Bedside Manner: The Restless Reader

What are we reading?

"...Here's another in a weekly series of what we're reading...."

Oct. 18, 2010 Books Post by Amy Smith

The Bold One

Action / horror heartthrob John Saxon brings two classics to the Alamo.

"...Brooklyn-born actor John Saxon, who began his career at the Actors Studio under the legendary Stella Adler, has tackled..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Song of the Sea

From the director of The Secret of Kells comes this lovely work of animation about the Celtic selkies.

"...The ethereal Irish animated fantasy Song of the Sea looks..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Prodigy & the Prodigal

Sons of the Fathers Beck & Cauthen ally beyond neo-Americana

"...Working every day to please the faces on the shelf..."

March 29, 2013 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Other Worlds Says Sorry About the Demon

Sci fi film fest announces final lineup for final outing

"...It was with sadness that we announced that Other Worlds - the Austin-born celebration of science fiction and..."

Nov. 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...Maybe there's a reason why ecstasy is the young person's synthetic..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

The Cowboy Song

Thin Lizzy's 'Cowboy Song' comes alive in rodeo vet turned Red Dirt ranger Ryan Bingham

"...It's a smoldering summer night in Marfa, the kind that seems to linger all year long. The..."

June 5, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Last Don

Bob Bullock: The Crusty Boss of Texas Politics

"...The Democratic Lieutenant Governor, who began his political career in..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...Whale. Castle. Carpenter. Craven. Fulci. The great names of horror. But maybe there's another, less..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Parisian Chanteuse Lou Rebecca Is the Complete Pop Package

Personas, dance, fashion, and Holodeck-ian synth transform into the electro crooner

"...Lou Rebecca ties the apron of her French waitress getup in a bow...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Getting Restless Hearts on Their Feet

Stagers help Ballet Austin dance Balanchine and Wheeldon

"...Paul Boos happened to be at the right place at the right time: Copenhagen in the..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Arts Post by Sofia Tafich

Burnt by the Sun

"...Ingeborga Dapkounaite, Andre Oumansky and Viatcheslav Tikhonov. Set against the backdrop of the Russian countryside under Stalin's rule, this..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ramblin' Soul of Songwriter Melissa Carper

Following the critically acclaimed Daddy's Country Gold, the spotlight-averse artist is primed for broader attention

"..."Watch out, there's a bird's nest in the outhouse," Melissa Carper warns..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Vertical Ray of the Sun

"...Khanh, Nhu Quynh Nguyen and Tran Nu Yên-Khê. If there is a heaven, I hope it looks like Vertical..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Intouchables

The unlikely friendship that forms between a wealthy, white quadriplegic and a streetwise, black ne'er-do-well who becomes his live-in companion is the subject of this French film.

"...César Awards in its native France, it's telling that the film's only win went to its Senegelese co-star, Omar..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Unborn

A young woman is possessed by the spirit of her twin brother who never made it to term in this film directed by esteemed horror writer David S. Goyer.

"...Jane Alexander, Atticus Shaffer, James Remar and Carla Gugino. There's a sequence early on in The Unborn in which..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Station Agent

Award-winning indie favorite shows how human beings form emotional connections – despite their best efforts not to.

"...and Raven Goodwin. Fans of independent movies will recall the actor Peter Dinklage from the first time they saw..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) may..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Thousand-String Guitar

Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar

"...in June, you expect local teens to be marking the summer break in the time-honored ways: minimum-wage-slaving it in..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival oozing good vibrations and California..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Five Dark Events to Beat the Heat

Nighttime distractions that flip off the sun

"...When even native Austinites are complaining about the heat, you know something's awry. But maybe we're finally..."

July 21, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Chargaux at the 2017 Austin Chamber Music Festival

This dynamic Brooklyn-based string duo proves that the Austin Chamber Music Festival has many more colors than its name suggests

"...standard-issue instruments in every orchestra and string ensemble across the globe. Make whatever assumptions you choose about the music..."

July 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Star Wars Day: Happy May the Fourth, And a Very Merry Revenge of the Fifth

One man's 35 year trip to a galaxy far, far away

"...I will always remember the first time I saw a Star Wars film. It..."

May 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Soul of the Scent

Perfume and pleasure in Alyssa Harad's 'Coming to My Senses'

"...nose into my wrist and inhaled deeply, pondering for the first time in years the perfume I’d rotely put..."

July 11, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Slack to the Future

Slacker at 20

"..."Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?"..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Listening to the Bones

Bones tell a story at world's largest body farm

"...could happen in 24 hours or less. This is the kind of information we need to get in the..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

The True One

The Byrds' fifth dimension, Gene Clark, eight miles high and as wide as Americana

"..."Just to laugh through the columns of trees..."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Louis Black

Texas in the Title

"...Chart Position: none This tightly packed amalgam of blues, Southern soul, and funk finds Gilmer, Texas-born guitar great Freddie..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Week in Recommended Live Music

Narrow Head, Pussy Gillette, the Nude Party, and even some innuendo-less acts to see

"...João Gilberto or Natalia Lafourcade. Real name Nicolás Perea, the Mexico City-born artist most recently released March soother “Vente..."

May 3, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

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