Austin Film Festival: Filmmakers of the World, Unite!

Why film commissions are really your friend

"...What's the difference between a director and filmmaker? A filmmaker carries..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Hail the Jester

Changing the world – one beer at a time

"...The jester is nobody's fool. Often dismissed as dim-witted and..."

May 2, 2014 Food Feature by Anna Toon

DVDanger: 'Flowers in the Attic'

1950s story, 1970s glam, old fashioned Gothic mayhem

"...Gahd, the 70s were weird. Get your heads around this: One..."

April 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pluck of the Irish

AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking

"...George Bernard Shaw – and yet for most of the 20th century, the story of Ireland on film was..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Boxer Rebellion Gets Yang'd But Good

Graphic Novelist Gene Luen Yang brings his newest work to Austin

"...There's the ghost of the first emperor of all China,..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

No Prayer for the Dying

Iron Maiden returns to Austin after 25 years

"...Cooling the concrete sprawl that is the Circuit of the Americas..."

Sept. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Jumping the Shark on Women's Health

For the sake of anti-abortion politics, the governor and the Legislature turned their backs on women's health care – with disastrous consequences. Is there any way to fix this mess?

"...In mid-December, before a friendly crowd at the Source for Women, a Houston anti-abortion "pregnancy resource" center,..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Q&A Hole: Why Didn't the World End?

With: John Erler, Annie La Ganga, Arcie Cola, Owen Egerton, and more

"...Welcome to The Q&A Hole...."

Dec. 24, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Confidence Game

In Bart Layton's slippery documentary 'The Imposter,' it's a battle between dupe or be duped

"...When Bart Layton's The Imposter played at the South by Southwest Film Festival..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

An interview with Rachel McGruder, Asst. Events Manager

"...Rachel McGruder and I used to work in the same office, but for "different companies." The preceding quotations..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

Face Off Recap: The Finale And What Came Before

So what happened to Matt? The long overdue wrap-up

"...Yeah, so there was this little thing called SXSW that got in..."

March 29, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry the Executioner

Texas leads the country in executions, and Rick Perry holds the record tally

"...Keith Hampton still had not heard a word from the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Time was of the..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin Gets the Geek Stamp of Approval

Wizard World Comic Con brings Lando, Lee, and the Centipede three to town

"...Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca, and all three parts of the Human Centipede walk into a convention center ......."

Nov. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Race for the Third

Kuhn and Goodwin face off for high-profile appeals court

"...There are two things about the 3rd Court of Appeals..."

Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Off the Record

Crew54 hits the streets and documents the ATX hip-hop underground, Austin's all-American Idol contestant, and Ohn dials in a new music platform

"...On the Grind..."

May 8, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

TCEQ Paves the Way for Shit Creek(s)

State environmental agency rejects science in favor of allowing sewage in creeks

"...For a local example of the great "global warming debate," just look at the controversy..."

Dec. 5, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Rick Noriega's Speech to the Texas Democratic Convention

Blasts Cornyn, calls for end to Iraq War.

"...After the jump is the speech Rick Noriega just gave to..."

June 6, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Down the Rabbit Hole

The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs

"...Dan Hon used to start his day like any other law student at Cambridge University. While getting ready for..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Off the Record

Alejandro Escovedo scores his own life and Man From Plains, Backspin Records relocates, and UT's Center for American History archives Tary Owens' legacy

"...A Gathering of Promises..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

On the Lege

Looking back at the Lege through local eyes

"...Against the session's backdrop of intermittent political unrest in the House,..."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

On the Lege

The Cervical Wars Part I: Perry, HPV, and the Politics of Cancer

"...With all the yelping from Republicans this week, you would have thought..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

'The Sporting Life': Pocket Billiards

"...   Bar games, pub games, or parlor games – call them what you will, but there is no denying that..."

Oct. 16, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

The Revolting Door

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: 'The Trials of Darryl Hunt'

"...The Trials of Darryl Hunt..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...7-week-old kitten weighs about a pound; its veins are the size of vermicelli. So if you're administering a lethal..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap

Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions on water plan

"...– Invocation at the Sept. 14 LCRA board meeting..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Triumph of the Yellow Kid

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

"...From the beginning, comics knew the pain of the late Rodney..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin @ Large: Wreck on the Highway

Why the dogs can't catch the toll road speed machine

"...So, really, at the meeting of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Below the budget storm clouds, plans form for UTMB campus at Mueller

"...The Travis Co. Hospital District board has seen the future..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Final Act

The Texas Documentary Tour hosts Robert Stone's 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'

"...The Patty Hearst kidnapping on Feb. 4, 1974, was one..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Austin @ Large: The End of the Roads

The toll plan takes us down the right path, but there's still a long way to go

"...readers who felt my column last week went over the top – that it was mean and personal and..."

July 30, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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