'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' of Wrestling?

or dammit Janet – I love lucha libre!

"...la Lucha Libre de tu papi. It’s both – together – in a whole new league...."

May 12, 2012 Sports Post by Kenny Pailes

Luv Doc Recommends: The Rocky Horror Show

Topfer Theatre at Zach, Thursday, October 26, 2006

"...purely Darwinistic perspective, it’s best not to stand out. The tallest blade of grass gets cut first; the nail..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

Rocky Horror Reissue – A Wild & Untamed Thing

A red vinyl adios to summer in Tim Curry’s lipstick

"...already? Tragic. August blew by without so much as the Doors’ “Summer’s Almost Gone.” Twenty-two days ’til the Autumnal..."

Sept. 1, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...Pitt, Andrea Martin, Stephen Trask and Miriam Shor. Despite the glowering of her irritable, angry inch, Hedwig -- the..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Not Going to Use 'Time Warp' in the Headline ... Oops, Too Late

Austin Rocky Horror group celebrates birthday

"...Saturday, May 19, will mark the 31st anniversary of the first Austin cast performance of..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Feature by John H. Razook

The Lords of Salem

With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.

"...The former White Zombie frontman (and one of the few..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

"...Nash is a pretty bad movie, although it's hardly the worst thing I've seen of late. Its cast is..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The First Wives Club

"...Hawn, and Diane Keaton reduced to plotting, scheming stereotypes? The latest film by director Hugh Wilson (Guarding Tess, Police..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

DVDanger: All This Horror Business

Catching up with the major terror releases

"...is a delightful dining companion. I broke bread with the legendary 75-year-old Italian director last year during the Housecore..."

July 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...It was one of the most schizophrenic eras, but so typical of Austin --..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Darren, the Devil and the Drowned Souls

Saw' director Bousman opens the tent of 'The Devil's Carnival'

"...Darren Lynn Bousman went to Hollywood to make musicals. There were no musicals to make, so he made horror..."

April 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Review: 'The Lords of Salem'

A series of micro-nightmares bolstered by Rob Zombie's style

"...The former White Zombie frontman and one Hollywood's few directors..."

March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

The Obsessive

AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma

"...and aspiring "American Godard" Brian De Palma appeared on the American film scene. And while that time has seen..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Digital Drag Review: Boiz of Austin’s “Are the Straights Okay?”

The Boiz revel in heteronormative absurdity

"...Before the Boiz of Austin’s digital drag show “Are the Straights..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Terminator: The Musical at Fallout Theater

This is exactly the sort of loving parody of nuclear apocalypse and time-traveling AI everyone should experience at least once

"...and vice versa, is nothing new. Just look at The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show, Mamma Mia!, and Hairspray, the..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Review by M. Brianna Stallings

Return to the Forbidden Zone

Richard Elfman brings his cult classic to the Ritz

"...Whatever happened to the midnight movie? You know what I’m talking about, those..."

Oct. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Monday night, the Austin Film Society screened 1980’s Roadie at the Alamo..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

God Save the Screen

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

"...small town, graduating high school (if you could be bothered) between '80 and '84, chances are you spent a..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

And Then a Step to the Right

TV Eye

"...The Rocky Horror Picture Show on VH-1 all Hallowe'en night...."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Horror! The Horror!

The Woodlawn Theatre has cooked up a doozy. Another slice, anyone?

"...There's a light over at the Frankenstein place roughly 80..."

Oct. 30, 2013 Qmmunity Post

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...I have a serious question: What is it about the fact that Rob Zombie makes horror movies that drives..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playing for the People

More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

"...The article "Bohemian Rhapsody: Patti Smith's 12-Year Take," about photographer..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

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

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...This is the story of a group of people who got together..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Page Two: For the Fun of It

Reminiscing on 25 years of 'The Austin Chronicle' and looking forward to what's next

"...those issues published seeming as just a single issue; the one finished and ahead of us is just a..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Other Restaurant Row

The Food staff uncovers a burgeoning restaurant row on the South Shore.

"...Time was when the stretch of East Riverside Drive from I-35 to Pleasant..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019

Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party

"...decade. At midnight, I didn't realize this year marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and I certainly..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Off the Record

Fun facts from the Festivus for the rest of us

"...phrase from Seinfeld, 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest is the Festivus for the rest of us, a two-day alternative..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer,..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lucy

Scarlett Johansson goes totally badass in this far-fetched but riveting Luc Besson action film.

"...When a beloved talent goes off the rails, invariably a return to classic form is to..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

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