Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...the summer horizon are a number of films from well-known autuers: Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

The First-Ever Austin Women in Jazz Festival and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Plus visiting acts from Burna Boy to Mike Dimes and Dro Kenji

"...her turn at the mic, she joked, "I don't know. I just got it from Peggy." – Rachel Rascoe Creek..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...they rarely dragged themselves out of the direct-to-video mire. Now Chris Pine (Star Trek) leads the adventure in this..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...amalgam of interview clips and a good example of what is known as "talking heads" documentary style. And even..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...or take a few days), and came up with what we considered the most exceptional achievements in dance, classical..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...offensive, attacking Bell in TV ads, Perry's first televised acknowledgment that he actually has opponents. See p.22...."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...the audience, and especially fine examples of reggae and what's now called world music. A local act getting a..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Timothy Hutton; with Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cathy Moriarty, Evan Rachel Wood...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Victory at the Victory

Bill Spelman and Sheryl Cole celebrate reelection at the Victory Grill

"...lately decided to hold a joint election-night event, and now "nobody's in charge!" A TV was eventually commandeered (although..."

May 13, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness

Stay TF home

"...Four minutes is all it took for Shinyribs major-domo Kevin Russell to respond affirmatively, so I jotted them down..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...story of the touching and offbeat friendship between world renowned artist Alberto Giacometti, and American writer and art lover..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...fall of the 1970s New York City swingers’ nightclub known as Plato’s Retreat...."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week: "If Tom DeLay had known what a great reception we'd get in South Texas,..."

March 12, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TV Eye

At the SXSW Interactive 2000 Festival, columnist Belinda Acosta takes a peek at the television of the future; also, director Kevin Smith fumes over the television version of his indie hit Clerks, and the Emmys announce a change in voting procedure.

"...What does that mean? Think of a TV that works..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood catches up on culinary news in this week's "Food-o-File."

"...spring, there has never been any official word about what happened there. Recent word on the street is that..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...resurfaces into the life of former high school drinking buddy-now-architect Harley (Keith), is genuinely creepified. Former Battlestar Gallactican Benedict..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

Postmarks

East Timor. Campaign Finance Reform. Napster. Living Wages. Little Richard.

"...John Sayles answers the question, "Why should we care what happens to East Timor?" ["The Road to Independence," May..."

May 26, 2000 Column

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...Up West. Wu-Tang Clan! That's all you need to know about New York's Inspectah Deck, easily the conference's most..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

The Dead Are Speaking with the Tongues of the Living?

Yes, and it's all because of those creepy Blackbower Mediums

"...Like, what, there's some kind of Chat Room Of The Dead..."

Nov. 1, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Naked City

"...in the federal minimum in more than nine years. Now serious pressure is on the House to approve the..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Another festival weekend, this time jazz; plus Mars Music not going under, and Bill Hicks -- still dead, more CDs.

"...as Benson promises lots of Texas talent involved in what he calls "a cross between the Prairie Home Companion,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Looks Back... and Forward

Documentary Film Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker

"...filmmakers today as influential as documentarian D.A. Pennebaker. Best known for his enormously influential film Don't Look Back, which..."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

"Bob" Watches Over Us or: Weekend of Slack

"...permutation of Booger 9000 (their leader, the Artist currently known as President William Howard Taft, is said to be..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Bright Now Beyond, Salvage Vanguard Theater..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...valley below – says it all: We're on top now, the world at our feet. This is our future...."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...obeying the laws of our country, which we are now obeying. ... [Overthrowing the Sandinistas] would be a violation..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Upfront Aftermath: CBS & the CW

More peeks at what what's coming to prime time

"...play a version of the real life Charlie Sheen. Now that they’ve gone for a younger actor, I’m actually..."

May 19, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

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