The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Wednesday

The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop

"...spiritual affinity between traditional Norwegian folk dancing and traditional American moshing was not something I had considered...."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

Day Trips & Beyond: Santa Fe, N.M.

Art and food in the enchanting city of Santa Fe

"...of galleries and shops. And of course, the daily Native American market along the northern edge of the Plaza..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Stephanie Elizondo Griest Tracks Injustices on U.S. Borders

The award-winning journalist discusses her latest book, All the Agents and Saints

"...From the U.S. Borderlands finds Griest back in her native Rio Grande Valley, drawn there by both an "existential..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...del Bosque Gómez (Austin) $4,000 cash for Production Three Mexican-American men in South Texas are the only individuals left..."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Estate Sale Roundup: May 15-19

Sales may be few this week, but the pickings are hardly slim.

"...an extremely old bag that is framed; turquoise jewelry; American Indian carved horn; Frederick Remington bronze statue Calling the..."

May 15, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

The AggreGAYtor: March 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...of Odawa Indians is set to become the third Native American tribe to allow same sex marriage...."

March 8, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Bless Me, Ultima

This honest, earnest, and naturalistic kids’ story about growing up Mexican-American in 1940s New Mexico is based on the popular book.

"...teaches Antonio her practices and trains him to gather native plants for medicinal purposes, and to listen to nature..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

The Duplass brothers return with this finely observed slice of life starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and Susan Sarandon.

"...at Home was filmed in Mark and Jay Duplass' native New Orleans and its surrounding areas, but they mostly..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The King's Speech

Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter act up a royal storm in this movie about King George VI of Great Britain overcoming his speech impediment.

"...inarticulate way in a strange land with too many native tongues, none of which we spoke, most of which..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is My Life

LZ Love's reveal: dance music!

"...sculpted cheekbones of her mother's family – black, French, Native American. Her skin bears a coppery sheen within its..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Afghan Star

In Afghanistan's version of American Idol, there's a lot more at stake than the glory.

"...Afghanistan in what is essentially an Afghan version of American Idol. Shot in an iffy, hand-held style, Afghan Star..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brüno

Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno is less specific and less interesting than Borat – and therefore less funny.

"...Brüno feels far less like a skewering of puritanical American homophobia than it does an excuse to string together..."

July 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goodbye Solo

This small marvel of a film by American portraitist Ramin Bahrani is a large-hearted examination of human curiosity and kindness and the limits of both.

"...out of theatres before its time is due. An American portraitist working in the same scope (but with more..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel is brought faithfully to the screen, although the melodramatics of the story's latter section undercuts the poetic drama of the first half.

"...that bogs down the principal storyline about a haunted Afghan-American man who is blessed with the chance “to be..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Semidisaster for Richards, Glory for UT Stars

Several Austinites had stellar performances at the national track & field championships

"...that put her about two seconds slower than her American record, a mental error put the nail in her..."

June 25, 2007 Sports Post by Lee Nichols

Yummer Reading

"...to complex irrigation aqueducts, the Spanish radically altered the American landscape...."

May 27, 2005 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Life by the Drop

The return of Doyle Bramhall

"...for Marcia Ball's Presumed Innocent and produced Circle by Native American rockers Indigenous, a Jazz/Blues winner in the Native..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Naked City

"...Feb. 12 meeting between government officials, DuPont Corp., and Native American representatives on archeological treasures found on DuPont property..."

Feb. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Just Visiting

"...Tara Reid, Ric Sarabia and Malcolm McDowell. An amiable American remake of a wildly popular French film (Les Visiteurs)..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Simon Ortiz's Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories

"...compulsion to make offerings to the dead. Ortiz, a native of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, molds stories from..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...very voyage that bandleader Ricardo Lemvo made, from his native Zaire, through Havana, to his current adopted home of..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Poetry Festival Continues

"...noteworthy show at Mexic-Arte will be Saturday night's Festival Iberoamericano, from 7-11:30pm, featuring over 20 Spanish-language poets in one..."

April 4, 1997 Books Feature

Smilla's Sense of Snow

"...just that it doesn't make much sense. As the half-Inuit/half-American heroine Smilla Jaspersen, who is currently living in Copenhagen,..."

March 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Little Princess

From the exquisite costumes to the remarkable set design to the superb performances, this fairy tale comes to life.

"...and lyrical again. Director Alfonso Cuaron, in his first American movie, has fashioned a world so real and so..."

May 26, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Single White Female

"...could only exist in the mind's eye of the non-native), Allie's in no position to move and so, advertises..."

Aug. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Sweet sheep, Lonesome Dove peeks, and more to see around the state

"...County in the spring and fall. The butterflies need native plants, especially milkweed, for larval development and nectar. Signage..."

Aug. 1, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scorsese at his best for a true tale of hideous heartland crimes

"...resist a couple of implications of the old "Magical Native American" trope...."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas French Bread’s BBQ Epiphany, Little Ola’s Stylish Turkeyday Switch, Getting a L’ILHIGH With Good Work Austin, Falling Into La Condesa, Desert Door at the Driskill, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Thanksgiving is definitely in the air, though – and..."

Nov. 22, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Murder at Yellowstone City

Horse opera is just a sturdy, well-worn mule trail

"...companion. There is Violet Running Bear (Beatty), an intrepid Native American girl who begins her own inquiry into the..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Day Trips: Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, New Mexico

Ancient rock art displays Jornada Mogollon creativity

"...sheep or etchings of birds, are frequently used in Native American art. But the meaning of the circle-and-dot motif..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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