The Family Stone

This likable romantic comedy runs the gamut of emotions – hitting tenderness, rage, remorse, and everything in between – but there are too many characters with too little chemistry to be a real keeper.

"...sense that Sarah Jessica Parker, late of Sex and the City, would want to avoid typecasting and steer clear..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Boleys Put an Acid-Punk Spin on the Family Bands of the Sixties

Ethan, Emma & Jovian Boley do the punk rock

"..."Me and my brother moved from this little redneck town [Sweetwater] and went..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Family

"...When Rolling Stone magazine, pop culture's bible, asked renowned photographer Richard Avedon..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature

All in the Family

Director of micro-indie Krisha turns his aunt into a star

"...attendees at SXSW in 2015 when it won both the Grand Jury Award and the Audience Award for Narrative..."

March 25, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Entertain the Family With These Thanksgiving Weekend Events Around Austin

From holiday lights to puppy yoga, there’s something for everybody

"...aunts and uncles, and we can’t keep politics off the table, either. What we can do is help you..."

Nov. 26, 2019 Events Post by Addie Costello

These Are the Breaks

Checking in with Austin's new R&B boys and girls.

"...vintage green suit and white alligator skin shoes. It’s the kind of getup that would make most people look..."

Feb. 5, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Do the Tighten Up

'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel

"...something good in your own back yard. Such is the case with Texas Funk, released last fall on London-based..."

May 16, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Rebirth of Doyle Bramhall II

For his first solo LP in 15 years, Eric Clapton’s top lieutenant may have put out the blues album of 2016

"...of multiple modes – producer, singer, songwriter, sideman – the Dallas-born guitarist, 47, began his journeyman's path as a..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

The Consequences of Getting Personal

BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone

"...SXSW Interactive is evolving. Alongside the exhibitions of better-faster-more emergent technologies – from BattleDecks and..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Big Stone Gap

An Appalachian "spinster" learns the truth about her past

"...In Big Stone Gap, Va., in 1978, self-described spinster Ave Maria Mulligan..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Guardians of the Galaxy

These lesser-known, misfit, comic-book characters are a grand addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"...coherent ones – have never been a priority of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They’re typically hung on some gobbledygook..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gary Hart Biopic The Front Runner to Close Austin Film Festival

New films by Yorgos Lanthimos, Asghar Farhadi added to fest

"...nominees and winners at this year's Austin Film Festival. The festival dedicated to the work of the screenwriter just..."

Sept. 12, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spotting the Rare Cheap Rental

The history and habits of a not-quite-extinct-yet Austin species

"...Do you know that little stone house at Eighth and Waller streets, set up high..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Michael Erard

The Trigger Effect

"...crowded multiplex, lighting occasionally on squabbling couples and irritated theatregoers, playing connect-the-dots with everyday humanity. When the camera finally..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, a neat farmhouse stood on..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden

The exhibition "Charles Umlauf: A Retrospective, 1933-1992" at the gallery Spazio by Lytle Pressley, is a fresh reminder that Umlauf was an artistic virtuoso in many ways and not simply an artist who lived in Austin, but an artist who was Austin, who embodied something of the character of the city and revealed it in his artwork.

"...The small bronze sculpture offers a modest depiction of a..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Change in Direction for the Texas Civil Rights Project

New leadership doesn't sit well with the old guard

"...This spring, the board of trustees for the Texas Civil Rights Project,..."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Rock Pile

"...Music From the Heart by Rod Kennedy Eakin Press $39.95 hard/29.95 paper..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

The Movie Bug

Touching down at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...In its 35th year, the Toronto International Film Festival, known as TIFF, has moved..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ringer

A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.

"...by: Barry W. Blaustein. Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl, Camille Chen, Geoffrey Arend, Bill Chott, Luis Avalos,..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Flintstones

"...big budget, big screen, live action comedy based on the Sixties TV cartoon -- itself inspired on the Fifties..."

June 3, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...said that you had to get rid of all the toxic people in your life? Not when they're the..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...I have a serious question: What is it about the fact that Rob Zombie makes horror movies that drives..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ninth Annual Staple! Independent Media Expo

It's waiting for you … not so silently … this weekend

"...As if someone had cabled a hundred Tyrannosauruses together to form an aircraft carrier from which they could..."

Feb. 27, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...Horror movies aren't known for their subtlety. It's a fact I reflect on as I..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Spirit of the City and the Letter of the Law Collide at Sekrit Theater

Beau Reichert struggles with the city over his backyard arts complex

"...A welcome sign at the end of Beau Reichert's driveway greets visitors to Sekrit..."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Life & Friends of Tarka Cordell

Celebrating the late UK production scion and songwriter

"...weeks ago, Life: Tarka & Friends came out in the UK via Room 609 Records. It features songs written..."

June 3, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Boxing Lesson

Box sets grow up and out

"...A half-dozen other recent sets were reviewed in our Sept. 20 edition:..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature

The Time of Their Lives

Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'

"...busy, in fact, that even though he lives in the Austin area, the only chance we have to talk..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Fantastic Fest Review: Let the Wrong One In

This toothy farce from Dublin has gore galore and more

"...From the wink-wink, nudge-nudge title of director Conor McMahon’s broadly comic..."

Sept. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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