Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...to do so by Lotfi Mansouri, the head of San Francisco Opera. Heggie worked on the company's public relations..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Find fall foliage in Texas and stop and smell the roses

"...part of the state like Atlanta, Daingerfield, Lake Bob Sandlin, and Martin Creek Lake often produce spectacular shows. The..."

Oct. 3, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

By Example

The TFPF panelist screenings

"...The Austin Film Society has announced its Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund 2005..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Image of a First Lady

Based on her physical appearance alone, Jean Stapleton is a natural to portray Eleanor. But it turns out that the accomplished actress' resemblance to the first lady doesn't end there. It extends to her idealism, her feminism, and even her awakening to activism.

"...CBS stipulated that she make a TV movie. A film about Mrs. Roosevelt seemed a smart way to fulfill..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...happy X-tales floating around Austin than there are wannabe filmmakers. Sometimes it seems like everyone here, at one point..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...Like thousands of other American readers with a taste for food..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...marathon, but Saturday night, Oct. 30, settled springlike in San Francisco. On the eve of the city's annual Halloween..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Timeline/Discography

A timeline / discography of Doug Sahm

"...1941 Born November 6, San Antonio, Texas..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

New Director on the Block

Rebecca Campbell and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...photograph by John Anderson Austin Film Society managing director Rebecca Campbell's move to Austin six..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

Laissez les bons temps rouler

"...North Texas and now a second location east of San Antonio near La Vernia. The Koeman family began their..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...conjunction with screenings put on by CinemaTexas, a graduate-student-run film society that was part of the Radio-Television-Film Department at..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...of Austin, Joe Dishner had left to go into film production, and Ed Lowry had just headed off to..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Second SXSW Lineup Installment Adds Over 300 Acts

KT Tunstall, Shamir, Sunflower Bean, and Circuit Des Yeux highlight

"...Des Yeux (Chicago IL) Cítrico (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA) Ciudadanos (Santiago CHILE) Clarissa Connelly (Copenhagen DENMARK) Clementine & Valentine (Christchurch..."

Dec. 8, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Let Him Entertain You

Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen

"...Pronin; Matthew Hinsley and guitarists from Austin Classical Guitar Society; the River City Brass Quintet; Zach Theatre leading lady..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Flight Patterns

The Texas Documentary Tour: Judy Irving's 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill'

"...Whenever I read a rave review of a "nature film," like The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, with its..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...(most notably with "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe") and many others, "Cowhand" is purely the product..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...current presidential administration wants "to completely undo the Great Society and the New Deal." If only it were true!..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Column

Finding Their Tuva

The Texas Documentary Tour screens 'Genghis Blues,' the Belic Brothers' next step in living a 'kickass, adventurous life and meeting cool people.'

"...but two truly swell stories: the one in the film, and the one about the film told by filmmaker..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...Summer films = fluff. That expectation can be a pretty fair..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Experimental Response Cinema’s Scott Stark Bids Farewell to Austin

Our interview with the filmmaker and programmer

"...There are many pleasures to derive from French filmmaker Robert Bresson's seminal 1975 book, Notes on the Cinematographer,..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Well, well. Another story about wannabe indie filmmakers who mortgage their homes and ruin their credit, then..."

July 18, 2003 Column

Films Without Borders

Cine Las Americas

"...(l-r) Lara Gocer, Sandra Guardado, René Renteria, Celeste Serna Williams photograph by Kenny..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...very first underground comic, God Nose, then headed for San Francisco, where he, along with Shelton and numerous other..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Melville in Cubicle Hell

Tyro film director Jonathan Parker brings "Bartleby the Scrivener" back to the future. And who better to ride shotgun than freaky, geeky Crispin Glover?

"...That's why tyro film director Jonathan Parker has scored such a coup by..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...Our survey covers approximately 100 films that are expected to open theatrically in Austin between..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Duke Still Had It

"...me assure you that the Ellington I saw in San Francisco only a year later was anything but passé;..."

May 14, 1999 Column

Postmarks

"...Town, to Montreal, to Zurich. But not even the Susan Komen Breast Center at Baylor Hospital in Dallas was..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...Three films birthed my cinematic POV, beyond an early excursion to..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...Thanksgiving weekend is usually cause for joy, but for thousands of filmmakers, it's the annual time of frayed nerves..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Articulations

IRS OKs G&S @ CCP

"...put the fate of the Austin Gilbert & Sullivan Society's Gala All-Star Revue -- scheduled for Sunday, December 8,..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Arts Column

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