Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Skunk'

Annie Silverstein, pit bulls, and the road ahead

"...still to go on the Kickstarter campaign, Annie Silverstein's Skunk has raised $8,979, 128% of its goal. So why..."

May 3, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Girl on the Train

Another girl gone in this tedious adaptation

"...is seen trolling her old neighborhood, drunk as a skunk (she wakes bloodied and bewildered, all memories lost to..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fatal Instinct

"...had Sean Young riding a roller coaster with a skunk -- as I write this, it sounds impossibly idiotic..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

What a Ride

Annie Silverstein's road to Cannes

"...ride started a while back, when Silverstein's thesis project "Skunk" was accepted into the Cannes International Film Festival's prestigious Cinéfondation..."

July 4, 2014 Screens Feature by Neha Aziz

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...installments of the “Austin Punk Chronicles” here. Boycott Bogus Skunks LP..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Film Flam

Comings, goings, skunks, and lemurs

"...• Kudos to Annie Silverstein, whose short film “Skunk” will be screening at the Cannes Film Festival next..."

April 17, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...look for the Texas premiere of 'Drunker Than a Skunk', the latest from cult animator Bill Plympton...."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crash Course: Guitar Workshop With Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

Conference Panels

"...Crash Course: Guitar Workshop With Jeff "Skunk" BaxterAustin Convention Center, Wednesday, March 12 Best known for..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Hundreds of Beavers

Loony live-action cartoon about a fur trader who goes to war with rodents

"...and failing to hunt, and the odd very stinky skunk...."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...In Texas, the American hog-nosed skunk is known as the "rooter skunk" because it likes..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Bigfoot and Butterflies: Across the Dark Divide With David Cross

How shooting his wilderness adventure changed his brain

"...ecological metaphors, like Exists - although, technically, that's a skunk ape, not a sasquatch...."

Sept. 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas-Set Drama Bull Gets in the Chute With Black Rodeo Riders

Austin-based director Annie Silverstein premieres her SXSW selected feature

"...initiative, Bull extrapolates the themes from her Cannes-award-winning short, "Skunk." Silverstein said, "I didn't feel like I was finished..."

April 17, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Bold Tells PETA to Go Kick a Chicken

"Farmer in the Del Valle" promotion raises animal activists' hackles

"...may be thin. (Another fan asked about bringing their skunk, but Epstein vetoed that move.)..."

April 16, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Ones to Watch

A new year, a new batch of filmmakers

"...an MFA from UT's Radio-Television-Film department. Her thesis project, "Skunk," an empowering, tense story of a young woman whose..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Bigfoot Exists in Texas

Eduardo Sánchez makes a monster movie against the Bastrop fire

"...mercies of the Lone Star State's own Sasquatch, the Skunk Ape. Sanchez said, "This is a creature that's very..."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Master

Philip S. Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix act out the internal (and eternal) war between the analytical and implusive that is the principal inquiry of P.T. Anderson's film.

"...when he is laughing, fucking, and drunk as a skunk, and an even taller order for a film. That..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Luv Doc Recommends: The Austin Outhouse Reunion

Giddy Ups, Friday, April 9, 2010

"...a time when you could buy a pound of skunk weed for fitty cent, a bottle of Coke for..."

April 9, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Over the Hedge

Canny casting and a sly anti-consumerist message give this animated feature extra adult appeal, but like a lot of animated fare it’s overly busy and splashy.

"...moans.) Verne and the gang – squirrel Hammy (Carell), skunk Stella (Sykes), possums Ozzie and Heather (Shatner and Lavigne,..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Francophonic

Vive la France

"...Jazz). Fleshwounds (EMI) is the debut album from former Skunk Anansie vocalist Skin. It's a softer affair then Skunk..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by David Lynch

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...is now using a product from New Zealand called Skunk Shot to scare off drug users and prostitutes who..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

"...rogue pirate Captain Jack Sparrow – the aforementioned animated skunk and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards – and, indeed,..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

Things get so bad in the Live Music Capital of the World that they're citing the 'King of Sixth Street,' Gerry Van King, for busking on the street

"...label owner Björk and other acts including Alabama 3, Skunk Anansie, and Kelli Ali... Austin's emissary to the Beatles,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Hightower Lowdown

Sweat It Out; Old School

"...fairness, Chentex fired them.Old School Instead of calling a skunk a skunk, let's call it a rose -- that'll..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Music Reviews

"...SKUNK ANANSIE..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Review

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...instance of bird flu in U.S. livestock, though a skunk tested positive in Carson County last year...."

March 29, 2024 News Feature

The Austin Chronic: Christmas in Texas

A holiday miracle for the weedless traveler

"...To bring me a half ounce of Sweet Island Skunk..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin Punk Chronicles: "Hard, Fast & Unapologetic" – Raul's Shifts Into Fourth Gear

In the wake of the one-night debut of the Skunks and the Violators, Austin punk begins in earnest in Chapter 5, Part 2 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...music, for the most part, was pretty crappy," says Skunks drummer Billy Blackmon in his nicotine-cured drawl. "But I..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

New Gathering MoFest Brings Austin Music and Art Culture to the Country

Vibe Barn? Check. Organizers discuss new fest’s mission

"...White, Texas String Assembly, Riarosa, the Sidepiece Collective, Caelin, Skunk, and Willy McGee – plus an unannounced secret headliner..."

April 20, 2022 Music Post by Mars Salazar

The Luv Doc: 10 to 12 Beers

We’re smarter these days - even with that 20% covid brain loss

"...this bong hit because I love the smell of skunk." Just. No. Be honest, goddamn it. You epicurean fucks..."

March 25, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

AFS Opens 2021 Short Film Grant Applications

Society will run webinars to help you apply

"...Cannes and SXSW, Annie Silverstein took home $1,000 for "Skunk." Even David Lowery, who helmed the incredible Arthurian tale..."

Aug. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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