Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"..."Lester's Last Stand: Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas" is an excerpt from..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...It's time to get small. With two rounds of feature films already on the schedule, Fantastic Fest has..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Modern Tales as Old as Time

New AFS series travels back to the seat of civilization

"...To categorize a collection of stories originating in the birthplace of civilization is nearly..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...one can explain why three novels set in 19th-century Texas -- The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan,..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Of Weed Ladies, Play Parties, and Camp Meetings

What's going on in them Manchaca Hills?

"...to what was a rural suburb surrounded by thousands of acres of farmland but is fast becoming sucked into..."

May 12, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Moonhangers

"...show these days if you turned on the lights of every moontower in town, but Doug Strahan and Ethan..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...J. Frank Dobie might walk over to the house of another old man named Roy Bedichek for a conversation..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Reclaiming Texas History, One Home Movie at a Time

The missionary zeal of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image

"...a perfectly sunny day in spring, two men square off on a ranch in West Texas. One of the..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Windmill State of Mind

A Q&A with the authors of a new book on the story behind Texas wind power

"...Wind power may seem to be the redheaded stepchild of Texas' energy portfolio, but it turns out to have..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...the only witnesses to his murder, the first murder of a Texas prison guard by an inmate since 1985,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...There's a moment in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that marks the end of an..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Was the Foodways Texas Symposium Worth the Price?

A barbecue enthusiast shares his experience

"...attend such an event? It turns out I’m one of those people, and I spent three days eating, talking,..."

April 14, 2013 Food Post by Rod Machen

South of Heaven

Metal has a new home in Austin, and a new sponsor.

"...Saturday night at the Dirty Dog Bar. Rend, one of the Texas Metal Collective acts that's made the Sixth..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Survival of the Fittest?

The unlikely story behind the Austin-based black comedy, Natural Selection.

"...accounts, an unlikely story: During the 1996 Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Film Festival, a pair of..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

10 of Austin's Best Halloween and Día de los Muertos Parties and Events for 2019

These haunted listings won't be here long

"...is finally here, and with it comes a host of spooky and fun-filled experiences to fill up your October..."

Oct. 16, 2019 Events Post

Texas Book Festival Recap

Texas, books, festivals: Three things Austin foodies have down pat

"...Wow, there’s nothing like staying out of the public eye for several months and losing a..."

Oct. 26, 2011 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

99 Years of Tracking Texas

Texas State Historical Association's Publishing Division

"...For many residents in many states, a sense of state history often is left behind when the high..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Phil West

Crimes of Passion and Desperation in Love & Death

In HBO Max's Love & Death, director Lesli Linka Glatter and star Patrick Fugit revisit one of Texas' most infamous murders

"...she was in the Shibuya district, looking for a coffee shop, and had to pick between two. “Arbitrarily, I..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Stones pledge since 6 thanks to the overlapped harmonies of "Honky Tonk Women" during a kiddie drive time TV..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Absinthe-minded Professors of Violet Crown Spirits

Three Austinites are producing the first Texas-made absinthe

"...even before that – soaking up, by a sort of cultural osmosis, its arcane mythology, the tales of its..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Wicked Sounds of Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Comes to Austin

Honky-tonk yes, but there ain’t no tears in her beer

"...allowed to listen to anything that had any semblance of a strong rhythm,” recalls Sarah Shook of her childhood,..."

Jan. 17, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"..."I'll tell you a funny story about my mother," offers Terry Allen, grinning wryly like he does. "I was..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Southland Tales

Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.

"...It’s been six years since Donnie Darko came out of nowhere and introduced the independent-film world to a precocious..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Faerie Tales

Another Scene? The Original Scene

"...illustration by Tom King Brace yourself. It's another one of those "scene" stories. Let's think, just for a moment,..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The End of the World as He Knows It

Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in Southland Tales

"...just like you imagined," goes a tagline for Southland Tales, especially if you imagined it in a Ritalin haze,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Lingering on the Beloved Characters of 'What Ever'

Talking with Heather Woodbury about the people in her eight-hour performance novel, What Ever.

"...mesmerized. I had never seen a female performer pull off so much dialogue, character, and story so effortlessly. Eight..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Shades of the Past

Austin's ghosts, from pioneer times to the present

"...shades have settled in like dust. Did the lives of certain of our forebears cut a groove so deep..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature

A Declaration of Independence

Zavala Elementary and Principal Sean Fox are succeeding at going their own way

"...something is changing. In fact, over the last couple of years, the campus has seen double-digit improvements in test..."

May 9, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Director John Lee Hancock and Office Space Go Into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

Classic comedy and Texas writer/director to be awarded March 7

"...to AFS Cinema on March 7. That's when the Texas Film Awards will honor Mike Judge's defining Gen-X comedy..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival

Photos by John Anderson

"...Phillip SantosReading from Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

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