From Navy Veteran to L.A. Motorcyclist to Austin Food Forest Guy

Neil Brosig starts a YouTube Channel, joins forces with Apis

"...Brosig was planting and maintaining a Central Texas food forest – two, actually – he was in the Navy..."

April 17, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Rural Kraut

"...Austinites relish the chance to get out on the rural roads and explore the remote hill towns outside our..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Playback: Altered States

Three Austin artists that are changing their tune

"...the fuck out there, and it feels good." Royal Forest Goes Rural..."

April 1, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Turistas

Turistas is a surprisingly effective horror film with good acting and some breathless action.

"...in the at-first lush and inviting, then hostile rain forest, where they run afoul of a rural sawbones who..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sommersby

"...a certain naïveté intrinsic to this story which even rural America in the late 1860s seems too sophisticated to..."

Feb. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indian Summer

"...of those gloriously rickety, mildewed cabins in a lush, rural forest. Provided, that is, I wouldn't have to bunk..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Harnessing Anger

"...3, where an irate electorate in Circle C, Tanglewood Forest, and other southwest suburbs slated for city annexation are..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...takes a young man on a desperate tour of rural mid-century hospitals, advocating for a new controversial procedure. Cast:..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Moving Mountains

Turk and Christy Pipkin are keeping busy changing the world

"...secondary educational outlets such as Mahiga Hope High in rural Mahiga, Kenya. Taken alongside 2006's Nobelity – in which..."

June 12, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Is it possible to have the rural pastoral farm scene and open spaces without farming? Chicken..."

May 30, 2003 Column

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...Epstein, Robin Hessman The arrest of midwives in a rural healthcare desert ignites an unexpected rebellion: Amish and Mennonite..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...on the fringes of Bexar County, is driving many rural residents to radicalize in ways they could not have..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

Ghost Cat Anzu

Anime about a ghost cat tending to an abandoned girl

"...tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Movie Review

Azrael

Samara Weaving stars in E.L. Katz’s folkloric horror

"...cult; burned and bloodthirsty human-line creatures that roam the forest, blind and ravenous; a church; and something whispering through..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer stars in this thriller set at a resort in rural Bavaria

"...up sticks from the States and decamp to remote rural Bavaria to design a resort for Mr. König (The..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...extraordinary home movies of Charles Carson, a farmer from rural Britain whose VHS experiments were charming, strange, poignant, and..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...D: Helmut Dosantos Mexico, 97 min. A survey of rural Mexico composed into an extraordinary collage of labor practices..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In the Earth

Ben Wheatley's unexpected eco-horror is sinister and hilarious

"...you'd be hammered before Martin sets foot in the forest). He then layers in jokes and nods that are..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Last Samurai

Tom Cruise turns Japanese.

"...in stark contrast to the pastoral eloquence of a rural samurai village, but both convey a time and place..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Why Portland Doesn't Look Like Austin

Rose (City)-Colored Glasses

"...this power from shamans, druids, and nymphs of the forest, and that the proper incantations are on their way..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Walt, Jaco Bouwer In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself,..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Webberville Conundrum

Austin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there

"...paradise: 30 acres of rolling pasture and post oak forest out in eastern Travis County, hidden away from any..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Other Sister

Multiple Personalities

"...all over the public officials moving to close the Forest Ridge tract, a 1,000-acre chunk of confirmed vireo habitat..."

July 2, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

day trips

"...Sea Rim State Park and the Big Thicket National Forest...."

June 27, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

LegeLand: Firefighters Hosed by the State

Perry's slash-and-burn handiwork is visible for miles

"...Assist­ance Program, a vital resource administered by the Texas Forest Service that provides volunteer firefighters with training and equipment...."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Thinking Beyond Coal

Coal mines are mucking up the environment, from the Appalachian mountains to the outskirts of Austin

"...called "overburden." At current rates, 1.4 million acres of forest will have been leveled and mined in Appalachia by..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

How Green Is the Music?

Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony

"...the massive, jam-band-laden Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in rural Tennessee; Arnt Olaf Andersen, head of marketing for Oslo,..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 7-13

"...lifts the hero Dorothy from her modest home in rural Kansas to a magical realm called Oz. There she..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

A Strange Storm in The Clearing at Other Worlds

Appalachian horror will be part of this weekend's Return to the Galaxy all-dayer

"...explosion wiped out almost a thousand square miles of forest in the deepest heart of Russia, an event that..."

May 21, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...The Cloud Forest Mexico D: Mónica Álvarez Franco A small community in..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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