Off the Desk:

"...mainstream religion" will likely be the refrain at a soul-searching conference Sept. 27-28 at University Baptist Church, 2200 San..."

Sept. 13, 1996 News Feature

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...up a Thursday night residency at C-Boy's Heart & Soul where he's generated a feverish following for channeling a..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Top 20 Hip-Hop Artists at SXSW Music

"...De La SoulWed. 13, Banger’s, 12mid In the post-Eighties world of clearing..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

SXSW Music Jazz Sampler

Psychedelic, post-bop, Latin-inflected, and more: 11 jazz artists

"...Wed. 14, the Main II, 8pm..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Music: Must-See Jazz

Jazz imperatives

"...Sarathy Korwar Wed. 15, the Main II, 8pm; Fri. 17, Palm Door on Sixth, 8pm Born..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Five Things Baymageddon Taught Me

No pain, some gain from last weekend's Michael Bay marathon

"...really well. Alamo Drafthouse booker Greg MacLennan, the twisted soul behind last weekend's four movie wall-to-wall-Bay-a-thon, was making some..."

April 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bun B

"...Bun BII Trill (Rap-a-Lot)..."

June 13, 2008 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Art

Art Openings

"..."Dance Show," Skylight Gallery (Mar 4); "Definientia II," Gallery Lombardi (Mar 4); "New Work by Virginia Fleck,"..."

March 5, 1999 News Feature

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...but we still call them "conflicts." Patty Griffin or soul legend Solomon Burke? Franz Ferdinand or Gomez? Los Lonely..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...8:50pm, Scoot Inn Spearheading local Latin outfits Brownout, Ocote Soul Sounds, and recent Grammy-winners Grupo Fantasma apparently wasn't enough..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

No Badge Necessary at These Live Music Recommendations

Crucial concerts for the week ahead

"...Wednesday 12 - Sunday 16, C-Boy’s Heart & Soul..."

March 7, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

Based on a true case, a 6-year-old is ripped from his Jewish parents by the Catholic church

"...earlier, this would have been seen as saving the soul of this young, damned child: but much as Pope..."

June 14, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Evil Dead Rise

Deadites go to the big city in the franchise's fifth film

"...before big sis Ellie gets possessed by everyone's favorite soul-swallowing entity...."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Pope's Exorcist

The true story of Father Gabriele Amorth gets a Conjuring-style makeover

"...In 2018, the director released Overlord, a World War II horror film that combined Nazi experimentation and underground combat..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...Doyle Bramhall II glanced over his shoulder and gave me a piercing..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Zappa

Two hours with the original Mother of Invention isn't enough

"...documentarian, Zappa starts with a flash of World War II nerve gas, gun powder, and metallurgy in Southern California,..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Ford v Ferrari

Enduring male bonding cuts through racetrack noise and paddock politics

"...gamble in venturing into unknown territory, depicting Henry Ford II (Letts, looking awkward most of the time) as a..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...to appeasing and terrorizing female audiences during World War II (after all, there aren't many projectors on the front..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Drum Dynamo J.J. Johnson’s Saving Grace

Powerhouse Austin drummer strips down to his bare essence

"...to gravitate toward, aside from conjunto. Internalizing his parents' soul and blues inclination, he remembers James Brown's unbridled "Soul..."

May 26, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...Mike Watt & the Secondmen 8pm, the Main II Minutemen/Firehose/Stooges bassist Mike Watt initially formed this trio with..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

If I Could Only Fly

Covers stylist Tameca Jones steps out into all-originals territory with a huge voice.

"...at the Continental Club Gallery and C-Boys Heart & Soul, where she bent and twisted covers, ranging from Nirvana..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Top 10 National

One hundred lines of album art

"...10) Unknown Mortal Orchestra, II (Jagjaguwar) Jim Caligiuri..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Austin Top 10

Making local lists and checking 'em twice

"...4) Casual Victim Pile II (12XU)..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Music Feature

Off the Record

Gary Clark Jr. and the Cactus Cafe go under the lens

"...like doing." Following the release of Casual Victim Pile II in late February, the Matador Records co-founder has a..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Event Listings

"...friends, plus the sassy, mean-pourin' bartenders from Sister's Edge II round out this explosive evening of full-lipped fury. 6pm...."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature

After a Fashion

And Stephen said, 'Let there be SoCo,' and there was SoCo. Stephen saw that the light was good.

"...THE SCENE, PART II Let's continue on with my tale of the fashion..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"..."Nothing ever changes," opines the leggy superheroine Silk Spectre II (Akerman) toward the end of Watchmen, just after a..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Express

The story of Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, is full of heart-pumping stadium heroics and quiet acts of dignity.

"...corrupt cops, your femme fatales, and your World War II sharpshooters. For my money, there’s no juicier role out..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Miracle at St. Anna

Spike Lee fights the good fight but loses the battle in his bloated and muddled World War II epic that pays tribute to the Army's Buffalo Soldiers.

"...the experiences of the African-American soldiers in World War II was exhilarating to consider since America’s most prominent African-American..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rocky Balboa

This final chapter in the Rocky saga is terrific – maybe not great, like that first kiss of fist in ’76, but good, solid, exhilarating entertainment of the stand-up-and-cheer variety.

"...Ventimiglia, Tony Burton, A.J. Benza and James Francis Kelly III. Boxing movies, truly great ones, are as rare as..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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