Now Streaming in Austin: Coming Undone With Minnow Mountain

Resurrecting Rotoscoping for the Amazon Prime mindbender

"...to be worth the time. Austin animation studio Minnow Mountain keeps proving “them” wrong by resurrecting the 100-year-old art..."

Nov. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rude Mechanicals' Not Every Mountain

This Rude Mechs performance piece shows us a mountain's lifetime in an hour and makes clear that nothing lasts forever

"...with irreverence that which we consider "permanent," Not Every Mountain dedicates the entirety of its hourlong runtime to the..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Star of Texas Rodeo, Travis Expo Center, Friday, March 16

Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001

"...the Sunshine Band is and always has been a mighty Miami sound machine, steeped in the tradition of big..."

March 23, 2001 Music Review by Kate X Messer

Mogwai, Austin Music Hall, Saturday, March 17

Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001

"...of interlocking themes that sucked the crowd into a mighty vortex of volume. After that, things got a little..."

March 23, 2001 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Reelin' in the New Years

Where you gonna be when the clock strikes 12?

"...Phranchyze, Kid Slyce, Mighty Mountain, BLXPLTN at Holy Mountain..."

Dec. 31, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mulan

"...a great wall looms, perched severely, ominously on the mountain ridge, extending far, far into the horizon. So opens..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Winter's Bone

Set in the Ozark Mountain backwoods of Missouri, this tense drama is an exceptionally good film.

"...that govern the isolated social milieu in these Ozark Mountain backwoods of Missouri. It’s an almost hermetically sealed environment..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Studio's VR Mini-Golf Game Gets New Course Based on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth

Mighty Coconut goes golfing in the beloved puppet classic

"...machinations of Jareth, the Goblin King. Austin-based gaming company Mighty Coconut setting exactly that challenge with the launch of..."

July 29, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Future Food Salon Carries a Message of Tasty Protein on Six Legs

Haute cuisine gets buggy to promote progressive thinking about global food supplies

"...Oak Distilling and Lagunitas Brewing, with live music from Mighty Mountain and Sour Bridges, and with an array of..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Saturday Picks and Sleepers

Saturday night SXSW blurbs

"...9pm, Holy Mountain Since meeting in 2009, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Venus: Shocking Blue & Cabanel

The Shocking Blue scores Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus

"...A goddess on a mountain top, Was burning like a silver flame. The summit..."

July 20, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Free Week Live Shots

"...excellent and powerful pop choruses. Messages, formerly known as Mighty Mountain, provided a positive and politically tinged collection of..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Gay Place

The Gay Place thanks you from the bottom of their dark little rainbow hearts

"...BLACKLIGHT PARTY Plus, the Sour Notes, Megafauna, Residual Kid, Mighty Mountain, and the Sun Machine. Mon., Dec. 31, 7pm-2am...."

Dec. 28, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Rave Over JAVA

New Noodle House Has People Talking ñ and Rightly So

"...curry sauce. With rice, this flavorful dish made a mighty mountain of a meal...."

May 15, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...with loads of funny material, as well as a mountain of cameo performances from the likes of Margaret Cho,..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Austin Film Society Presents a Night of Texas Animation

Animation showcase draws artists together

"...animators. Now Austin Film Society and local animation studio Mighty Coconut bring the whole scene into focus with an..."

July 22, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sxsw

"...since Ira died in 1965. The best country/gospel Stone Mountain, Alabama can muster. (Antone's, 8pm) -- Taylor Holland..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Strange World

Disney animated adventure revamps pulp fun with a story of fathers and sons

"...is focused through a more sustainable source. The fantastical, mountain-surrounded realm of Avalonia runs on electricity generated from the..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Back to the Screens for the Lake Travis Film Festival

Sophomore celebration of indie film opens the new era of in-person film festivals

"...true story side, there'll be a special screening of Mighty Ira, a portrait of former ACLU Executive Director Ira..."

June 11, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sara Smile Still

Behind Sara Hickman's sunny countenance lies real life. And still a smile.

"...and that's it. Then in 2007, I saw Brokeback Mountain and I was just consumed by it. So I..."

May 7, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

At once a fanboy's wet dream and an engaging, emotionally supercharged epic adventure

"...colossal stone fortress cut into the side of a mountain, while the mighty armies of darkness mass outside. While..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What? 1998's Over?

Nine Tv Faces We'll Miss

"...(My personal fave is "The Old Man of the Mountain," which includes Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher.")..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

God's Own Clothesline

In Search of Far Flung Adventures With Butch Hancock

"...life and heading for the hills - or the mountains and the desert, to be exact. He had decided..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Road Shows

"...SAT 12 Scud Mountain Boys, Electric Lounge..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature

The Other Sister

Multiple Personalities

"...recreation, including the riders from the horse stables and mountain bikers who traverse the undeveloped ridges. When they realized..."

July 2, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...and pleasing. – Kevin Curtin James Steinle's Man From the Mountain..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Fusebox Festival Director Chooses His Top Five Stops for EAST 2019

Ron Berry on what's hot on this year's East Austin Studio Tour

"...E.124: BLACK MOUNTAIN PROJECT: THE VEGETAL OTHERI love everything about this collaboration...."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Ron Berry

A Stand-Up Guy

Steve Martin didn't just incorporate a banjo into his early comedy routines for a laugh

"...in high school in the early 1960s, when A Mighty Wind-style cardigan folk was all the rage. He later..."

April 23, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Luv Doc: Titty Bar Lunch

The chef knows what medium rare is, so don't send your steak back because it's undercooked

"...First of all, you need to get your terminology..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Club, 8120 Research. We've added a band – the mighty, mighty Invincible Czars – and a PowerPoint, but it's..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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