SXSW Showcase Picks

Spend the evening with your favorite record label.

"...8pm, Club de Ville In response to the blockbuster mindset of major labels, former Warner Bros. Vice..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Q&A: Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan

Long-awaited Existential Reckoning tour hits Austin next week

"...deep dive into society’s treacherous value of entertainment over information. That album, the art-rock trio’s fourth, now plays out..."

June 9, 2022 Music Post by Maya Wray

Point Austin: Can This Code Be Saved?

Plan for a common future, or pretend it just won't happen

"...changes on corridors and a few larger intersections, amidst the repetitively suburban blocks. The response was mixed – but..."

May 11, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: You Go Where You Have to Go

Welcome to the new year ... same as the old year?

"..."We think by feeling. What is there to know?..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Louis Black

ACL Fest Music Recommendations From Close to Home

Fresh sounds that emanate from the Lone Star State

"...Riders Against the StormFriday, 1:30pm, Tito's stage..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Ritesh Batra Has a Photograph

Indian-American director dismantles the tropes of the romantic movie

"...A man and a woman meet. They have enough in common to overcome everything that separates..."

May 22, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Moontower 2018 Reviews: A Comic a Day

A schooling in stand-up from Notaro, Haddish, and more

"...I did my time rabidly quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail in middle school, and I watch all..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Leffingwell Announces ‘Rail – or Fail’

In final ‘State of the City’ address, mayor strongly pushes urban rail

"...With a trace of lighthearted nostalgia, Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his final State of..."

Feb. 25, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: Poor Rich's Almanac

Three cheers for Oppel's Statesman

"...retirement, come June, I'm suddenly touched with ... not nostalgia exactly, but a sense that the Statesman editor's official..."

March 28, 2008 News Column by Michael King

(Backroom) Journeys With George (and James)

Revisiting The War Room -- the electrifying '92 campaign documentary starring the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Stephanopoulos and Carville) -- with executive producer R.J. Cutler.

"...since Gov. Bill Clinton swept George Sr. out of the White House to the chorus of "don't stop thinking..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Scanlines

The Nine Best Video Releases of 1998

"...by critics (even cited by some as one of the worst films of '97), Starship Troopers missed the mark..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

TV Eye

"...Rosanne in 1989's She-Devil, one of her few forays into film. That breeze ruffling the back of your..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Sudan Archives, Ben Kweller, and More Highlights From Saturday at ACL Fest

Texans Angel White, Blakchyl stood out under an annular eclipse

"...Alongside the typical drinks sponsors and wristband scalpers, enterprising vendors of..."

Oct. 15, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books

Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs

"...tell a huge story in a little book. If the subject has real heft – say, a collection that..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback: John Wesley Coleman's Greatest Hits

A Golden Boy gathers his Greatest Hits, there's hope for Hole in the Wall, and F1 Fan Fest contracts, yet expands locally.

"...John Wesley Coleman's had a Herculean morning. The hands of the clock have barely hit their northerly..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

aGLIFF Announces Lineup

Austin's favorite LGBTQ fest drops next month

"...The fall festival season kicks off this September with an..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

VIA 313: Defining Pizza, Designing Detroit

Marc English and the Hunt Brothers conjure some real Motor City magic

"...Everybody else is talking about the food, but right now we’re gonna talk a bit..."

June 29, 2015 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Vinyl’s Tin Cup Chalice

Finyl vinyl thoughts from the stacks of Antone’s Records

"...Buffett, “Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” As the old school ire behind last week’s cover story on..."

Jan. 15, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

War Stories

From Austin to the Upper Peninsula to Afghanistan and back: Heather Courtney's long journey to arrive at Where Soldiers Come From

"...As the quiet real-life drama of Where Soldiers Come From unfolds,..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Collective Wisdom

The Tonewheel Collective spins off Austin's indie scene of tomorrow

"...unlikely master of ceremonies. Humble and soft-spoken even onstage, the 25-year-old songwriter grins almost apologetically to the intimate Beerland..."

May 11, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Love Is All Around

Tracking Sonny Curtis and his tall, West Texas tales

"...Tracked for three months and through as many states, following phone..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...The New Millennium. Same as the old millennium...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"......"

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

This Week's Waste of Time

Are we getting too nostalgic with this week's online game?

"...The technical limitations of online games often make for graphics..."

June 17, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...17, and "Something Stinks," Sept. 14], I must make the following comments:..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Postmarks

The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.

"...["Would You, Could You Be My Neighbor," Aug. 31]. Unfortunately, they were not true. I did not ask Alfred..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

Blithe Spirit

Mirthless rewrite of Coward's classic can't raise a smile, never mind a ghost

"...Noël Coward’s ghostly comedy Blithe Spirit first hit audiences back in 1941 in the..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...No doubt the unemployed Austinites Mr. King described ["Capitol Chronicle," Jan. 10]..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Column

Reissues

"...GONE WITH THE WIND..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

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