The Chronicles of Riddick

Vin Diesel revs up the sci-fi franchise.

"...be the jump gate to a new sci-fi franchise. Stranger things have happened, not the least of them the..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth

"...first two films is dispersed. There are, after all, stranger things walking the avenues of New York City even..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...Truth can be stranger than fiction, and that’s definitely true at Fantastic Fest...."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: The First-Ever Lucktoberfest Lands Halloweekend at Willie Nelson’s Luck, Texas

Plus, the Red River Cultural District searches for a new director, and remembering Stewart Wise

"...ranch, the Wild West-themed movie set for Red Headed Stranger, has grown since then. The team rings in a..."

July 29, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fantasia Review: Martyrs Lane

A childhood haunting that's far from angelic

"...Ghosts, its said, are greedy things. Angels, according to lore, are generous. So which it..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dave Franco Picks Up The Keys to The Rental

How scary hotels and Atlanta shaped his horror debut

"...yet we trust staying in the home of a stranger simply because if a few positive reviews online."..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Interacting at Interactive

A social experiment in schmoozing goes a little too well

"...the Eastside. My initial plan was to ask a stranger if they had a “pick-up line” to meet people..."

Feb. 23, 2009 SXSW Post by James Renovitch

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...rename a portion of SH 130 for the Red-Headed Stranger after unpatriotic, Texas-hating Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth opposed it..."

May 6, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Butthole Surfer Update!

"...in September (hopefully), commencing with one called Fat Headed Stranger, which is already in the can. Many Wammo allies,..."

July 5, 1996 Music Column

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...O’Brien, an Austin-based author perhaps best known for The Things They Carried, a 1990 collection of fictional stories inspired..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

SXSW: Nik Turner Spreads His Cosmic Wings

Hawkwind co-founder to re-enact the 'Space Ritual'

"...into the musical cosmos on the wings of Hawkwind, stranger in a strange land and a friend to all...."

March 15, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Making Biscuit

Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7

"...artist. I guess even at that time I saw things a little different than everyone else. Then in sixth..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...the March music conferences, or try to help coordinate things with one they're already negotiating with. That's led to..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

That was the week that was in the Live Music Capital…

"...Things have been quiet on the noise front lately, mainly..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Party Girl, Interrupted

Sandra Bullock's 28 Days

"...out she's strong, complex, humorous, fights back, believes in things." Indeed, Sandra Bullock is all those things. But it..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Bombs Not Bullets

Austin Hip-Hop Mushrooms

"...But don't cry for us Big Baby Jesus, things may just be changing faster than Hammer's quick-jump from..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Step Outside

California's Smoking Ban... Coming to a Club Near You?

"...from disparate local restrictions" (in other words, to simplify things by making it uniform statewide). The upshot of this..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Luv Doc: An Absolute Nightmare

If this was happening to someone you really care about...

"...– usually me – and mostly over trivial, ridiculous things. She will call me names, tell me I’m stupid,..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Column by The Luv Doc

Geopolitical Fault Lines

Austin's latest attempt at single-member districts is getting a mixed response

"...your city conducts the business of electing its leaders, things are bound to get a little testy. As members..."

July 6, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

South for the Marijuana

The gringo travels to Mexico in search of weed and wisdom.

"...of herb, and the farther south they went the stranger the tales became. Oaxaca, oh shit. He had heard..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

SXSW Film Review: Reeling

A Hawaiian party cracks under pressure from a tragic past

"...Families are messy things in the best of times, and as Reeling shows..."

March 10, 2025 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

SXSW Film Review: Linoleum

Jim Gaffigan plays two roles in this tale of a life unrealized

"...Strange things are happening in Linoleum...."

March 16, 2022 SXSW Post by Trace Sauveur

Can Quibi Be Your New Go-To App?

CEO Meg Whitman on diversity and innovation in the new streamer

"...Fishburne, and Sophie Turner, while filmmakers including Rebecca Thomas (Stranger Things), Mark Pellington (Arlington Road), Sam Raimi, and Steven..."

April 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Taking a Night Drive With AJ Bowen

Moons, Lyfts, and bathroom breaks: War stories from the indie trenches

"...about ridesharing. The idea of getting in some random stranger's car, or having strangers in your car, is fertile..."

Oct. 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How The Last Black Man in San Francisco Traded Righteous Rage For Gentleness

Director Joe Talbot on the poignant side of gentrification

"...years ago when we started. I think what's even stranger about it is that 'right now' continues to feel..."

June 13, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Reverend Horton Heat Spend a Night in the Box (Time Bomb)

SXSW Records

"...a mellow Reverend Horton Heat resolutely belongs in Metallica's "things that should not be" file. But stranger things have..."

March 10, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

We Refuse To Grow Up

"...honor of the late Joseph Gonzalez. And since these things come in threes, we'll throw in bluegrass legend Bill..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Column

Ethan Hawke and the Inner Life of Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat

Finding the drama of an author who laughed at her own biography

"...Milledgeville, Georgia, and become one of the bright young things of the artists’ community of Saratoga Springs. That is,..."

May 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Kate Bush Bash, Urban Heat, Knife in the Water, Night Cap, Adrian Ruiz, and Shimmer Island

"...Netflix's Stranger Things has been providing quite a service to Eighties..."

July 29, 2022 Music Column by Tim Stegall

Griffon Ramsey Carves Up the Food Network’s Outrageous Pumpkins

Visiting the Texas pumpkin chain saw massacre

"...porches. These are professionals, who are doing really outrageous things, pretty crazy stuff, with special effects and multiple pumpkin..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Features Feature by Sara Hutchinson

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