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"...years in jail, and nearly seven years being accused of a murder for which the best evidence was cell..."

May 2, 2025 News Feature

Up at the Villa

"...Philip Haas. Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, James Fox, Jeremy Davies, Derek Jacobi and Massimo Ghini...."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Veterans Leading the Charge

Psychedelic healing around Austin and beyond

"...Gould had traveled from Tampa, Florida, to Iquitos, Peru, then up the Amazon by boat to this tiny settlement,..."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

'The Texas Cowboy Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos'

"...The cowboys of the "great trail drives" were a beat-up..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

'The Dragonfly Queen'

Composer Chad Salvata takes his Dragonfly Princess to the next stage of her evolution

"...When last we saw Mala, the princess from Ovo City had completed her quest to..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Wild Bunch

"...When I first saw The Wild Bunch in El Paso in 1969, my reaction..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Ramirez Berg

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...Imagine a world where Twila Tharp released the Friday the 13th films. That was kind of what..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Macross II: Lovers Again

"...Yatsuya. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. Maybe I've been exposed to the rich, colorful art of Disney animation and Warner Bros...."

July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Mimic

"...Bummer about those Big Apple subways. First giant alligators, then cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, and now giant, man-eating roaches..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...We had a little bit of the Christmas morning feeling when the complete lineup for..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fast Rising Family Band We Don’t Ride Llamas Capture Hearts at Free Week

Willow Smith tourmates bring their engaging Afro rock home

"...The first time I laid eyes on We Don’t Ride..."

Jan. 9, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Insectopedia

Raffles immerses himself in the worlds of his subjects and reports on what he finds and what he experiences in lucid and often beautifully constructed prose

"...Pantheon, 480 pp., $29.95..."

March 26, 2010 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director. His award-winning 1993..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...With the addition of 245 acts this morning, among them Gothic..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips & Beyond: September Travel Updates

Go the social distance

"...been a hot summer, but cooler temperatures are around the corner as we melt into fall...."

Aug. 28, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Luv Doc: Giving Thanks

The Luv Doc is not not conned by the deluded nostalgics who claim that turkey is their favorite meat

"...Things for which the Luv Doc is thankful:..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

In Production: Found Footage 3D Wraps

Genre-buster is the latest in a long line of Texas gore movies

"...There's something evil at the old Meeks place...."

July 18, 2014 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...Alien alert in the headlines from Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Plan 9 From..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Planting a Seed

Local schools see students not only eating all of their vegetables but growing them, too

"...Back in the day, in generations before the baby boomers, people had..."

March 23, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...its lazy days this way, it's difficult to resist the urge to follow its traditional beck and call. So..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Good Kill

Ethan Hawke pilots drones over Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert

"...The earnest drama Good Kill provocatively explores the blurred line..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The green heron is one of the only birds to..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Scanlines

Antonia's Line

"...film about a big family paints a sentimental portrait of European rural life after World War II. The story..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature

Luck Reunion 2016 - 2019

"...Willie Nelson’s wife Annie Nelson in support of Native American rights at Luck Reunion 2017..."

April 15, 2021 Photo Gallery

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Ducks are capable of sleeping with one eye open...."

March 12, 1999 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Taking the bark off banana trees with slippers and four tons of potatoes

"...1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson said that adding Texas to the Union was an event that would "retard or retrograde..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Getting Small

Austin's Red Fly Studio puts things into perspective

"...Mushroom Men is a game of scale, and its central character, Pax, a small fish..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Conquest of the Useless: Reflections From the Making of 'Fitzcarraldo'

The filming of Werner Herzog's 1982 epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazonian depths of Peru seemed mythically doomed from its inception

"...Conquest of the Useless: Reflections From the Making of 'Fitzcarraldo'by Werner..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Screens Review by Audra Schroeder

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...on a two-acre spread he had inherited from his mother in neighboring Milam County. With pockets of rich black..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

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