SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...1/2: A Space Age Childhood Director/Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Producers: Tommy Pallotta, Mike Blizzard, Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix A coming-of-age..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Platters

"...MEREDITH LOUISE MILLER..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...The Arc of Oblivion Director: Ian Cheney, Producers: Meredith Desalazar, Manette Pottle, Rebecca Taylor The Arc of Oblivion..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Panoramic Voices’ Bach: Mass in B Minor

Director Brent Baldwin and his chorus made this work of pure uplift – rousing to sing, delightful to hear – a joy to experience

"...a pleasant duet featuring soprano soloists Gitanjali Mathur and Meredith Ruduski, followed, in turn, by the rousing men's voices..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

That Wild Man

Gary Cartwright: The mad, mad, mad life of a Texas wordsmith

"...to Brownwood in her green '74 Cadillac with the custom upholstery and the CB radio, clutching a pawn ticket,..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Music Announces First Band Cull

Some 10% of total acts showcasing March 11-16

"...Penny & Sparrow, Boyfrndz, Grace London, Cinco Doce, Burgess Meredith, and OBN III’s, all of whom will make their..."

Oct. 16, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Staged by the Bell

If you watched Saved by the Bell as a kid, you'll have a darn good time at this staged send-up

"...darn good time at Staged by the Bell. Director Tom Booker and the cast play into the show's conceits..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Film News

Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon

"...at A Prairie Home Companion. Copeland Muses Film Studio Tom Copeland, former director of the Texas Film Commission, has..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Articulations

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

"...Hedrick, Anne Hulsman, Content-Love Knowles, Karen Kuykendall, Traci Laird, Meredith McCall, Bernadette Nason, Lowell Bartholomee, Sean Carey, Richard Craig,..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Central Texas writer Tom Grimes has a play date in L.A., Deborah Hay duets with Baryshnikov in Brooklyn, and Jouét flies off to Louisville, plus legislative applause for Austin musicals Jouét and Oliver!

"...Tom Grimes, noted author, director of the MFA program in..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Breaking Away

Austin's Newest Bike Plan May Finally Pull Ahead

"...Carless Tom Eden puts his body on the line daily to..."

Oct. 17, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Extraordinary Measures

Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford play a parent and a scientist who fight time, man-made obstacles, and each other to find a cure for a rare childhood disease.

"...Directed by: Tom Vaughan. Starring: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Jared..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Tommy O'Haver; with Sean P. Hayes, Brad Rowe, Richard Ganoung,..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

The Talented Mr. Ripley

"...go. Damon, in his best performance to date, plays Tom Ripley, Highsmith's smug sociopath who travels to Italy in..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Review by Barry Johnson

Long Lines and Close Races Defined Super Tuesday in Travis County

The votes are in!

"...the SBOE District 10 contest to take on incumbent Tom Maynard; the two districts divide Austin north and south...."

March 6, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Next to Normal

Strong performances make this musical about mental illness worth seeing

"...her teenage son to return home. The mother, Diana (Meredith McCall), seems a bit high-strung, but nothing appears too..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Method to Their Madness

Two leading ladies reflect on their psychotic characters' unique relationships with the score

"...of actions. This isn't to say that Austin actress Meredith McCall and Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova haven't given careful..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...those good people Dayton worked with on Zombex are Meredith Johns and Carolyn O'Hara, founders/owners of Hawgfly Productions Inc.,..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Music to Hang On to Life By

Dramatizing the pull of music on a human life is no easy task, but Warren Leight's Side Man shows jazz players hanging on to their music to keep from giving in to despair, and its Austin premiere will benefit from the skill of Zachary Scott Theatre Center Artistic Director Dave Steakley, who has consistently demonstrated an uncanny knack for portraying the impact that music can have on a life and the place where drama is best expressed through music.

"...character, Clifford, narrates the play, in the tradition of Tom in Williams' incomparable The Glass Menagerie, and through Clifford's..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Postscripts

Thinning the Herd

"...will be discussing her book Style Meister: The Quick-Reference Custom Style Guide, at Book People, Tuesday, September 8, 7pm...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

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

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...Jordan Rodrigues, Nicole Javier, Chase Mangum, Luis Antonius Canete, Tom E. Proctor, Clinton Lowe, Vin Vescio, Beth May, Alexander..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Meredith McCall, Next to Normal..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

FronteraFest Schedule

"..."Christian U2ber" by Tom Truss. A look at a young teen's naive YouTube..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Keever (visual art), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), Tommy O'Malley (theatre), Joey Seiler (theatre), Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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.

"...Tom Snyder: First in The Tomorrow Show (NBC), then The..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Book Reviews

"...it goes without saying that her teachers are clueless automatons...."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...of an apocalyptic odyssey from Minnesota to Texas -- epitomized the company's fearlessness in exploring language and theatricality, and..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...Tales Meg Gardiner – Unsub Ryan Gattis – Safe Tom Gauld – Baking with Kafka Nelson George – To..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place

We all need a gaycation every now and then

"...(the best daytime dance party, Lesbian Wedding, returns Sunday; Tom Boiz take over Cheer Ups Tuesday, and the Kiyomi..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

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