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In this week’s issue: Evil MoPac speaks, holiday shopping begins

"...The holiday runway from November to the end of the year brings with it some of my very..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Faster Than Sound: Nine Records That Inspired Austin Author Fernando A. Flores' Valleyesque

From Pauline Oliveros to Big Boys, sounds behind the surreal South Texas-rooted story collection

"...The epigraph of Austin author Fernando A. Flores' new book pairs a..."

June 3, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 18-24

"...PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Never underestimate the wisdom of being easily satisfied," wrote aphorist Marty Rubin. If you're..."

March 18, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...shows did hit capacity – and yet there’s plenty of action...."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films

The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics

"...will reopen to the public with a stellar lineup of classic, standards, oddities, and new releases...."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spree

Man Bites Dog hits the influencer generation

"...is not appealing, and it drips from every pore of wannabe celebrity streamer Kurt Kunkle, aka @Kurtsworld96. He sends..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: How to Wear a Mask

Constructive thoughts from the near side of the curve

"...One random fact about me: I can sew. (One of my first jobs as a teen was in a..."

April 10, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Demons on the Set of Cursed Films

New series on Shudder asks why we want to believe in evil

"...In 1996, the small town of Thorold, Ontario, made national headlines. Residents were stunned to..."

April 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

OUTsider Fest Review: Hot Bits

Queer XXX film fest presents the funny, the sexy, and the human

"...to our neighbors and practice asking if we can touch ourselves during the short films we’ll be shown at..."

Feb. 23, 2020 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

The Film Society That Brought Indie and Arthouse to Austin Returns

AFS hosts a series of the movies that inspired Cinema 40

"...now AFS is paying tribute with a short season of the movies that inspired the group to bring arthouse..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Harriet

Overdue biopic of the fearless anti-slavery hero loses sight of reality

"...the Underground Railroad, the eponymous historical figure travels hundreds of miles by foot to deliver dozens of slaves to..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

“Shana Hoehn: Hauntings” at Women & Their Work

Vintage hood ornaments are reimagined as sculptures that expose the historically distorted treatment of women’s bodies

"...Have you ever seen the ghost of a hood ornament?..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Inside the Amazing World of Taxidermy With Stuffed

Director Erin Derham finds beauty and lessons in animal art

"...Now, she is right in the middle of the SXSW filmmaker experience with a movie that has..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

This Is America: Part Two

More from the Notes From the Field cast on living black

"...conversation about the play and their experiences on and offstage...."

Feb. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight

We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles

"...Cogent and considered recollections of older black men from Texas and the broadly American..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Luv Doc: Square Pegs

You have to allow people the space to build the walls that make them feel safe

"...nearly two decades in mothballs. I have tried several of the online dating services, but the women on them..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...1) One Cut of the Dead..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Film Society's Noir Canon Travels the Mean Streets

The city is the star of the AFS film series

"...labyrinth with such particular, minute shifts that the wealth of offerings from the studio system became overwhelming. But these..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

The House With a Clock in Its Walls

Eli Roth swaps gore for delightful childlike Gothic wonder

"...heralded by entertainment editors as a "gore merchant," is often positioned as the American director who brought hyperviolent horror..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

DVDanger: Pyewacket

Classical witchcraft drama gets a bleak, contemporary twist

"...When Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins brought his reign of madness to the English village of Manningtree in 1644,..."

April 3, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...Townsend, 10pm Ecuadorian synth-pop duo 1982 sounds straight out of a tropical John Hughes movie. Debut LP Nuevas Ondas..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...film. Now Wes Anderson's new star-studded canine animation Isle of Dogs will be the top to its tail as..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

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

"...save all you indoor-loving film fans, with the announcement of the 2017 Summer Classic Film Series...."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Week Live Shots

Cheer Up Charlies, Jan. 8

"...Free Week's eclectic lineups demonstrate the depth of Austin's music pool. Previewing tunes from an upcoming EP,..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...Keith Maitland's rotoscoped doc about the victims of Charles Whitman's UT Tower rampage is essential Austin viewing,..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Misfits and Ween Incite Riot Fest

Austin’s ones that got away headline in Denver

"...don’t route through our concert capital. Like love, music’s often about the ones that got away...."

Sept. 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest Snags Arrival

The Handmaiden, Sadako vs. Kayako in wave two

"...Fantastic Fest, the Alamo Drafthouse's celebration of the most bizarre and coolest of world cinema, has..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: In Memory

The dead we remember, and the lessons we still need to learn

"...Summit at the LBJ School, a half-size, traveling version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall stood just outside the..."

June 3, 2016 News Column by Michael King

On Set With Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains

New indie horror melds Austin talent and Brazilian gore

"...get on-set, they have to step over the pile of mud-encrusted boots at the door. An overnight deluge at..."

May 13, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Over Your Dead Body

Takashi Miike resurrects an old Japanese ghost

"...and versatile as Takashi Miike. In a 25-year career of taboo-busting cinema, with almost 100 directorial credits to his..."

Jan. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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