Explosions in the Sky, Kim Gordon, Dinosaur Jr., and More Reviews From Austin Psych Fest 2025

Alternative nation packs the Far Out Lounge

"...Out Lounge, respectively, last weekend. The Chronicle music team split up to catch shredders of the soulful and psychedelic..."

May 2, 2025 Music Feature by The Music Team

Closing the COVID Gap at AISD

Post-pandemic, not enough students can read well. How do we get out of this ditch?

"...students and teachers, that year – when classes were split between in-person and online learners – was the most..."

March 22, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

SXSW Film Changes the Channel With a New Name

Festival gives TV content co-headline billing

"...the visual wing of the March gathering of creatives split into two sections, Film and Multimedia (now Interactive), a..."

July 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Esther's Follies Returns to Lighten Austin's Post-Pandemic Load

Guess what long-running comedy troupe is vaccinated, back onstage, and ready to make the city laugh again

"...booth in my closet, and we kept upgrading our green-screen technology until we had a nice setup downstairs. The..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jonas Brothers Confront Superstar Past & Present at Erwin Center

Disney breakouts effortlessly transcend boy bandom

"...and well six years after the Jerseyites announced their split...."

Dec. 9, 2019 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...Paxton were at each other's throats and ready to split what was left of the budget. That's when inspiration..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Compose Like a Pro

Graham Reynolds teaches musicians how to score ... film

"...With streaming services dominating screen time behind film, television, and documentaries, it's no surprise..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Open Edition

PrintAustin enters its second year with startling growth in scale and scope

"...Viewers can expect to see a wide array of screenprints, woodcuts, linocuts, letterpress, intaglio, etchings, new experimental process-based works,..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

The Spill Diaspora

Two websites devoted to film and popular culture have risen from the ashes of Spill.com

"...rather than keeping the whole crew together, the group split up to home in on their individual passions. Downsizing..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Austin Heiberg

Blood Over Texas Gets Fleshy

Eighties horror celebrated at the North Door

"...But tonight, the horror isn't coming to you, and..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

App Alert: 'Hundreds'

A deceptively simple and deeply satisfying game for iPad

"...There's something refreshing about a game with enough simplicity..."

Jan. 8, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...this clunky tale of interstellar rubber suits to the screen, and he has little clue what an FX-heavy film..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In

Shock, schlock, and awe at America's premier genre fest

"...I have a fuzzy-cool memory of an alcohol-accentuated screening of Steve De Jarnatt's ridiculous/sublime/classic Miracle Mile, during which..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Man With a Movie To Score

Justin Sherburn sounds off on an avant-garde, Soviet silent

"...that featured all kinds of new cinematic techniques – split screens, freeze-frames, backward projection – and a self-reflexive approach..."

July 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Tweaking the Model, if not the Mission

Alamo Slaughter Lane set to open mid-March

"...Lane site, but company CEO Tim League says the eight-screen theatre will still provide the same Drafthouse experience, only..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Outlaw

Alex Cox, still shooting film, and the finger, after all these years

"...an trip to Austin – eventually cancelled –  to screen a handful of films at the Alamo Drafthouse.)..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Small Town, Big Find

The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville

"...riches to bring the school back to life on screen. Kallenberg interweaves Richard's story along with those of Mike..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Serato Scratch Live

"...then from there to your mixer to your laptop screen where you can visually beat-match the tracks via their..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Young's Town, USA

A guided tour of 'Greendale'

"...found this unpolished presentation lacking, and reviewers have been split in their reactions. Yes, Greendale is raw and technically..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

'One From the Heart'

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

"...how much more splendid it is on the big screen..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Life Worth Livin'

Looking for a way out with Jay, Jeff, and the gang

"...only satisfaction available comes from a bottle, or in "Screen Door," from sitting around singing songs on the porch..."

April 4, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

TV Eye

War, basketball, and the Oscars: Reality programming faces new challenges.

"...are obscene. Yet, the images that came across TV screens, particularly of the first heavy bombing assault on Baghdad..."

March 28, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Right Where They Belong

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

"...the group's new disc, Now Again, up flies a screen concealing the band, and out stride three troubadours in..."

July 26, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the other, but there's no reason the Council couldn't "split the baby" -- i.e., kill the records deal and..."

March 22, 2002 Column

Fugitive Pieces

The Salvage Vanguard Theater production of Caridad Svich's Fugitive Pieces is a nowhere road reminiscent of the Tom Waits milieu, with vagabonds hopping trains to anywhere other than where they are now. But while it's not for everyone, it's worth the journey.

"...or two of thick white gravel. And the usual split seating has been shifted to include a third perspective..."

March 1, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Universal Talent

From 1961 to 1992, Julioeloy Mesa worked in the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Industry and Art, making movie posters that earned international awards, exhibitions in museums, and even a permanent collection in the Library of Congress. Though he now lives comfortably in Austin, Texas, Mesa's artistic struggle continues.

"...Mesa would paint his poster by hand on a silkscreen, using high-contrast colors to serve as a negative. He..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...his wife, played by Hilary Swank, making her first screen appearance since her Oscar win for Boys Don't Cry...."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...Stand-Up for Your RightsComedians on the Silver Screen..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Bryan Poyser

The Horror, the Horror

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and screenwriter of the infamously terrifying film, discusses the recently released The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen and his life on both sides of the camera.

"...girl, a pair of priests, and several gallons of split-pea soup: That's how most people remember William Peter Blatty's..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

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