Kind to Be Cruel

It's all Lovely & Amazing to actress Catherine Keener.

"...crop up in our conversation), about its director, Nicole Holofcener ("so unbelievable"), about many of the directors she's worked..."

July 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Isn't She Great

Isn't it awful?

"...This film version of the life story of Jacqueline Susann is deplorable in..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Meow Mix

Texans Are Wild About Exotic Cats, but at What Cost?

"...feet long, weigh about 300 pounds, devour three packages of chicken a day, and die a gruesome, undignified death,..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...haphazard, non-linear liner notes attempt to tell the real story of the club and DJ culture of the Seventies..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Books That Keep on Giving

Does It Come in Paperback?

"...world do I get for Aunt Tillie? A book, of course. The trick is, of course, that not just..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Earth Day, Record Store Day, and More Recommended Events

Go green in a number of ways this week

"...Farm to Plate chow-down this weekend to sample some of our city’s new and improved cuisine, prepared by chefs..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin-Made Comedy Home Free Is Taking Homelessness Seriously

How a chance encounter in 1997 keeps changing lives

"...A lot of filmmakers say their film was truly conceived in Austin,..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Ch-ch-changes

Austin's queer scene turns to face the strange as it goes through big but good changes

"...turn and face the strange: We're in a season of change. Icons of the Austin queer scene are embracing..."

July 28, 2023 Column by James Scott

The War for Change in Kandahar

How Austin filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh made the first major Western film in Saudi Arabia since Lawrence of Arabia

"...the Austin-based filmmaker made his reputation as a director of crime flicks and action blockbusters that tackle serious issues...."

May 26, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: The Queer-ster Bunny

A springtime showing of Austin's queer haps, like a new leather bar, pre-show parties, and the academic achievement by a young Black trans scholar.

"...Big news for the leather lovers of Bat City: The Austin Eagle has their soft opening..."

April 7, 2023 Column by James Scott

Council Unanimously Votes to End Low-Level Pot Enforcement

Manley responds: "APD will still enforce marijuana laws"

"...prompted county prosecutors across Texas to decline low-level possession of marijuana (POM) cases, the Austin City Council, on Jan...."

Jan. 24, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Getting to Affordability

Council sweats the small stuff

"...some Council members' obvious disdain for the current round of talks about the Land Development Code rewrite, in their..."

April 12, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin

X's John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies

"..."I'm a man of the world," declares John Doe, singer/bassist of seminal Los..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Paging Mr. Herman

Paul Reubens' hard work results in Pee-wee's Big Holiday

"...Early Nineties tabloid scandal-sheet cover boy? Pee-wee/Reubens is all of these things. He is both vintage, punk rock kitsch..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Girl in a Band: Kim Gordon

Q&A with Sonic Youth bassist about her new memoir

"...Gordon played bass in Sonic Youth. All but three of them she spent married to bandmate Thurston Moore, a..."

Feb. 26, 2015 Music Post by Neph Basedow

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright explores the origins and alleged abuses of the Church of Scientology

"...Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Beliefby Lawrence Wright Knopf, 448 pp., $28.95..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

FF2012: Kier-La Janisse is in the House...

…of Psychotic Women

"...at Fantastic Fest, but this year heralds the return of original Alamo 409 Colorado programmer, film scholar, author, and..."

Sept. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Jonathan Coulton: “Internet Rock Star”

They Might Be Giant opener has a successful business model

"...in your label-free success – intrigued by NPR’s description of you as an “Internet rock star.” Tell me about..."

Feb. 2, 2012 Music Post by Melanie Haupt

Face Off Recap: Boys, Girls and the Drowned Man

Catch up on Austin's Matt Valentine on the SyFy show

"...So we're two episodes in to season two of SyFy's makeup challenge show Face Off and already (this..."

Jan. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dear Porn Industry

Texas loves luring jobs from California

"...our teen pregnancy rates. But that’s a whole other story...."

Jan. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Mr. Smarty Pants

Off the Record

Alejandro Escovedo scores his own life and Man From Plains, Backspin Records relocates, and UT's Center for American History archives Tary Owens' legacy

"...A Gathering of Promises..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

ImproviNation

Can I get a suggestion for an Austin festival in which troupes from across the country gather to create instant comedy?

"...Our fair city is once more in the grip of the fever...."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Future-Kill, Roadie

Hoping to capitalize on the success of Tobe Hooper's 1974 surprise horror hit Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Future-Kill reunited that film's stars Neal and Burns and aimed for a similar creepy / kitschy vein. It failed.Meat Loaf quits his day job to become the world's best roadie. Sound weird? It is.

"...live in Austin, where there's always a new film project percolating. Some of those films -- Blood Simple, What's..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Pauline Kael Remembers Sam Peckinpah

Pauline Kael discusses the myths surrounding the work of Sam Peckinpah in this excerpt from the monograph that accompanies the Peckinpah retrospective sponsored by the Austin Film Society.

"...the means by which to begin a studied reappraisal of the filmmaker's career...."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

Flipping Your Whigs

"...took a swing. Yankee-boy went down like a swaller of premium corn likker."..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Page Two

"...Lots of information to get through this time, but first, let..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Column by Louis Black

A Passion for Fashion

Turn to the Left... Turn to the Right...

"...The humble beginning and meteoric rise of Britain's high fashion bad girl Vivienne Westwood is the..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Books Feature

Manufacturing Innovation

Will the next big thing be a product of inspiration, perspiration, or just dumb luck?

"...SXSW Interactive, there are roughly 40 with some iteration of the word "innovation" in the title and no doubt..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

'Nothing Is Done Alone' Extended Interview

The TxCC and their role in Bastrop's recovery after the fires

"...In late October, I visited the HQ of Texas Conservation Corps at American YouthWorks, here in Austin...."

Dec. 2, 2013 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

ACL Interview: Dynamites feat. Charles Walker

Nashville Northern soul combo’s epic journey

"...Southern soul, the album’s delineating factor is its incorporation of dynamics more akin to Chicago and New York. Between..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

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