Mixtape of Austin Bevs for a Virtual SXSW

Songs with suds

"...your typical mid-March trope-core Festival featuring acts like Band of Dads and Wolf Dad and hypebeasts Dad Coast at..."

March 12, 2021 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Playback – Fun Fun Fun Fest: A Decade of Aggression

Flashing back on 10 years of Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...commandments, an amplifier's maximum volume, the total counting power of our hands. Fitting for music, it's a union of..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Other Worlds Austin Boards Battlestar Galactica

Festival honors legendary TV director Alan Levi

"...1978 Battlestar Galactica rewrote the rules for epic TV science fiction. Now Alan Levi, the uncredited show's director of..."

Aug. 16, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pop Culture Pop Quiz

Can you speak geek? Define these Ready Player One references.

"...6) Misfits of Science..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Books Feature

Scan Hopper

alt. tracks

"...psych and New Wave touchstones, while the dreamy strum of "Notes or the Face (Plumage Rock)" needs "Misfits of..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Justice League of America

"...Justice League of America D: Lewis Teague (1997); with David Ogden Stiers,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

Volere, Volare

"...Johnny Stecchino, Nichetti's Volere, Volare joins the growing trend of Italian films that puts a Latin spin on Hollywood..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Lazer Team

The first feature film from Austin's Rooster Teeth gang is a hoot

"...Austin’s Rooster Teeth Productions, best known as the creators of the long-running Red vs. Blue series, which repurposes the..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Review: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest

Gaming documentary is no tribute to the solitary player

"...Because the Danish director's constant efforts to sympathetically portray misfits and dorks on-screen may have been eclipsed by this..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Before the Fall

Browsing the stacks

"...Nothing as dramatic as the Alexander McCall Smith collapse of '09 – when one too-casual discard brought down the..."

March 28, 2011 Books Post by Nick Barbaro

Queering the Archive With Kate Messer

"Your own culture is worth a memory."

"...has long been sacred ground for Austin’s queers and misfits. In the Eighties, Sandra Martinez opened Chances, a popular..."

July 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

John Hughes Film Series at Moviehouse This March

Round Rock theatre screens the maestro of teen movies' greatest hits

"...goth kids have The Lost Boys. If the self-image of any band of teenage misfits was put onscreen, River's..."

Feb. 27, 2017 Screens Post by Dougie Gerrard

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...ready to go." 2015, by contrast, is a lot of first-timers and new names, but Neece sees the equation..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Nerd Ascending

Simon Pegg's star trajectory

"...being a trenchant memoir on the sometimes comic (and often not) vicissitudes of growing up in the UK in..."

June 10, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews

"...with complete impunity. Leaving behind the flashdance ass pants of Odelay (for now), he's investigating the outrageous musical concept,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

Happy Accidents

Dominic Smith on The Beautiful Miscellaneous

"...Smith has traveled an interesting path to the publication of his second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, which hit shelves..."

June 15, 2007 Books Feature by John H. Razook

Sara Smile

Those teeth, those lips, those songs -- the one and only Sara Hickman

"...Hickman knows the value of a smile, so the 38-year-old singer-songwriter-artist-mother-wife-activist bestows it often...."

May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Scanlines

"...(opening in Austin on August 25??), is the buzz of the indie film world, so for those who like..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...Highlights of the Midnighters slate include the world premiere of the..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...always, the bluegrass revivalists/punk innovators sit at the head of the picnic table with the closing slot. But oh,..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Postmarks

Bikes, Beets, and Bastrop.

"...it might have changed the David vs. Goliath tone of the piece. I know nothing of the contractual dispute..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...in the makeshift Tentooine villages return to the end of the line as soon as their current ticket stubs..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Like Being Killed

"...so I asked Ellen to send me a copy of her galley, and I invited her to join us..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Sxsw

"...person to do? Read the Chronicle's "Picks & Sleepers," of course, because herein are clues to nearly 300 bands..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Book Reviews

"...couldn't write anything like Barrett no matter what kind of drugs he took. Barrett's latest mystery, Skinny Annie Blues,..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature