Third Coast Grabs SRSLY, Jimmy John’s Goes Ooh-La-La, Spirited Steaks Sizzle thanks to Still Austin & Double J Ranch, and There’s Some Robot Rolling Up with Your Chicken Tikka Masala …

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Speaking of Valentines, here’s a promotional stunt that’s a goddam..."

Feb. 9, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2021

Which films did you care most about as the pandemic rolled on?

"...a vengeance in 2021, and you were busy online checking out our recommendations and warnings about what was playing..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Street Corner Arts' Strange, But Perfect

World premiere is a delightful treatise on the stuff of which friends are made

"...his grandma has died and Dee (Natalie Garcia), a fast-talking self-proclaimed "trailer trash" townie who served as her caretaker,..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Austin Film Festival Review: Petite Maman

Whimsical French coming-of-age drama evokes Miyazaki

"...after the death of her grandmother, Pettie Maman is kin to Sciamma’s Tomboy, a perfect comedown project after her..."

Oct. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Review: Who Killed the KLF?

Band biography that burns Behind the Music to ashes

"...1987 and 1992. Former music A&R man Bill Drummond (King Boy D) and guitarist Jimmy Cauty (Rockman Rock) wanted..."

Sept. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Lost Boys

Junkie odyssey takes a long, dark trip from Finland to Cambodia

"...worst and most debauched corners of Indochinese Peninsula, the kind of bars and cheap motels where a trio of..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In Buda, Mini-Golf and War Memorial Are Ingeniously Paired

A veteran's story inspires across generations at the Memorial Miniature Golf and World War II Museum

"...but the newly opened business of his friend Brian McKinney: an 18-hole miniature golf course built to honor World..."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Ali Montag

Who Pulled the Trigger on Brad Levi Ayala?

Austin-made documentary short “Less Lethal” spotlights the citizen detective who solved the police shooting

"...track down a credit card fraudster"). However, he started looking through the vast amount of footage that had been..."

March 26, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Spine of Night

Rotoscoped fantasy layers myth, legend, and gore

"...are no Hobbits in sight here. Instead, this is kin to his epic of barbarians versus sorcerers, Fire and..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kings & Queens Jamaican Cuisine Is on a Mission to Make the World Better With Food

Food is love at this Pflugerville eatery

"..."Out of many, one people." Family operated food truck Kings & Queens Jamaican Cuisine, based at the Old Gin..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Food Feature by David Brendan Hall

As COVID-19 Spikes, AISD Enrollment Declines by Thousands

Where have all the students gone?

"...cases in September and October, combined.) Austin cases were spiking too: The city reported over 1,000 active cases on..."

Nov. 13, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Austin at Large: If We Make It ’Til November

How noisy, chaotic, incoherent, and unpleasant can this election cycle get?

"...Those are old news, and none of it is taking anybody by surprise. And our president is, well, apesh*t,..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

People Talk Funny at Austin Sketch Fest

The annual jubilee of jokes leads off with a spoof of a Trump-Biden debate and a speech on toxic femininity

"...another month or two. The two candidates will be duking it out this Saturday in a debate moderated by..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Knowledge Is Power as Nursing Homes Combat COVID-19

There’s a lot we don’t know about the pandemics’s toll in care centers, but what we do know is bad

"...or may have been better positioned to respond. "It's kind of bad luck if you get one or two..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Austin Music Awards Honor Bill Carter & Ruth Ellsworth Carter, and Tamara Saviano

Mike Judge and Jack Ingram also set to make appearances

"...the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ “Why Get Up?” Carter, who’s reportedly kin to country music paterfamilias A.P. Carter, occupies a notable..."

Feb. 20, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hideout Theatre's The Hallmark Holiday Musical

This delightful improvised spin on Hallmark Christmas movies has just what the real things never do: surprises

"...snow. Over some Christ­mas activity – e.g., ice-skating, cookie baking, tree trimming – the two will reconcile. There will..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Rob Zombie Resurrects the Firefly Family for 3 From Hell

Here to do the devil's work: Director talks how being cool is no excuse

"...was the last remaining members of the kith and kin killers – devious clown Captain Spaulding (grindhouse icon Sid..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Richard Linklater Constructs a Frustrated Architect in Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett's character is the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright, but no less complicated

"...Richard Linklater has a secret. When he's not making films, he's an architecture buff. He dabbles (he calls..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tracking Down Grief With The Head Hunter

Filmmaker Jordan Downey on a monster movie with a fractured heart

"...3. But in other ways, it's still a close kin: A micro-budget indie flick that makes incredible use of..."

April 10, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Film News: Award Winners, Toxic Vengeance, and Cheaper Nights at the Drafthouse

"...Austin filmmaker Ben Masters is taking his new documentary The River and the Wall on..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Council: Can Social Impact Investing End Homelessness?

Catching up with the dais as they bet on success

"...(Item 14), new "micro-mobility" rules for scooters and their kin (including the first penalties for traffic violations – Item..."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Name Sayers

"...metaphysical command position him as the musical next of kin to Nick Cave and PJ Harvey (had the onetime..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Zane Holtz is a Hunter Killer

Austin transplant on going Hollywood and AFF in the same week

"...Holtz became a local fixture and resident while he..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Putting the Austin in Austin Film Festival

What ATX and Lone Star titles are screening at next week's fest?

"...Mike Blizzard makes up for debuting his history of filmmaking in the State Capital, Also Starring Austin, at the..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What's Fantastic at Fantasia

Highlights from the Canadian genre fest, plus films you may see soon

"...best known as The Handmaid's Tale's Janine) has her working relationship with her regular viewers, and makes a comfortable..."

Aug. 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fear the Walking Dead Casts Its Shadow Over Austin

The AMC spin-off smash brings the dead to Texas

"...Like any good postapocalyptic drama, The Walking Dead zombie franchise has always had a little chaos..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

New French Cinema Week at AFS

Head over heels for the new Gallic wave

"...many varied and rich views of humanity (and more thought-provoking than anything playing at the local multiplex), we've dialed..."

April 20, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Immortal Voices: Uncle Walt’s Band

Essential Austin trio get first national release

"...and steel, and lots of people onstage and one kind of token singer. We were just the opposite, a..."

Feb. 12, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Top 10 Needlessly Long Sentences

"...for a price) and dubious, dangerous drug dealers (I'm looking at you, Pfizer), but the most deplorable aspects of..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Holiday Viewing: Doctor Who at Christmas

Which are the best (and worst) of the BBC classic's Xmas specials?

"...Here's the whole list ranked, from coal in your stocking to the fairy on top of the tree...."

Dec. 11, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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