'The NFL Beat': Scouting Combine Preview

'Chron' sportswriter reports from Indy

"...our newfound relationship before consenting to treatment: This is "The NFL Beat" and I am sick about the NFL..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

'The NFL Beat': Angelo Gets the Axe and More

NFL notes and analysis

"...If “The NFL Beat” were a rap video, it would include..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

The Occupation of Austin

The '99 percent' takes a stand against corporate greed

"...What began as the Occupy Wall Street protests and grew into a national..."

Oct. 14, 2011 News Feature

Texans 'Undefendable' Offense Leads the Way in '11

Playoffs or bust

"...The Houston Texans, our beloved heroes from down under, are..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Sports Post by Barrett Walton

The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Geoff Marslett & Heather Kafka

Marslett and Kafka on Slacker 2011

"...We saved the best – or those interviews with the most spoilers,..."

Sept. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Reckless Kelly swings for the fences

"...In lieu of batting practice, OTR reached out to the Reckless Kelly's Braun brothers for their personal scouting reports..."

April 28, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Local songwriter Johnny Goudie takes the stand while Trailer Space Records preps for Record Store Day

"...In the early morning of Oct. 13, 1985, Natalie Antonetti was..."

April 15, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Longhorn Fans Expect the Unexpected

Horns remain unpredictable

"...ended with an emphatic 60-54 sigh of relief against the bubbly Baylor Bears on Saturday night in Waco...."

March 7, 2011 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...A sonic hiss slithers poisonously from the right channel to the left and..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye: The Fix Is In

Making the world a better place with David Brancaccio

"...It wasn't exactly a mob scene last week at the University of Texas' College of Communication, but when the..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Longhorns Face the Horror of Leach-less Tech

In search of …

"...The windswept Panhandle stretched before us like the beginning of..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

The Last Exorcism

This faux documentary pulls few punches in its fresh look at what happens when religion and the secular world collide.

"...Jones, Tony Bentley and Shanna Forrestall. Every generation gets the devil it deserves, and this faux documentary pulls few..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Following the Milk

Take a trip with Whole Foods' anniversary cheeses, from udder to market

"...Foods Market turns 30 years old in September, and there'll be lots of partying going on. Not least in..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

More From the Joneses

More music scene oral history from the Joneses

"...The east wall of the conference room at the Texas..."

June 18, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dressing Down the Superhero

How the irreverent comic Kick-Ass made the leap from page to picture show

"...boy dreams of becoming a superhero and fighting crime. Then he wakes up, realizes that's a dumb idea, and..."

April 16, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"..."In the first place, to make films is a criminal act..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Up in the Air

The director of Juno and Thank You for Smoking is back with another film that is perfectly in touch with the times.

"...Melanie Lynskey, J.K. Simmons, Sam Elliott and Danny McBride. Either by design or default, Reitman has customed a film..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The End of Poverty?

This documentary argues against economic globalization and corporate imperialism.

"...that covers ground already trampled to death by countless other films, books, magazine articles, and grad-student theses, The End..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Until the Light Takes Us

This music documentary chronicles the history, ideology, and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal.

"...Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites. Swedish vampire tingler Let the Right One In turns out to be child’s play..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Horse Boy

This locally produced film is an intimate and endlessly inspiring look at one family's struggle to cope with autism.

"...limbs, straining to contort in comical ways, that “it’s the journey, not the destination,” and those wise words might..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Aliens in the Attic

A group of kids save their vacation home from extraterrestrials while keeping their clueless elders out of the loop.

"...television series or Eighties-era sci-fi/horror semiclassics still arrive in theatres looking and feeling like remakes. That's certainly the déjà..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Collector

From the writer and director of Saw 4-6 comes this horror film about a handyman who tries to rob his employers' home but finds it rigged with a lethal maze.

"...Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton with an eye toward the crimson-drenched ultraviolence of the Saw films, The Collector gets..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...Everyone remembers their first time, right? How old you were, where you..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Proposal

The Proposal doesn't reinvent the romantic-comedy wheel, but Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds ensure that it's a likable cut above the usual fare.

"...Aasif Mandvi. Only very rarely do romantic comedies reinvent the wheel, which is why whole decades passed between Annie..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Long Con

After kicking around for months, The Brothers Bloom finally makes its mark

"...Last September, as part of the Alamo Drafthouse's annual Fantastic Fest, writer/director Rian Johnson screened..."

May 22, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...The woman leans back into the sleek black sofa, her..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Savlov's Top Ten Redux Part One: The Good, the Badass, and the Weirder

Savlov's other Top Ten

"...dead, and top ten lists are insane, or, at the very least, they can drive you insane. It's a..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Beyond the Frame

Curator Elizabeth Dunbar likes art that punches through the gallery walls

"...She started with the exhibition that consisted of rearranging the walls inside the..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...this year's Australian-exploitation film overload, postapocalyptic vehicular car-nage via the ever-mad Max Rockatansky), this year's Fantastic Fest will turn..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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