Austin at Large: A Puddle You Can Drown In

Democracy survives another round, but we don’t know about Apesh*t’s mind

"...who won, but we know who lost! The red wave may just be a puddle, but it's a deep..."

Nov. 11, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Causeway

Jennifer Lawrence returns in a moving portrait of a damaged woman

"...Neugebauer taps into the emotional tidal wave of Causeway’s script (written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel,..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Austin FC’s Season Ends With 3-0 Defeat to LAFC in West Final

Sophomore season showed how far the Verde and Black has come

"...FC’s back line as they attempted to fight off wave after wave of threatening attacks from Carlos Vela and..."

Oct. 30, 2022 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Decision to Leave

Park Chan-wook strips away his signature violence for a tender, tragic love story

"...from the back of the skull, accompanied by a wave of gooseflesh and a heart flutter as dopamine floods..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Eternal Spring

China's religious oppression explored through the art of Daxiong

"...who took part in the day, and the tidal wave of brutality that struck them down. The animated recreations..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Smile

Cunning studio horror about a curse that grins you to death

"...shift happening in studio horror for a potential new wave of idiosyncratic voices and ideas being ushered into the..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"..."What can I say?" he beams. "The wave is going in the right direction."..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...else would), Rollin's films stood somewhere between the new wave of North American horror epitomized by Carnival of Souls..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...early CBGB as being the locus of Austin punk/New Wave hap'nin's," Bangs continued. "Raul's is the place where Elvis..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Review: Angélica Rahe

Autorretrato

"...in a vulnerable vastness of tactile and sensual intimacies, wave after wave...."

July 15, 2022 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Austin Restaurateurs Stake Their Claim in Lockhart

Deep in the heart of barbecue city

"...made Lockhart what it is today. However, this latest wave of bars, restaurants, and shops, along with a handful..."

June 24, 2022 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Mid-Century

Ghostly goings-on in this short-term rental shocker

"...visual appeal, and now we're stuck with the current wave of shoddily-constructed generiboxes, selected from design catalogues with little..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...was sure I was there – and I would wave – he would stand up to them...."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Eiffel

A made-up romance provides a solid foundation for this engineering story

"...by a true story.” That’s the filmmakers’ cunningly phrased hand-wave acknowledging the gap between actual history and the moony-eyed..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Montana Story

Death in the modern West underlies this poignant family drama

"...it. Perhaps Montana Story is part of a new wave of films that herald the death of the Western..."

May 27, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

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

"...to figure out set settings. At last, an electric wave fills the air. “Hey, we’re Walt Disco!” frontperson James..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

SXSW Film Review: Slash/Back

Indigenous alien invasion horror-comedy is an icy blast

"...only hope that remains the case with the current wave of international horror cinema. This mode of culturally specific..."

March 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...the second year of the Biden presidency, the new wave of union organizing, and the impact of the Great..."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Cyrano

Musical rewrite of the tragic love triangle never hits the high notes

"...blowsy and so high-spirited she’s able to catch the wave of Wright’s habitual tilt toward cheesiness and not be..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Studio 666

The Foo Fighters make their own Evil Dead

"...but where Medicine at Midnight brought them a nice wave of good praise, Studio 666 feels like a dud..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

AISD Weighs Schedule Change to Fix Budget Woes

Proposal would cut planning time for teachers in half

"...schedule might be enough to force an even bigger wave of resignations than that seen in the fall semester...."

Jan. 28, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

A Hero

No good deed goes unpunished in this Iranian drama

"...a laundry list of myopic mistakes tumbles into a wave of skepticism from those who find themselves involved in..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...a UT Radio-Television-Film major, getting into punk and New Wave via Ruttenberg and Richard Dorsett's proselytizing at Inner Sanctum...."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...a roster of rehabilitated pub rock veterans rebranded "New Wave" – Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, etc. Riviera..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Encanto

Disney's latest animated family adventure is magical if not overly memorable

"...snuff out. The shutters flap open and shut to wave hello; tile floors ripple to respond to a question;..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Parquet Court’ing Catastrophe

Brooklyn Indie stalwarts bring divisive, funky new album to Austin

"...– with primary groove influence taken from the nerd-funk no-wave of New York bands like DNA, Material, and, of..."

Nov. 20, 2021 Music Post by Julian Towers

The Souvenir Part II

Second part of Joanna Hogg's chronicle of loss

"...magpie's nest of The Wizard of Oz, French New Wave, and Powell and Pressburger (a self-critical nod to Hogg's..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What We're Listening to Right Now

Duel, Cactus Lee, Kady Rain, Sweetfeed, Startographers, and the You're Gonna Be Great 2 comp

"...drum fire from Justin Collins. Mid-album disembowelers "Bite Back," "Wave of Your Hand," and highlight "Dead Eyes," a spiraling..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Brea Grant's Madelines to Open Other Worlds Film Festival

Time traveling crime drama spearheads first wave

"...In its first wave of programming the fest (running Dec. 2-5 in-person at..."

Oct. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Guilty

One cop, one room, one phone call in this thriller remake

"...television monitors located throughout the building depict a constant wave of fire and first responders as the Los Angeles..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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