Here Are Your 2018/19 Austin Music Award Winners

Best band, musician, song, radio station, and more Top 10s chosen by you

"...Runners-Up: Johnny Nicholas, Shinyribs, Greyhounds, Mamafesta, Carolyn Wonderland Country..."

March 1, 2019 Music Feature

Other Worlds Austin Goes to an Alien Nation

Sci-fi and horror fest releases full, final lineup

"...from his mother on a family camping trip, a young boy meets a fantastical creature that helps him find..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...educate the crowd with a special lecture by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on "Ghouls to the Front: Rethinking Women's Horror Filmmaking."..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ngozi Ukazu Hip-Checks This Year’s Staple! Expo

Local artist brings a hockey team’s worth of wit & bro-centric warmth

"...fomented year after year by one Chris “Uncle Staple” Nicholas and his mysterious cadre of skilled associates. And you..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Midnight Sun

Ill met by daylight in this photosensitive romance.

"...Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard, Ken Tremblett, Suleka Mathew, Nicholas Coombe, Tiera Skovbye, Paul McGillion, Austin Obiajunwa and Jenn..."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...Young Actor Tosh Ahora, Monty Python's Spamalot Yashua Batista, El..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bitter Harvest

In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation

"...Brown, Gary Oliver, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Austen, Richard Brake, Nicholas Aaron, William Beck and Tamer Hassan...."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Balls Out

College intramural football comedy features several SNL players

"...Reed, Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett, Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney, Nicholas Rutherford, Sam Eidson, Jay Pharoah and D.C. Pierson...."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mad Max: Fury Road

Glorious action cinema abounds on Fury Road

"...Directed by: George Miller. Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Zoë Kravitz,..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...him with questions cribbed from the likes of Chris Nicholas of Staple!, Tim Doyle of Nakatomi Inc., Kelly Phillips..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Good Eye: Girl, Illustrated

The fine lines between the lines

"...sometimes worn by an elderly matriarch, sometimes by a young mother, sometimes by a wide-eyed doll of a girl..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

The 'Fix' was in at the 40th theatre awards ceremony

"...Young Performer Will Sendera, The Who’s Tommy..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Joyful Noise

How Saengerrunde Hall learned to sing a new tune

"...halfway between the seat of Texas government and the young state university was a contributing factor to his success...."

Sept. 19, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Diverting but rarely riveting, this latest offering from the Marvel Universe kicks the can down the road some more.

"...Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ellen Page..."

May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

The unreleased and the oddly evasive titles from 2013

"...the real buzz titles. It's also the best thing Nicholas Brendon has done post-Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As I..."

Jan. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Most Valuable Player

Making a movie in Austin? Dana Wheeler-Nicholson's your gal.

"...the pretty girl in school who got married too young and got stuck there." Wheeler-Nicholson feels very much the..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...successful, Hollywood executives figured it had to be because young people made it. Consequently, they gave everyone they could..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Crazy Heart

At the crazy heart of the 2009-10 Austin Music Awards sits Stephen Bruton

"...of the Carter Family and unbound promise of a young Alison Krauss, Sarah Jarosz mines a vein of musical..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sheik to Sheik

Crazy Heart wasn't Stephen Bruton's only last project, and we have Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks to thank for that

"...siren call of folk music luring from the hinterlands young pioneers such as Carolyn Hester (see "Double-Barrel Beautiful," Dec...."

Feb. 19, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Fired Up

This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.

"...Directed by: Will Gluck. Starring: Nicholas D’Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Wah-Wah

The death throes of an empire are are practically nothing when compared with the twitch of the marital death nerve in Richard E. Grant's semiautobiographical directorial debut.

"...by: Richard E. Grant. Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Nicholas Hoult and Miranda Richardson. The death throes of an..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

"...subject of several films, and that whole notion of young people believing that their intellect lets them be above..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touching the Void

Two glacier climbers face the worst and live to tell about it in this harrowingly intimate documentary report.

"...Directed by: Kevin Macdonald. Starring: Brendan Mackey and Nicholas Aaron. Touching the Void might have been the ultimate..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...Stone, 1943): Tue, 6/3, 9:20pm; Wed, 6/4, 7:30pm (Fayard Nicholas in attendance)..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature

Bloody Sunday

"...Tom Pigott-Smith, Mary Moulds, Gerard Crossan, Allan Gildea and Nicholas Farrell. Save for the anthemic U2 protest song that..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Rules of Attraction

Roger Avary does Bret Easton Ellis.

"...Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Kate Bosworth, Fred Savage and Eric Stoltz. Ugh. The..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Time and Tide

"...Wong Chau-Sang, Cathy Tsui, Candy Lo, Wu Bai and Nicholas Tse. Astonishing and exhilarating, Time and Tide marks a..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vertical Limit

"...Starring: Ben Mendelson, Izabella Scorupco, Scott Glenn, Alexander Siddig, Nicholas Lea, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton and Chris O'Donnell. Cliffhanger..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Croupier

"...Starring: Clive Owen, Kate Hardie, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee, Nicholas Ball, Kate Fenwick and Nick Reding. “A wave of..."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beautiful People

"...Sloman, Heather Tobias, Danny Nussbaum, Siobhan Redmond, Gilbert Martin, Nicholas Farrell, Faruk Pruti, Dado Jehan, Edin Dzandzanovic and Julian..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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