On the Case: No. 1

The Burnt Orange kids take on 'The Cassidy Kids': No. 1 in a series

"...Cinematographer PJ Raval furrows his brow watching the kids rehearse their scene in the treehouse...."

July 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Out There in the Fresh Air With Utopia, Old Settler's, and Kerrville Folk Festival

Fall fests coax us from the metropolis

"...spent staring at screens, it's time to change with the leaves. Music festivals in and around Austin fill up..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Changes at UT’s Fine Arts Library Cause a Rift in the College of Fine Arts

Showdown on the fifth floor

"...floors: On one, rows and rows of books filling the length and breadth of its 18,000 square feet, with..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...Every Northern European culture knows that Robert Frost was wrong. The..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Catastrophe and the Cure

Behind the scenes of Explosions in the Sky's most challenging and personal album

"...Each member of Explosions in the Sky is branded with the same emblem: the black..."

July 1, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...Every time Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in the late 1990s, my roommate went...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Ego Has Landed

Love Supreme frontman Noah Lit shares his interests and disinterests - and talks about his band occasionally.

"...one word. Beer in hand, he looked squarely into the camera and smirked, "Me." While this brand of staggering..."

April 28, 2000 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Preaching to the Choir

Quiet Company high priest Taylor Muse still has faith all right. It's called trust.

"...Here's how you alienate the meager fan base you've managed to develop as an..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

The Long and the Short of It

It's an uphill battle securing a future for a short film

"...The life cycle of a short film is kind of..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

A Quiet Place

As monsters lurk, the world survives with a whisper

"...If T.S. Eliot turned up at the Abbott household and trotted out that old line about..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Soft & Quiet

Insidious racism becomes a rabid nightmare

"...What can sowing the seeds of racism reap? In Beth de Araújo's Soft..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Rod Machen

SXSW Film Review: Soft & Quiet

Single-take drama barrels into the heart of white women racists

"...What can sowing the seeds of racism reap? In Beth de Araújo's Soft..."

March 17, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

The Auto Memory Doll finally writes her own story

"...world through books, TV shows, and movies get a theatrical release for the big resolution. So it is with..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt on Their New Horror A Quiet Place

The filmmaking power couple on fighting monsters and real intimacy

"...John Krasinksi is grinning from ear to ear. The night before, his latest film as a director, A..."

April 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Last Butterfly

"...Fossey, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska and Daniel Margolius. From the award-winning Czech director of The Ear comes this relentlessly..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"Ann Wood: Quick and Quiet" at Big Medium

The artist's solo show is like a large-scale, experiential temporary memorial, with fake flowers rotting in a gloomy exuberance

"...In Ann Wood's hands, the gallery space becomes a sick home, one overtaken with..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

"Joe Swanberg's Quiet City"

"...That can't be right. Aaron Katz wrote and directed Quiet City, which premiered yesterday and will play two more..."

March 13, 2007 SXSW Post by Spencer Parsons

Cum On Feel the Noize

The New Dessau Music Hall

"...George Devore photograph by John Carrico The Dessau Music Hall used to stand in the middle..."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Courier

A forgotten Cold War spy story gets a very British, very tragic retelling

"...it's a revelatory glimpse at an overlooked figure in the history of how close we came to nuclear apocalypse,..."

March 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg's dreamlike memoir of love and loss in 1980s London

"...late. In Joanna Hogg's tender, terrible, heartbreaking love story The Souvenir, the fall starts gently enough, a drop so..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Quiet Passion

A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson

"...Keith Carradine, Emma Bell, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon and Catherine Bailey...."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Good Music Club Part 2: Quiet Company

Week 2 of TGMC video

"...Last week, Earache debuted the first video drop from The Good Music Club. For..."

Feb. 16, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Coffeehouse Chronicles

Cafe Mundi

"...Crowd: undercaffeinated morning workers, quiet smoking poets..."

June 16, 2000 Food Column by Pableaux Johnson

At the Intersection of Appalachia and Experimental Folk Broods Little Mazarn

Otherworldly duo pulls attention through mesmeric, emotionally charged minimalism

"...intimate dance or eavesdropping on a hushed, private conversation. Their music doesn't so much demand deep attention as inspire..."

May 31, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Lovers

Breaking the doldrums of marriage

"...Lost in the doldrums of a marriage that long ago curdled into..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Good Music Club

First meeting/taping of the Good Music Club

"...local bands to videotape for online segments. Monday at the ND, the pair's first four-act taping as the Good..."

Jan. 18, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton's adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim classic shows just how dull violent retribution can be when it's all someone ever talks (or, in this case, sings) about.

"...Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly and Jayne Wisener. There are a few reasons why you'd probably want to..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Third Murder

Japanese legal procedural puts the justice system on trial

"...The investigation begins, suitably, with a murder. A man is..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Spectacular Now

An outstanding cast and eloquent storytelling shape this delicate film that becomes a dark study of a budding, young alcoholic.

"...story. Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber prefaced their breakout film (500) Days of Summer with that warning,..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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