Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...by Peter Fonda. Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern. Director of photography: László Kovács. Film editor:..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

"...be alone. But to be alone with other people, and not to forget yourself within yourself. And when there's..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...the years, Demme has graduated from critical favorites (Melvin and Howard, Stop Making Sense, Something Wild) to the Academy..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...the years, Demme has graduated from critical favorites (Melvin and Howard, Stop Making Sense, Something Wild) to the Academy..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...Joe Dishner had left to go into film production, and Ed Lowry had just headed off to teach at..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Live Shots

"...by the opening chords of "Everybody Wants You," amped-up and delivered on a decidedly electric guitar. The old anthem..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature

Drake Tungsten and His Boy Skellington

"...Zarbo, Jim Eno photograph by Bruce Dye Drake Tungsten and Skellington have the drop on Britt Daniel. Two minor..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Solider of Fortune

Thin Lizzy's “Still Dangerous,” just ask its anchoring guitarist Scott Gorham.

"...Scott Gorham has lived in London since 1974, when the flamethrowing 23-year-old guitarist..."

April 23, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Showdown

Thin Lizzy, part two: “UK Tour 75” reveals itself as infinitely more ‘live and dangerous’ than the new “Still Dangerous”

"...When new Thin Lizzy live disc UK Tour 75 appeared both as an import..."

April 29, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Tony Visconti Part 2 (The Encores)

"...out at 45 minutes, an hour. Anything going longer demands either a recess or a follow-up, or else both..."

June 23, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Who

Dinosaur DVDs with a smattering of punk, porn, and R&B

"...The WhoLive in Texas '75 (Eagle Rock) Thin LizzyLive at the..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Tony Visconti Part 1

"...Man Who Sold the World, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters, and Heathen made him a household name in my music..."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Music Keynote 1: Tony Visconti

Bowie producer leads multiple speakers as yet-to-be announced

"...Visconti, who produced The Man Who Sold the World and Young Americans, co-produced the Berlin trilogy with Brian Eno,..."

Jan. 26, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TSOP

"...Just south of midnight, Scott and I staggered down Broad Street. Well, not staggered –..."

June 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...the siren once again, this time trailing off into abandon before the synthesizer slithers down from its red laser..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sex Offenders Exposed

Are sex offender laws causing more harm than good?

"...of 1994, when he was 19 years old. They lived in the same small New Jersey town but hadn't..."

Sept. 10, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

King's Ransom (discography)

"...Hendrix rap: funky, oft pummeling, burp gun blues ("Ray-Gun"), delivered in Lynott's thick, earthy yowl. CD adds succeeding New..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature

Faster Than Sound: City on the Fence Regarding Red River’s Homeless Problem

Red River merchants push to finally enclose dangerous alley with 10-foot fence, electro-pop diva p1nkstar touches down at Fuego ATX, and more

"...step toward the installation of a fence around a dangerous alley in the Red River Cultural District. The corridor,..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Terribly Happy

This Danish import is a wonderfully unhinged and a painstakingly constructed meditation on a place where good and evil meet, mate, and make sour times sublime.

"...Jakob Cedergren, Lina Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia, Lars Brygmann, Anders Hove, Mathilde Maack and Jens Jørn Spottag. Every small..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...from, not to mention a whole host of shorts and music videos...."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Thin Lizzy

Box sets as catalog ghetto

"...upgrades for Vagabonds of the Western World (1973), Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox (both 1976), Live and Dangerous (1978),..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Debunking Five Anti-Choice Lies This Session

No wonder why repro rights groups are using the mantra “Lies Into Laws”

"...It was billed as the session focused on nuts and bolts and not red meat, but the GOP-controlled Texas..."

April 24, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Undocumented, Unafraid

Balancing fear and power in the wake of ICE arrests

"...her eyes on a YouTube video showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting members of her Rundberg corridor..."

March 10, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Hustling Uncut Gems With the Safdie Brothers

How their family history glistens in their New York story

"...inside a pinball machine, a kinetic fury of movement and color, action and inevitable loss...."

Dec. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Listen to What the Man Said

Paul McCartney’s first-night Erwin Center sell-out astounds

"...still “cute” Beatle played 38 songs in two hours and 45 minutes Thursday night at the Erwin Center. McCartney,..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Capricorn Jesus

Sometimes outlaws walk on water

"...try. He'll befriend you to prevent it, smiling widely and asking about you instead. You'll answer because he's shining..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Feature by Melinda Hasting Wheatley

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"...Randy "Biscuit" Turner mopped the sweat from his forehead and..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Fightin' Words

Rich Oppel and Mike Levy Spar on Paper:

"...two public journalism figures: Texas Monthly publisher Mike Levy and Austin American-Statesman editor Rich Oppel. No love letters these...."

Jan. 17, 1997 News Feature

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...85 world premieres. 11 North American first time looks, and 51 feature debuts. The SXSW Film roster has arrived,..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...On our desert island, a two-story bungalow faces the lagoon, and goats, donkeys,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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