New Plans for Bastrop Film Studio Hope to Overcome Its Volatile History

Can new management help Spiderwood Studios rise again?

"...Thirty minutes east of Downtown Austin, along the winding frontage road FM 969, three..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...and “Junkyard Angel” bloomed earnest ballads and the small town escape of “Iowa” swooned achingly, if brutally, beautiful. “It’s..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...trying to make it to the coolest party in town. Cast List: Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Wolfe, Chelsea Prusky, Frankie..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...You see, reader, this is a lager town. We’re of the Lagerpeople, which, back in the founding..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...stock players (Near Dark, True Lies, and, of course, Titanic), plus he had leading parts in Twister, A Simple..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Jawbreaker, Last Band on the Titanic

Saving lives decades on

"...The singer-guitarist also poured love on our town, where the band rented a practice space in preparation..."

July 14, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Debbie Downers

It is truly fascinating to witness the beautiful butterfly squeeze back into an ugly caterpillar

"...college have Wednesday wine nights at various places around town where we get together and drink wine and catch..."

May 25, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...first of three big birthday screenings that weekend, with Titanic hitting the big 2-0, and a glorious half-century for..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Austin's Revamped Record Convention

The Austin Record Convention – the biggest in the country – returns Downtown

"...ARC every spring. This weekend also marks its return Downtown. Originally, the ARC had been sleeved south of the..."

May 22, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...rightly namechecked alongside peers like the Undertones and the Boomtown Rats. Reformed, with their lost LP Strange Obsessions finally..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Last Housecore on the Left

Your guide to all things metal

"...Big D band revels in ultraviolence, commanding "Watch My Town Burn." Debut Casket Prospects darkens the way. – Michael..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature

Bright Lights, Big City

At the crossroads of the Austin Music Awards.

"...peak on the planet at this very second. So titanic is the moment, in fact, that a fuse blows..."

March 8, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The AggreGAYtor: January 15

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• The tiny town of Vicco, Kentucky has approved an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance,..."

Jan. 15, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Bob Dylan

"...The 14-minute title track, retelling the sinking of the Titanic complete with references to James Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio,..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Film Flam

Speed hits Hulu, and reality TV swallows Austin whole

"...horizon are two foodie shows touching down in our town. Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods America – the new season..."

Aug. 6, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Van Halen

"...Woman" echoes Van Halen's "I'm the One," the guitarist's titanic razzle-dazzle breathtaking in both density and dexterity. Eric Clapton's..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Let's Build a City

All stages lead to the 2010-11 Austin Music Awards

"...long-gone landmark's biergarten. Still today a segment of old A-town recalls the native singer-songwriter as a sleeping rug rat..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

More Blue To View

East Side Drive-In trailer park expands to include actual drive-in, the Blue Starlite

"...Frankie and Annette, shriek-show scowlers Boris and Basil, and titanic Toho terrors Godzilla vs. Whatever, all of which AIP..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Now What?

Mediamakers consider what happens when traditional media meets its maker

"...a single drop of water helped to sink the Titanic," Copeland writes in an e-mail. "When I started Blogads..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Queen for a Day

Mingling with royalty has gone to your humble Gay Place's head.

"...My gunniest (Gail Chovan, Leslie Bonnell) were out of town or too busy – it was such late notice...."

Aug. 13, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics Series

May 24-Sept. 9

"...Arsenic & Old Lace, 7pm; The Talk of the Town, 9:35pmJuly 22Arsenic & Old Lace, 2pm; The Talk of..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature

The Future of Film on the Web

Part I: The means

"...showing near them. "They say, 'We'll go to any town where we can fill a theatre,'" Jenkins explains. "They..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...joy and dreams and sex, that's what makes our town the best. Pride and joy and dirty dreams are..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Santos Taqueria

Santos Silerio learned her craft feeding eight hungry children

"...Mexico. We stopped for gas at one of the downtown Pemexes, and the attendant was working on a gorgeous..."

June 24, 2005 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...a loan proposal for the owners of the burned-out Midtown Live, as supporters rallied Monday at the site. See..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Mob House Rules

Trail of Dead introduces their new epic release to the world

"...hum of hipster conversation are light-years away from the Midtown mania surrounding Letterman's Ed Sullivan Theater...."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Avatar's Avatar

How game designer and Women's Game Conference Chair Sheri Graner Ray plans to save the industry from stagnation

"...two-day geekfest known as the Austin Game Conference hits town Sept. 9-10, a girls geekfest will run right alongside..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

OT: Our Town

"...George Schaeffer’s 1977 television version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with a group of Compton high schoolers working up..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seeking Levity

A writer best known for goofball comedies, Ed Solomon tapped his darker side for his directorial debut.

"...a sunny Austin afternoon at the Four Seasons, in town to promote his directorial debut Levity, Solomon seems different..."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Fine China

The latest Austin Film Society free series examines the cinema of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers.

"...of a city dweller who returns to the small town of his youth. In the case of this icily..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

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