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Some recommendations for the week ahead

"...Preston Sturges is that he claims to have invented "kiss-proof" lipstick. Is that information truly relevant? Probably not, but..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

An L.A. Benefit, Toni Price Tribute, and More Crucial Concerts

Recommended shows for the week ahead

"...Ted Leo and the Pharmacists..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

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

SXSW Film Review: Y2K

Stoner disaster-comedy banks on 90s nostalgia

"...Ah, the good ol’ days. Burning mixtapes on CDs, recording freestyle..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

How Driving Somebody From One Texas City to Another Can Turn Into a Prison Sentence

Rides from hell, thanks to Texas’ immigration law

"...high school and plan to pursue a secondary degree. The future is a mix of hopefulness and uncertainty. Money..."

Feb. 2, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

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

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

APD and City Hall Try to Get Their Eighth Street Protest Stories Straight

Cops in trouble?

"...In December 2020, six months after the violent police response to Black Lives Mat­ter protesters at..."

March 18, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Constant Follower: Meet the Hypnotic Folk Songcrafter Who Lost His Childhood Memories After a Gang Beatdown

Scotland's Stephen McAll overcame brain trauma to discover a new self

"...abyss fully intact? Or maybe, like a popped balloon, the shattering of your consciousness left you with nothing but..."

March 14, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Come for the dodgy CGI fighting, stay for the ... rom-com?

"...Let’s get this out of the way right now. Venom: Let There be Carnage..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

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

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 18-24

"...made pure again," writes poet Jeffrey McDaniel. Judging from the current astrological omens, Gemini, I think you could be..."

June 18, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Living With Dying in Our Friend

Gabriela Cowperthwaite on her film's responsibility to the truth

"...not a moment. It's not a switch being flicked off. It's a process - sometimes brief, sometimes drawn out..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Screens Post 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

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

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

Ride Your Wave

Delightful and touching surfing anime melds grief and fantasy

"...When boy meets girl and girl meets boy and they fall in love and it all happens in the..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Happy Birthday, Daniel Johnston

Hi, How Are You Day commemorates the late, great Daniel Johnston, and SaulPaul's Alien Adventure beams down at Scottish Rite Theater

"...Last Wednesday inside ACL Live at the Moody Theater, following some nonlinear ramblings on the scientific..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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

Fantastic Fest Review: Ride Your Wave

Surfing romance becomes a smart, lovely story of loss and growth

"...When boy meets girl and girl meets boy and they fall in love and it all happens in the..."

Sept. 23, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: He Doesn’t Listen

The Luv Doc keeps a list to help him remember the things he will soon forget

"...I will tell him exactly where to look and then he finds them 10 minutes later exactly where I..."

March 22, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

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

Michelle Tea Brings Her Latest Book to UT

Iconic queer memoirist reflects on her past and future writing career

"...Michelle Tea, our patron saint of queer, feminist writing, has penned everything from cult classics..."

Oct. 24, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

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

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic novel Spinning, will be at the..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Go Forth. Be Memorable.

"...a 43-year-old single, gay man. I've always had lots of friends in the past, but now everyone is getting..."

July 21, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...March 31, the day before Jim Caligiuri left Austin for California, we..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

A Beginner's Guide to Marijuana Edibles

Forays into cannabis cookery

"...Sitting in post-holiday traffic, I covertly stared at the mom riding shotgun in the nearby sedan through my..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Food Feature by Alice B. Toker

A New Generation Opens Up to Global Cuisine

Local tastemakers think outside America's borders

"...family in Houston. Being only 4 years old at the time, Pat doesn't remember much of that journey, but..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

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