Playback: If the Gloves Fit

Gloves INTL ices funk, Allegro Media Group ices local label, and the ATX6 plan to ice international festivals

"...Gloves INTL turns heads. Who are these dudes lookin' like Miami Vice noir, and what's with..."

June 24, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

All in the Family

Director of micro-indie Krisha turns his aunt into a star

"...attendees at SXSW in 2015 when it won both the Grand Jury Award and the Audience Award for Narrative..."

March 25, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...When he allowed me to program a series for the Austin Film Society in 2004, he couldn't suspect it..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'Downton Abbey' and the 'Desire of Suitors'

Mary is beating suitors off with a stick

"...Grantham was called to America to help get Cora’s brother out of hot water. • Isobel nursed an ill..."

Feb. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Off the Record

Seaholm Power Plant reboots, reuses, recycles

"...Flick of the Switch..."

May 13, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

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

Page Two: Tales of the Pioneers

Hanging with Roller Derby queens and pulp fiction masters

"...which it is without apology. If you belong in the camp that feels that way, however, this issue's cover..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The No. 3 Bus Pub Crawl

On 2008's tour, we drank too much, missed a couple of buses, were much too loud, and finally stopped when we were cut off. This year was the same concept, but a better-paced, thoroughly enjoyable drinking experience.

"...night, and I'm heading north on Burnet Road. As the vehicle rambles back toward my neighborhood, there's no denying..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Science Fiction Gets the Vapors

On steampunk

"...They wave a hand at the array of laptop computers..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Beyond the Spritzer

Cooling off with summer wines

"...The 'At Home' Strategy..."

July 18, 2008 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Beyond the Fatal Shores

SXSW's Aussie and Kiwi invasion

"...is buttressed by an international peace-breaking force from across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans landing on our beaches as..."

March 5, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...The Rockpile..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

The Momentous Moorcock

Michael Moorcock. literary superstar of Bastrop, Texas and the world, had quite a 60th birthday party. Writer Carolyn Banks on what it was like to be there.

"...we hardly ever get invitations giving airport information. But then, most of us aren't superstars, either. Moorcock, the author..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature

The Miami Beach

"...Convention Center shimmers and twinkles in the sticky Florida twilight. With the exception of godless Las..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Column

Six Great Breweries Off the Beaten Path

In tumultuous times for Austin beer, these undersung gems are worth seeking out

"...in a lot of hot places: El Paso; Phoenix; the damp, camel’s buttcrack that is Austin By God Texas...."

March 1, 2024 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Twitter Flame War Fires Up Austin FC Supporters to Help the Unhoused

For Los Verdes, y'all means all

"...cleaning up this piece of property that belongs to the City of #Austin. It's going on two months that..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

Across the Universe

Gearing up for a new national tour of her hit show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Lily Tomlin took a few minutes to talk about connectedness -- her connectedness with The Search, with audiences, and with Austin.

"...things that are not surprising about a conversation with the brilliant actress Lily Tomlin -- One: She laughs. Ever..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beginning to See the Light

"...Midway through The Matrix, the hippest, hottest, high-tech mega-movie of the year,..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...The phrase "shit-hot," cribbed from some international band's bio, comes..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Scanlines

The Magnificent Ambersons

"...Orson Welles. By age 27, Welles had already made the greatest American film ever, Citizen Kane, and had characteristically..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Russian Ark

This tour de force of modern cinema is a technical feat filmed in one, uninterrupted, Steadicam take that leads us through a vivified tour of Russian history that wends through the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

"...modern cinema. This Russian filmmaker, whose resolute commitment to the exploration of cinema’s basic elements has been his enduring..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Graffiti

"...people in real settings. He hit one out of the ballpark with the magnificent American Graffiti, whose prescient use..."

Aug. 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Eli Wallach Triple-Header

Three Eli Wallach classics will screen over the next few days

"...Thanks to Lars Nilsen at the Austin Film Society for pointing out the serendipitous confluence..."

July 17, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Committed

"...Directed by: Lisa Krueger. Starring: Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic, Alfonso Arau..."

June 2, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett steals away with what’s left of her dreams in Linklater’s coming-of-middle-age comedy

"...She climbed out through the bathroom window. What Bernadette doesn’t realize when she flees..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snow Falling on Cedars

"...If snow falls on cedars and no one's in the forest to hear it fall, does it make any..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It's All True: Based On an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

"...film history. In 1942, while Orson Welles was completing The Magnificent Ambersons, his follow-up to Citizen Kane, he went..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson reunite for one last glamorous yet muscular tale

"...a major event, and not just on film Twitter. The muted anticipation of Phantom Thread – Anderson’s eighth film,..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wonderstruck

Two lives intertwine across time in the latest from Todd Haynes

"...to behold, even if it seems at times that the parts don’t quite add up to the whole. Screw..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silent Hill: Revelation

Watch out for the demons that inhabit Silent Hill.

"...Without the atmospherically batrachian fun of 2006’s Silent Hill, this turgid..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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