Review: con flama

Salvage Vanguard puts us on the bus for an illuminating ride

"...See the bus as a gallery: each window a frame, within..."

April 6, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

ACL Review: Angel Olsen

An operatic Patti Smith or just a daydream?

"...Four songs into her overcast set late Saturday afternoon, Angel Olsen removed..."

Oct. 8, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

DVDanger: Bound to Vengeance

Female protagonists tested in home invasion and revenge flicks

"...Why do writers have such a tough time writing female action leads? It seems like we should..."

Nov. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...It's nearly 1am on a sweltering summer night in 1985. I'm lying on my back..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Double Jeopardy

The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.

"..."Please be advised that the subject is a Mariel Cuban and represents a particularly..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...Burning Spear's Winston Rodney photograph by John Carrico..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin

Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties

"...Close-up on two musicians side by side. That they're musicians you have to take on faith – all..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Can Keller Conviction Stand Without Physical Evidence?

Hearing in Austin ritual abuse case questions evidence of sexual abuse

"...When a child is sexually abused, there isn't necessarily physical evidence to prove any abuse happened...."

Aug. 27, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Faith Healers

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

"...flat, but it looks that way, as open to the sky as if it were set on the edge..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Yellow Rose Gives a New Face to Country Music

Director Diane Paragas blooms in her Austin-made drama

"...Rose is about as Texan as they come. From her crimson red cowboy hat down to..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Screens Feature by Lilli Hime

Steel Bluebonnet Determination

Robin Shivers, founder of HAAM, worked behind the scenes, and yet was one of the Austin music scene's most important faces

"...Robin Shivers' death on Oct. 26 left Austin another hole..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Do Right Woman

Polly Parsons, only child of Gram Parsons, comes full circle in Austin with the Hickory Wind Ranch, sober living for women

"...Polly Parsons' late-model Maxima rolls up under the iron Hickory Wind Ranch sign. The storm-gray car noses..."

July 31, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Generic Ensemble Company's Carmen

This devised work shares the name of Bizet's opera, but it has its own story to tell, one that's modern, irreverent and funny

"...The defiance and brazenness in her words and the way..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

He Said/She Said: Drake

Live Shot of last night's Drake show at the Erwin Center

"...of similar age but different genders were dispatched to the Frank Erwin Cernter to digest a two-hour performance by..."

Feb. 28, 2012 Music Post by Luke Winkie

SXSW Film Q&A: Divine Divas

Behind the scenes with the iconic drag queens of Brazil

"...Brazilian actress Leandra Leal grew up in her grandfather’s Rival Theatre in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded..."

March 17, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Anastacia Uriegas

Yesterday When I Was Younger Than Yesterday

Surveying the local scene then and now

"...The rats have left me with a lingering nostalgia. When..."

Dec. 15, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Football Prophecies: NFL Week 9

Redskins mascot woes, chai fives in Seattle, and more

"...The Football Prophecies foretell the outcomes of each week’s slate..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...You are my hiding place..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

High-Tech Heist

A former Power Computing company employee stole memory modules and drew a 25-year prison sentence.

"...Randy Pierce had bills piling up. The IRS was hounding him for $15,000. The..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

A2K Meets 'ACL'

The rise of Charlie Jones, local promoter extraordinaire, ACL Fest main man.

"...a concert promoter, no two events are ever quite the same. Which is perhaps why Charlie Jones has instilled..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Horror at the beginning, horror at the end: After SXSW Film (March..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ana's Opening

Third place

"...Ana was shivering in the last row of the church, next to..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Stacy Muszynski

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...been said that rock & amp; roll is a rather transparent metaphor for extreme sexual frustration. If this is..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Mi Vida Loca: My Crazy Life

"...Directed by: Allison Anders. Starring: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas, Marlo Marron, Jessie..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...The Love-Artistby Jane Alison Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 256 pp.,..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Too Much Caffeine Woman

Watching Jean Caffeine's eyes light up.

"...Jean Caffeine is an easy interview. Her eyes light up when..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down -..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: Ruin Me

Less meta, more manic in this scary sleepover

"...a dilemma: Go meta, go referential, or try for something new. At first glimpse, neo-slasher Ruin Me seems to..."

Nov. 2, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Booking a film festival is about whittling. This year, the..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

« 1    ‹ BACK    5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14     NEXT ›    29 »