The Luv Doc: Middle-Aged, Caucasian, and Cranky

Middle-aged white guys have it tough all over, not just in Texas

"...I had to go to the post office on Wednesday. My post office is always very busy..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

The Off Beat: Porcelain Infuses Noise Rock with “Realistic Ambition”

Intense quartet launches self-titled debut on Feb. 16

"...“we give a shit,” Pike confirms during an Epoch Coffee roundtable. “It’s so easy just to be another Austin..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...still big news as the pan-media festival will kick off with the world premiere of new series 3 Body..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: A Blinding Amount of Light

If Jeff Bezos can launch a $5.5 billion dollar penis rocket into suborbital space, he can surely put a dimmer switch on a floodlight

"...a really sensitive motion detector that makes it go off regularly with a blinding amount of light that routinely..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Fantastic Fest Review: Cobweb

Song Kang-ho in the touching tragedy of a failing director

"...censors who would never approve his script – completing offscreen magic in service of his art...."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Review: Zach Theatre's Noises Off

Even after 40 years, Michael Frayn's backstage farce is fun, not funny

"...Sorry, but Michael Frayn's Noises Off just isn't funny to me...."

June 23, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Bringing Comeback SOS to Austin, SZA Remains a Relatable Queen

Singer saves herself in sold-out Moody Center voyage

"...Twinkling water noises set the scene for the nautical show ahead. Like..."

March 10, 2023 Music Post by Katie Karp

Austin at Large: Neither Slumber Nor Sleep

We will be othered, threatened, vilified, even fired upon. We must not let it stop us.

"...find it interesting, others have found it threatening or offensive. Some of those may be reading it now; some..."

May 27, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Dog

Channing Tatum picks up a canine pal in army vet drama

"...The official trailer for this interspecies bromance between two ex-Army Rangers..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin’s Vampire Store Cracks Open the Crypt

Opening the Glass Coffin, just in time for Halloween

"...to the moment I step inside the new Glass Coffin's interior. Joey Slayne, owner of the local vampire parlor,..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by James Scott

Eighth Street Survivors Still Wait for Resolution From the City and APD

Sixteen months later, civil and criminal cases move slowly

"...of Austin, and while the Travis County District Attorney’s Office prepares to present cases to a grand jury, the..."

Sept. 29, 2021 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Pressure Grows for Austin to Settle With Protesters Injured by APD

Nearly a dozen of those most seriously injured last summer are suing the city

"...of Austin, and while the Travis County District Attorney's Office prepares to present cases of alleged excessive force to..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

New Districts Set the Stage for the Politics of the 2020s

The city and state begin to show their work

"...complete this work, filing for the nonpartisan City Hall offices doesn't even begin until next August. There's plenty of..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...one determined locally-grown advocate as a new building owner offers Bingo as a portal to financial prosperity – but..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Austin at Large: Just Another Wednesday

Rejoice and be glad in these first calm hours of the rest of our democratic lives

"...have the presidential platform to stand on, their ugly noises die down to trivial and ignorable squeaks. Simply kicking..."

Jan. 22, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Monster Hunter

The beast-slaying game gets the Paul W.S. Anderson treatment

"...absolute sense that Capcom (which grossed $1.245 billion globally off his adaptations of the Resident Evil franchise) would put..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sound of Metal

A musician's worst nightmare becomes a catalyst for change

"...Marder. Starring: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff and Mathieu Amalric...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

AFI Review: Sound of Metal

The musician's nightmare becomes a catalyst for change

"..."what? WHAT?" responses. But that's gallows humor, to ward off the ultimate loss, as close to living in limbo..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin At Large: The Dog That Caught the Cop Car

De-policing becomes partisanized, but who is really putting themselves at risk?

"...over 12 months doesn't go nearly far enough. Laying off officers currently in uniform is not a deal-breaker for..."

Aug. 21, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: A Pre-November Pep Talk

Reasons for optimism as we ride this circus train into Election Station

"...We should feel good about our chances of getting off this circus train at Election Station, and onto a..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin At Large: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

As we endure this age of clownery, we can have nice things in our future – even I-35

"...doctors" shibboleths are just as meaningless as the rude noises being emitted from the White House. I've extended some..."

May 8, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Faster Than Sound – Beerland & Beyond: The Year in Music News

Squeezing out the decade's end in local music headlines

"...March. The ensuing gamut of gossip and solidarity kicked off local music's defining 2019 uproar...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Election Ticker: Travis County Races Heat Up

Noises from the March 2020 primary

"...where Democrats Julie Oliver and Heidi Sloan are facing off to challenge deep-pocketed GOP incumbent Roger Williams. Former state..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

As Millions Demand Justice, Texas Prepares to Take Rodney Reed's Life

Looking back at a long road of injustice for the death row inmate

"...have ever imagined using the phrase, 'I just got off the phone with Kim Kardashian,'" said Bryce Benjet, lead..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin Horror Anthology Scare Package Comes Home For Other Worlds

Laughs and screams in Under Worlds center piece film

"...is not right. Unable to sleep, tormented by strange noises and threatening notes, her new life quickly starts to..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cyrano, My Love

The true (possibly) tale behind the writing of the French classic

"...process for the stage. Whether it’s broad spoof like Noises Off or quasi-historical recreations like Shakespeare in Love, there’s..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...sex. His tales and musings, often running in Whoopsy!'s Offsides section, amounted to a deranged version of Sex in..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Jackie Venson Strips Off Her Blues Band and Becomes Her Own "DJ"

Austin's reigning Best Guitarist scales the ladder to the roof

"...people screwed around with it, then the internet blows off a few rungs, and it's just a really hard..."

July 26, 2019 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

The Intruder

Is going Full-On Quaid a thing? Maybe so, as the veteran goes bugnuts melodrama in the "crazy neighbor" thriller

"...Intruder’s PG-13 rating and aging antagonist, then write it off as a misplaced direct-to-video curio. But in this case,..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt on Their New Horror A Quiet Place

The filmmaking power couple on fighting monsters and real intimacy

"...a household name because of smash hit sitcom The Office. Not that he's running away from the role that..."

April 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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