In Point of Fact

Ken Martin Provides the Essentials

"...Last week, the warp and woof of breaking news forced the Austin American-Statesman to acknowledge..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

"...A faux documentary about human reproduction from an extraterrestrial point of view, this has to be one of the..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playback: Doug Sahm for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

The Austin Music Hall gets slated for teardown, the Roost closes while looking for a cash infusion, Backyard owner Tim O'Connor gets back in the concert game, and a Kickstarter campaign to get Doug Sahm into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

"..."Sahm's among the most important players in the history of Texas music. He defined it as a musician, singer,..."

July 10, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

In the Worst Moments of Austinites’ Lives, APD Victim Services Shows Up

Inside one of APD’s most-celebrated divisions

"...call that sticks with Lili Eguia more than any of the hundreds of others she has responded to didn’t..."

April 19, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Do-Right

Lisa Sandlin's gem of a noir set in 1970s Beaumont is atmospheric, by turns amusing and harrowing, and surprisingly compassionate

"...I spent a fair amount of my childhood in Beaumont. I don't anymore – the..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...film. Now Wes Anderson's new star-studded canine animation Isle of Dogs will be the top to its tail as..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Séance Shares the History of American Spiritualism

In their sittings, Jake Cordero and Albert Lucio give you the experience of contacting the departed

"...a game but enjoy the act. In the eyes of Jake Cordero, co-creator with Albert Lucio of the Austin..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Myth of Che

The Short Life of Revolutionary Che Guevara

"...are a bitch. The best, like Evan Connell's Son of the Morning Star, can easily surpass its fictional equal:..."

July 11, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

Depths of 'Desire'

Curator Annette Carlozzi invites art lovers to dive down into images of longing

"...by a phrase expansively (or reductively) making explicit the point of this assemblage of art. Just a single, simple..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros Resigns In Wake of Plant Snafu

Interim leader and third-party audit on tap for utility

"...Meszaros “has spent nearly 40 years in the profession,” and 15 as director of Austin's city-owned water system...."

Feb. 11, 2022 News Post by Lina Fisher

City Kiboshes Cycle Championship Because of Rain

Update: Did Lance Armstrong save the day?

"...Remember when the City of Austin nixed New Year's Eve? In another one for..."

Jan. 11, 2015 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

The House of Lepore Brings Ballroom to the Austin Club Scene

The family that slays together …

"...from blood but from bonds made by choice. House of Lepore is one of those Texas families, grown from..."

June 23, 2023 Arts Feature by James Scott

Scene of the Crime

Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions

"...deliver big news. Ten years after city and county officials gathered to announce that they'd found the four men..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Contact

Carl Sagan's novel about the celestial mysteries is embodied onscreen by Jodie Foster as the astronomer heroine and Matthew McConaughey as her spiritual counterpart from the other side of the fence

"...this probably isn't what our city's sunburned, fajita-fed throngs of summer movie viewers have been amped up for by..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Dreamlife of Angels

This gritty film won the French Cesar award as well as Best Actress awards at Cannes for its two leads.

"...Colin, Jo Prestia and Patrick Mercado. In the city of Lille, France, an unlikely alliance is formed between two..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

KMFA's New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music

Austin's classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds

"...best likened to a submarine: a long, narrow tube of a hallway running the length of the building on..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Body of Lies

Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe star in Ridley Scott's new film about the different types of CIA operatives fighting the global war on terrorism.

"...Scott's new geopolitical thriller. They represent the polar extremes of the types of operatives running the plays in today's..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Shape of Things

"...and filmmaker Neil LaBute describes his latest, The Shape of Things, as a sort of retort to critics who..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Role of Mentor

Austin Actors Teach by Example at St. Edward's

"...Teaching acting -- the phrase conjures up images of classrooms in which instructors lecture on the importance of..."

June 28, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City of Austin Scales Back on Some Public Services During COVID-19 Outbreak

Essential services including public safety, utilities continue

"...City of Austin officials announced Sunday, March 15, that all public..."

March 16, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

A Tug of War Between Art and Morality

Andrew Shea's Portrait of Wally follows the trail of Nazi plunder

"...Back in the late summer of 2010, a 98-year-old oil painting by Austrian expressionist Egon..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Points of Departure

The Viewpoints Invade Austin

"...llustration by Robert Faires..."

May 8, 1998 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Deep in the Heart of West, Texas, Part 1

How you can help our neighbors in West

"...all seen the harrowing smoke plume from the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas...."

April 18, 2013 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

A Gilded Eternity: The Return of Loop

Seminal UK outfit returns to U.S. expressly for Psych Fest

"...Eternity, the band’s 1990 masterpiece, remains a striking convergence of riff and drone that still influences mantra-minded musicians...."

May 1, 2014 Music Post by Michael Toland

Point Austin: On the Border and Elsewhere, Gov. Abbott Suffers the Little Children

Best governor in the nation? Depends on who you ask.

"...politics from a progressive perspective in his weekly column, “Point Austin.” We’re pleased to bring back his column whenever..."

July 21, 2023 News Post by Michael King

Things Are What You Make of Them

The deliciously cracked comedies of Bob Byington

"...Let flow, Harmony does, with the well-practiced drip, drip of a breakup narrative conceived, finessed, and declaimed to anyone..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...Bush administration continues to spin the ominous news with matter-of-fact optimism. According to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

The Life and Times of an Emotional Transient

Poetry Festival Salutes Albert Huffstickler

"...for old men." He meant our country, the world of the living, pulsing with the fury and mire of..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Attack of the Drive-In: Scott Derrickson Opens Up About The Gorge

How his new action-romance mixes Kurosawa and Taylor Swift

"...If Scott Derrickson was booking a drive-in double bill of one rom-com and one classic creature feature, what would..."

Feb. 13, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Three Austin Songwriters Found Family in Next of Kin

On debut EP Homemaker, Lili Hickman, Madison Baker, and Caelin reach queer country transcendence

"...Caelin Tralongo sits slouched in the corner of a booth at Cafe Java in North Austin. The..."

May 9, 2025 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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