She Is Love

Dry love-triangle comedy sacrifices honesty for hollow style

"...The fear of a bump-in with the ex. It’s why..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Who the Hell Is TVHeadATX?

The local wheatpasting provocateur reveals … a thing or two

"...TVHead’s bold work can be found all over the city, his wheat-pasted posters and ubiquitous stickers pulling public..."

Aug. 11, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Lion King

Can you feel the shrug tonight?

"...Ever hear a cover version that's longer than the original? There's something audacious about a band that thinks..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Q&A Hole: What’s Your Favorite Place in Austin?

Because you know that "cabin fever" is definitely a thing

"...Sure, everybody likes to repair to their lair for some mind-soothing downtime, to maybe hunker in..."

May 29, 2017 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Exit Interview

As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community

"...in Austin in 2009 and has been kicking around the city's galleries and studios since 2012, when he started..."

March 10, 2017 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

The Life & Friends of Tarka Cordell

Celebrating the late UK production scion and songwriter

"...weeks ago, Life: Tarka & Friends came out in the UK via Room 609 Records. It features songs written..."

June 3, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's maestro of madness and desire, reunites with Antonio Banderas for this dark and frazzled tale of l'amour fou.

"...box of a film that continuously confounds expectations in the grandest of ways, this tricky masterpiece from Spain's maestro..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Game

For her first museum work, Jade Walker steps up to the plate and swings big

"...When you step into the space holding the large installation that Jade Walker has..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I Capture the Castle

"...in love. Life is dangerous enough," declares Cassandra (Garais), the unusually grave narrator of I Capture the Castle, a..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Boner Bizarre, Improvised Love Stories, and More Arts Events

Get some culture and love this week

"...Thursday 15 - Sunday 18, the Vortex..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Trans Artists Powering Austin’s Alternative Nightlife Scene

After a brutal legislative session, local underground music may “never be the same again”

"...Private Service, took to Instagram Stories to speak on the tenuous position of trans artists living in Texas: "I..."

June 23, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Inside the Octagon With New UFC Documentary Thug Rose

How Rose Namajunas puts the art in mixed martial arts

"...Thug Rose: Mixed Martial Artist debuted at the Austin Film Festival this week, and while it certainly..."

Nov. 5, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Monday

Cifika in a tube, Haru Nemuri thrives live, and other highlights

"...Southwest’s music week is typically chill in comparison to the ensuing pandemonium, but when our writers hit the clubs..."

March 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

In My World of Disorder, the Top 100 Austin Records of 2021

Kevin Curtin ranks his favorite local releases of the year

"...My worst quality, other than making up voices for other people's pets and..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

On the Move All Her Life, UK Songwriter Jade Bird Finds Her Speed in Austin

"Austin feels quite grounded and down-to-earth, which just sort of mimics the English mentality"

"...Bird offers tea as soon as I walk in the door of her East Austin house, which is maybe..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The 2020/2021 Austin Music Awards Came Bearing a Pandemic Stimulus

Hop in the Winner Wagon and see who we surprised with this year's unique awards

"...Not throwing an epic wing-ding after the dreadful and disillusioning last 12 months remains a bitter..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Let the Sunshine In

Juliette Binoche looks for love in this unexpected Gallic rom-com.

"...Claire Denis would try her hand at romantic comedy? The filmmaker of such seminal works as Beau Travail and..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Animation and reality collide in this paean to pubescence

"...at his third middle school, a place governed by the rules-obsessed Principal Dwight (Daly) and his chief enforcer (Retta)...."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Soul Man

Bobby Womack washes up on 'Plastic Beach'

"...opens Bobby Womack, without prompting. “That went well under the circumstances. You have think about things that take you..."

Oct. 21, 2010 Music Post 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

Blood on the Tracks

The ballad of Griff Luneburg and Cactus Cafe

"...its 30th anniversary this month. Griff Luneburg has run the intimate, Texas Union listening room for 28 of those..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Female camaraderie, nostalgic sentimentality, and emotional catharsis are back in this sequel: The film hits its marks but lacks real depth.

"...Ticotin. If you had any notions of getting through The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 without having your..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Local critics have put their heads – and pens – together to recognize the..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Monkey Time

How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project

"...It might have been the lemur that set Andy Cockrum off. As a youth,..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Arts Feature by Cindy Widner

The Five Obstructions

This sublime documentary, which recounts a bizarre battle of creative wits between Danish film director Jørgen Leth and the notorious Lars von Trier, also features a segment animated by Waking Life's technical wizard Bob Sabiston.

"...that I hope to understand in a few days." The line is from Danish director Jørgen Leth’s 1967 short..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The 'N' Word

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

"...Captain Phleabag, the Dread Pirate Stagedive, and a cutthroat guitarist by the..."

May 21, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Matrix Revolutions

What now, Neo?

"...of all things technologically sentient, he was trapped between the "real" world and the "machine" world, which I suppose..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pianist

"...Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Ed Stoppard and Thomas Kretschmann. The age-old question redone in Holocaust blacks and crimsons: Art..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Survival of the Fittest?

The unlikely story behind the Austin-based black comedy, Natural Selection.

"...It is, by all accounts, an unlikely story: During the 1996 Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Film..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Head of the Class

With Senioritis, the conclusion to his quartet of plays set at a Catholic high school in Houston, solo performer Rob Nash is all set to graduate -- to Off-Broadway, says Robi Polgar.

"...Once there was a kid who attended Catholic high school in..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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