Keeping Our Eye on the Week’s Recommended Arts Events

Art and culture abounds, even on the weekdays

"...Get down to “this sick beat” at Taylor Swift Muzingo. Never heard of..."

June 6, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Bring Her Back

Philippou brothers' occult horror about the foster family from hell

"...Sora Wong, Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Jonah Wren Phillips, Mischa Heywood, Sally-Anne Upton and Stephen Phillips...."

May 30, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Karate Kid: Legends

This franchise extension is a soulless slog

"...Directed by: Jonathan Entwistle. Starring: Ben Wang, Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Joshua Jackson,..."

May 30, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jump On It Organizer NOOK Turner’s 30-Year Fight to Preserve Eastside Black Culture

Rapper / promoter / activist goes long on his annual “Black Culture 360” event

"...Charles “NOOK Turner” Byrd’s signature dark shades can’t block the decades..."

May 30, 2025 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Bay of Angels, Books, and a Brewery Bee in This Week’s Arts and Culture Events

Movies, spelling, and more weekday fun

"...An Evening With B. Dylan Hollis..."

May 30, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Jokers, Murders, and Walpurgisnacht in This Week’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture events to populate your weekdays

"...Wiki and Dungeons & Dragons’ Fandom site. But mending is no fantastical concept used only in building simulators or..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Qmmunity: Taking Yourself on a Date

Make sure to make time for the coolest queer you know, aka you.

"...Despite being an artist, I do not do morning pages. This is because..."

April 18, 2025 Column by James Scott

Movies, Theatre, Trivia, and More Recommended Events for the Week

Art and culture abound

"...First I saw this was back in the ol’ sweaty days when Hyperreal..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Geoffrey Rush Takes on The Rule of Jenny Pen

New Zealand drama about retirees explores quiet complicity

"...Dictatorships don't happen just because of evil, ambitious people. They spring up because of the apathy..."

April 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Double Scorpio Goes Offline

FDA performs search-and-seizure of beloved VHS cleaner brand

"...Guys, girls, and gender nonconformists: They are coming for our poppers. By “they” I..."

March 21, 2025 Column by James Scott

St. Paddy’s Day, SXSnacks, Sailor Moon, and More Weekend Events

Our recommendations for the waning days of the Fest

"...John C. Reilly Is Mister Romantic..."

March 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Arts and Culture Events to Get You Off the Couch

It's spring break (for some of you), get out and have some fun

"...This will surprise all the Chronicle readers to know but..."

March 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: The Python Hunt

How a man-made ecological disaster may be hiding a much worse sin

"...sense to grow a furry tail (basically the only distinguishing factor between cute squirrels and evil rats), no one..."

March 12, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick

Anti-thriller mines wellness culture to unnerving effect

"...City dwellers who harbor a mistrust in the countryside may have their fears validated by..."

March 10, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Dog’s View of Evil in SXSW Midnighter Good Boy

Director Ben Leonberg on channeling Poltergeist and White Fang

"...One of the greatest challenges for any filmmaker is casting. So how did writer/director Ben Leonberg meet the..."

March 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Midwestern Slasher Is on the Loose in Clown in a Cornfield

Eli Craig adapts the hit YA novel about teens in a dying (literally) town

"...were beloved bringers of laughter and prickers of pomposity. Now the word is synonymous with grinning butchers like John..."

March 7, 2025 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Advocacy, Art, and More Recommended Events

What to do this week that isn't SXSW

"...It’s hard not to feel powerless when combating the seemingly daily attacks..."

March 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Monkey

Longlegs director moves on to murderous toy in Stephen King adaptation

"...Osgood Perkins. Starring: Theo James, Elijah Wood, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell and Adam Scott...."

Feb. 21, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed

"...Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its greatest heroes, but there's still some avenging to be done. Now Captain America:..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Attack of the Drive-In: Scott Derrickson Opens Up About The Gorge

How his new action-romance mixes Kurosawa and Taylor Swift

"...It’s not just that it would be a chance to see..."

Feb. 13, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Theatre Review: The Filigree Theatre’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Factory on 5th production revels in the morally gray

"...The book is always better, but there are exceptions to that rule...."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

No Other Land

A Palestinian-Israeli team produced this Oscar-nominated documentary about displacement in the West Bank

"...Journalism is resistance. In these terrifying times, it’s become a..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Give Two Thumbs Up to These Weekend Events

Arty and culture-y things to get up to

"...the contrarian, I prefer The Traitors UK’s cast of normies versus the U.S.’s bench of backstabbing reality TV all-stars..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Sen. John Cornyn, state Sen. Brandon Creighton, and Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham. Cornyn said he’ll push to get Texas..."

Jan. 31, 2025 News Feature

Qmmunity: The L Stands for Lynchian

Taking a page from the late Lynch’s book to deal with the current evil afoot

"...for the lodge – so to speak – and now we live in a David Lynch-less world. Didn’t know..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Column by James Scott

A Winter Formal, a Yellow Brick Ball, and More Recommended Events

Arts and culture happenings for the weekend

"...Marine Kimono Plays Music Made for Rabbits..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Skloss Taps Sonny Carl Davis for “Imagine 100 Dads” Music Video

PJ Raval directs second clip from The Pattern Speaks

"...Ethereal noiseniks Skloss are back with their newest single, "Imagine..."

Jan. 15, 2025 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Follies, Samurai, and a Few Non-Alcoholic Events for the Weekend

Got a resolution to get out more? No problem.

"...comic crew at Esther’s have cooked up a topical tiramisu – delicious and sort of hard to make on..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Little Women, Big Games, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Get in the spirit with these arts and cultural happenings

"...Let’s not pit women against each other; we have room in..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 13-19

"...SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I don’t recommend burning wood to heat..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

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