Blue Sun Palace

Joy and grief at a Queens massage parlor

"...Flushing, Queens, and some of the people in their orbit. Sunny, smiley Didi (Haipeng Xu) is the linchpin, the..."

May 16, 2025 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tracking, Vacuuming, and Sinking Carbon at SXSW

Time to save the planet

"...Astrophysics analyzes data from a pair of satellites that orbit the Earth, feeding the data into advanced modeling engines..."

March 7, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

MaXXXine

Triumphant third installment in Ti West's cinematic slasher-horror series

"...nerd) can only call underrated puts her in the orbit of director Elizabeth Bender (Debicki, coldly sardonic), whose own..."

July 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Janet Planet

An 11-year-old is besotted with her single mom in 1991 rural Massachusetts

"...Planet Janet, since people come into single mother Janet’s orbit. Or maybe it’s that she orbits them, briefly caught..."

June 28, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Chronic: Austin Documentarian Links Up With Jimmy Kimmel for Reality Series High Hopes

New Hulu show captures organic humor among dispensary misfits

"...I feel grateful and lucky to be in his orbit,” he reports. “And he’s a good person.”..."

April 19, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Understanding the Science Behind the Total Solar Eclipse

Front-row seat to a celestial show

"...strip of land called the path of totality. The orbits of the moon around the Earth, and the Earth..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

Review: Alejandro Escovedo, Echo Dancing

Rechanneling 14 catalog selections’ romantic existentialism

"...a techno meditation. The lachrymose “Last to Know” breaks orbit from its Earthbound mortality to a space odyssey weightlessness...."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Love Lies Bleeding

Kristen Stewart stars in a blood-soaked romance for the ages

"...who can’t help but be drawn into each other’s orbit, no matter the consequences. Their chemistry is powerful enough..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Experts on What to Do if You Come Face-to-Face With an Alien

Put up your dukes or extend a hand?

"...Clipper mission. The poem, engraved on the spacecraft, will orbit Jupiter after making the 1.8 billion-mile trip. Limón said..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Madeline Duncan

Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...Live from Space: NASA Astronauts & Your Work in Orbit: Orbiting 250 miles above your head is a state-of-the-art..."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Last One Down the Mountain: Belated Thoughts on the Sundance Film Festival

Even virtually, the 2024 fest felt revitalized

"...to this line of work despite few in her orbit understanding her impulse, are accompanied by an almost operatic..."

Feb. 21, 2024 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Lies Bleeding Is a Blood-Soaked Romance for the Ages

Rose Glass’ Saint Maud followup revels in '80s pulp

"...who can’t help but be drawn into each other’s orbit, no matter the consequences. Their chemistry is powerful enough..."

Jan. 31, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

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

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...immigrant becomes convinced that a mysterious object approaching Earth’s orbit holds the key to her loneliness. (World Premiere) Documentary..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Me Nd Adam’s Keep Austin Cheer’d and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Get in the holiday spirit with Spaceflight Records or Spiritualized

"...psych, hip-hop, free improv, and spiritual jazz into his orbit, spinning out an acid flow from some other quadrant...."

Dec. 8, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Dry Cleaning, Hinds, Rawayana Announced in SXSW 2024’s First Artist List

The first wave of 149 showcasing acts headed to Austin

"...OH HE DEAD (Washington DC) Omar S (Detroit MI) orbit (Achim GERMANY) ORION (Providence RI) Otto Aday (Ferndale UK-WALES)..."

Oct. 11, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Flora and Son

Joseph Gordon-Levitt steals the show in this Irish musical drama

"...to impress him and anyone else within her loopy orbit, including the handsomely blue-eyed but irresponsible ex who fathered..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 18-24

"...is a hollow globe of aluminum launched into Earth orbit in 1965. Fifty-eight years later, it continues to circle..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...moon is full during the closest point in its orbit. Quote of the Week..."

Aug. 4, 2023 News Feature

Review: Pearl Earl, It's Dread

A dreamy, melancholic, and, at times, ominous sophomore journey

"...hefty walk-up bassline that instantly shoots you out of orbit. The title track slows things down with a minor..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Music Feature by Leo Vernor

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Jordan Moser's August residency, a pair of Millers, and more recommended Austin shows

"...truck bed Americana scenes as Virginia Creeper. More to orbit Moser's tearstained globe: Tyler Jordan and Emily No Good..."

July 28, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 14-20

"...enjoy meditating on the heavenly body Chiron. With an orbit between Saturn and Uranus, it is an anomalous object..."

July 14, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions

Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?

"...matter of time before it got folded into the orbit of the growing Austin metro area."..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

William Shatner, Still Boldly Going

The legend brings The Wrath of Khan to the Long Center

"...passenger on the New Shepard capsule. Once in brief orbit, he experienced what is known as the overview effect..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Twisted Family Reunited in Southern Gothic Horror What Josiah Saw

Director Vincent Grashaw discusses the versions that almost were

"...Scott Haze, and Kelli Garner), all caught in the orbit of their abusive father, Josiah (Robert Patrick) and a..."

Aug. 6, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paris, 13th District

Love and sex in this Paris-set adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s comics

"...ex-lovers who can’t quite get out of each other’s orbit. It just depends when you see their very average..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Laughing Boy

I Am the Man From Space (Persistence of Vision)

"...iconic hip-hop inflections, the Brothers Cup expatriate's latest breaks orbit on rapid-fire multisyllabics, but with rhymes and reasons more..."

April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Memory Harker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Mikaela Davis, Knocked Loose, Curtis McMurtry, Questlove, and more recommended shows

"...for Austin bands and touring artists outside Austin's direct orbit. Saturday's concert welcomes Rochester, N.Y., native Mikaela Davis –..."

April 15, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Doc Recounts the 50 Year Reign of King Crimson

Heavy hangs the crown In the Court of the Crimson King

"...been the red giant around which the Crimson planets orbit. Easily one of the greatest English-speaking rock guitar players..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 18-24

"...Piscean cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft. As his feat neared..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Bringing Joy to Grief in Apple TV+'s The Sky Is Everywhere

And B. Iden Payne winner Jacques Colimon is the sun

"...plays Joe Fontaine, a young musician who enters the orbit of Lennie (Grace Kaufman) as she untangles all the..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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