On the Stage, On the Screen: Austin's Theatres Embrace a Virtual Future

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

"...The rumors of the death of virtual theatre have been..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Islands in the (Live)stream

Crossing over from 3D to the pixelated world of livestreams

"...tiny telethons, grand reunions, and great new singles drive the moment's concert alternative?..."

May 1, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fantastic Fest Interview: Every Body Has a Story in The Mortuary Collection

Ryan Spindell brings period creep to the horror anthology

"...When the corpse is dead and decayed, what a life really..."

Sept. 21, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Return to the Forbidden Zone

Richard Elfman brings his cult classic to the Ritz

"...Whatever happened to the midnight movie? You know what I’m talking about, those..."

Oct. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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

Band on the Run

ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury, represents another new paradigm of indie music exposure in the post-label era of the music industry

"...sun, Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner seem ill-suited for the glare of an Austin City Limits Music Festival afternoon..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Advance's Retreat

Is this the end for Cinematexas?

"...fewer star in this year's constellation of fall events. The Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, the experimental festival lauded..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Sipping From the Spigot

The time has come for the great boxed-wine challenge

"...A quick show of hands: How many of you open a $20-plus..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...Oaxaca, Mexico -- Those of us who report from the front lines of the social justice movement in Latin..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

Talking Art at the Top

The executive directors of the city's museums shed light on the local visual arts scene

"...If you didn't know, the Austin Museum of Art is not going to build..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...On any given evening in the 1940s or 1950s, an old man named J. Frank..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...It's an overly romanticized notion, the idea of every generation having some sort of defining..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

I Am the Jellyfish That Walks Upon the Land

The Mother of all pop bands

"...-- Bernard Holland, The New York Times, June 18, 2000..."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...One of the nice things about freelancing as opposed to being on..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu

Talking turkey with Archers of Loaf, Erika Wennerstrom, Robert Ellis, Sunflower Bean, the Suffers, and PJ Morton

"...Robert Ellis feels pretty good these days...."

May 24, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Terminator: The Musical at Fallout Theater

This is exactly the sort of loving parody of nuclear apocalypse and time-traveling AI everyone should experience at least once

"...and vice versa, is nothing new. Just look at The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show, Mamma Mia!, and Hairspray, the..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Review by M. Brianna Stallings

Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture

Star John Marshall on lions and the world's craziest home movie

"...carries a stack of family photos: his dad, his brother, his dad's second wife, her daughter, the family's animals...."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Orange Is the New Weird

ATX indie-rock guitar god alert! The Young frontman Hans Zimmerman.

"..."I'll be the dork drinking beer," reads the text from Hans Zimmerman...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

From the Vaults: Myth-ing in 'Action'

Saluting Superman on his last big birthday – 25 years ago

"...With Krypton's last son returning to the screen amidst a big 75th..."

June 13, 2013 Screens Post 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

The Name of the Game

The Hives

"...Once the solid body wood and steel swagger of “Tick Tick..."

Sept. 15, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Big 'EW' for the Alamo

Where does the theatre rank in 'EW's best of the best?

"...This week's Entertainment Weekly names the Alamo Drafthouse as the No. 1 theatre in the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big hat, booming baritone, and..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

The Lights Are On: Is Anybody Home?

Downtown's boom has busted, yet developers still build.

"...One evening last summer, Tim Hendricks and Craig Jones took the company..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Reale Thing

The Search for New York-Style Pizza:

"...local writer named Marion who is frequently published in these pages, insisted that we call the place the same..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

Painful Splits Along the Way to Stopping Sexual Assault in and Around Austin

Different approaches to accountability lead to rifts throughout the county

"...In the quest to find justice for local rape survivors, advocate..."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Buzzfeed's Anne Helen Petersen on the Rise of the Unruly Woman

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud author comes to BookPeople

"...The westward migration from NYC to Missoula, Mont., may sound..."

July 18, 2017 Arts Post by Rachel Rascoe

Follow the Money

City attempts to keep up with growing need for services

"...As Council prepared for the FY 2016 budget discussion, a number of groups began..."

Oct. 23, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

On Polish Screens, the Past Stays in the Picture

Films from the past and present screen at the Austin Polish Film Festival

"...The ninth annual Austin Polish Film Festival promises to be..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Bandera Way

Scenes from a marriage in four acts.

"...Hyde Park address, bright natural light pours in through the large windows of a house owned by the reigning..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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