The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...notoriously loquacious bar etiquette couldn’t drown out testimony to our musical wellspring...."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Summer Fun: Kids These Days

Summer Fun continues with Nina on the Texas State Capitol

"...Back in the day, when our elementary school classes went to tour the Texas State..."

May 14, 2013 Chronolog Post by Nina Hernandez

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...notoriously loquacious bar etiquette couldn't drown out testimony to our musical wellspring...."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Our Ecstatic Days' is that rarest of creatures: a great novel. The first great American novel of the 21st century. Steve Erickson has discovered the secret of creating a novel that is not a book but an organism. Proust did it. Joyce almost did it. Faulkner sometimes did it. Marquez did it. Yes, that's the company Steve's keeping in Our Ecstatic Days.'

"...I'd received of a new Los Angeles novelist. She devoured the book; when it was my turn to read..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

Steve Erickson's new novel Zeroville shows what you have to go through to see how monotheism screws up your consciousness

"...to others because it's in the particular context of our friendship. Only when one of us finishes a manuscript..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

To the Wonder

Terrence Malick makes a swift return to our screens with this evocative story about the stages of love.

"...recall, are their names, Neil and Marina.) Their early days of infatuation are expressed through images of playful romping..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Candy

Despite sporting Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as a pair of Australian junkies increasingly on the outs with family, reality, and rent, Candy is a washout.

"...if they just quit tweeting at us and/or stealing our car stereos. No such luck, though: Candy sports Oscar..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monos

Colombian child-soldier drama is a bleak look into the cruelty of innocents

"...exceptionally vivid and lengthy dream – part nightmare, part ecstatic revelation, but all-consuming – to someone else days after..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Toros Celebrate the Holidays With Wins

Hold league-best record

"...It's been a festive week for our favorite guys, the Austin Toros. Needing one win to..."

Dec. 28, 2011 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

Who Let the Dogs Out?

A playlist for the dog days of summer

"...their dogs, even titling their 1995 sophomore LP Dog Days. "Black Dog," a bluesy rave-up, yapped on the follow-up,..."

July 17, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Austin Industry Bands Together for March Music Week

Why Austin venues and musicians need you to turn out the next 10 days, and where to do it

"...Reynolds plans to pursue federal and local disaster relief resources...."

March 13, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...Fest 2009 is cool, chilling, and guaranteed to make your blood run cold. (And didn't Fantastic Fest 2007 feature..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Many Heads of Aaron Turner

Speaking the truth with Isis frontman Aaron Turner

"...killer albums: Clouds, Jesu, Zozobra, and Big Business. What’s your role like these days with the label? Aaron Turner:..."

Feb. 26, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

QueerTowne Celebrates Milestone Virtual Show Tonight

Why settle for quarantine when you can “Queerantine,” baby?

"...number – that’s double digits we’re talking about. These days, getting to 10 of something can’t be taken lightly..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Dziekuje Mr. Wrona

Q&A with Decapitated survivor 'Vogg' Kiełtyka

"...Rabbit in San Antonio, Behemoth headlines the Decibel Magazine Tour with Swedish blood bathers Watain. Two days later –..."

April 27, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

"Rape Insurance" Bill Close to Becoming Law

HB 214 bars private, state-offered, and ACA abortion coverage

"...Ecstatic to bring their first child into the world, Austin..."

Aug. 13, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Get ’Em While They're Hot

Acquisitions left and right in the Austin film scene

"...It's always good news when we can report on our favorite picks from festival lineups, but it's even sweeter..."

Jan. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

FF2012: Rock the Red Carpet

Scenes from the 'Frankenweenie' and 'Dredd 3D' premieres

"...3D? You can admire the stars from afar in our photo galleries...."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Progressive Pilgrim’s Progress

Robert Jensen's new memoir is an extended meditation on his tentative return to the Presbyterian church of his youth.

"...the change. As it happens this time, the peripatetic journalism professor and prolific writer and activist was undergoing minor..."

June 10, 2009 Books Post by Michael King

There Can Be Only One

'Chronicle' beats BookPeople for the millionth time to capture ASL title

"...traditional fall sports like football, basketball, and hockey. Of course, Leonard was talking about baseball there, and I'm talking..."

Nov. 13, 2008 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"..."After about half an hour or so, my girlfriend and I went outside to..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Shooting Star

"...calls them "incomings from Tempe." They go like this: Your brother's wife overdosed this morning; she's dead. Your brother..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...printed interview. So here's a fuller version. The national tour of the musical opens at Bass Concert Hall today...."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Friday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...cello, saxophone, and organ keeps things cinematically off-kilter. The fourpiece Woggles, also from ATL, recently departed Chicken Ranch for..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Little Darlings

Addison DeWitt and Miss Caswell come back to life as chihuahuas, and it's All About Margaret.

"...minutes of peace and quiet I've had in several hours. Last Friday I was driving along with my brother..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Features Feature by Margaret Moser

Such Stuff as Screams Are Made On

Austin punk gets the museum treatment, but does the scene come off as dead or alive?

"...there the instant you open the door at Arthouse, your raging musical introduction to a museum exhibition about punk..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...much prefer that he worry about the future of our state and country. For example, I am completely mortified..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

Sculpting a School

David Deming on the Art of Being a Dean

"...So it is that these days Deming's hands are as full of budgets and mission..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Only the Fourth Wall Is Forever

After 10 years, Salvage Vanguard Theater is moving on

"...associate artistic director of Salvage Vanguard Theater in the days when founder Jason Neulander was leading the group of..."

June 24, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Better This Way'

The first-place story

"...After you died I inherited Hooch, your one-hundred-and-ten-pound mastiff-shepherd, the hulking dog with a beautiful widow's..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Benjamin Reed

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