Where 'Friend' Is a Four-Letter Word

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explores the fractious founding of Facebook in The Social Network

"...Aaron Sorkin enters the interview suite on one of the upper floors of the Austin Four Seasons and..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Emily Hagins' Unsucky Movie Career

Austin's zombie girl taps into vamps for her third feature

"...camera jiggles now and then, but it's a smart, professional movie pitch. The walls backgrounding Hagins are covered with..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

City Hall Hustle: Big Thinkers

Council's pre-vacation litany looks toward the biennium

"...return to July 29, pregnant with a summer's worth of new items, actions, and major decisions on matters like..."

July 2, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"...Butcher Bear should be Red River's official mascot. He looks like an outcast from Gorillaz's Plastic..."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Men With Mommy Issues

Jay and Mark Duplass rock the cradle of love in Cyrus

"...no earth-shattering or even particularly impressive careers to speak of, are far from wealthy, and are generally just kind..."

June 25, 2010 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Daily Hustle: 6/24/10

Liveblogging City Council

"...something a little different today and liveblog this behemoth of a City Council meeting. Please join us below the..."

June 24, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Sharecropping on Wheels

While the city juggles taxicab franchises, drivers demand 'a fair shake'

"...process that led to your passage has a host of largely unseen mechanisms – questions of competition, permits, fees,..."

June 11, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...There's a lot of wrong directions..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Outing the Archive

The Austin History Center stands ready to gay up its archives

"...Austin Chronicle: What is the current state of LGBTQI collections at the Austin History Center?..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Andy Campbell

TV Eye

The IFC Media Project returns for another season of inventive and inspiring investigative journalism

"...Last week was the beginning of upfronts in TV land – the time when TV..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Off the Record

For those about to rock (we salute you)

"...in June on UK tribute album The Psychedelic Sounds of the Sonic Cathedral, which features hometown disciples the Strange..."

April 23, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Gone and Quartered

Stiffed on Capital Metro money, the city scrambles to fund another $51 million in transportation projects

"...to Pleasant Valley Road is a corridor the city of Austin has planned to improve for at least a..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

SXSW Web Awards Announced

At Sunday's ceremony, emcee Doug Benson dished out prizes for superior web content

"...The SXSW Web Awards went down Sunday evening, emceed..."

March 14, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ska, Super-Animated

Gals Panic reunites to play a fundraising show for Lance Myers' new project

"...Time flies. Not counting their one-off, what-the-hell-why-not? gig three years back, it's been a full..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sheik to Sheik

Crazy Heart wasn't Stephen Bruton's only last project, and we have Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks to thank for that

"...The caption below one photo of Geoff Muldaur on the NPR website reads gospel enough:..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Games People Play

Casual gaming's rise opens the doors for players and developers

"...hushed taps on laptop keyboards. Then again, these teams of programmers, graphic designers, and musicians of widely varying expertise..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Wolfman

This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.

"...Universal's stone-classic 1941 original (nor suffering from the contraction of the former’s three-word title into two), Talbot arrives onscreen..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...at their best are the seductive and primal essence of the films they represent. They are the tease, the..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

State of the City

Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his state of the city address at a Real Estate Council of Austin luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 2

"...Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his state of the city address at a Real Estate Council of..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature

History in the Making

A new exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center proves that no job is too small when it comes to 'Making Movies'

"...Robert De Niro in a letter on the subject of The Last Tycoon, the pair's first and only project..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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

Slanted & Enchanted

Matador Records magnate Gerard Cosloy turns the 'live music capital' into a Casual Victim Pile

"...the tractors used to haul out the debris. Scraps of countless vinyl records – irreplaceable rock & roll relics..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Body as Canvas, Readying for Life in a Kill Zone

AFS Documentary Tour presents Tattooed Under Fire

"...In Tattooed Under Fire, a young soldier shows off his deeply inked body and says to the camera,..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Three Guys, a Girl, and a Dog Named Friday

Austin film collective Jollyville Pictures on its ingredients for success

"...If you haven't heard of Jollyville Pictures, well, that's probably going to change pretty..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

On His Mark

Richard Linklater explores the rich contradictions of artifice and reality, theatre and film, love and desire in Me and Orson Welles

"...terms, attempting some harmonic cinematic consistency between style, acting, story, and theme. This is so that each of his..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Born Digital, But Then What?

UT professor Craig Watkins on the migratory patterns of the Internet's first flock

"...It's no accident that the title of Craig Watkins' new book, The Young and the Digital,..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Unstable Element

Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask.

"...The reduced form of the highly reactive chemical element fluorine – better known..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Climate, Meet Mobility

Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too

"...the effort to reduce and reverse the negative impacts of global warming." – Austin City Council, 2007..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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

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