Hope 4 Hip Hop Preserves and Reanimates History for the Next Generation

“Hip-hop is a melting pot, a mestizo of the arts.”

"...Euro-stepping, a flurry of children dashing gleefully across the polished hardwood floor of the South Austin Recreation Center..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Arts Feature by Adam Wood

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...Madness: 'The Red Shoes'..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

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

Buck Dharma in the 21st Century!

Epic Q&A with Blue Öyster Cult’s “Reaper”

"...cabal Blue Öyster Cult composed art-rock unlike any of their era peers between the late Sixties and the original..."

Aug. 9, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...was a pivotal year for America, for Austin, for the embattled world-at-large, but most of all for the Mighty..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Self-Flagellation of David Dewhurst

New campaign spot from lite guv hammers on baby boomers

"...In the new spot called "Courage," Dewhurst said, "My dad flew..."

March 26, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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

State of the City Address

As delivered by Mayor Lee Leffingwell today

"...Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his State of the City Address before the Real Estate Council of Austin..."

Feb. 2, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

More than an appreciation, this documentary portrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.

"...weren't a kid like me, who remembers dancing around the living room to the sound of scratchy Weavers records..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Generation Overshare

What happens when the line blurs between our online and offline lives?

"...to approval (Webster's New World Dictionary 2008 Word of the Year)...."

March 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...“I want somebody to tell my mother and go down yonder in Georgia and tell my..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

A Few Faves From the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Immortal gems of the cinema help us define a classic

"...illuminates a flick past those first few weeks in theatres and keeps it lighting up screens and imaginations for..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

The First To Question

Remembering the ultimate theatre historian, Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010

"...Measuring the impact that the late Oscar Brockett had upon the..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Theresa Duncan's Girl-Centric CD-ROMs Are Reissued for a New Generation

The games get their "21st century premiere" in Austin

"...Boolean prestidigitation and Google savvy. This is not always the case. Those floppy disks and CD-ROMs from personal computing's..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

For Friday the 13th... Alice Cooper

Shock rocker delighted kiddies at the Moody Thursday

"...And in the end (as the song goes... ) – with balloons,..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Sillakh Wants To Change the Way You Look at Boxing

And save his sport in the process

"...enthusiast, and you think you know boxing. You think the "sweet science" is anything but. You view the pugilists..."

April 26, 2012 Sports Post by Kenny Pailes

The Call of the Wild

David Michôd on the unlikely roots of his Aussie crime drama, Animal Kingdom

"...If the new Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom doesn't set your..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Zak Starkey Ignites the Who

Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends

"...son of Richard Starkey, Jr. – has now powered the Who even longer than Keith Moon, his godfather. (That’s..."

April 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' of Wrestling?

or dammit Janet – I love lucha libre!

"...la Lucha Libre de tu papi. It’s both – together – in a whole new league...."

May 12, 2012 Sports Post by Kenny Pailes

Fun for the Whole Family

Traversing the Texas Book Festival

"..."They fuck you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

How Much Bang for the Buck?

The Rolling Stones latest DVD drops with a bang.

"...The announcement came via my Rolling Stones fan club email:..."

June 7, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Spoon's Hot Thoughts Remodels the Locals' Art-Funk

Britt Daniel and Jim Eno talk about the rise of R&B in the band's sound

"...urgently. "We told people we're on at this time. They may not get to see us!"..."

June 2, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Star Wars Day: Happy May the Fourth, And a Very Merry Revenge of the Fifth

One man's 35 year trip to a galaxy far, far away

"...I will always remember the first time I saw a Star Wars film. It..."

May 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Thousand-String Guitar

Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar

"...in June, you expect local teens to be marking the summer break in the time-honored ways: minimum-wage-slaving it in..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

"...his living room. Unpacked boxes surround him, only heightening the sense of physical disconnect permeating the rustic, South Austin..."

July 24, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Meet the New Bosses

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

"...Leading an arts institution is challenging under the best circumstances. You can have an established presence in..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...100 years, readers of literate nonfiction have gravitated to the brand names, the household names, of the historical profession..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Don't Believe the Hype

Local Digiterati on the Good, the Bad, and the Internet in Between

"...Just after the rockem-sockem World Trade Organization protests in Seattle -- not..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Luv Doc: Spending Time With a Model

It's not uncommon for people to develop relationships with chatbots or other AI

"...a ridiculous amount of time on ChatGPT – like the same amount of time he used to spend on..."

March 10, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Luv Doc Recommends: The Monster Big Band

Ruta Maya, Sunday, August 14, 2005

"...saying that if you like to swing, you’re reading the right section of the paper. If you don’t mind..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

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