Taking the Temperature of 'Cold in July'

The film based on Joe Lansdale's novel, 'Cold in July,' is a gnarled tale of modern horror

"...a writhing rattlesnake of Texas Gothic. In the movie, Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall) plays an East Texas picture-framer..."

May 30, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...Austin pictures to come (we’d bet a ham sandwich Richard Linklater’s just-completed Boyhood will make the list). Keep scrolling..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...– a practice that led to his appearance in Richard Linklater's 1991 film, Slacker. In the film, Jones, who..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

All Your Memes Are Belong to Us

Austinites bloom where they're planted, and local meme-makers are here to help us laugh at ourselves

"...have come to Austin, and people started living in little pockets, just like New York. Instead of it being..."

July 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

When movies go looking for Christmas redemption

"...the independent movie world. It was actually Scrooged, director Richard Donner's 1988 update of the classic Dickens story, that..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...Trot" by Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller, performed by Little Eva; "Kyrie Eleison" by David Axelrod, performed by The..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...of musica Latina in Central Texas. Three-time Grammy winners Little Joe y la Familia pioneered Tejano music, blending conjunto,..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Who Did He Serve?

Scott McClellan on Bush, bipartisanship, loyalty, and duty

"...it might seem longer, it has only been a little more than two years since McClellan left the White..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wrecking Ball Stages Surprise Attack in Tarrytown

City does demolition job on Reed Hall, neighborhood morale

"...the weekend came so quickly – and with so little warning – neighborhood leaders and local preservationists were stunned..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

"...Wednesday. "We close at 5pm," Keller said, and Michael Richard was executed that evening...."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...with the California Highway Patrol; and to Milwaukee, where Richard Reinke was an assistant chief before leaving to take..."

May 18, 2007 News Feature

The Playing of the Shrew

Ballerina Allysin Paino reveals more about taming Kate for Ballet Austin's 'Shrew'

"...everything that was going on. I saw the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton movie. And I saw Kathryn Grayson and Howard..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Shakespeare Festival: Playing in a theatrical mecca

A dream comes true for the Austin Shakespeare Festival when it gets to perform the Bard's As You Like It in Richard Garriott's replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

"...place, mount that stage and feel the ghosts of Richard Burbage and Will Kempe, imagine the galleries full of..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Lear Jaunt

Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn

"...departure from the program's custom of casting students with little or no stage experience, the title role in Lear..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

After a Fashion

Stephen does Dallas … No, wait, we mean Houston. Stephen does Houston. In a big way. With big names. At the Icon. Don't you wish you were this fabulous? Oh, and he does the State Board of Education, too. Don't they wish?

"...handsome Clyde Drexler, the inimitable Kinky Friedman, legendary attorney Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, astronaut Walter Cunningham. Next week, I'll tell..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Food-o-File

Attention, chocoholics; plus, the Granite Cafe is eroding

"...two chocolate epiphanies in the same week! Houston caterer Richard Kaplan (richard@brownpaperchocolates.com) is selling his Brown Paper Chocolates at..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

After a Fashion

Check it out! Stephen gets a little 'boot'y …

"...he will, in our hearts and in our imaginations. Richard Avedon is dead, and there will never be another..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...A little more than six years ago I got to tangle..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Column

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

On the Blizzard / Stratus scandal, the Statesman misses the real story -- as usual.

"...which I have read, with scant pleasure -- offer little to illumine what I think is the only story..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

His Presence Was a Lovely Thing

James Welch: 1940-2003

"...the 1960s, fresh out of college, he had very little interest in writing about what he called "my Indian..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Books Feature by Paul Stekler

Anthony Orum on Austin

"In Austin, a city of changes, a book like Anthony Orum's Power, Money & the People: The Making of Modern Austin, is always relevant," writes Michael Erard. "It's the only urban history of Austin, tracing the early decisions that fixed the city's economy, politics, and sense of itself. Unfortunately, the book's availability has been spotty -- until late 2002, when an Oregon press, Wipf and Stock, reissued it."

"...their tenements and unsightly factories. "They did all these little things incrementally, but it was as though they had..."

May 23, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Erard

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...For a City of Ideas, as the disciples of Richard Florida like to think of Austin, these creatures of..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I Hear a Symphony

Composer Kent Kennan has been an essential voice in America's musical counterpoint since 1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize. Now, at age 90, he'll hear the Austin Symphony play his composition for the very first time.

"...crude aluminum discs, from which Kennan could tell very little. He will finally get a chance when Bay conducts..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Richard Maier..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column

Commissioners in the Spotlight

Candidates line up for county commissioner seats.

"...pull out now. He has retained Mike Blizzard and Richard Fawal of Grassroots Solutions to work on his campaign...."

Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Righteous readers respond to recent rape reportage, and our Best of Austin issue garners a kudo or two.

"...struggle against terrorists. Even though Bush's election was a little tarnished, with the Supreme Court rather than the voters..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...of actors Clint McCown and Le Easter and writer Richard Hinojosa, the "structure guy," as he puts it. The..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

The Life and Times of Gus Garcia

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

"...and politics. They included Tovar, Gonzalo Barrientos, John Trevino, Richard Moya, Margaret Gomez, Buddy Ruiz, and Danny Ruiz...."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Working Worked Out

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...way that preparing new work demands and left them little time to promote the shows. On top of that,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's a Mystery to Me

"...the rarefied pleasures of books like Michael Connelly's Angels Flight(Little, Brown & Co., $25 hard), the most recent outing..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

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