Come Play

Monster living within your phone doesn't deserve your screentime

"...We've become accustomed to ghosts in the machine, but monsters lurking within our electronic crutches are..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knifight

"..."One thing draws us together ... the dark." So looms the spooky sample preceding..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Review by Neph Basedow

Wendy

J.M. Barrie’s classic flies on new, grimier wings

"...words open J.M. Barrie’s beloved children’s book Peter Pan. The question it implicitly asks of the reader is whether..."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Election Ticker: Last Chance for Controversy

E-Day is tomorrow! Here's the latest news before it's too late.

"...Just a few more hours before the future of the world is decided. No pressure. Here’s..."

Nov. 5, 2018 News Post by News Staff

Bad Manners

"...is it about comfy white-bread domesticity that brings out the schoolyard bully in otherwise mild-mannered playwrights? From Edward Albee..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Stuart Little

Retelling of E.B. White's children's classic.

"...Directed by: Rob Minkoff. Starring: Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brian Doyle-Murray,..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright

With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment

"..."I can see them swarming you," Lawrence Wright said across the little outdoor..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

Sunday SOS Record Reviews

You Are Going to Hate This (Dangerbird)

"...Production by Fidlar's Zac Carper explains the similarities in sound between both sets of SoCal grunge..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Little Richard

"...Little RichardKeynote Address, Austin Convention Center/SXSW Showcase Set, Austin Music Hall,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Review by David Lynch

Mister Smarty Pants Knows

"...Some of the fish near the Antarctic coast have a substance..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

Cry over the election if you must, but don't let the bastards sap your vitality. American progressives started seriously mass-scale organizing only about a year ago, and in just one year we came within reach of victory.

"...organizer executed on trumped-up charges in Utah in 1915. The night before his murder he telegrammed his comrades: "Don't..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...Want to hear the music that Austinites are buzzing about right now, before..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Robbie Fulks

Record Review

"...while now, and it's only recently that Bloodshot put their stamp on it. Culling obscure tunes from the catalogs..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...explorers to tech investors, musicians to Muppets, and from the joint chiefs of staff to the wrestling ring: SXSW..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastical Fictions Features Robert Jackson Bennett

A night with the award-winning author of otherworldly wonderments

"...Tired of the election grind? Looking for shelter from the tsunami..."

Oct. 26, 2016 Arts Post by Rebecca Schwarz

Sniper 66 Conceptualize Austin's First Serial Killer

The street-punk vets tell the tale of the Servant Girl Annihilator

"..."There's songs about suicide, drug use, and death, which is..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Bedtime Stories That Bite Back

Jennifer Kent discusses horror debut The Babadook

"...Psssst! Hey child, there's something dreadful hiding under your bed, with too many..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dicks Hate Police, Love David Yow

Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid screamer headlines benefit

"...David Yow, the notorious Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid frontman who lived in Austin..."

Sept. 30, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest Review: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Into the shadowy mind of the man that created Hellboy

"...If my house ever collapses, it will be because of the stress placed on the structure by what I..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What Would Keith Richards Do?

Rock & Roll Summer Reading Lagniappe: “What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations from a Rock & Roll Survivor”

"...West got it right. Even when her prayer book of rock & roll wisdom, What Would Keith Richards Do?,..."

July 17, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

St. Nicholas

In 'St. Nicholas,' Conor McPherson wrote one hell of a one-man show, and Ken Webster executes it beautifully, making this tale of vampires seem as it might really be real

"...are prepared to be scared. Perhaps a small part of you wants to be scared. So when the lights..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

First Look at Sap’s Sibling in Allandale

Second location for Austin Thai fave Sap's Fine Thai Cuisine

"...A couple of weeks ago, I ate at my buddy Sap’s newly..."

March 3, 2014 Food Post by Mick Vann

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

The unreleased and the oddly evasive titles from 2013

"...One of the worst, nay, most depressing aspects of living in..."

Jan. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rock, Then Surf, en Español

Austin-based tastemaking website La Banda Elástica puts the emphasis on worldwide

"...– some might specify rock & roll – is the one language that knocks down borders, real or imagined,..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Our "best-of" lists in the last Chronicle concurred that 2002 was..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Juke Joint Madonna

Toni Price comes clean.

"...The women lined up in front of the monitors at..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...League, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema bigwig and prime mover behind the third annual Fantastic Fest, which opens at the Alamo..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Flip It and Reverse It

Bush abandons troublesome action for the sanctity of meaningless battles and ideological purity

"...Given that this week we celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4,..."

July 7, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Imagine

The music business in a post-911 world

"...Like so many others that day, Dan Gellar's phone rang on the morning..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

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