Youngbloods Pretty Little Demons at SXSW

Not old enough to drink, but veteran enough to showcase

"...singer for one of the showcasers, Lydia Night of Pretty Little Demons from Santa Monica, Calif. Her journey here..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Have a Little Faith

James Hand might just get out of this country music business alive

"...and down Burnet Road in the vicinity of Ginny's Little Longhorn. Inside the boxcar-shaped bar, hipsters, oldsters, cowboys, Latinos,..."

April 7, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Killing Demons and Blasting Sabbath: 15 Years of Supernatural

Austin stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki look back on the CW smash show

"...Jensen Ackles said, a wide canvas of "hunting monsters, demons, angels, God, and hell and heaven." The show has..."

April 3, 2020 Screens Feature by James Scott

Blumhouse's Truth or Dare

Truth or dare? We say pass on this demonic schlock.

"...of writers whose previous credits seem to involve very little screenwriting but a whole lot of producerial work ranging..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Youngbloods Reflect on SXSW

U18 contingent weighs in on its 2013 festival experience

"...Youngbloods Showcase that featured Grace London, the Seaside Swifts, Pretty Little Demons, the Paceshifters, Residual Kid, and 24-7...."

March 21, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Youngbloods Fest: Music for San Perlita ISD

Benefit show to stack south Texas school district with new instruments

"...daughter), myself, and James McMurtry’s son Curtis. We have Pretty Little Demons from Los Angeles as well as Skating..."

June 19, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The U21 Guide to SXSW

Age-ages day parties dot the music festival landscape

"...The showcase features Pretty Little Demons (CA.), former local Grace London (CA.), the..."

March 11, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Head

This intensely personal look at depression and personal demons provides a showcase for Trouble Puppet's builders and puppeteers

"...There's a little man, the Mechanic, who lives in the titular head..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

My Name Is Bruce

Cult star Bruce Campbell directs and stars here as himself, but the actor is mistaken for his popular character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and is forced to fight a real monster.

"...Campbell – and I love Bruce Campbell like Kandarian demons love swallowing souls and deflowering virgins with creeper vines..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bless the Child

"...year. There are so very few details, so very little story, to this hackneyed load of theologically revisionist codswallop..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Change in Perspective

Tom Grimes doesn't rewrite history in his memoir, Mentor – he just understands it a little better now

"...it's a cliché, but, you know, a lot of demons have been buried and doors have been closed, and..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: F*ck, Marry, Kill

What about the children?

"...brewery. I admit that sometimes we can be a little bit loud, but that's not uncommon in places where..."

June 16, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Hunting Down the Clickbait Beast in The VICE Guide to Bigfoot

Zach Lamplugh and Brian Emond are on the case at the Austin Film Festival

"...you call it yeti or skunk ape, it seems pretty clear that Sasquatch doesn't care about clickbait...."

Oct. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters @ 3AM

Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini: The great achievement of these film directors was to create living souls to look at, that we might know ourselves

"...control -- balance those chemicals, and don't worry your pretty little head; it's got nothing personally to do with..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Turnstile Is Happy to Provide at Stubb’s

Big riff breakouts lead five-band testament to punk plurality

"...these lyrics, from their 2021 single “Blackout,” but they’re pretty clearly out of date...."

May 7, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Letters at 3AM

A Little Late, For Bix

"...threats, and lies. Everyone knew what was coming and pretty much knew what it meant (whether for or against):..."

May 16, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

DVDanger: Asian Exchange

New takes on old standards and international transplants

"...between the two countries in recent years, it's a little unnerving that Chinese film makers go back to the..."

June 7, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Su-Yee Lin's "An Interlude: Pig River"

Third Place winner in the 2017 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...all that many since the locals just wanted a little. Some fat to grease their woks, a bit of..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Su-Yee Lin

Scanlines

Cemetery Man

"...grave, which understandably makes the hubby's zombie self a little upset. He emerges from the coffin and bites her..."

July 2, 1999 Screens Feature

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...of which was a thousand dollars. The situation was pretty dismal, moralewise...."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone

Texas-made luchadores-meets-wire fu playful adventure

"...in a cosmic battle involving ancient Mayan gods and demons, a magic emerald with limitless power for good or..."

April 29, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Resort

Idiotic haunted hotel horror can't be heard, isn't worth seeing

"...friends who managed to do the impossible, they knew little to nothing about the actually haunted resort itself, but..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters

Gamer comedy isn't for casual players

"...best friends Liz (Harrison) and Reggie (Morgan), which is pretty typical for him. He's the arrogant outsider nerd with..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Music to Wallow By

Wayne Alan Brenner's list for maudlin millennium-toasting listening displeasure is sure to send you flinging yourself off of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song."

"...talk with you again. But we could use a little background music while we chat, couldn't we? You know,..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sxsw

"...Dayton has the indelible stamp of a Texas musician: little bit country, little bit rock & roll, little bit..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

DVDanger: House on Willow Street

Kidnapping meets possession, plus more home releases

"...Patrick remake). Here, she gets to utilize that skill pretty quickly, since it's rare that an abduction caper goes..."

March 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2014: How It Felt

Artist Amy Everson on trauma and truth

"...that happened with Amy. For separate reasons: I was pretty out of control, and at 21 years old, I..."

Sept. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Townes Without Pity

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy

"...his life other than playing his songs. He did pretty good."..."

June 14, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...the late 1950s, neorealism as a cohesive movement was pretty much played out. But in that brief, tumultuous time,..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...next Penelope Spheeris documentary. Another highlight came when Anal Demonstrative starlet Nina Whett joined Toxic onstage to sing something..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

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