The Ballad of Davy Jones

Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing

"...leering grim reapers and maybe a few Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King characters. It's accompanied by a roar..."

May 22, 2015 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Film Flam: Linklater, Krisha, and Slackerwood

Awards all around, and a sad farewell to the popular film blog

"...COMPETITION Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) Award: Poe Que el Recuerdo (The Solitude of Memory) D: Juan..."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Eye: Oh Buoyancy

... like Sandra Bullock in the Shenzhou capsule, hours after George Clooney's dimples have drifted into the fathomless beyond

"...so nobody's going to sneak up and Edgar Allen Poe you or anything. But once you close that door,..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...the first of their *a-hem* adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe. Barring the name, there's no kinship to the gothic..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From Hell to High Estate

This new chamber group's look at the dark side of Romantic music offered some fresh takes on iconic works

"...side of Romantic music, was excerpted from Edgar Allan Poe's "Lenore," which opened the evening in a dramatic interpretation..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Your Shortcut to FXX’s ‘The Simpsons’ Marathon

Who has time for 552 episodes? Here’s 11 to watch.

"...we knew and loved, rewritten into classic bloodchillers like Poe’s "The Raven": Marge as the rare and radiant Lenore,..."

Aug. 20, 2014 Screens Post

Get Booked

Big names and newcomers delight in this collection of recent releases

"...many-layered literary object that reads like something Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges might've penned after being enchanted..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Doug Dorst puts the S. in 'Ship of Theseus' with this JJ Abrams Collaboration

The author presents his new literary creation at BookPeople tonight

"...is S., a many-layered, story-within-a-story-surrounded-by-footnotes-and-marginalia that progresses like something Poe and Borges might have concocted after being enchanted by..."

Dec. 9, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dessa

"...attention at least half as well as Edgar Allen Poe's. The Doomtree collective's leading lady spits with the best..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

News Ticker: November 6

All the news that's fit to blog

"...• America's Voice Managing Director Patty Kupfer believes that..."

Nov. 6, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Texas and the Congressional Suicide Caucus

Lone Star GOP on the losing side of shutdown fight

"...McCaul (R) Randy Neugebauer (D) Pete Olson (R) Ted Poe (R) Lamar Smith (R) Steve Stockman (R) Mac Thornberry..."

Oct. 17, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Skydog

'Skydog' scrapes together a mother lode of Duane Allman

"...the memoir in Skydog, also the title of Randy Poe's biography on the guitarist (revisit "Rock & Roll Books,"..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Operation: Absinthe

Going in search of a new world in absinthe

"...past than anything found today. In fact, French Symbolist poet Paul-Marie Verlaine wrote so many IOU's during his lifetime..."

July 9, 2013 Food Post by Anne Harris

Poem in Your Pocket Day: April 18

Carry your favorite words with you

"...said you were having a difficult time celebrating National Poetry Month...."

April 17, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The (Graphic) Case of Charles Dexter Ward

A classic Lovecraft story gets the comic-book treatment

"...prose-stylings – or those cinematic versions of Edgar Allan Poe stories that Roger Corman directed for American International Pictures..."

April 12, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...final reveal of the living skeleton itself is pure Poe...."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thirteen Notes for Another Future Passed

So science fiction doesn't predict the future, its visions of tomorrow can still be filled with beauty

"...mean the Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story – a charming romance intermingled with..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Comic Con 2012

October 26-28, 2012. 37 Photos

"...Price and Roger Corman's 1964 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' at Wizard World..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Photo Gallery

Don't Everybody Freak Out

Dark Matters' horror shows

"...up beating away a siren song of dread like Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." We've screened three of the four..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival Unveils Complete Lineup

David Chase's 'Not Fade Away' opens fest

"...BITTER BUDDHA - Steven Feinartz (Director) EX-GIRLFRIENDS - Alexander Poe (Writer/Director) - World Premiere; Jennifer Carpenter ("Dexter") in attendance..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

All the Literature That's Fit to Draw & Paint?

The latest volume of 'The Graphic Canon' galumphs on in

"...that Maxon(!) Crumb provides illustrations for five Edgar Allan Poe narratives. And, ah, there's David Lasky and Elizabeth Watasin..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Real War on Women?

Live Action says 'gendercide' is growing in U.S.

"...Kenny Marchant, Michael McCaul, Randy Neugebauer, Pete Olson, Ted Poe, and Lamar Smith). Beyond subjecting medical providers to up..."

May 30, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

What You Know About Them Texas Boys?

Former Texas high school football players shine in NFL Draft

"...in the passing game that Fletcher Cox or Dontari Poe (Memphis) have the potential to. His initial explosion is..."

April 30, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Bedside Manner: The Never-Ending Battle

Fighting for truth, justice, and fewer books beside the bed

"...top spot by his predecessor, C. Auguste Dupin, from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue..."

Jan. 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

Staehely’s Comet

Reissuing Austin native Al Staehely

"...According to 10K Hrs. – noted by Randy Poe, who penned the long overdue Skydog: The Duane Allman..."

July 29, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

Tracing horror's evolution from the camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman to the post-countercultural killing fields of The Last House on the Left and on

"...camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman and Vincent Price's gothy Poe pictures to the crimson-soaked, post-countercultural killing fields of The..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Sarah Jarosz

"..."Ring Them Bells" and Radiohead's "The Tourist." Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabelle Lee" shines in a gritty arrangement. Jarosz's unerring..."

May 13, 2011 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Dark Insinuations

Ray Donley steps from the shadows to talk about his art

"...are as apt to reference Nietzsche, Beckett, Baudelaire, and Poe as Velázquez and Hals. "These people had a certain..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Flashback: Nacho Vigalondo's "7-35 In the Morning"

Nacho Vigalondo's Oscar-nominated 2006 short

"...just plain hellzapoppin' examples of the cinematic version of Poe's short form perfection...."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest to Screen 'Buried'

Thriller plays opening night with star Ryan Reynolds in attendance

"...we love the way you -- and Edgar Allan Poe -- think...."

Aug. 25, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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