Ha-Ha-Hitler: The Importance of Mocking Nazis in Jojo Rabbit

Taika Waititi, Stephen Merchant dissect hate in anti-Nazi satire

"...can't laugh at evil, what can you do? That's the message of Jojo Rabbit...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"..."The present-day composer refuses to die!"..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Real Story of Lolita

Sarah Weinman on the true crime story behind Nabokov’s novel

"...For being about a forgotten moment in the past, Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita feels positively prescient...."

Oct. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

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 Plantation at Comal Bluff

Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin

"...Over its long history, a number of stories have been written about what..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Sam Ramos

The Rehabilitative Power of Art in Sing Sing

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo teams with Austin filmmaker Greg Kwedar in a story of transformation behind prison walls

"...just a film, and in being so becomes less of a film. Sometimes a movie gets bogged down in..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Diedrick Brackens Weaves Multitudes in the Blanton's "darling divined"

From his loom, the acclaimed artist fuses folk tales and forgotten memories with his own experiences to tell new, expanding stories of identity

"...Silhouetted figures rendered black stand against bright backgrounds of lime greens, poppy reds, hazy purples. Sometimes the figures..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...not in a meteorological sense but a literary one. The Texas Book Festival has released the full list of..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Playhouse’s The Immigrant

The company delivers a powerful and timely account of foreigners making a new home in the U.S.

"..."You picked a great night to come," box office attendant Leigh Fisher mentioned as I arrived at Austin..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Good Eye: The Pulse

The Good Eye says goodbye

"...I interviewed a few months ago happened to mention the challenges of playing a dead girl lying in a..."

April 3, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Taking the 'Us' out of It

Michael Tucker hears the voices calling him back to the war in Iraq

"...While making the Iraq-based documentary Gunner Palace in 2003, cameraman Michael Tucker..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...The following program notes were originally printed in conjunction with..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Write of Passage

As Austin upstart Badgerdog Literary Publishing prepares to relaunch 'American Short Fiction,' it's preparing high-needs students to express themselves on the printed page

"...2003, Melanie Moore bought a defunct publication with plans of reviving it to its former glory. It was the..."

May 13, 2005 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum

Programs That Let Austin Youth Speak Out A Stage of Their Own

"...They all say it. In one way or another, with..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...Forty-six years ago and change, in the winter of 1957, John Graves paddled the Brazos for..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

The Kid's Got Moxie!

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

"...You've probably never heard of Man of the Century. Of all the trailers you've..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The AggreGAYtor: September 10

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...Dickinson strikes a pose. Today’s AggreGAYtor is still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model...."

Sept. 10, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story

Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith explores

"...weeks before Christmas, but outside it feels like spring. The sky is clear and bright, and there is a..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

After the Pandemic at the Alamo Drafthouse

New management, new owners: Can the Austin movie chain retain what made it special?

"...The oldest operating Alamo Drafthouse in the nation still survives...."

July 2, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"..."Dallas – got a soft machine.Houston – too close to New Orleans."..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

"...Perhaps it's prankishly appropriate in the time of viral video "2 Girls 1 Cup" that..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Pharcyde and Brownout’s Special Fest Collaboration and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Find Nineties alt-hip-hop pioneers and Caroline Rose at two separate benefits

"...Looking for the best shows happening in Austin this week? Check out..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fixing Up the Fringe

'Everybody laughed, and I breathed a sigh of relief and grabbed another beer'

"...This is the third in a series of articles by Josh Medsker..."

July 11, 2003 Books Feature by Josh Medsker

How the GOP Ended up With a Rape Problem

It's not just Todd Akin: Republicans reveal their radical mainstream

"...Missouri US Senate candidate Todd Akin has done the GOP one favor: He has distracted the press from..."

Aug. 26, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Son of the White Mare

Gorgeous avant garde animation recounts a Hungarian myth

"...Myths, even those of cultures alien to our own, work on instinctual levels...."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmaker Emily Hagins Says Sorry About the Demon

Hagins brings her horror-comedy home for Other Worlds Film Festival

"...Like the elements required for an incantation, it seems like Emily..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...This is no doubt the strangest story I've ever had to write. What makes..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Last Fool of Chelm

How Nathan Englander Survives His New Fame

"...Nathan Englander has taken the pulpit. A small crowd is gathered in the synagogue..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

Off the Record

Stephen Bruton's final cut, a parting gift from At All Cost, and other holiday stocking stuffers

"...The Weary Kind..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Examining the foreign exchange rate with Ocelot, White Denim, and Dizzee Rascal, while Suzanna Choffel promotes further tourism to Texas

"...Until there's a microchip hardwired into each of us that instantly..."

July 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

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