Fulfilling the Digital Wish List

The Gift of the Game

"...The gift-giving season..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Screens Feature

Delysia’s Golden Chocolate, Texas French Bread’s Wheat, Cinful Sweets on the Food Network, and Mozart’s Lights Up Lake Austin

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s your weekly Food News Buffet for the first week of November, culled from numerous PR releases,..."

Nov. 2, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Voter Rewards Continue, Arlo Grey Returns, Treaty Oak Distilling Expands BBQ Team, and What the Hell Is Going On in Boise?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s your weekly Food News Buffet for the final week of October, culled from numerous PR releases,..."

Oct. 28, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Straight to (Digital) Video

Devolver Digital Films focuses on new avenues to viewers

"...Devolver Digital has its plate full. The video game publisher and..."

March 29, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Beto-Castro-Meter: We Need to Talk About Julián ...

Can Castro soldier on to Iowa, New Hampshire, and beyond?

"...For the third episode of So You Think You Can President?..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Slaves to the Underground

"...platitude, young director Kristine Peterson shows us some of the endless ways in which the political is personal. The..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

"Dave McClinton: Despite It All" at the Butridge

The digital collagist’s new solo exhibition is peopled with many colors

"...The history of this country, hey, it's all there in..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Once and Future Library

New library committed to creating community gathering space

"...create an iconic landmark that is a tribute to the love of knowledge that this community has ... a..."

Oct. 30, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Chulita Vinyl Club Holds the Line Against Cultural Appropriation

All-women, all vinyl, the DJ collective spins for empowerment and togetherness

"..."The vinyl could be a record belonging to a family..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Day Trips & Beyond: December Travel Roundup

Central Texas holiday lights, digital Dealey Plaza, and more

"...In the last month of a tough year, take a trip..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Symphony Orchestra Keeps Playing From Beyond the Stage

For the second time in its 109-year history, the ASO weathers a global pandemic

"...contemporary music acts explore alternative avenues to engage with their audiences, what does a nearly 80-member musical group with..."

June 19, 2020 Arts Feature by David Sotelo

Holy Roller Closes, the Brew Brotha Ferments, Launderette Loves You for Voting, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s your weekly Food News Buffet for the fourth week of October, culled from numerous PR releases,..."

Oct. 20, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hentaii Looks to Broaden the Idea of What People Can Do in Drag

From artistic lip-syncing to live sets and beyond

"...Hentaii is a drag queen making a name for themselves as an artist in every sense of the word...."

July 25, 2019 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills

How Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" Became the Most Valuable Song of All Time

Buffett began composing the song after visiting a local Mexican restaurant

"...White begins his new biography of Jimmy Buffett with the transcript of a 2012 hearing before the Nevada Gaming..."

July 21, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Comedy: The Super Secret Show

Sinbad can still bring the house down

"...The advance billing for SXSW Comedy’s Super Secret Show left..."

March 19, 2015 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

The Fight Stuff

Jamaa Fanaka on racial myths and the ailing film industry

"...Jamaa Fanaka is the creator of some of the maddest, baddest filmmaking ever..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Playback – Austin Record Convention: The Greatest Record Store on Earth

ARC of the covenant, good Reputations, and Blind Sight

"...kickstarting my summer of love with a visit to the Bay Area, I scooped LPs at Berkeley's Mad Monk..."

May 5, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Take Two Aspirin and Ping Me in the Morning

Heath care: an oral future

"...fervent and in a hurry. Leslie Ziegler speaks with the same enthusiastic tones about her "gut bacteria" self-testing kit..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Cable Channel Shell-Game Shuffle

The FCC is investigating Time Warner; African-American weekday news anchors are few and far between

"...The Federal Communications Commission is investigating Time Warner Cable and..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The First Rule of Dinner Club Is ... Well, Let’s Talk About It

Austin’s array of subscription-based nomfests will please your palate, expand your experience, and maybe even comfort your budget

"...hope that statement is no surprise to anyone outside the credit-­cosseted One Percent. But it's also true that good..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

LeVar Burton Brings 'Reading Rainbow' to the Smaller Small Screen

On the app, the digital divide, and the future of hardcovers

"...smaller screen. Actor and education activist LeVar Burton hosted the PBS show for 23 years, until was taken off..."

July 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Serene Life

David Lynch meditates on Inland Empire

"...David Lynch keeps himself occupied. The world's leading avant-garde filmmaker also paints, runs his own..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

The Xtreme Solution

APD squad cars will now have 'no-idle' battery packs sufficient to run new video hardware – but did city officials fall for a system too expensive and impractical?

"...The night Nathaniel Sanders II was shot by Austin Police..."

Dec. 2, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Insider

Brief Interviews With Important People

"...designing as a consultant. I design innovative stuff and other people do the donkey work -- the production. I'm..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Power to Change

A quick sound check with the Austin mayoral candidates

"...As the ongoing hullabaloo over the Austin sound ordinance in regards..."

April 30, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

The King and I

"...surprised that such a project was ever green-lighted in the first place; Fifties-era Broadway musicals are hardly the hottest..."

March 19, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

We Have an Issue: Austin Media Getting the Job Done

Local journos rise to the occasion, and band together for Friday’s All Together ATX fundraiser

"...but it's New York and Los Angeles papers writing these "the death of local news is nigh" stories, and..."

April 3, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

The New Sobriety

SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

"...Ah, the new media boom. Fast money! Business plan? Schmizness plan!..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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