Local Designer Looks to Perfect the Modern Storage Container

Rebecca Finell’s Zip Top Kickstarter raises over $1 million

"...The Zip Top Kickstarter campaign has already raised $1 million..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Food Post by Melanie Laporte

Making the Flowers Bloom in Encanto

Austinite Jay Jackson talks about Disney's latest animated blossom

"...In Encanto, the latest animated musical from Disney, flowers bloom everywhere Isabela,..."

Nov. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Making the Scene

Looking back at the time when Austin was at the center of the Texas art world

"...art-history class has probably felt a little inundated by the parade of "-isms," movements, and schools that generally shape..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...It was the C3 and C4 vertebrae – right up top, behind..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

O: The Movie

"...Andrew Keegan, Elden Henson, Rain Phoenix and John Heard. The practice of reimagining Shakespeare for film has produced some..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Quest of Alain Ducasse

Adoring profile of great chef is oddly flavorless.

"...name than he has fingers and toes, Ducasse is the antithesis of the modern celebrity chef. Somehow, documentarian de..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Year of the Fish

Year of the Fish is an animated fairy tale for adults that transposes the story of Cinderella to a Chinatown massage parlor.

"...and Lee Wong. Lovely to look at, Year of the Fish is an animated feature that pops off the..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hours

"...Miranda Richardson, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels and Jack Rovello. There's a mesmerizing, almost hypnotic rhythm to The Hours, the..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Stranger

"...Shankar, Deepankar De, Bikram Bhattacharya and Dhritiman Chatterjee. With Agantuk/The Stranger (made in 1992 and released a few months..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Last Five Years

Anna Kendrick shines in Richard LaGravenese's loving adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's stage musical.

"...The Last Five Years is a film about a loving..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wag the Dog

"...nimble direction and technical execution combine to make Wag the Dog one of the wittiest and most mordant political..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend

"...that lives up to its hype. Overfiend has been making the rounds of the Japanimation underground for a year..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frank Kozik (1962-2023), the Man Behind a Poster Revolution

How Austin shaped the punk artist behind print mania

"...When Frank Kozik passed away this week at the age of 61, he was remembered as the founding..."

May 12, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Derby Dozen(ish)

2010's local and global Roller Derby highlights

"...When I start drafting the Roller Derby Top 10 for 2011, the No. 1..."

Jan. 6, 2011 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

The Urban Experience

Dâm-Funk's intergalactic jam

"...After my interview with Dâm-Funk, the 38-year-old Los Angeles DJ/keyboardist/composer, I sent an email to..."

March 16, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...lost its tonic anchor and harmonic charm. Poetry jumped the fence of meter and rhyme. To read a "good"..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Summoning the Blair Witch

Into the woods with Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard

"...Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project birthed a genre, and any sequel..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Tipping Point

By raising menu prices and eliminating gratuity, restaurateurs hope they've found the recipe for a better quality of life for staff

"..."We're still relying on you, the restaurantgoer, to pay the living of our servers," explained..."

March 25, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Who’ll Shop the Grain?

When it’s the array of heirlooms ground by stone at Barton Springs Mill, more and more people will

"...Just the basics in the lead paragraph here: First, farmers plant..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Readers and fans of the literary, you might want to grab a napkin before..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Making a 'Killing'

Joshua Oppenheimer on the half-decade he spent filming for 'The Act of Killing'

"...blood, dreams of decapitation, dreams of murder and genocide. They are dreams of his life. But he was not..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Now Showing: The Contemporary Austin

Museum bids adios to AMOA-Arthouse, unveils new identity

"...As of today, the visual arts institution born of the merger between Arthouse..."

July 18, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...Forget merger. Think wedding. Yes, the union of the Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Someone – Why Would Anyone – Vote for Trump?

With Leslie Bonnell, Arcie Cola, Lashonda Lester, Tim Doyle, and more

"...Because this is the day, right?..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Lone Ranger

The legend of Jerry Lynn Williams

"...at Warner Bros. Records. It's dated 8/22/84, and at the top of the j-card is written "Shangri-La." There are..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Beta Test

Jim Cummings burns the film industry to the ground (and it deserves it)

"...A scathing satire of both social media and the film industry, The Beta Test is an angry, fiery..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018

Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...When you look at the vitality of the arts and culture in Austin, it..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Far From the Madding Crowd

This Thomas Hardy adaptation is a reflection of our times

"...subtitles onto his books, lending readers a clue about the true character of poor Tess of the d’Urbervilles (“A..."

May 8, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

All the King's Men

Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is.

"...director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is. It's furthermore astonishing since it's a remake of the 1949 Academy..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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