AFF2012: DC vs. Marvel Panel

Hulk argue, smash, concur

"...most anticipated panel of the conference," but with the Stephen F. Austin Ballroom only three-quarters filled last Friday's super-panel..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Everything Went Black: Rewriting Sight & Sound's Top Ten

What, no Polanski?

"...surprisingly from my own. As a lover of genre-based filmmaking -- and that includes everything from American International Pictures..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner

Rules to read by

"...and one or two novels. This system has been working pretty good, and I can’t recall any books that..."

Aug. 20, 2012 Books Post by Josh Kupecki

Joe Lansdale, His Ownself, at Bookpeople

Joe Lansdale at Book People Thurs, April 5

"...year round. John Burdett (the Bangkok series) is one, Stephen King is another, but most of all, we pine..."

April 3, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

'Sinister': Local Boy Makes Evil

Cargill's 'Sinister' premieres at SXSW

"...for SXSW 2012, with the lightning, thunder, and rain making it feel like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg out there..."

March 11, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

World Book Night Doesn't Happen Overnight, You Know

BookPeople hosts planning session this Monday

"...Owen Meany by John Irving (Ballantine) The Stand by Stephen King (Anchor) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Perennial)..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Out Here in the Middle

A quick one with James McMurtry

"...Club, I decided to get the man that author Stephen King calls “the best songwriter in America” on the..."

Jan. 19, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Bedside Manner: I Am Not a Scientologist!

Some light and dark reading from the City Hall Hustler

"...writing advice over memoir-like reflections, which is what killed Stephen King's On Writing for me...."

Jan. 17, 2011 Books Post by Wells Dunbar

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Sharks, toilet paper, and more

"...The villain in Stephen King novels often has the initials "R.F."..."

June 25, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Five Years

Back to the 'bone

"...a new recording later this year. But first, he’s working on a solo disc...."

May 12, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Bucking Categorization

Character actor Sam Rockwell slips into a new guise in the goofy comedy Gentlemen Broncos

"...of Moonlight to his raging take on one of Stephen King's most seething psychopaths in The Green Mile, and..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival: 'Godspeed'

AFF film review

"...a Northern gothic that at times seems co-written by Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor, although the only monsters lurking..."

Oct. 22, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Office Spaced in Austin

Mike Judge and cast celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the release of Office Space

"...screening. Among those in attendance were John C. McGinley, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Diedrich Bader,..."

Feb. 11, 2009 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

FJA 4-EVER

Famous Monster of Filmland Forrest J Ackerman gravely ill

"...who count him among their biggest influences range from Stephen King to Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante to José Mojica..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Frankincense, adverbs, and porn, oh my!

"...According to author Stephen King, the road to hell is paved with adverbs...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Future’s So Dark I Gotta Wear Mirror-Shades

On cyberpunk

"...Like all great literary and cultural movements – edgy, forward-thinking, smart, and mean – cyberpunk died a thousand deaths,..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Ruins of the Realm

Talking turkey with James McMurtry

"...day, hens emerge to check on the mature toms making all the noise. A wrong step, a snapped branch,..."

May 2, 2008 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Texas Gets Spirited Away

Taste-testing Texas liquors against the world

"...new gustatory businesses in Central Texas, especially if they're making good products...."

Dec. 28, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Von Südenfed

"...be a disgruntled Smith having an indecipherable row with Stephen King's Lawnmower Man ("Jbak Lois Lane"). Then there's "Flooded,"..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Review by Marc Savlov

The Next Next

Jasper Fforde reveals the secrets behind the new Thursday Next adventure, narrative gymnastics, and the job of writing

"...three?), and when she isn't tending the kids, she's working for Acme Carpets, Swindon's premier purveyor of floor coverings...."

Aug. 3, 2007 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Rock & Roll Books

"...(a fellow obsessive-compulsive-disorder sufferer); Jackson Browne; David Letterman; writers Stephen King, Dave Barry, and Mitch Albom; and multitudes more..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

What do you do if you've invented a character who embodies the violent rejection of modern society, and that character becomes more popular than you ever dreamed he would?

"...that preceded it was what kept the pages turning. Stephen King, say, might require vampires, parallel dimensions, and such..."

April 13, 2007 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'NFL Analysis 101': Scary Times for Salty Powers

"...Bold yet nerve-racking, the Atlanta Falcons are not done with trading. Shipping..."

March 28, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

TV Eye

Heroes and zeroes

"...the wings. As I scribble on that, I've been thinking of the hits and misses of the most recent..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Independence Day

"...go out at night, I was tuckered out between parking the car and walking into the club. I couldn't..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Speaking of which, have you seen Sin City yet? Yeah?..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

If they launch it, viewers will come

"...crews, and other labor would be less frantic. In talking about his TV career, director/producer Félix Alcalá, speaking at..."

June 4, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Short Cuts

Fridays with Forrie

"...casting news from the Shadow Show, that being the brand-spanking-new inclusion of no less than the legendary Forest J...."

April 9, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

When Comic Do Good

Thanks to the benefit 'Stand-Up Is Dead,' some Central Texas wildlife won't be.

"...dead, but you wouldn't think so if you were talking with Stuart, who, in our very short time together,..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Neal Pollack Invasion

"...all-star garage band that features Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Stephen King, and a few other renowned writers not taking..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

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