Page Two: Winning the West

Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order

"..."Hello, my name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache, and I am president of the National..."

June 12, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead

Graveyard

"...Seldom have the opening notes of any rock album had the effect..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Feels Like the First Time

On onion rings, barbecue, and the never-ending "Best of Austin" debate

"...The first time I visited Austin, we drove down from..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Column by Louis Black

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

"...Hey, true believers, are you ready for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? This being the 32nd movie in..."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

On the Stage, On the Screen: Austin's Theatres Embrace a Virtual Future

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

"...The rumors of the death of virtual theatre have been..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...There’s a famous and brilliantly subversive British-Irish comedy called Father..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...There are two kinds of vampire. Sexy and pained, or..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LoneStarCon 3: The Jo Walton Interview

The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books

"...will love you back.” So says Morwenna "Mori" Phelps, the 15-year-old protagonist of Jo Walton’s weird, wonderful, genre-bending book..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Appeal Filed for Fran Keller: The Oak Hill Daycare 'Ritual Abuse' Fiasco

Appeal cites outdated medical evidence and Brady violation

"...was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and has spent the last 20 years behind bars for a crime that..."

Jan. 14, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"..."Some time before he became involved in the Dreyfus Affair, Emile Zola wrote an article called 'The..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...by Turk Pipkin, Mike Caveney, and Martin Lewis for the 20-year reunion of the Left-Handed League at Palmer Auditorium...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

Invasion of the Lit Flix

Literary Classics Rush the Screen

"...Now is the winter of our... literary classics on film...."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: Wake of the Red Witch

Everything that begins also ends

"..."Been in the dark/ All of my life/ Waiting for the Wake/..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: The Bar Witch Project

Carole Keeton Rylander Halloween mask instructions

"...Mask Instructions: The Bar Witch Project1. Cut out and paste over light..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Margaret Moser

Terror Fest Interview: Bell Witch

"...Bass and drums doom metal duo Bell Witch deals in loss and bereavement. That trajectory took on..."

June 15, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Air Force Has Witch Squadron

"...Dear Editor, Before the Air Force built a Wiccan temple but after the..."

March 27, 2010 Postmarks

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer, and Jessica..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Chac: The Rain God

"...nonprofessional actors from Chiapas, Mexico, where it was made. The story is a mystical adventure about a drought-stricken village..."

March 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Outwaters

A trip to the desert becomes a found footage nightmare collage

"...That seems to be the thinking behind The Outwaters, director Robbie Banfitch's found footage..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Houses of the Unholy

Housecore Horror by the blurb

"...Witchburn..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Feature

Fantastic Fest Review: The Found Footage Phenomenon

New documentary unspools the reels of fake-real films

"...Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the twisted roots of cinema’s found footage genre were already..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

GOP Witch Hunters

"...have witnessed every presidential election since 1928, and what the caucuses in Iowa produced as responsible candidates is tragic...."

Sept. 13, 2011 Postmarks

The Yellow Brick Road

"...Amid the glitzy May blitz of we'll-show-anything-to-get-your-attention programming, there's something very..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...When the little girl on the witness stand said, "No, it..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Witch Hunt of Wal-Mart Just Demonizing an Easy if Innocent Suspect

"...Dear Editor, Yikes. What fervor. It reminds me of the good old days of the Salem witch trials. Where..."

Dec. 27, 2006 Postmarks

The Big Picture

Fall Movie Preview

"...Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 The sequel to the most profitable movie ever..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Tomstown Tom-Toms

The DA snaps back at "harassment" by GOP attack dogs

"...The war of words between the Travis Co. district attorney..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

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