Gay Place

Partake in a plethora of politically progressive parties

"...for National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Otherwise, find some spooky teen witches onscreen for Drag at the Drive-In. In..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Ouija

Hasbro's soothsaying board is the MacGuffin in this teen horror film.

"...of her untimely demise. As presumably everyone in the world (except the film’s protagonists and victims) already knows, Ouija..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My SXSW ECO 2012 Experience Wrap Up

Sustainability in food and environment and culture! Oh, my!

"...Award-winning composer and writer Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, and Maranda Pleasant, editor of Origin Magazine, vacillated between..."

Oct. 6, 2012 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Letters @ 3AM

Elation is complicated. It can be joy, but it can also be terror – and it can be both, and more

"...weird elation. We were completely cut off from the world. We were Out There. Together. Hurtling through something that..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

1408

Even though 1408 is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever, this movie belongs to star John Cusack and director Mikael Håfström all the way.

"...that bears a great resemblance to the author’s famous spooky-hotel novel-cum-movie, The Shining, 1408 ranks as one of the..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil's Backbone

Set in a crumbling boys' school/orphanage/fallout shelter during the Spanish Civil War, the lost boys of this haunting film contend with a vengeful ghost as well as the more worldly traumas of war, greed, and abandonment.

"...sensibilities of those two great auteurs into one elegant, spooky story. Best known for the blood & guts spunk..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...rock & roller in East Germany and her adult world-view, which is best articulated in the song “The Origin..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Beware the Righteous

Way worse than robots

"...coming. In fact, they're already here. All over the world, every day, house pets fight pitched battles against soulless..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Mozart Requiem Undead Receives an Encore

This Austin-generated reinvention comes to Bass Concert Hall

"...(Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, Spanish Gold), Todd Reynolds, and DJ Spooky, among others. Reynolds and Stopschinski took on their share..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

DVDanger: Lace Crater

Ghostly romance reinvented, plus more DVD and VOD releases

"...starts telling ghost tales, but these aren't the normal spooky stories. These are unnerving incidents that have a degree..."

Aug. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...its intention. From its VHS box-art cover to its spooky premise, this is a deliberate throwback to Eighties supernatural..."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thirteen Things To Do in Austin on Halloween

Halloween 2014: All the events here, there, and in-between

"...KreweDCM announced their 2014 Halloween Parade theme, "The Drowned World."..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Events Post by Derek Van Wagner

Charged Up

The 10th Fusebox Festival gets off to an electric start with 'Mozart Requiem Undead'

"...Todd Reynolds, violinist with Bang on a Can; DJ Spooky, the experimental hip-hop musician and multimedia artist; Adrian Quesada..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Art of Moving Books

The Nobelity Project taps Baylor Estes to put his art all over a bookmobile in Honduras

"...put his creative stamp on another part of the world – and maybe change lives in the process. The..."

May 10, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3am: Doppelgängers

Across generations and geography, doppelgängers emerge

"...many photos of all sorts of dancers. There's a world map in my short, narrow hallway and a U.S...."

March 8, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Our Bloody Valentine

Movie makeup artist Matt Valentine reps Austin on SyFy's reality competition show Face Off

"...unveil their new collection of props and costumes at Transworld, the Halloween industry's biggest trade show. Valentine seems as..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Casting the annual ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and paying tribute to poster artist extraordinaire Bill Narum

"...crew whose work defined the era of the Armadillo World Headquarters. Narum also served as the board president of..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM

The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live

"...the explosion. I'd never thought of Oklahoma City as spooky, but it's gone spooky...."

April 15, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Wake of the Red Witch

Everything that begins also ends

"...The album is Bottom of the World, issued earlier this year – an album in which..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...PRESCOTT CURLYWOLF: In a perfect world, somebody would re-release Six Ways to Sunday, Prescott Curlywolf's..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...very arty punk band called Lizard Music, whose new World Domination release, Fashionably Lame, was recorded by Steve Albini...."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...genius who invented the strange contraption that became the world's first electronic musical instrument. Named after him, the theremin..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...genius who invented the strange contraption that became the world's first electronic musical instrument. Named after him, the theremin..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...of letters and photography better known to the living world as Lewis Carroll. Over the past 150 years, the..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...all the hoopla was about, and came to this spooky conclusion: The similarities between Blair Witch and the Bush..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

An Eye for History

"...century, taking part in every major military conflict from World War II to Vietnam. He was on board the..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

SXSW Record Reviews

"...World in a Drop of Water (Bohemia Beat)..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

An Amarillo State of Mind

The Plutonium Circus Comes to Town

"...Literally a world unto itself, Amarillo exists on the periphery of anarchy,..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Arts Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a much quieter role here than usual: that of world-weary professional killer "Robert Rath," an individual well known as..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...nicely crazed Peter Fonda) and her place in the world of the living. Fonda, as a very distant quasi-relative..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

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