Mixed Signals

Council Navigates Transportation Matters

"...Public Works director Peter Rieck calls Barry's plan "more of a beautification project..."

April 3, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Texas Platters

"...few CCR and Skynyrd covers under their brass belt buckles, these ribald Philistines would be the perfect house band..."

May 23, 1997 Music Review

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Skeleton's smashing self-titled album on primo Northwest imprint 20 Buck Spin and 2021 promises another full-length, but betwixt them..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Frozen II

Back to Arendelle, but has the story grown up with the audience?

"...Directed by: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee...."

Nov. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Improvising Chekhov With Nothing and Everything

To improvise Chekhov plays, the cast of Nothing and Everything learned just how much goes on in them

"...It's a criticism that doesn't sit well with Peter Rogers, a local improviser of longstanding whose extensive credits..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Arts Feature by Alexa Harrington

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...The Babymakers Director: Jay Chandrasekhar, Screenwriters: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow Unable to impregnate his wife, Tommy..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...“The Great Buck Howard” (USA, 87 min.) Writer/Director: Sean McGinly Cast: Colin..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin @ Large: Triangle, Full Circle

Seven glorious years later, and did we learn anything?

"...have become rabid New Urbanists, marquee urban-design mavens like Peter Calthorpe have colonized Central Texas, and the progressive-planning bug..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The 'N' Word

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

"...the band," states the captain, known to skulk around Peter Pan Mini-Golf grumbling about its namesake. "We're not 'novelty.'..."

May 21, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story strikes a balance between being sentimental and irreverent, with Peter Billingsley putting in one of the better performances ever from a child actor and the rest of the cast clearly having a good time.

"...the season.A Christmas Story D: Bob Clark (1983); with Peter Billingsley, Darin McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Scott Schwartz. Little Ralphie..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE HOLLISTERS: A little Johnny Cash, a little Buck Owens, a little early-Seventies Elvis. Houston's Hollisters bring together..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Scanlines

The Player

"...with Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James, Cynthia Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dean Stockwell,..."

April 4, 1997 Screens Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...sax, Donna Pearl on percussion, dancing, and vocals, Mike Buck on drums, and Ted Roddy on vocals and bongos,..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Michael Almereyda; with Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Jared Harris, Karl Geary, Elina Lowensohn, David Lynch...."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Death Watch: Shocking Evidence of a Thoroughly Racist Trial

Of course the state still wants to kill this prisoner

"...overtones even before the new evidence was uncovered. Attorney Peter Walker writes that Balentine had angered Caylor by dating..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta, Kady Rain, More Eaze, Pusha T, and more non-ACL shows

"...punk bard Jon Langford performing as the Return of Buck Hogarth, Shandon Sahm doing a set of his father's..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Kate Bush Bash, Urban Heat, Knife in the Water, Night Cap, Adrian Ruiz, and Shimmer Island

"...dramatic baritone, burbling analog synths, unrelenting drum machines, and post-Peter Hook basslines. And while Horstmann acknowledges the EP's theme..."

July 29, 2022 Music Column by Tim Stegall

After a Relapse Into Addiction Quietly Broke Up Street Sects, the Duo Has Exorcised Their Demons

The Gentrification V 7-inch hit last week, but Austin experimentalists are focusing on a balanced existence instead of rushing anticipated third LP

"...sink trap of addiction. Sometimes warbling in an unsettled Peter Murphy croon, more often screeching in savage abandon, Ashline,..."

May 27, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free D: Mary Wharton Producer: Peter Afterman Drawn from a newly discovered archive of 16mm..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: TV Christmas Episodes

Celebrate the season in Sunnydale, the Oval Office, and more

"...Tommy Schlamme and written by Aaron Sorkin (story by Peter Parnell), “Noël” moves between two timelines, neatly threading together..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback: “Hastily Prepared” Ordinances Head to City Council

Revised drafts of Agent of Change and OMV permitting head to Council, but again, live music interests raise alarms

"...Wall, now handles marketing; and Sailor Poon siren Billie Buck, who won Best Poster Artist in the 2016 Austin..."

June 9, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books

Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs

"...by Michael Ray Charles, Robert L. Levers Jr., and Peter Saul; vivid abstracts by Samson Mnisi, Margo Sawyer, and..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AFF Revisits the Perfectly Looney What’s Up, Doc?

Paul Feig presents the 1972 screwball comedy on Sunday

"...“Bananas” sounds about right for Peter Bogdanovich’s daffy screwball comedy, even if – splitting hairs..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

I Like to Watch

Bringing The Thomas Crown Affair to Shondaland

"...the plot of the movie she's in and goes buck-wild, it caused an outburst of laughter. My friend Sarah..."

March 18, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW blurbing

"...Picks Peterson Brothers..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

DVDanger: What's Your Point of View?

For Halloween, some beastly releases of the haunting month

"...a big jump in casting to put the killer's buck knife in the hands of up-and-coming Austin actor Elijah..."

Oct. 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Second Fiddle Takes a Bow

Scene stealers at the Paramount Summer Film Classic Series

"...Llewelyn wasn't the first Q. Technically, that was Peter Burton in Dr. No, appearing as MI6 armorer Major..."

May 25, 2012 Screens Feature

On the Funding Front

Eleven area artists and cultural organizations earn support for 2011 projects

"...Boozefox (Drew Liverman, Jules Buck Jones, Michael Phalan, Scott Eastwood), for Battleship Earth, an..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Wizardly Way

Human Centipede, Abe Sapien and more speak at Austin Comic Con

"...undoubted nostalgia component, with childhood heroes like Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers) and Peter Mayhew (the one and only Chewbacca)..."

Nov. 18, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Found in the Ground

Mother Falcon takes flight – past Paganini

"...and recorded Red Armada Quartet Plays the Music of Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds, with whom they've collaborated...."

July 30, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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