A Permanent Vacation in Palm Springs With Max Barbakow

A time loop movie influenced by everything but Groundhog Day

"...Andy Siara weren't envisioning when they first started writing Palm Springs. Still, they inadvertently ended up made one of..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Palm Springs

Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti do more than just rehash Groundhog Day

"...and Andy Siara (writer) want no part of that. Palm Springs diverges from its filmic ancestors to tell a..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Then There's This: Showdown at the Springs

Is the pool's south side in need of a makeover?

"...The decades-long battle over the Springs has moved to the south side – that is,..."

July 6, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Austin City Council Prepped to Tackle Palm District, Micro-Mobility, and More

A preview of the May 23 Council meeting

"...the southeast quadrant of Downtown – Convention Center expansion, Palm School, Waller Creek, Rainey Street, a tourism-based public improvement..."

May 22, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Traces of Red

"...he's walking and talking. He's cruelly miscast as a Palm Springs detective who's fatally attractive to women. Yet it..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Coachella

Where else can you see Iggy Pop & the Stooges back to back with Morrissey, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, and Nine Inch Nails? Nowhere but in this rambling, celebratory documentary, which covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back, slow-fi charm of the actual event.

"...this year. Every April, in the desert outside of Palm Springs, on the perfectly manicured pitch of the Indio..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Your Weekend in Film

Choose your battle

"...II, an animated version of the Spanish bullfighting-dom, a Palm Springs retirement home, and a certain space opera..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Into the Groove

Cutting Vinyl With Fat Tracks

"...classic Innervisions is linked to Silver Scooter's The Other Palm Springs by just one degree. And best of all,..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Coffeetable Books

Dream On

"...Palm Springs Modern: Houses in the California Desertby Adele Cygelman,..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

She Dies Tomorrow

Deathcentric dramedy mistakes gloom for depth

"...fraction of the perspicacity – even the giddily glib Palm Springs had more insight into the meaninglessness of life...."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Highly Contagious

Silver Scooter

"...nuances on the band's new Peek-a-Boo album The Other Palm Springs, but no one person emerges from behind the..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Empire of the Mind

"...hand, the label also released Silver Scooter's The Other Palm Springs, one of the most polished and fully realized..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Top Tens of 1997 Local Top Ten

Raoul Hernandez

"...From Monster Island (Freedom) 3. Silver Scooter, The Other Palm Springs (Peek-A-Boo) 4. The Derailers, Reverb Deluxe (Sire/Watermelon) 5...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature

Film Flam

Jason Reitman comes to town, just as a Housecore hit hits the road

"...local bongo master Matthew McConaughey will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award in January at the 25th annual Palm..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Screens Column by Monica Riese

Gay Place

HRC's Dinah will be chillaxxified by the Gay Place

"...lezbo circuit weekend that happens every spring out in Palm Springs. This is funny, because the Palm Spings party..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

Don't Worry Darling

Even Florence Pugh can't save this heavy-handed thriller

"...Worry Darling’s version is a doozy. It’s midcentury America. Palm Springs chic. At a dinner party, everybody is drunk..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Love Song

Dale Dickey paints a meticulous portrait of hope and love

"...In films as diverse as Palm Springs and Winter's Bone, Dickey's face has become filmmaking..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

6:45

Time loop horror relives a perfect and perfectly terrifying day

"...Mostly, their antics are played for comedy (Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, and even the splattery Happy Death Day films),..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: We Fell For Made For Love

Decoding the first three episodes of HBO Max's techno-dystopia

"...Mirror and Groundhog Day-ed at her sister’s wedding in Palm Springs. She masters the worry-tinged smile and sharpness of..."

April 5, 2021 Screens Post by Laiken Neumann

We Have an Issue: Meet the Interns

COVID may have robbed our summer interns of the hands-on experience of putting out a paper, but they're making the most out of their virtual internship

"...demand and Selome Hailu's review of the existential rom-com Palm Springs. (I'm a little jealous Hailu nabbed that assignment..."

July 10, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Music Reveals Surpass Halfway Mark

ATX shines on list No. 7 alongside Karol Conká, Crumb & Pedro the Lion

"...joins cosmic jazz-funk cult Golden Dawn Arkestra and Dripping Springs psych-Americana maker Israel Nash...."

Feb. 7, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Just Getting Started

Grumpy old men on the golf course

"...as Duke, the manager of the Villa Capri, a Palm Springs resort catering to retired yet still very horny..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The AggreGAYtor: September 11

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• Palm Spring’s residents might want to think twice about protesting..."

Sept. 11, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

2011 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Recipients Announced

2011 TFPF winners announced

"...Bradley Jackson THE MAN WHO NEVER CRIED Palm Springs International Short Film Festival..."

Aug. 29, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Alpha Dog

It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.

"...can’t let him go, so Johnny stashes him in Palm Springs with Frankie (Timberlake). Sounds okay, right? Wrong. Although..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 2

"...whimsy. With Silver Scooter's acclaimed debut, 1997's The Other Palm Springs, Peek-a-Boo shifted toward full-length releases, forcing Higdon to..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

O Solo Me-O

From Cosmic Accident to Refined Art: Rob Nash Onstage

"...Sucks is already booked in New York, San Diego, Palm Springs, and Houston, with dates in Atlanta and Los..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Kustom Film Kommando

Interview With Filmmaker Kenneth Anger

"...Zanuck material, because Zanuck was my neighbor here in Palm Springs and his estate is just around the corner...."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Silver Scooter

"...The Other Palm Springs (Peek-a-boo) It's possible there's no greater proving gound..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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