Apollo Creed

"...you heard that NASA had put a man on the moon: Walter Cronkite mediating Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Sing 2

Animated singing animals sequel is bear-able (geddit?)

"...Sing. I figured I wouldn’t need to have seen the original in order to see its sequel. I was..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...five nights, divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Live and Recorded Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Black Pistol Fire, BLXPLTN, Jazz for a cause, and more

"...There's a peak moment of rowdiness in almost every Black..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Thank You Very Much

Doc explores the unknowable comic genius Andy Kaufman

"...laugh, but not because he was funny. He wanted them to laugh because it’s the noise that emerges from..."

March 28, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Noises Off!

In this screwball comedy, the behind-the-scenes activity of a traveling acting troupe threaten to bring down the play.

"...Reeve, John Ritter and Nicollette Sheridan. Ironic that Bogdanovich, the first breakthrough talent of the generation of cineastes who..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

A singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.

"...Griffin, Til Schweiger, Jeroen Krabbé and Hanna Verboom. As the tagline proclaims: Same ho. New low. What else is..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Letters at 3AM

The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live

"...intention of stopping, intending to sleep in Tulsa ... then, a highway sign that went something like: OKLAHOMA CITY..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Total Entertainment Package

Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings

"...every time he saw an empty cocktail glass at the pre-release celebration for Vallejo's Sony debut, Into the New...."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Becoming Johellen, Part 3

A young queen dives wig-first into the pool of Austin drag divas

"...He dabs at an 88-hue makeup pallet and applies the finishing touches to her deep purple eyes and lips...."

Dec. 26, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Jesse Mandell-McClinton

Lost at Sea and Back Again

Bill Broyles' Extraordinary Adventure Story

"...for FedEx, Noland's job is, in fact, to control the path of the items shipped all over the globe..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount Theatre. photograph by John..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Exhibitionism

Court 6: Bouncing Balls of Joy

"...There's just something appealing about dancers trapped in a glass..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Arts Review

Nick Drake

A new tome sheds light on the mythic UK folkie

"...Everything Nick Drake left behind lingers with Romanticism, the big R Romanticism that speaks to something transcendent, pastoral,..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...The icon that Charles Chaplin created at the age of..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Circle Sky

For your resident Head, the Monkees' Michael Nesmith still lassos 'Circle Sky' country-rock

"...a pass fade with time, but just as often their hindsight illogic fuses to that unseized moment now frozen..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Too Tough To Die

The last surviving real Ramone takes us back to the best years of our lives.

"...in 1974. We said we were in it till the end." -- Johnny Ramone, excerpt, "A Tribute to Dee..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Halloween II

Rob Zombie's sequel to his 2007 remake of the original Halloween features Michael Myers coming back to town to wrap up some family business.

"...Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris, Brea Grant, Margot Kidder, Howard Hesseman..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Confessions of a Trash-Lovin' Mama

Old viewing habits die hard for a new mom.

"...One night I was watching Showgirls and throwing back Moscow mules. The next morning..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Film

Film Reviews

"...But, maybe it's just her new couch. That's how the problem first became noticeable. As portrayed by Julianne Moore,..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Moontower Comedy 2019: Joel Kim Booster

The L.A. comic on the politics (and bravery) of being hot

"...It turns out there’s a lifehack when it comes to figuring out whether..."

April 24, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

TV Eye

Remembering Walter Cronkite

"...It's hard to make nonboomers understand what the big deal is about Walter Cronkite. Perhaps there is..."

July 24, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Austin Embroiderists Build Community Stitch by Stitch

Local interest in fiber arts is growing rapidly as people find stitching is a way to calm nerves, find friends, and make political statements during the pandemic

"...My grandmother taught me how to stitch when I was about..."

April 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Gay Place

Plenty of spooktacular events in the weeks ahead

"...things are rising as fast as we all wish these temperatures were dropping. The week ahead is loaded up..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Major Artist Bebel Gilberto

“Brazilians are intense. We are not full of shit.”

"...Carlos Jobim, and two years later performed with her mother and saxophone great Stan Getz at Carnegie Hall. The..."

May 12, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

TV Eye

Noah Wyle spouts history, battles E.T. in new TNT show

"..."star power," but he's dependable. As Dr. John Carter, the longest-running character on ER, Wyle showed how he could..."

June 10, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Cartoon Heritage

Food faces, renegade puppets, rainbow purses, and nicotine washes – it's all part of the art of Matthew Rodriguez

"...This is the thing about stripped-down, bare-bones cartoon illustration: It can communicate..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The recent decision by the State Board of Education to..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

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