Decay, Preserve, Observe: The Experimental Memories of Bill Morrison

The cinematic pioneer discusses his career and filmography before his Austin retrospective

"...Since Louis and Auguste Lumière invented the Cinématographe and locked in much of what we know..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...A history of Texas is not something that should be entered into inadvisedly – not by..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Luv Doc: Dog Herpes

Wherein the Luv Doc contemplates greater and lesser acts of bestiality

"...afraid of getting dog herpes. Is that even a thing?..."

June 28, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

DVDanger: 'The Incredible Melting Man'/'Swamp Thing'

Morphing, melting and transmogrification clog up your screens

"...Something odd happened to movie monsters. Remember when they hated..."

Aug. 3, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Turns Out the Title Wasn't Prophetic

The curious staying power of so-called lost film 'Nothing Lasts Forever'

"...artist ... of some kind. "It was kind of pathetic, and laughable in retrospect," said Schiller in a recent..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

The Golden Compass

The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come.

"...Christopher Lee and Simon McBurney. Ain’t that just like the Christians to get their knickers in a knot over..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Still a Good Thing

Lady sings the blues

"...Barbara Lynn Ozen hasn't lost her good thing. She lives in it, saying the..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Out of the Shadows

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

"...There are a lot of things of which I'm probably..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Monkey

Longlegs director moves on to murderous toy in Stephen King adaptation

"...Directed by: Osgood Perkins. Starring: Theo James, Elijah Wood, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien,..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The News Biz Is In Deep Shiz

Local newsroom leaders see growth potential despite tough climate

"...When John Garrett co-founded the first Community Impact Newspaper covering Round Rock and Pflugerville..."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Abe Asher

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...this March likewise resurrected Austin's annual poster-palooza, Flatstock. When the city canceled its flagship conference March 6, 2020, in..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

25 Years Ago, Sublime Arrived in Austin and Cut One of the Decade's Biggest Albums

Local producer Paul Leary put some Austin in the Long Beach surf/punk/dub trio's mix

"...eponymous third album became a generational touchstone only after the ashes of the band's lead singer, Bradley Nowell, spread..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

How Pepe Was Martyred by the Right

Austin-linked SXSW doc Feels Good Man liberates the frog

"...When you hear "Pepe the Frog" your first thought is most likely "Why are..."

March 13, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Humanity's scarring of Earth mapped out in graphic, terrifying detail

"...This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Queering the Archive With Kate Messer

"Your own culture is worth a memory."

"...been sacred ground for Austin’s queers and misfits. In the Eighties, Sandra Martinez opened Chances, a popular lesbian bar..."

July 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...Blame the Big Boys, whose scathing punk for a classed-up Austin..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Embrace of the Serpent

Scientists and an Amazonian shaman interact in this unique film

"...This Colombian drama that travels into the heart of the Amazon is a highly original take..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Randall Stephens: 'I Can Handle the Job'

"...Stephens: My name's Randall Stephens. My childhood was in Northeast Oklahoma, small town of Wagoner. I went into the..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

A Victory by the People

Filibuster, parliamentary gamesmanship kill abortion bill … for now

"...It took until 2:20 in the morning for the Texas Senate to determine whether 12:02am..."

June 26, 2013 News Post by Dan Solomon

The Bourne Legacy

This franchise reboot doesn't reinvent Bourne, but it does revive it to great effect.

"...The overthinking man’s filmmaker, Tony Gilroy may be too damn..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Insurance Industry Scam

A Q&A with whistle-blower Wendell Potter

"...retirement. A year later, his whistle-blowing testimony about how the insurance industry manipulates public debate rocked the Senate. On..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News 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

Keeping Up With the Joneses

A century of Austin music in one arrangement

"...On this second Thursday of June, inside the Texas Music Museum, lies the key to Austin's musical..."

June 18, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Joneses

David Duchovny and Demi Moore star in this partially successful comedy about consumer culture that turns uncomfortably moralistic part way through.

"...Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly and Lauren Hutton. The Joneses are just a regular suburban American family –..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: The Long Scream

The endless Republican nightmare casts its shadow on health care reform

"...Then again"..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Town Crier

Oscar Casares dips back into Brownsville for his new novel, Amigoland

"...coffeehouse, I begin by asking about his upbringing in the Texas border town of Brownsville – a town that..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Books Feature by James Renovitch

Taking Back the House

Texas Democrats say this could be their November

"...Five seats. That's what it would take for the Texas Democratic Party to take back the Texas House..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"..."He'll save children/but not the British children." My conversation with Brad Neely at Crown..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Think Outside the Book

Eric Schlosser on Richard Linklater's adaptation of his Fast Food Nation

"...its societal and economic impact – was expanded from the author's earlier articles for Rolling Stone. It has now..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Raped by the Players

A lawsuit against an Austin dot-com firm reveals a world of fast times.

"...The jury's verdict was succinct, but contradictory: Yes, Lisa Capece..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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