Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Oscar winner documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.

"...knew that approach applied to failures as well successes? The Enron debacle – the bankruptcy scandal that demolished the..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exclusive: Nightbitch, The Room Next Door to Screen at Austin Film Festival

Fest adds five world premieres in second round of titles

"...Film Festival yet again proves itself as one of the last stops before awards season with the news that..."

Sept. 16, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

"Alice Leora Briggs: The Room"

The printmaker disregards clean narrative in her masterly woodcuts based on poetry by Mark Strand

"..."You don't read poetry for the kind of truth that passes for truth in the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

The Pink Elephant (Radio) in the Room

Local LGBTQ advocates bring queer hip-hop to the radio and SXSW

"...Pink Elephant Radio is ready to address the pink elephant in the room: In a world that..."

March 15, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Mikaila Rushing

COP28: The Elephant in the Room

Why is fossil fuel phaseout not being discussed more seriously?

"...As the world’s eyes turn to Dubai for the United Nations..."

Dec. 3, 2023 News Post

City Hall Hustle: The Smartest Guy in the Room

Professor Spelman breaks down the cost of WTP4

"...At what was for all intents and purposes the conclusion of the decades-long Water Treatment Plant No. 4..."

Oct. 30, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Tallest Man on Earth and In the Room

Swedish folksinger enlists a band but still shushes solo

"...Kristian Matsson burst onto the Moody Theater stage Sunday night with a mid-air spin...."

Sept. 14, 2015 Music Post by Abby Johnston

The Room Next Door

Old friends reconnect amidst a cancer diagnosis

"...The downfall of The Room Next Door is in how..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

In the Room

First-place winner

"...Garven. Big day," Dan Rainey croaks as he enters the elevator. "Those boards ready to review?" Phlegm rattles deep..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Feature by Raul Garza

Hamilton's Resident Director Makes Bass the Room Where It Happens

Austinite Ashley Brooke Monroe leads the touring Broadway show back to the stage she loves

"...For many Austinites, their first taste of a Broadway show doesn't involve walking..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Smartest Kids in the Room

Hint: It may not be the AISD board of trustees

"...Between budget cuts and the unrelenting anti-intellectualism of standardized testing, there is no place..."

April 29, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Elephant in the Room

Sobering details from a three-day cocktail party

"...The sobering fact about this year's San Antonio Cocktail Conference..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Food Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

The World Is Watching J. Quinton Johnson

The UT alumnus left Austin to be in "the room where it happens": in Hamilton on Broadway

"...school drama students hit him up for selfies at the Long Center on March 7 (and as the kids..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Disaster Artist

The making of one of the most inept films ever made

"...It’s called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. A WTF film experience..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Enron Autopsy

Alex Gibney on The Smartest Guys in the Room'

"...Around the turn of the century, one of the many markets..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Signal

A trio of tech-savvy twentysomethings get waylaid and wind up as subjects in a weird but stylish sci-fi mystery.

"...– allow a cross-country trip to get waylaid by the provocations of a mysterious hacker. After being drawn out..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont's debut feature based on the Stephen King novella receives a 10th anniversary reissue. The prison drama features standout performances by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

"...Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows and James Whitmore. In the wild, rolling hills of central Maine stands the Shawshank..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: A Serious Conversation

You get to have emotions, sure, but that doesn’t unilaterally excuse you from reading the room

"...Last Sunday on the way to H-E-B I was telling my husband that..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Column by The Luv Doc

Recspec Gallery’s “The Eyes Have It”

The gallery’s inaugural show fills the room with eyes, both good and evil, as well as visual riddles and calisthenics

"...10 years, Recspec's offerings in Austin have been primarily the output of its design studio. But Sept. 15 marked..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms

Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life

"...and don't mind spending an hour locked in a room with a crew of collaborators who share your mission:..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Majcher

Room To Read Fundraiser Tonight

Proceeds go to promote education scholarships for girls, local language children’s books, and library construction in India

"...This evening (10/15), from 6-10pm, Room to Read will host a fundraising dinner at the..."

Oct. 15, 2009 Books Post by Ashley Moreno

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...its 30-plus-year run was it Austin's classiest venue, but the Back Room definitely had balls; in the self-proclaimed Live..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

Living on the Air in Austin

Live Music Flourishes in the Studio

"...The Pilot Ships on KVRX's Local Live, Sunday, April 5..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Roosevelt Room Stands Its Ground in a New Downtown

How the right lease negotiations kept the Fifth Street bar in business

"...to Rainey, Fifth and Lavaca stalled. Almost all of the establishments on the corner, including Rebel's Saloon and Hudson..."

July 12, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Nina Katchadourian's Indecision on the Moon

The Apollo 11-inspired work, housed in a pitch-black room at the Blanton, may tell us how adventurous or conservative we really are

"...her space odyssey (actually created in 2001), Indecision on the Moon, in the Blanton Museum's "Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser" exhibit...."

June 2, 2017 Arts Review by Dave Randall

Getting the Joke

Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.

"...April is the cruelest month for the Austin comedy scene. That's the..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Feature

A Room With a View

Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.

"...like a grown-up version of what's in Austin." Steve Wertheimer is standing on the debris-strewn platform that in a..."

May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Velveeta Room's Head Cheese

Pat Dean takes over the venue that’s redefining what a “comedy club” can be

"...if you've heard this one – and says to the bartender, he says, "You look like an asshole."..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar

Running the Funny

Club manager Margie Coyle has kept the laughter going for 20 years

"..."Good morning," she says, flashing me a smile, setting the container on the box-office counter. "We're going to have..."

July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Short of the Bend

The Travis Room at the Lakeway Inn

"...When the Chronicle food writers toured the lake area for a..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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