Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Apes and humans: Why can't everyone just get along?

"...freed themselves from their cages, and headed across the San Francisco Bridge toward the California redwoods – we revisit..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...Industries catalog. Held in Splendor (Mexican Summer) cues 1967 San Francisco like a Wes Wilson poster, with three-part harmonies,..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Divya Srinivasan Is Living
the Dream of Art

The multimedia creator's work wakes a world's imagination

"...in Target wasn't a thing that suddenly shifted Divya Srinivasan into creative overdrive. After all, the artist – who'd..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...music guru and a longtime Flatlander, joins the Wronglers, San Francisco's old-time music enthusiasts led by Warren Hellman of..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

sxswi: From In-Game Friends to Meatspace Marriage

Love in Second Life and then just plain “real” life

"...“There was a Second Life meet-up in San Francisco, where Linden Lab is based,” says Callistro...."

March 11, 2011 SXSW Post by Memory Harker

Preaching Beyond That Choir

San Fran Bishop Yvette Flunder has some 'mighty real' revelations

"...Church of God in Christ. She's the founder of San Francisco's City of Refuge United Church of Christ on..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly

Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen

"...late 1960s, putting him in league with the best San Francisco psychedelic poster artists...."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Four Christmases

From the director of the hit documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters comes this holiday-themed romantic comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. Opens Wednesday.

"...Kate (Witherspoon) are a happily unmarried couple living in San Francisco, who have no future plans involving either weddings..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

After a Fashion

Stephen goes to San Francisco, hunting for Trannyshack and rolling papers

"...In the nearly 30 years since I lived in San Francisco, very little seems to have changed ... and..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

10 Reasons to Love a Streetcar

The 'streetcar effect' – offering Austinites far more than a free ride

"...in well-documented case studies on cities like Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Tampa, Fla.; and Little Rock, Ark., that are..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Georgia Rule

Despite the presence of three acting powerhouses – Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan – this movie about three generations of "difficult" women never rings true.

"...Lohan is cast as the willful teenager Rachel from San Francisco, whose alcoholic mother, Lilly (Huffman), and stepfather (Elwes)..."

May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Kingdom of Heaven

Psychedelic pioneer Powell St. John, on the Right Track Now

"...Erickson, secure in the sanctity of the song and feeling its power, begins a..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Spotlight: Translator

Translator, 'Everywhere I'm Not' – except SXSW 2006

"...Do you remember where you were when seminal San Francisco jitterpop-punks Translator released their 1982 debut, Heartbeats and..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Where There's Smoke …

Across the country, perspectives on the smoking bans offer a very mixed bag

"...to express his distaste for what he considered the sanctimonious attitudes of nonsmokers. As the town he once called..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Where the Pyramid Meets the High

Long lost 13th Floor Elevators founder and visionary Tommy Hall – found!

"...Tommy Hall, 62, lives in a run-down San Francisco residence hotel. His crowded room is decorated with..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Trybyszewski

Food of Love

"...hired as Richard’s page turner at a concert in San Francisco; the two later bump into each other in..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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

Austin @ Large: How Weird Is That?

Austin's new recipe for economic vitality collides with the reigning quality-of-life agenda

"...class." We rank No. 2 on Florida's little list. San Francisco is No. 1. We have a long, long..."

Nov. 29, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

American Boy

Chris Isaak's drummer Kenney Dale Johnson: From Soap Creek to Showtime

"...it was just restlessness. Truthfully, when I got to San Francisco, the scene wasn't as happening as Austin. I..."

July 5, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Too Much Caffeine Woman

Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

"...Bay Area when young Jean was in second grade. San Francisco was a cultural garden, and by her teens,..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Night at the Opera

Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.

"...that start a month before opening night at the San Francisco Opera. We're privy to all the behind-the-scenes work..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

I'm the One That I Want

"...the impression on stage (we see her parents entering San Francisco's Warfield Theatre in very quick introductory sequence at..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser

Food-O-File

"...founding chef of the famous Greens vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco and the author of two very successful books..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...the Austin team (Coach Mike Henry, Genevieve Van Cleve, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, Wammo, and myself) the actual competition could..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Janis Joplin, Texas, and the Big Beat

How East Texas Shaped Rock's First Female Superstar

"...Kenneth Threadgill's bar on North Lamar took off for San Francisco with some other Texans in the Sixties and..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW List 8

Peanut Butter Wolf, Kasey Chambers, White Denim and 147 more

"...Suzanne Ciani (San Francisco, Calif.)..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Friday PicksAll showcase times subject to change. Please check..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Doug Sahm

"...guru Bill Bentley, whose Austin Sun sit-down with the San Antonio son in 1975 is paired with a new..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Adds to 2018 Music Lineup

Andrew W.K., Tank & the Bangas, and 164 more

"...The Dwarves (San Francisco, Calif.)..."

Nov. 7, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...party punks Diarrhea Planet, and Stones Throw MC Homeboy Sandman...."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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