Shop AF Pop-Up Spotlights Independent Brands

Plus food trucks, whiskey and craft beer tastings, and a live DJ

"...you add something to your Amazon cart, the weekendlong pop-up at Fair Market might be your shopping safe space...."

Oct. 18, 2019 Events Post by Addie Costello

BIPOC POP Shows the Diverse Faces Under Superhero Masks

Truth, justice, and a better tomorrow

"...Aldama focuses his work on all aspects of Latinx pop culture...."

March 11, 2022 Arts Feature by Ikram Mohamed

Noise Pop's Sonic 'Covers' Feast

Songs in the Key of Food

"...thing the tastemaking music-and-food impresarios of San Francisco's Noise Pop and graffEats projects do locally. Because that's the other..."

April 2, 2012 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sabrina Ellis Sings National Anthem for Hurting Nation

Mass shootings on the mind at Blues on the Green performance

"...performances from deep R&B vocalist Soul Man Sam and alt-pop sensation Sweet Spirit. Even so, beneath it all lingered..."

Aug. 8, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...and Encore – are doing considerably better than the national average...."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cena Nation

WWE brings arena-scale theatre to the Frank Erwin Center

"...In pro wrestling, they call it pop. That's when the audience goes wild for a wrestler,..."

June 2, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Tokers Boycott Pop Tarts

If Kellogg's is going to dump Phelps, pot smokers are going to drop Kellogg's -- and all their munchie goodies

"...six gold medals in Athens in 2004 he got popped for drinking and driving. Frankly, I'd rather have him..."

Feb. 10, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

TV Eye

This ain't your grandma's antiques show

"...Sure, the comparison to the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow is inevitable, but that doesn't..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

I'm not an expert on American Idol, but I play one on TV

"...Pop-culture pack-rat alert: Do you collect celebrity dolls, TV-themed lunch..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Fun Fun Fun Q&A: Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop pioneer predicts Martians breakdancing to “Planet Rock”

"...at Seventies block parties and founded the Universal Zulu Nation, which codified the elements of hip-hop culture. Catch him..."

Nov. 5, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Elvis & Nixon

Now we can do more than wonder about the day these two men met

"...the Oval Office. It’s the most-requested image from the National Archives, which must indicate something about the photo’s deep..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Princess Diaries

It's the movie that turned Anne Hathaway into a star, and the ordinary girl she plays into a princess.

"...a candy pink wish-fulfillment fantasy prominently peppered with pubescent pop platters (from the likes of Hanson and BB Mak,..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

American Dreamz

American Dreamz tries to satirize the vapidity of American popular culture; instead, the film gets trapped beneath its own wheels.

"...(Moore) gets her heart set on becoming a TV pop star. That whole part of the movie was not..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

When We Were Kings

This documentary Oscar winner is a vivid retelling of the "Rumble in the Jungle," in which Muhammad Ali bested George Foreman in a storied boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire.

"...all were central figures in a miraculous confluence of pop culture flash and deep sociopolitical import that seems, if..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Quiz Show

"...innocence is a futile pursuit; it presupposes that this nation of contradictions initially had virtue to lose. Nonetheless, Quiz..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tomar Williams Hones Four Decades of Soul

Breakout of his family band, the performer seizes on his pop, soul, R&B, and hip-hop successes and failures in Tomar & the FCs

"...At the time, the group played the vanguard of soul-pop, including Michael Jackson, Prince, and Alexander O'Neal – none..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Gimme Danger

Welcome to the fun house

"...plenty well on its own, or rather, like Mr. Pop (né Osterberg), writhes, contorts, and fun house mirrors the..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Think Outside the Book

Eric Schlosser on Richard Linklater's adaptation of his Fast Food Nation

"...Eric Schlosser's 2001 bestseller, Fast Food Nation – an extensively researched exposé of this country's fast-food..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...Intro music swelled, the Soviet national anthem regaling the band onstage. A wave of chuckles..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Forrest Gump

"...happened to America in those years, meeting Presidents and pop stars, influencing thinkers and trends, his story being our..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Veronica Mars

Although this isn't a reinvention of the wheel, the beloved TV show gets a spirited spin in this feature.

"...Marshmallow nation, you may now exhale: Rob Thomas did ya right...."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Media Clips

Media misses the boat when it comes to quizzing Bush on foreign dictators.

"...this weekend because Gov. George W. Bush botched a "pop quiz" on the names of world leaders, sprung on..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

J.C. Herz's Multi-track Mind

Have We Become a Joystick Nation?

"...Almost every review of J.C. Herz's Joystick Nation that I've read begins with "When I was a..."

March 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Adrienne Martini

TV Eye

Spike Lee's Bamboozled, a satire about the return of the minstrel show on television, is a powerful indictment of the entertainment industry.

"...a review of African-American images in all forms of popular culture from the turn of the 20th century to..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Jennifer Higdon, American Voice

One of this nation's most acclaimed and active composers, on our rich melting pot of music

"...For most of 2018, the nation's concert halls have been ruled over by one American..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film News

The pair behind 'Dear Pillow' is at it again; plus, IFP issues, Cannes kudos, and Digital Light Processing lightsabers

"...initiatives in town." But in a reflection of IFP's national turmoil, not everyone is happy about the Austin chapter...."

May 27, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

With Bad Dream Jaguar, Sun June Hasn’t Given Up on Texas Yet

The Austin pop in-betweeners’ third LP arrives at Parish on Nov. 18

"...Sun June's dream-pop fiddles with such in-betweener nightmares on the sextet's third..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

WagakkiBand Hits the Des Moines Embassy Like a Rain of Shuriken

Japanese fusion superstars to rock Downtown ATX this Friday night

"...or earlier – with classic rock-and-roll style and Vocaloid pop novelty?..."

March 17, 2016 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Best Albums of 2018 by Genre

Hip-hop, metal, pop, and more picks from our critics

"...5) Dos Santos, Logos (International Anthem)..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Austin Film Festival Review: Gimme Danger

A real cool time hanging in Iggy Pop’s fun house

"...Ann Arbor proto-punk godheads Iggy Pop and the Stooges remain as iconic today as they..."

Oct. 17, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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