The Cola Sisters Speak

Arcie and Shasta's Best Public Access TV Show

"..."They're so sexual, those retards." – Shasta Cola..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Features Feature by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

TV Eye

Walls come tumbling down

"...CBS pulled Jericho from its lineup, fans protested, flooding the network with phone calls and some 25 tons of..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Fix the Lines on My Screen!

"...Talk about synchronicity. First, a friend forwarded me the Web site for the Dove Proage commercial banned from..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Feeding the Film

Sixteen-hour days, hundreds of hungry crew members, remote locations, tight facilities, and tough competition: Two local caterers go to the movies

"...Ask anyone associated with food service, and they'll tell you that catering a culinary event is one..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...in a number of ways, but it plays to the international film community elite. Telluride is film-centric, but it..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Next Step

They've made their films. They've done the festivals. Now, four filmmakers share stories about finding -- and losing -- distribution.

"...Now what? You blew the chance to buy into your neighbor's IPO in favor..."

April 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta runs down programs to take our minds off the upcoming election, along with programs to make us confront it.

"...I don't know what's scarier: the fact that another sweeps month is upon us, or..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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

The World of Sid & Marty Krofft / H.R. Pufnstuf: The Ultimate Box Set

"...The World of Sid & Marty Krofft(Kid Rhino, 1999, VHS:..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Ken Lieck

TV News Revealed

K-EYE's Smoke and Mirrors Approach

"...PR flacks from local CBS affiliate K-EYE lighted on the Chronicle offices to inform me of a week-long news..."

May 2, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Soundscapes, Bat Books, and More Arts Events for the Week

Things to do when you're not staring at an interloping moon

"...Queer TV Theory 101..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Fugitive Dreams Rides the Rails to Your Screen

Jason Neulander's American fable is available on VOD now

"...The best trips can take the longest time to make..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beyond the Picket Lines: SAG, WGA, and the Austin Industry

Local film professionals explain how they're navigating the strike

"...Two dates are burned into the memory of everyone working in film, TV, and commercials...."

Aug. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beck Saw Austin’s Jesse Ebaugh Playing at Mohawk Friday Night, 20 Hours Later They Performed Together at the Moody Theater

The Tender Things frontman spontaneously enlisted to play pedal steel

"...Going back decades in Austin, there’ve been stories people tell that are so incredible and..."

March 20, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Interview: Jacob Gentry Runs the Tape on Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Director talks the influences on his period techno-horror

"...Before there was hacking, there were broadcast signal intrusions: strange incidents..."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Oranges

The great ensemble cast is the highlight of this movie about a 50-year-old man who falls in love with his best friend's daughter, who is half his age.

"...Directed by: Julian Farino. Starring: Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener, Leighton Meester, Allison Janney, Oliver Platt, Alia Shawcat,..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Werewolf

Brian McGreevy wants to ruin your workday

"...What with the saturation of glittery-torsoed vampires and Jane Austen-chomping zombies in..."

April 6, 2012 Books Feature by Sarah Smith

The Woman in Black

Daniel Radcliffe jumps from Hogwarts to this movie's haunted mansion where he stars as a young widower under siege from a malevolent ghost.

"...he graduated to his first adult film role since the conclusion of the Harry Potter series. Too bad. Magic..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye: Getting Real

This weekend's Texas-set episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gets TV Eye teary-eyed

"...Seems the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition folks were in Texas late..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

In the Loop

In the Loop is a scabrous and funny study of how an offhand remark by a career politician can metastasize into an international conflict and, ultimately, war.

"...hex-agony of barbed-wire jabs, feints, and outright skewerings. In the real world, it's the off-the-record lingua franca of statecraft,..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Roaring at the Static

"...After an interminable summer of observing the small screen, I finally found myself excited about something...."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.

"...Melissa Leo, Vanessa Bauche and Levon Helm. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Have you had your fill of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? Are you stuffed to the gills from consuming too many hours of Survivor, Big Brother, The Real World, Road Rules, or Making the Band? Better get used to it -- there's a whole lot more on the way.

"...Wants To Be a Millionaire? Are you stuffed to the gills from consuming too many hours of Survivor, Big..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Phil Donahue, James Lipton, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Johnny Carson, Tom Snyder, and more: columnist Belinda Acosta reflects on the hosts who made television great.

"...its popularity would last this long. Week after week, the game show tops the Nielsen ratings. It has moved..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Butcher Boy

"...Hart and Milo O'Shea. Deeply tragic yet savagely funny, The Butcher Boy is an audacious account of a troubled..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Life in The Real World Kult

Please Take My MTV

"...Real World 3: The Puck Year Just for the record, I am not..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Information Dirt Road

Marketing Your Band on the Net

"...Rock & roll and computers - they would seem to go together as well the Grateful..."

July 14, 1995 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Sorry, Austin, The Bear Is Not Filming Here

Social media hubbub spurs wacky rumor about the FX show

"...you heard, Cousin has not moved to Austin, and The Bear is not filming here...."

Feb. 7, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Into the Woods With Penelope

Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn unplug for their new Netflix show

"...this year’s South by Southwest, Mark Duplass and Duplass Brothers Productions CEO Mel Eslyn debuted a slate of independent..."

Oct. 1, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX TV Festival 2022: Walker: Independence

First look at the new CW spinoff in the Old West

"...When the CW rebooted Walker, Texas Ranger as Walker, it was..."

June 5, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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