“The People’s Gallery 2017” at Austin City Hall

This year's showing of work in Austin City Hall by a small army of local artists offers satisfaction on multiple levels

"...Gallery 2016" exhibit and subsequently being added to the city's permanent art collection. According to his accompanying statement, buttermilk..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Antoine Wilson Reads at BookPeople Tonight

UT's rechristened New Writers Project launches author series

"...and The Jerk as inspirations for his new novel Panorama City...."

Oct. 11, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Music Announces First Band Cull

Some 10% of total acts showcasing March 11-16

"...from the rain and ruin of a two-week Austin City Limits Music Festival, South by Southwest has announced its..."

Oct. 16, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Constant Gardener

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

"...epic story, and a heavyweight political subtext in 2002’s City of God, presides ably over this international production, which..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Story of Boys and Girls

"...a Jean Renoir movie. Or perhaps an intergenerational, societal panorama by Louis Malle. Set in 1936 Italy, the movie..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beautiful Country

A grueling journey is undertaken by a Vietnamese teen to find his absent mother in Ho Chi Minh City, and then his father, a former G.I., in Texas.

"...to first find his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, and then his father in Texas. Because of his..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beijing Bicycle

A newcomer to Beijing has his bicycle (and livelihood) stolen by a teen desperate to impress his pals in this Chinese variation on The Bicycle Thieves.

"...woman in a nearby apartment, berating her as a “city girl” with a “big pile of clothes,” only to..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...Viet Cong (featuring former members of Women), and Mexico City’s Mexican Institute of Sound with Toy Selectah...."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Los Angeles, I'm Yours

Thom Andersen sets the story straight on the city he loves in 'Los Angeles Plays Itself'

"...off with a rousing big-band sound, hyping a sumptuous panorama of the city of Los Angeles at night, lights..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Historic Landmarks With Killer Views

Putting Austin in perspective

"...stretch of highway quickly opens up to reveal the city’s depth and expansiveness...."

June 15, 2016 Columns Post by Shaundra Smith

The Next Step

They've made their films. They've done the festivals. Now, four filmmakers share stories about finding -- and losing -- distribution.

"...Scott Smith's edgy teen drama rollercoaster was nabbed by Panorama Entertainment; it played here in Austin roughly a month..."

April 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...who made 14 films together. Filmed in the "breathtaking panorama of VistaVision" (as the ads of the day proclaimed),..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the Thirties

"...The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Record Reviews

"...quickly end up a trainwrecked circus when the windy city's Lonesome Organist jumps the tracks and his consortium of..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Music Review

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ailey

The lasting legacy of revolutionary choreographer Alvin Ailey

"...African American role models. After moving to New York City in 1954, he quickly established himself as a dancer..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Road Home

"...rural China, photographed in flat, stark black-and-white. Here, thirtysomething city worker Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) returns home to arrange..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Letting Voices Be Heard

Cine Las Americas programming is all about access

"...feat, but she's particularly proud of the Official Selection Panorama and the festival's co-curating partnerships because of the doors..."

April 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

How the Red River Cultural District Was Made

Decades of off-kilter activity and music activism culminate in our current concert hub

"...below gives way to a sweeping view of our city's last concentrated music corridor. It's a panorama of Red..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW 2013 Round Two: More Bands Announced

Big year for Bogota bands with a heavy playlist from Colombia

"...Ribbons (Austin, Calif.) Agonizer (Havana, Cuba) Agrupacion Cariño (Mexico City,, Mexico) Ain't No Love (Montreal, Canada) The Airborne Toxic..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Islam by chronicling Sufi Muslims' annual pilgrimage to the city of Touba. (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...shows all over Canada; from local bowling alleys, to city buses, and onward to the legendary Savoy Theater for..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"...to the east, you make your way into the City That Never Sleeps, ending your travels among rivers of..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Goodbye Letter to Austin

A visiting reporter from Germany reflects as he heads home

"...actually have with all your cars. How beautiful the city would be, I sometimes thought as I walked around..."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature by Jonah Lemm

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

"...at street level. You're advised to pause over this panorama of jammed-up storefronts and offices, and absorb the names..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Review by Robert Faires

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...experience, Thompson set up a studio in his Oklahoma City house and engineered and produced his own recordings; a..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

It Follows Goes Everywhere

Director David Robert Mitchell on finding horror in Detroit

"...shot with wide-angle lenses, to get as large a panorama into the shot as possible, and to allow the..."

March 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...For more than 15 years, Mexico City's Intolerancia has documented the bleeding edge of progressive Latin..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...spectacular revenge and become the biggest writers in the City. Cast: Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Meeko, Zoe Lescaze, Sam..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...The City Dark Director: Ian Cheney The film chronicles the disappearance..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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