Top 20 Austin Breweries

Gird your liver for our annual Central Texas brewery power rankings

"...team that starts off the tournament with a wide-eyed ambition, then proceeds to annihilate every other club with an..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

Jackie Venson Strips Off Her Blues Band and Becomes Her Own "DJ"

Austin's reigning Best Guitarist scales the ladder to the roof

"...living isn't necessary to feed, house, and clothe oneself. Ambition nudges creatives onto the ladder. This dreamer holds clear-cut..."

July 26, 2019 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Wild Tinderbox

"...and muddy production. Wild Tinderbox gathers the ingredients for killer rock once their execution matches the Austinites' ambition...."

Dec. 2, 2016 Music Review by Bryan Rolli

Jad Abumrad Detours to the Paramount

Radiolab creator previews Austin audio walking tour

"...of the imagination that, inevitably, plagues almost every artistic ambition at some point. But, as he next pointed out,..."

March 3, 2015 Arts Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...Reunited, they team up to fight the film's maniacal killer and find their way back home. Cast: Taissa Farmiga,..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback

Fun Fun Fun Fest reels off some greatest hits and more

"...previously announced Ice-T (also playing with hard rock "Cop Killer(s)" Body Count) cement a hip-hop class that includes Lupe..."

July 12, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...mental mortal combat. One driven by cash rewards and ambition, the other clinging to her last shred of dignity...."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward

Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all

"...This is where most of Planet Terror's climactic zombie-helicopter-Rose McGowan's-killer-gam battle was staged, and this is where much of..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...two decades and is the beer-soaked cherry atop this killer punk bill. Minneapolis trio Off With Their Heads (12mid)..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

Ugly Man: Stories

Like Kathy Acker and William Burroughs before him (both admirers), Dennis Cooper marries literary ambition and deviance

"...William Burroughs before him (both admirers), Cooper marries literary ambition and deviance; his prose has the taut discipline and..."

June 19, 2009 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...sabotaging his entire life, teenaged Ethan channels all his ambitions into a deluded obsession with uber-hottie Madison Sweet...."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Papa's Brand-New Bag

Jazzers and jam bands alike just wanna funk, Austin style

"...lack of recordings, but it isn't for lack of ambition. There's a core of extremely talented musicians doing something..."

July 27, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The New Mechanic's Guide

Phil Waldorf's tips to landing on Misra Records.

"...do with your music, but in any media a killer visual goes a long way. When major labels became..."

May 12, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...came and went a few years ago with a killer debut on Island means nothing: This cat's got many..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...accelerating abilities, we formed a league. The Trees, the Killer Budz, the Crabs, Six Pak, and the Skunks (from..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000

"...ever the ethics of corporate America. A city of ambition, last chances, resilient political mobility, and organized crime, Las..."

May 11, 2001 Books Review by Dale Smith

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...are Cartwright's ruminations on the Dallas clipjoint proprietor and killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby: "I can tell..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Rides of the Midway: A Novel

"...protagonist in Rides of the Midway is a guilt-ravaged mercy-killer, a dipsomaniacal dope fiend whose hash oil and Quaaludes..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...she feigns pregnancy in order to fulfill her fondest ambition of going on welfare. Nudity and needles abound in..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...possesses more drive than cash. Yet nothing daunts his ambition and nothing deters his will, though the observer might..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Huckleberry Minh: A Walk Through Dreamland

"...with those cards. Maybe the last one is the killer, who knows? So out it comes, and we move..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...three biggest testosterone-fueled rockers, "Enuff," "Dead Letter," and "Hollywood Killer," actually had the roomful of weasels bobbing along, if..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

Turner Is Worthy

"...which affords more awareness of the world and requires ambition and accountability would have been more suitable for my..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

Scanlines

Shine

"...Combined with its themes of overprotective fatherly love, blind ambition, and the horrific insanity they can cause, the film..."

July 11, 1997 Screens Feature

Recviews

"...There's probably a killer middle ground to be found between Pantera and Rage..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Review

Down the Dark Highway

Bradley Denton Talks about Blackburn

"...whose sentiment was founded on the premise that applying weed-killer to planted roots was always easier than attacking wind-borne..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...escape the clutches of vicious bounty hunters and high-flying killer ninjas, while also trying to uncover the mysteries of..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

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