CAMP Film Fest Brings Online to the IRL Theatre

New event designed to break down career divides comes to the Paramount

"...Online content creation is filled with storytelling innovation, but there's no money in it. Hollywood has the money, but..."

April 9, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The First Annual Texas Wine Auction

A fun and classy start to a new tradition

"...The inaugural Texas Wine Auction took place on Saturday, April..."

May 24, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ben Wheatley Goes Digging In The Earth

Of mushrooms, men, and subterranean superintelligences ..

"...Over the last few years, forest management has become part of..."

April 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Gravity of Sound

The Bubble's new studio stands as Mark Genfan's swan song

"...filled with expensive microphones, racks of compressors, and consoles. They're incubators of dreams, places of eternal possibilities, where destinies..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest Interview: Gazing Into The Vast of Night

Director Andrew Patterson's cosmic debut is turning the right heads

"...Sometimes the strangest things come from the most unexpected places. Aliens..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Central Texas Lawmakers Speak Out About the 86th Legislative Session

Interviews with the team representing 2.1 million Austin metro residents

"...It's hard to imagine the 86th Texas Legislature being any crazier than the last..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

Jarrott Productions' The Price

This staging of the Arthur Miller drama keenly appraises the worth of a life

"...by simply giving it away or tossing it out, then inevitably we come up hard against the question: What..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Carl Reiner: The Interview

On 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' Mary Tyler Moore, and Mel

"...signs of slowing down. On this Tuesday, March 18, the comedy legend is making phones calls around the country..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires

The Flesh and the Faith of 'We Are What We Are'

Director Jim Mickle on remakes, religion, and America's dark history

"...vampire tropes with 2010's Stake Land, horror fans lauded the arrival of a radical new talent. So there were..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Industry of Light and Magic

Fx guru and key 'Star Wars' figure Tom Smith to HRC

"...With the acquisition of former Industrial Light and Magic boss Tom..."

April 15, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Can't Stop the World

Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat

"..."There was a guy I met in Austin that worked..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: 'Life,' the Universe, Everything

The devastating illumination of Terrence Malick's new film

"...The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's new film, was shown..."

June 3, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Running the Funny

Club manager Margie Coyle has kept the laughter going for 20 years

"...her hands is a large Tupperware container filled with something dark. "Good morning," she says, flashing me a smile,..."

July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Music Is Pretty Much Incessant

P. Kellach Waddle, the River City's 'educated hillbilly,' composes himself a life

"...Take a good look at the Austin-based classical composer P. Kellach Waddle. His long hair..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Inside and Outside the Curatorial Box

Husband and wife curators Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Regine Basha discuss the art of their profession.

"...being a curator all about? How do you influence the world through the art you select to exhibit? After..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Lost in Space

Performance Artist Sally Jacques Lives Life on the Edges

"...are you? A simple question, usually answered simply: at the office, in a traffic jam, on the couch. Most..."

June 5, 1998 Arts Feature

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...Like God and the Devil, - - writer Donald E. Westlake has many..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Into the Wilds With Hundreds of Beavers

Is this the first Dogme 96 snowstick comedy?

"...(Noun): Any physical comedy that takes place all in the snow...."

April 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...exhibition opening, but won't stay on screen too long. The pioneering punk bandleader says that could be cheesy...."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Bigfoot and Butterflies: Across the Dark Divide With David Cross

How shooting his wilderness adventure changed his brain

"...fall out of your brain? David Cross was, on the set of his remarkable wilderness story The Dark Divide..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Monthly's Taco Editor on the Past, Present, & Future of the American Taco

Q&A with José R. Ralat, the man with one of the most envied titles in town

"...José R. Ralat has maybe one of the most enviable jobs in Texas – Taco Editor of..."

April 22, 2020 Food Post by Lina Fisher

David Giancola Puts the Pedal to the Metal With Axcellerator

Director leaves tragedy behind and embraces the B-movie

"...You can hear David Giancola's grin on the phone. The filmmaker is driving from his home in..."

June 25, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...on my back in a dimly lit room on the seventh floor of a Dallas research hospital. A device..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

Moms the Word

Whoopi Goldberg on the black woman comic who started it all

"...inside Whoopi Goldberg. You can see for yourself when the multitalented, what-hasn't-she-done comedian/Oscar-winning actress/co-host of The View/drinkslinger on the..."

May 17, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Michael Madsen, Last of the Warrior Poets

Mr. Blonde on poetry, hats, and 'Reservoir Dogs'

"...Ask Michael Madsen about the toughest part of filming Reservoir Dogs, and it wasn’t..."

Dec. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Destruction of Texas Health Care

The GOP crusade against Planned Parenthood is devastating basic care for Texas women

"...of Central Texas, spent Tues­day, Jan. 24, closing up the CAI women's health clinic in Elgin. As she packed..."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Watchmen

Three documentaries shine a light on playing to the audience

"...to have much cross section. But look closer, and there's something of a shared fascination in aspects of performance,..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Comics (Artist) Panel

Five Austinites on the state of the sequential art, from comics to comix to manga and beyond

"...nervous. And it's certainly more than enough to justify the geek-chic culture. But while Chris Ware reigned through the..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Joey Seiler

On the Line, Two Shots

The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'

"...Halfway through the seven-year making of Hoop Dreams, director Steve James, as..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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