Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

"...Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum’s 25th Annual Garden Party..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Falling for The Fall Guy and the Joy of Practical Stunts

Powerhouse moviemaking couple David Leitch and Kelly McCormick team up with Ryan Gosling

"...bounce off a brick wall – then get up and deliver some snappy one-liner. What they’re really doing is..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to the Danger God: Gary Kent (1933-2023)

The stunt legend who called Austin home died this week

"...There's a difference between legendary and simple fame – a mystique, a danger. Whatever it..."

May 26, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2022

"...anguish of old age without resorting to his usual stunts...."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

Joe Begos Wishes You a Christmas Bloody Christmas

Writer/director talks fusing holiday horror and hangout movies

"...what about Chopping Mall? "Yeah, that's true," he added. "And Virus."..."

Dec. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Decruiting APD Artists/Activists Imagine a World Without Police, One Cop at a Time

Site discourages recruits, encourages cops to quit the force

"...Andie Flores was sitting in traffic about a year ago..."

June 30, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

Vortex

French cinema’s enfant terrible faces the horrors of growing old

"...Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret, Corinne Bruand and Eric Fourneuf...."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Interview: The Winters Go Live in the Deadstream

Husband-and-wife horror duo bring back the 80s spook show

"...A man, a camera, and lots of ghosts. Deadstream, one of this year’s SXSW..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Post by Robert Penson

Hello to New Friends Again, Down in Fraggle Rock

Behind the scenes on the revival of the beloved puppet show

"...Imagine being an adult and walking on to a place of magic and fantasy..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Beauty and the Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All of..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

Now Streaming in Austin: Gary Kent is the Danger God

Austin-made doc highlights this overlooked real Hollywood hero

"...you watched Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood and wondered whether Brad Pitt's character is based on a..."

March 22, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Lizzo City Limits

“Truth Hurts” star’s historic audience, and other ACL Fest weekend one standouts

"...ever, estimating 60,000 people via Instagram the next day. Others deemed it the Zilker Park annual's largest non-headliner crowd,..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Now Streaming in Austin: Danger God

Stuntman Gary Kent looks back at a life on fire

"...of his post-Hollywood life in Austin? That's Gary Kent, and his story arrives on DVD this week as Danger..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Owen Egerton’s Bloody Good Time

Writer/director’s distinctly Austin horror-comedy returns for RTX Austin

"...Ever gone to the movies and found out you're in the wrong theatre, and you..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gary Kent Is One of the Last of the Dangerous Men

New documentary Love and Other Stunts catches the daredevil legend in action

"...Stuntman (noun): a man who performs stunts; especially one who doubles for an actor during the..."

June 1, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Enigma Wants YOU

To be all you can be

"...Carnivals and sideshow oddities that entranced 20th-century dreamers from Ray Bradbury..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Music Post by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Last Survivors

A different kind of post-apocalyptic teen heroine

"...OK with you that we just put your audition and offer on there.' I was like, 'my offer?'"..."

Aug. 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...The Zombies 7pm, Stubb's The second British band after the Beatles to land a No. 1 in..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

DVDanger: Alexandra Essoe Gazes Through Starry Eyes

Horror star talks body image, body horror, and audition angst

"...Take away the blood, murder, and Satanists from Hollywood horror story Starry Eyes, and what..."

Feb. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Too Much Christmas

Lasting oppression really only works if you have a really good PR campaign

"...Dear Luv Doc, First off, let me say I love Christmas. It is my favorite time of year, but..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

The Dancing Bear

Nick Frost realizes his secret rhinestone dream in 'Cuban Fury'

"...do a dance film. A beautiful, Technicolor, Baz Luhrmann, rhinestones-and-silk dance film." Finally, with salsa-frenzy rom-com Cuban Fury, he..."

April 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Disenchanted' Enchants

Austin-based Ren faire sitcom is just as funny as it sounds like it should be

"...what happens when you trade the beers for mead and the corporate fat cat for a disgruntled guy in..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Hercules on Two Wheels

Could bicycling be bigger than baseball again?

"...fact that the French started it 108 years ago and it takes place over three weeks through roughly 2,000..."

Nov. 12, 2011 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

Fun Fun Fun Lists

"...(Fri., 3:55pm, Orange stage) "The Arrow Killed the Beast" and other new epics from Erika Wennerstrom...."

Nov. 4, 2011 Music Feature

Nik Wallenda: Life on the Wire

In which we send an aerialist to talk to a stuntman. Whoa.

"...week, aerialist Raven Hinojosa spoke with tight-rope aerial stuntman and seventh-generation performer Nik Wallenda – (yes, of those Wallendas)..."

May 19, 2011 Arts Post by Raven Hinojosa

Top 10 Sports Retirements 2010

From 'The Big Unit' to 'The Big Hurt'

"...over, kaput, lights out. Moonlighting as a dancing fiend and making up for lost time with family is paramount..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

TV Eye

Hellcats makes for a kicky start to fall programming

"...season is about to explode on the small screen, and the little netlet that could is bolting from the..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

They Went West

Back in the saddle with a faded genre's favorite stars

"...film stars William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers were officially immortalized with the issuance of..."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Restart Your Engines...

RuPaul's Drag Race begins its second season.

"...Race – a cross between America's Next Top Model and Project Runway – a formula that targets to gays..."

Feb. 2, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...a 6-foot-5-inch man wearing a wrestler's mask, black leather, and a strap-on sex toy that rhymes with "Bilbo" but..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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