Milli Vanilli Documentary to Get Award Screening at AFS

Austin Film Critics Association honors local film

"...The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon, about the career of the Southern fried maniac; Sorry..."

Jan. 13, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Documentary

Environmental warnings come with mordant humor and sweetness

"...outspoken wife of then-Attorney General John Mitchell, know that Nixon and his cronies (her husband included) conspired to burglarize..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...(The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon)?..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Common Law

Trump’s secret pardon – can Trump issue himself a get-out-of-jail-free-card and not tell anyone?

"...past, previous comments from prominent figures involved in the Nixon impeachment proceedings (Lawrence Traylor, the pardon attorney at the..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Column by Luke Ellis

Centigrade

Snowbound horror is a situation tragedy

"...to hang upon. Director Brendan Walsh and co-writer Daley Nixon throw in some complications, none of which depend on..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds 105 Acts

Whoop-Szo, Blood, Fennesz, and La Meme Gang join the fest

"...composer Fennesz, and the verbal assassin of psychobilly, Mojo Nixon. Other new additions include tropical indie rockers Surfer Blood,..."

Jan. 30, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Qmmunity: The Gay Gene

Plus events, cyber babes, and local queerlebrity book release!

"...City actress and 2018 New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon said something that stuck with me: "I say it..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz's beloved nightmares come to the screen

"...invoking the Vietnam War, the pending election of President Nixon, and where the local drive-in is showing – shocker!..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bird Boys Brings Crime to 1970s Beaumont

Lisa Sandlin's characters try to solve the mysteries of themselves

"...Richard Nixon doesn't actually appear in Lisa Sandlin's new book, but..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Residential Art Gallery Collection Rert Is Creative Austin as It Used to Be

Amanda Jones and Chad Hopper let the Rert ones in

"...gallery; and "Mortality in Plain Sight," in which Jessica Nixon created mixed-media versions of those sadly ubiquitous memorials erected..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top Books of 2018 That Make the Past Present

Whether in biography, graphic novel, crime fiction, or retold Greek myths, these books brought history to life

"...The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Vice

Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve

"...a yes man under Donald Rumsfeld’s tutelage in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and finally to puppet master himself..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

Two Texans discuss politics, fear, and the power of Willie Nelson to bring us back together

"...someone in your family did. Both JFK and Richard Nixon, who ran against each other in 1961, had served,..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

"Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death" at the Contemporary Austin

In this thought-provoking exhibition, the Suzanne Booth Deal Art Prize winner asks, “What does an architecture of power look like to you?”

"...You better get together." At the end of Richard Nixon's first term, Shirley Chisholm was in the midst of..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, Song to Song

As heard in the movies

"...her vocals in My Fair Lady replaced with Marni Nixon's. According to Sam Wasson's Breakfast at Tiffany's book, Fifth..."

May 19, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

TV in Trumpland

Quality struggles to take one step forward while culture takes 10 steps back

"...regularly scheduled programming. Similar to the elections of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and current president Barack Obama, we've been..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Point Austin: Circle the Firing Squad

When you look for villains, look in the right direction

"...a larger final margin than John Kennedy over Richard Nixon (1960) or Nixon over Hubert Humphrey (1968), and likely..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Acid-Laced Sun Kisses

Hippies, LSD, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in Orange Sunshine

"...to blossom in the mid-Sixties before death-spiralling into the Nixon-ified Seventies...."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Inherent Vice

Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

"...Manson, and California’s land-grab capitalism (shades of Chinatown), and Nixon’s silent majority lurks in the background like a Leviathan...."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ethics Commission: 'Mucus' Quacks Like a Lobbyist

TEC hits Michael Quinn Sullivan with maximum fine for acting as an unregistered lobbyist

"...Sullivan's attorney and Empower Texans legal counsel Joe Nixon denounced the ruling as "outrageous," especially because the commission..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blackbird Singing

Upscale neighborhood pub Blackbird and Henry features simple yet excellent cuisine

"...cocktail menu was designed by local bar consultant Lara Nixon and has continued growing under the watchful eye of..."

June 6, 2014 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Acknowledge LBJ's Depravity

"...ham sandwich." Stone reveals that not only did Richard Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Barry Goldwater, and the KGB..."

Nov. 11, 2013 Postmarks

Rush

In Ron Howard's Formula One racing pic, the drama trails the action.

"...Code, EdTV) and more prestige-minded pictures (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon). What's consistent throughout is a sure-handed showmanship served with,..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

News Ticker: August 26

All the news that's fit to blog

"...• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is probably canceling his annual governor friendship day with..."

Aug. 26, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Lee Daniels' The Butler

The stars shine bright in this broad yet moving overview of the last 90 years of African-American history.

"...from a toilet seat), and John Cusack as Richard Nixon. None of the impersonations seem particularly precise, but the..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trailer Park: SXSW Film Day 3

Three picks (and clips) from today's screenings

"...Our Nixon Visions, North American Premiere Sunday, March 10, 11am, Alamo..."

March 10, 2013 SXSW Post by Monica Riese

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Our Nixon Director: Penny Lane Recently discovered Super 8 home movies..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Making History, Part Two

Director Bill Rauch on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...history play. I always imagined Kennedy through Johnson through Nixon as the history cycle that Shakespeare would have written..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...to do – and those are halcyon days. Remember, Nixon was going down, and there was a period of..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Tuesday News Gay on a Wednesday: Feb. 1

This week's LGBT news round-up has good news all around!

"...WIDELY HATED: Last week, Sex in the City's Cynthia Nixon said that she chose to become a lesbian and..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

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