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The weekend in arts and culture

"...years on and they still sniff about his naked ambition to have the kind of success that Basquiat and..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

We Give Two Thumbs Up to These Weekend Events

Arty and culture-y things to get up to

"...and Morgan Freeman track down the methodical seven-deadly-sins serial killer on the big screen, even while already knowing what’s..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: Oddity

A wickedly fun blend of melodrama and horror

"...is able to use a personal belonging of Dani’s killer to peer into her final night on earth. But..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

We Broke Up

Awkward anti-rom-com can't work out what kind of funny to be

"...The setup is killer, the title fulfilled in a handful of minutes. As..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

OroBianco Italian Creamery Makes Magic With Water Buffalo Milk

Making mozzarella from white gold

"...the tools to get this thing done, other than ambition.'"..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Photograph

Get ready for romance with this Valentine’s release about family secrets

"...got away, his one true love whose talent and ambition led her to leave the Big Easy behind for..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2019's Big Stories Shaping Austin's Path Into a New Decade

Never a slow news day

"...project could be the center-piece that delivers on that ambition. The November rejection of the Proposition B citizen initiative..."

Dec. 20, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

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

The Ones Who Will Take Your Dead

Director's real life experiences with gang members inspire horror

"...a joke, a one-shot gag about how badass the killer is. That's not William, the begrudging protagonist of I'll..."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sniper 66 Conceptualize Austin's First Serial Killer

The street-punk vets tell the tale of the Servant Girl Annihilator

"..."He was the first serial killer in the U.S., starting in 1884 right here in..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Black Panther

High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.

"...black leads before, but nothing of this scale, or ambition, or with so many African-American creatives involved at every..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Siegel A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home. Cast: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beyond the Mask

Christian swashbuckler changes the storytelling mode but not the message

"...Having more ambition than apparent budget, Beyond the Mask suffers from a..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Crimes That Paid

In Jesse Sublett's top reads of 2014, wherever the protagonists go, trouble follows

"...district attorney turned crime novelist) at her appearance for Killer Ambition (Mulholland Books), and the BookPeople appearance of Austin..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

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

AFF2012: 'Francophrenia (Or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)'

In James Franco's mind, no one can hear you scream

"...to see, in spirit and in sheer unfettered artistic ambition...."

Oct. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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

Killer Lifestyle

Patty Schemel doc Hit So Hard remembers living and dying in the 1990s

"...(and later, her aggressive, moneyed weirdness), the band's unabashed ambition, and its failure to abandon pop structures and standard..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

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

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