The Concourse Project Brings the Raver Spirit Back to Austin

High-capacity event space looks to diversify their sound

"...Handed the limp remains of a party mecca, Kelly Gray and Andrew Parsons handed..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

West Coast Meets South of Texas

"...Super Seven is a Mexican-American all-star band made up of Tex-Mex legends Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez, David Hidalgo..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Scent of a Woman

"...to performers who portray characters with disabilities; i.e. Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man and Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Joy of Bicycling in Austin

A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite

"...up on two wheels with one destination: the top of an unmanned parking structure reserved for state employees. It's..."

April 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...Eight days and nights of fear, loathing, love, lust, cannibalism, and carnage (plus, thanks..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Jeff Nichols on the Tragic Romance of The Bikeriders

The Austin filmmaker on finding the right POV for his new film

"...film The Bikeriders, Jeff Nichols travels to the Midwest of the mid-Sixties to explore how the blue-collar bikers who..."

June 20, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long Incubation of the Incubus

Playwright David Hancock and director Vicky Boone reveal how they developed the play The Incubus Archives over six years, through 11 sometimes radically different versions.

"...ain't Athena. It doesn't spring full-grown from the brow of its creator. Most often, the new drama getting its..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City

He is everywhere. He is unavoidable. He is Tha' Subliminal Kid.

"...a universe," DJ Spooky writes in the liner notes of his 1996 Songs of a Dead Dreamer. It's both..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Art of Conversation

Austin Men's Project encourages young gay men to hone their social -- and safe sex -- skills through communication

"...movie, but Mad TV was on. The manic energy of a sketch about the murder of JonBenet Ramsey prompted..."

Sept. 24, 1999 News Feature by Clay Smith

Programs That Let Austin Youth Speak Out A Stage of Their Own

"...more than 30 preteens and teenagers interviewed for this story who are involved in various Austin youth theatre programs...."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Tugging at True-Crime's Seams in SXSW Doc Zodiac Killer Project

Charlie Shackleton on genre conventions, and why he subverted them

"...The lone investigator, hunting for evidence. Images of falling files. Opening credits with mournful country music playing..."

March 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...same, an attendant SXSW 2000 showcase, and two booksignings of his new autobiography, What's Welsh For Zen, just wasn't..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Out of the Shadows

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

"...There are a lot of things of which I'm probably more informed by what..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin's Comic Strippers: Part of the Big Picture

Divya Srinivasan

"...Would you pay $100 for a piece of your own art? Divya Srinivasan did. The UT student..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature

The Work of Kurt Volk

"...green screen behind Levitt, so he took a shot of one of the stunt cars dotted around Troublemaker Studios.Back..."

Aug. 21, 2014 Photo Gallery

Things Are What You Make of Them

The deliciously cracked comedies of Bob Byington

"...Let flow, Harmony does, with the well-practiced drip, drip of a breakup narrative conceived, finessed, and declaimed to anyone..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...nagging-itch quality in punk's makeup which has made the stuff uncomfortable for both the average rock fan and the..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...crowed that this year's VORTEX season was composed entirely of new works. It's indicative of Cullum's fervor for material..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Like the Rest of Us

Atmosphere's Slug isn't dead from tequila poisoning yet

"...released six LPs, thirteen EPs, and a two-album side project with buddy Murs as Felt. The Minneapolis duo’s also..."

Nov. 5, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...The God-Wheel of Fate has stopped for all these kiddies on Yes!..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Top of His Craft

Prior to his appearance at the Austin Film Festival, writer / director Steven Zaillian remembers his first film, his most successful, and the lessons he's learned along the way.

"...on the job, beginning in 1984 with his adaptation of Robert Lindsay's political drama The Falcon and the Snowman,..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Great Feckin' Depression of Seamus O'Doherty

Th' dark-eyed Dubliner & his ginger mog: Captured by Austin's Izzi Ross

"...currently, and the condition’s amplified by the violent death of his father and a break-up with the love of..."

June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...be-all, end-all, long-term plan. And I think the spirit of what we were trying to do at 409 Colorado..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

State of the City Address

As delivered by Mayor Lee Leffingwell today

"...Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his State of the City Address before the Real Estate Council of..."

Feb. 2, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

From Stuff, Art

The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects

"...Chances are you'll notice at least one of the four modified "Exit" signs by Austin artist Kurt..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Status of the Original

"...in 1984, and four years later, with the help of two business partners in Massachusetts, opened BookLab, a much..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Travis Stevens Gets Under the Skin of A Wounded Fawn

How his new art-horror interweaves myths and failed justice

"...Fawn seems like it fits straight into the tradition of films about women being pursued by deranged psychosexual killers...."

Dec. 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Aharon Keshales Enters Texas Darkness in South of Heaven

Noir, cowboys ... and Ted Lasso?

"...as ex-con Jimmy in Lone Star crime flick South of Heaven, he thought he was opening a new perspective..."

Oct. 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Is Austin's Growing Dance Music Scene in Need of Its Own HQ?

We talk to a dozen members of ATX’s electronic music community

"...renamed a street Hot Mix 5 Way in honor of pioneering house music DJs. Here, we traverse Willie Nelson..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Democracy's Feet of Clay

AFS Documentary Tour presents Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

"...Herewith the second of three pre-election docs presented this fall by the Austin..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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