The Dry Land

Home from Iraq, a soldier suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and has trouble reintegrating into small-town Texas life in this scorching film.

"...Ethan Suplee, Ana Claudia Talancón and Barry Shabaka Henley. The Dry Land populates its vast and desiccated landscape with..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coming Home: 'The Dry Land'

Ryan Piers Williams and America Ferrera on their Iraq vet drama, The Dry Land

"...The Dry Land's May 7 screening in Marfa marked something..."

May 14, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Permanent Record Theatre's Dry Land

With this production, this company makes a bold debut and a fierce statement about life for teenage girls

"...The girls' locker room is stuffed to bursting with untold..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

The Legend of 1900

"...Nunn, Clarence Williams Iii and Melanie Thierry. 1900 is the name of a character, not a century, in this..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Comedy

Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric renown) plays a rich, cynical hipster who uses New York City as his playground.

"...In Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, 35-year-old Swanson (Tim Heidecker) is the vilest imaginable..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Point Austin: The Lege v. Austin

The Austin-bashing bills are not just about water – also property, power, and democracy

"...It's hard not to take personally the portrait of Our Fair City that is perennially on..."

May 27, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Land for Water

The city is asking voters to send more money to a little-known program that protects Barton Springs

"...On a warm August morning, I stand in the dry bed of Onion Creek in Hays County and..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Squaring the Triangle

The Three Austins Collide at a Central-City Crossroads

"...-- symbolizes a lot of things, but one of them is "change." And whatever else the three-cornered empty space..."

July 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...Every time Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in the late 1990s, my roommate went...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

The lovable gang from the animated TV show leaves Bikini Bottom to come ashore.

"...seriously. Arriving a full decade after its big-screen predecessor, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water returns to the..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

"...my ticket to see Davy Crockett in Texas at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, the register spits..."

June 14, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Hummingbird Project

Who knew you could tell a character story about laying fiber-optic cable?

"...Fortunes, the old wisdom goes, can be lost in the blink..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dem Candidates Wendy Davis & Jennie Lou Leeder Take the Stage

South Austin “Indivisible” forum considers TX-21 race

"...between Wendy Davis and Jennie Lou Leeder, sponsored by the district “Indivisible” activist group. GOP incumbent Chip Roy (invited)..."

Jan. 20, 2020 News Post by Michael King

The Hottest Commodity

Once green with envy, Texas now joins New Mexico in championing the chile … just in time for the 12th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival!

"..."Austin chile lovers come out of the woodwork when they smell New Mexico green chile roasting,"..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Food Feature by Sandy Szwarc

High and Dry

LCRA Approves Controversial Pipeline to Dripping Springs

"...The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) continues to proclaim that..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Then There's This: High and Dry

When it rains it pours, but the drought doesn't budge an inch

"...The odd weather events of these past couple of months..."

Nov. 15, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Big Land, Big Stories,& One-Eyed Jacks

Western Roundup

"...tribes used to believe that, before humans were created, the world was inhabited by a race of giants. It's..."

April 18, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Danny Roy Young: The Thinking Man's Bubba

Paying tribute to the Mayor of South Austin, Danny Roy Young

"...In a way, Danny Roy Young had the perfect life. His wit and warm personality personified the..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Webberville Conundrum

Austin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there

"...Back in the early Eighties, Dave and Joann Gunlock bought themselves a..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

New Road Trip Drama Travels into No Man's Land

The filmmaking Allyn brothers see Mexico through a new lens

"...Wait for one film about the U.S./Mexico border, and of course two arrive in short..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Snow White and the Huntsman

Ambitious, brutish, and ruthlessly unromantic, this feminist reworking of the fairy tale has us under its spell.

"...by: Rupert Sanders. Starring: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Sam Spruell, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray..."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: When the Well Runs Dry

While our leaders fiddle a manufactured crisis, the land is burning

"...The affable voice of Greg Meszaros seems not the likeliest..."

Oct. 11, 2013 News Column by Michael King

People, Not the Place, Make This Festival a Utopia

UtopiaFest's triumvirate of land, music, and people takes shape

"...Smoke signals welcome me to the future site of UtopiaFest. It's early October – more..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Getting off the Road

Rail will help, roads will help – but so will your decision not to drive today

"...sunk dangerously low. You have a couple of choices. Either you make more money: Take on a second shift?..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

The Common Law

Texas rivers – public waterways

"...never done this before. Are we allowed to canoe the river if it's surrounded mostly by private property? And..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Column by Luke Ellis

Austin Beer for the World Cup

Let your favorite local brew determine who you’ll bet on to win

"...It’s only hours before the start of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and..."

June 13, 2018 Food Post by Eric Puga

The Mayor of Washington Boulevard

The first Beach Boys' solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, washes back ashore after more than three decades

"...There's a problem in paradise...."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Where the Wild Things Are

The 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival features more female athletes, more mindfulness, and more emotion

"...Like an epinephrine shot, the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival is set to rev..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

The Ransom Center's "Vaudeville!"

This exhibition reveals how the history of that entertainment form is really the history of the U.S.

"...These days, a list like that might lead you to..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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