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

Gadgets and Gizmos

From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

"...Rodriguez's head to life requires expansive (and expensive) teams of digital effects companies from across both country and continent,..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...San Diego has one of America's finest harbors. It's the largest U.S. city that..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Bigfoot Exists in Texas

Eduardo Sánchez makes a monster movie against the Bastrop fire

"...development. That's why director Eduardo Sánchez created a beast of a different stripe with Exists. He said, "It's very..."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nathan and David and 'Goliath'

After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big

"...music videos for such local bands as the Octopus Project and the Precarious Warehaus Dwellers. And unlike the Spy..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap

Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions on water plan

"...utility service to environmentally sensitive areas west and southwest of Austin, where the Lower Colorado River Authority is projecting..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...first royalty check," she grins, from her play Ozma of Oz, an adaptation of the Frank Baum book. "Twice..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...note: This is the third chapter in a serialized history of Austin’s punk culture, written by veteran journalist Tim..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Digging Deeper Into the Pet Sematary

Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer on their Stephen King adaptation

"...From It to the upcoming revival of Creepshow, Stephen King adaptations are popping up like zombie..."

April 9, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elisabeth Moss Might Just Be Her Own Character

The actor headlines SXSW in opening night film Us, and probes the cost of fame in Her Smell

"...Men’s ambitious copywriter/boss babe Peggy Olson or the character of Offred, aka June, in The Handmaid’s Tale – a..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Danielle White

DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...Whale. Castle. Carpenter. Craven. Fulci. The great names of horror. But maybe there's another, less known talent that..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: September 12

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...Cyrus does something scandalous. Today’s AggreGAYtor’s talking all this stuff about me. Now why don't it just let me..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Master Blaster

Q&A with Dave Alvin

"...One of the good things about Shout Factory absorbing Hightone is..."

Nov. 19, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Sauce Boss

Lauri Raymond looks back on – and forward to – the life and times of SASS dressing

"...was born at home at 1:22pm. The exact time of the birth of Sisters & Brothers Inc. is less..."

June 11, 2004 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Exibitionism

Beauty Vultures and the Plague of Sleep: Heartwarming Chill

"...Somewhere in a chilly fault line of the mind, underneath dreams, myth, fairy tale, and pure..."

May 22, 1998 Arts Review

Show Me Pizza Is in Your Internets, Streaming Your Food on Twitch

Up-and-coming pizzeria shares the beauty of food being made

"...The questions drip thick like rivulets of extra sauce over the edge of a hot Neapolitan..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...your headliners and competition titles, with the normal array of talent and titles Now it's time to get dark,..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ones Who Will Take Your Dead

Director's real life experiences with gang members inspire horror

"...Charlie from John Wick. Crime drama has a long history of cleaners: Not the one who makes the bodies,..."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Brand Upon the Brain

Art and advertising collide in the burgeoning genre of branded documentary

"...while wars raged and while peace reigned, during eras of enormous social upheaval and eras of profound political tranquility,..."

July 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...The town of Eldorado, Texas, seat of Schleicher County, flanks State Highway..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Fortune and Glory: How The Spiel Celebrates Steven Spielberg

Eric Vespe discusses new podcast, life after Scott Wampler

"...Vespe. After all, when your first memory is the coffins popping out of the ground at the end of..."

July 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Slamdance Interview: A Ballot Box Revolution in Petro

U.S. filmmakers hit the campaign trail with the Colombian president

"...It’s arguably the dream of every documentarian that they get to revisit the subject..."

Jan. 22, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Work Matters

A look back at some of our most impactful reporting

"...elections, etc.), even as we never really let go of our leftist leanings. For most of these decades we've..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Fantastic Fest Interview: Mad Dreams and Monsters

Inside the mind of stop motion wizard Phil Tippett

"...There is no more perfect art of cinema than stop motion. The idea of moving a..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Hits Hard

Stephen King adaptations, Arabic cinema, and Three Billboards

"...from raucous laughs to nerve-jangling terror, the first wave of films for Fantastic Fest 2017 (Sept. 21-28) announced this..."

Aug. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...weekend is usually cause for joy, but for thousands of filmmakers, it's the annual time of frayed nerves and..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...sit down and let me tell you a love story. My mother refers to me as "the one who..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Working Beauty

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

"...Bonnie Cullum probably envies Sleeping Beauty. The artistic director of the Vortex has had a very heavy week, laboring..."

March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Being Robert McNamara

Through 'The Fog of War,' Errol Morris gets inside a mind full of hindsight, regret, and the lessons of Vietnam

"...Errol Morris' new documentary, The Fog of War, might just be the most important film in..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin at Large: Be Thankful for What We’ve Got

Sometimes, the grinding slog of government bears tasty fruit

"...As we begin the Season of Excess this week, we are mindful that even though..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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