Austin Film Festival Review: The Long Dumb Road

Hannah Fidell's road trip comedy makes all the right stops

"...updates, yet it’s grounded in a nostalgic sense of kismet that predates using an app to order rides from..."

Oct. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Danielle White

Back to the Tree House

Writer Sybil Rosen and actress Alia Shawkat on falling in love with Blaze Foley again, and for the first time

"...was meant to play the part." It felt very kismet. ..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Eric Kohn

Struggling to Get by in Rome

The pure perfection and modern resonance of Bicycle Thieves lives on

"...those films that was made from a convergence of kismet or fate: de Sica's obsession with neorealist storytelling, Luigi..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Yoshi Okai Makes Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs List

Otoko chef to be featured in July issue of Food & Wine

"...Torres, Mixtli, San Antonio; Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer, Kismet, Los Angeles; Jordan Kahn, Destroyer, Los Angeles; Angie Mar,..."

April 3, 2017 Food Post by Kimberley Jones

Everybody Has Some

In a round-robin interview, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black open up about their new films

"...to the Festival, it just seemed like so much kismet. Why not have them interview one another?..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Gay Place

2016 promises to be exciting. No one said anything about it being smooth.

"...Meeting Kate in 2013 was kismet – the result of a run-in with a mutual..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Telling Her Story

New web series explores trans identities

"...disclosed that she too was trans. The rest was "kismet."..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Top 10 Sandwiches*

"...winner, winner, chicken dinner. 10) Vegi Supreme at Halal Corner/Kismet Cafe..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

A New Hope

Stroke survivor Robert Reyes gets another lease on life

"...a carrot to engage them." Coincidentally (or was it kismet?), a friend had recently donated an adult-sized tricycle, and..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe

A little extra Austin food news

"...passed the test," Rodil told us this week."It was kismet – I got to focus specifically on beverages at..."

May 22, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Simple Sundries

Glass Half Full's simple bird-meets-girl story is more complex than it appears

"...the satisfying slyness of Dority as her avian housemate, Kismet; seeing the inevitable meeting of woman and bird, and..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Night Owls

This love triangle winks at The Apartment

"...The casting of Pally set off a kismet snowball: Pally suggested Salazar, who clicked immediately as Madeline...."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Darcie Robert

Psychedelic Acid Trope

Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties

"...the sort of coincidence that some hippies might call kismet, three local institutions are currently flashing back to that..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Preview: Kumbia Queers

A Q&A with Ali Gua Gua of Kumbia Queers

"...ago at a DIY festival in Buenos Aires. The kismet meeting of the six self-described “punk, roller girls” from..."

March 14, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Sonobeat Records

Late-Sixties local label Sonobeat – the missing link between the Vulcan Gas Company and Stubb's?

"...Some projects played into the Joseys' hands like vinyl kismet. An article on Texas music in a 1968 Rolling..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Food Issue: Moonage Daydream

Baked goods + Austin Psych Fest = cookie monster

"...draw the line between sweets-inspired snogging, holiday spirit, and kismet? Neither do I recall how the subject came up..."

June 13, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Thinking About Stephen Bruton

There’s just no getting over some people

"...the Proper Nang Night at Maria’s, everything felt like kismet. Photographs of Bruton’s smiling face adorn the walls of..."

May 14, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Face to Face with Chris Gerniottis

Zakary Thaks frontman parties like it's 1969

"...“Talk about kismet!”..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

These Heroes, These Touchstones

So many worlds within the world we know ...

"...a graveyard shift can leadto some weird bits of kismet in this complex life.Bonus: Weapon X. [Note: You got..."

June 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wolf At My Door, Sharpening His Teeth

Crime fiction bleeding into the literary fiction now

"...and the next day, as if due to publishing kismet, an advance copy of that very book comes through..."

June 4, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Encore: A Phone-Less Festival?

You lost your cell the first night of SXSW Music – now what?

"...of people, and I found them! It felt like kismet, much more so than a quick search of the..."

March 22, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Kashmere Reunion Stage Band

Live Shot

"...subsequent documentary premiering at the festival that year (see "Kismet in Kashmere," Screens, March 12, 2010) – both prompted..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

The Hamburg Sound: OTR retreats to Germany's Reeperbahn Festival as Frank Hendrix sells Emo's

"...Houston's almighty jazz-funk ensemble the Kashmere Stage Band (see "Kismet in Kashmere," Screens, March 12, 2010), has been backed..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Wednesday Rewind

Kashmere Stage Band's 'Texas Jewels'

"...The acclaimed documentary Thunder Soul (see “Kismet in Kashmere”) has been picked up by Jamie Foxx..."

Sept. 28, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Drums Across Texas

What does Reagan High's drum line have in common with civil rights? Larry Jackson.

"...as documented in Mark Landsman's film Thunder Soul (see "Kismet in Kashmere," Screens, March 12, 2010). Jackson's tenure there..."

June 17, 2011 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Otis and Ursula stumble upon each other into strange kismet and true heart connection ... and light...."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Witty, Pretty People

The real deal on Austin as a reality TV casting mecca

"...no sign of ending anytime soon. So it's probably kismet that I, a once active person who can barely..."

April 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Off the Record

Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film

"...documentary Thunder Soul, helmed by producer Mark Landsman (see "Kismet in Kashmere," Screens). "That was one of the great..."

March 12, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Austin Cabaret Theatre

For its ninth season, the cabaret company moves into a new home at the Long Center

"...move to the Long Center "was one of those kismet things where it all fell into my lap. The..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Family Is for Life

Austin Film Festival to honor Arrested Development's Mitchell Hurwitz

"...to "an amalgam of strategy and, dare I say, kismet." And, of course, who gets staffers most excited...."

July 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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