Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided by you. And that's..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the wealth of standout films made by Austin directors. Today, the South by..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Won’t Stop Announcing Awesome Stuff

May the Schwartz be with all of us

"...Fest, not when they're dropping bombs about the Cormans and now this: a Spaceballs Quote-Along with Schwartz-channeler Bill “Lone..."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...Wednesday evening, South by Southwest announced the 2024 Jury and Special Award winners of the 31st SXSW Film &..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Fest, Eastside Kings Festival, HAAM Day, Vein.fm, Monte Warden & the Dangerous Few, and more

"...Festival w/ Luna Luna, TC Superstar, Mama Duke, KindKeith, and McPullish..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Levitation Interview: the Hives Wax Deep ATX Roots

Plus Halloween, human sacrifice, and psychedelia (sort of)

"...Almqvist declared onstage, “We’re quite possibly the least psychedelic band at the festival”), their Halloween headlining of Mohawk fit..."

Nov. 2, 2021 Music Post by David Brendan Hall

Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson's stop motion wonder is a tail-wagger

"...Directed by: Wes Anderson...."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...Eckhart, Toni Collette, Peter Macdissi, Maria Bello, Matt Letscher and Eugene Jones. “You’re beautiful just the way you are,”..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In a recent news story involving me [Lawyers, Drugs, and Money: The Latest on Metabolife," March 14], The Austin..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I've been working on a photo project in Kosova and Macedonia. Just before I left the U.S. in mid-September..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...of such alleged "punk porn" classics as Splatter Puss and Anal Graveyard, took to the giant outdoor stage at..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Stepmom

"...Aiken, Lynn Whitfield, Jena Malone, Ed Harris, Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Motherhood is a perpetually dangerous place, filled..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Postmarks

Speaking With Authority

"...the years since, the projects the TTA has built and maintained include the Dallas North Tollway, Mountain Creek Lake..."

May 29, 1998 Column

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of growing up in the shadow of..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Best of Enemies

The 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal are legend

"...Directed by: Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon...."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.

"...in her letter (Sept. 28), especially regarding Belinda Acosta and the "TV Eye" column. I can't imagine why Dr...."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

The Portrait of a Lady

Jane Campion brings her modern sensibilities to this story of Henry James’ 1870s heroine Isabel Archer, a young, sharp-minded, American woman abroad who inherits unexpected wealth and uses it to live as she likes, traveling and rejecting numerous suitors until she falls into an unwise marriage that nearly becomes her ruination.

"...Richard E. Grant, Shelley Duvall, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen and Valentina Cervi.. Great and evident artistry shapes this film..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Ringing True

The Constitution and the films of Joan Micklin Silver stand above the noise as the alt-weekly series concludes

"...the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Music, July 14] is none other than the late and great Doug Sahm, who was in the same recording..."

July 21, 2006 Column

Dancing About Architecture

The Weak in Rock

"...in hell did someone manage to stealthat humongous thing?) and the Orange Mothers before they gave up on their..."

July 23, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial debut, Lost River. But now he's bringing..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Desolation Center

Before corporate fests, Desolation Center blew the Mojave apart

"...Ausgang, D. Boon, Mark Pauline, Mike Watt, V. Vale and Thurston Moore...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Manches Frida

A thief becomes a substitute teacher to get his loot

"...Chaparro, Martha Higareda, Regina Pavon, Mario Moran, Pamela Moreno and Mónica Dionne...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Slim Richey 1938-2015

Austin’s jazz maverick peaces out

"...“The most dangerous guitar player in Texas” wasn’t half as threatening as..."

June 1, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Project Nim

The story of a science experiment in which a chimpanzee was raised as a human child is recounted in this heartbreaking documentary.

"...is taken from the arms of his mother to live among strangers, his story takes on a Dickensian dimension...."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paul v. Baldwin

Rep. Ron Paul debates pot prohibition with actor Stephen Baldwin

"...Friday night's Larry King Live resounded with the crash of metal when actor Stephen..."

March 16, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Generation Overshare

What happens when the line blurs between our online and offline lives?

"...we were: communities of individuals who forged identities, selves, and lives via formal (or informal) interactions within a societal..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Other Shoes, Other Feet

Republicans blame it all on the Democrats, while outraged activists flirt with censorship

"...the time around here (at the Chronicle, in Austin, and in America), even when things are calm, but current..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Column by Louis Black

You Are There!

The bottom of the barrel isn't low enough for local TV news

"...the form of a cyanide canister discovered in an abandoned grain silo in Hutto the last week of April...."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Tupac: Resurrection

More popular dead than alive, the hip-hop Tupac Shakur is remembered in this authorized documentary.

"...age 25 in a hail of Las Vegas gunfire, and, like Elvis, he’s become more popular than ever, with..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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