Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...Willis on piano. Hargrove & Co. were in the middle of their five-night when I dipped in on Wednesday..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Austin's live music scene turns up missing.

"...Missing Person..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...changes after she’s attacked in a field in the middle of the night...."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Readers weigh in on the criminality of musicians, the integrity of neighborhoods, and more.

"...public. I keep forgetting this and have narrowly avoided missing the recent Tomb Raiders movie, which was most enjoyable,..."

July 6, 2001 Column

Live Shots

"...as if the Eighties never happened. The only thing missing was some guy with a banner reading, "We Forgive..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Music Feature

The Cast of Characters

"...1995, he pled guilty to stealing $54,000 from the missing atheists, and he has prior convictions for murder, battery,..."

Nov. 20, 1998 News Feature

Destination Unknown

"...anymore?" In 1982, when his hit New Wave band Missing Persons was riding the charts with "Words," Terry Bozzio..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Proposed Southwest School Boundaries Spark Concerns

Parents fear a new middle school in Southwest Austin will fracture a community

"...The Austin Independent School District's new Southwest middle school is on track to open next year. It..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fuller Versus IDEA

Charter school group attacks academic's work, he rebuts

"...School level % Eco Disadvantaged Elementary 65.6 Middle School 59.5 High School 54.2 Mixed El/Sec 62.1 TOTAL..."

Dec. 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Look Back

Two students and aspiring manga artists bond over their shared creative dreams

"...Back acknowledges the lonely grind it can be, framing middle-school-aged manga artist Fujino (voiced by Kawai) from behind, as..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gluten-Free Without (Much) Misery

Eating in Austin with a wheat allergy

"...Indian Kitchen is fast-casual but damn good. There's no "missing out" with their long list of options including tikka..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Sloppy scripting breaks the spell of this bloated sequel

"...in service to Dumbledore’s magical game of Three-card Monte. Missing is Newt’s love interest, Tina (Waterston, potentially placed in..."

April 15, 2022 Movie Review by Melanie Haupt

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...McRae, Inny Clemons, Jason Tamasco, Zak Kristofek An upper middle class married couple find their lives spiraling out of..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Safer at Home

Screen life thriller is just another dull Zoom meeting

"...found footage, they've become most associated with horror, although missing persons drama Searching proved that crime flicks and thrillers..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Dissident

Unfurling the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and the rot at the heart of Saudi Arabia

"...Middle Eastern politics are the bread and butter of the..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Attica Locke on Solving Crime on Highway 59

Heaven, My Home author talks her East Texas roots and the blues

"...Darren to Caddo Lake on a search for a missing 9-year-old boy – and not insignificantly, a white boy...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Book Review: A Cosmology of Monsters

Shaun Hamill pens an achingly aware homage to horrors past

"...are plagued by an interdimensional misfortune that permeates their middle class lives as they are haunted by a wolf-like..."

Oct. 21, 2019 Arts Post by Roberto Ontiveros

Midnight Traveler

What it's really like to be a refugee fleeing the Taliban

"...documentary that treks a targeted family’s escape from the Middle East to Europe. These refugee documentaries are familiar, which..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Image Book

Godard's final experiment is more thesis and installation than film

"...Orientalism. That said, his determination to separate out the Middle East from Islam, and Islam from terrorism, is a..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Big Kill

Low-budget Western rides high in the saddle

"...You know Westerns are in the middle of a comeback when even low-budget filmmakers are trying..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Beast D: Ben Strang When his father mysteriously goes missing at sea, a teenager rallies the help of his..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

It Comes at Night

A lean, mean descent into primitive tribalism

"...intruder Will (Abbott) bursts into the house in the middle of the night and manages to convince Paul that..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snatched

A mother/daughter vacation from hell

"...Emily and Linda aren’t the only things that go missing in Snatched...."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

AISD Accountability: Good News and Bad

New rating system poses challenges for educators, stakeholders alike

"...– missed targets for a second year, as did middle schools Garcia, Martin, and Pearce. However, it was good..."

Aug. 15, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Incredible Melting Man'/'Swamp Thing'

Morphing, melting and transmogrification clog up your screens

"...his ear!" without braying with laughter, then you're probably missing the point of The Incredible Melting Man...."

Aug. 3, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fun Size

Broad-stroked but often funny, this is a teen tale of a Halloween night that doesn't go according to plan.

"...Chelsea Handler, Thomas Mann, Jane Levy, Osric Chau, Thomas Middleditch and Josh Pence...."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...romantic tragedy that in retrospect looks like self-serving glorification. Middle Americans in the late Sixties were hostile to the..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

TV Eye

What the ...?

"...Wire (HBO) writers George Pelecanos and David Simon for "Middle Ground," and David Shore's "Three Stories" for House (Fox)...."

July 22, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...This movie is not for middle-class America and you won't understand it unless you have..."

May 23, 2003 Column

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