The Best New Year’s Eve Concerts Happening in Austin

Eleven live music options to ring in 2024, from Snail Mail to Gary Clark Jr.

"...in 2010. Rust never sleeps.  – Raoul Hernandez The UFO Club, DAIISTARThe 13th Floor, $33..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

999 Eyes Freakshow & Surreal Sideshow Invites You to Step Inside an American Tradition

The beauty of the bizarre

"...you can behead your heroes, put them in a UFO, and make them better."..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Announces 2023 Jury and Audience Winners

Brazilian satirical thriller Property takes top award

"...Kapac and Andrija Mardešić for The Uncle Honorable Mention: UFO Sweden D: Victor Danell HORROR FEATURES..."

Sept. 26, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...UFO SWEDEN D: Victor Danell Sweden, 2022, North American Premiere,..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

After UFO Whistleblower Testimony, UT Prof Says: Let’s See Some Evidence

He’d be “the happiest astronomer on Earth if [this were] real”

Aug. 4, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Finish up the summer with some adventure

"...UFO Conference and Festival Aug. 11-12, Edinburg, www.edinburgufo.com..."

Aug. 2, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

After UFO Whistleblower Testimony, UT Prof Says: Let’s See Some Evidence

He’d be “the happiest astronomer on Earth if [this were] real”

"...on the possibility the U.S. is concealing evidence of UFOs – or their official nickname, UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena)...."

July 27, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...the course of my official duties of a multi-decade [UFO] crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I..."

July 28, 2023 News Feature

Asteroid City

Wes Anderson is at his most enigmatic in a UFO tale within a tale

June 23, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

deadmau5, Kaskade, and Chris Lake Announced to Play Seismic Dance Event 6.0

The Austin house and techno festival unveils its November lineup

"...music will make the Concourse Project feel like a UFO space club during this year’s Seismic Dance Event...."

June 15, 2023 Music Post by Adam Cherian

Down the Rabbit Hole With Something in the Dirt

Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson explain their favorite conspiracies

"...really interesting because it involves children - the Zimbabwe UFO incident, where apparently an aircraft landed near an elementary..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Jason Eisener on Kids vs. Aliens

The director of the teen-friendly horror discusses his influences

"...have this local folk legend where in 1967 a UFO crashed into Shag Harbor, and the fishermen and search-and-rescue..."

Sept. 22, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

LookOUT Fest, Circle Jerks, Holy Fawn, Bernell Jones II, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and a Buddy Holly Birthday tribute

"...Center's dramatic exterior kind of looks like a descending UFO, appropriate for a convergence of eclectically experimental and tranquilly..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

ATX TV Festival 2022: Baron and Toluca

First look at the UFO indie pilot from Roswell stars

"...on the faded end of celebrity from an X-Files-esque UFO show, while Fehr and Delfino are in real life..."

June 3, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tim Kerr Sets His Own New Colors

Austin "Self-expressionist" paints visionary artists, photographs their environments, accompanies with old time music duo Up Around the Sun

"...and they did a pop-up art show at the UFO Lounge. Joe happened to be in the vicinity, and..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Five Film Catches for aGLIFF Prism 34

Queer movies from around the world

"...against the backdrop of a small town obsessed with UFO sightings. (D: Nicol Ruiz, Chile, Southwest Premiere, 72 min.)..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Screens Feature by James Scott

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Buffalo Nichols, Stephanie Bergara, and the Hickoids soundtrack our week in local sound

"...nine-minute exploration of Krauty sci-fi fuzz, augmented with a UFO synth line and zero-gravity vocals. – Kevin CurtinMusic Is Dead..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Blindspotting Premiering at ATX Television Festival

New Starz show joins Central Park, Mythic Quest, more

"...weird enough for you, catch a first screening of UFO, the new Showtime series produced by J.J. Abrams's Bad..."

May 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...won't try to convince you. Inspired by its own UFO encounters, "the least shoegaze band of all the shoegaze..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Be Filled With Dredd For Other Worlds

Judge Dredd retrospective plus new hits for SF fest

"...Premiere An astronomy field trip gets waylaid by a UFO crash and an adorable, injured alien. When the students..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spirit Adrift's Nathan Garrett Lands His Astral Metal Rocket in Bastrop

Ride into the light

"...pyramid. A metallic wake followed: Michael Schenker landing a UFO outside Empire Control Room, Ft. Worth synth-n-doom duo Pinkish..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...with a theremin lead hovering over it like a UFO landing. "Stuck! These times are tough, losing my mind..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Skyman

Alien abduction faux documentary puts tragedy ahead of effects

"...If you remember the 1980s, it felt like UFOs were everywhere. The X-Files may not have begun until..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Vast of Night

Jaw-dropping reinvention of the UFO scare genre is audacious and brilliant

"...terms. Patterson has taken the battered path of the UFO scare flick, and sent it soaring to fresh new..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2019 You Haven't Seen Yet

Alien invasions, comedy exorcists, and searing commentary

"...a conspiracy theory thriller at the height of the UFO craze (read our interview with director Andrew Patterson, "Gazing..."

Dec. 31, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

“Cowboys in Space” Exhibit Finds the Frontier in the Stars

Exploring the infinite plains at the Bullock Museum

"...planets. Then, in 1897, there was the first reported UFO sighting, when locals in the tiny town of Aurora,..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wrapping Up Another Year of Fantastic Fest

The Chronicle Screens staff looks at the Good, the Mad, and the Weird

"...out of Oklahoma City, his debut feature – a UFO scare drama set in small-town New Mexico in 1958..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Gazing Into The Vast of Night

Director Andrew Patterson's cosmic debut is turning the right heads

"...small New Mexico town in 1958 - "when the UFO thing was at its most potent, and it felt..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Levelland

Mosaics on the High Plains

"...thing to happen around Levelland was a series of UFO sightings in November 1957. Several motorists, including the sheriff..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...so far this year, including The McPherson Tape (aka UFO Abduction), one of the early landmarks in found footage,..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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