Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of it fall short as meaningful political theatre

"...encountered commanders-in-chief, such as writer Studs Terkel, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, RW Apple of The New York Times, or..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Yummer Reading

Cookbooks, memoirs, anthologies, and more

"...a history survey textbook without the footnotes and a Ken Burns-style documentary without the fiddle music. The beautifully designed..."

May 28, 2004 Food Feature by MM Pack

'Pocho' Patchwork

AFS's Texas Doc Tour brings the formidable Héctor Galán and his 'Visiones' to One World Theatre.

"...U.S. of A. Galán has been dubbed the "Hispanic Ken Burns" for his many PBS-broadcast films on wide-ranging issues..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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