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"...loudness is not directly proportional to actual increases in sound-wave energy. Simply put, great changes in the intensity of..."

May 17, 2002 Column

Spotlight: Soft Boys

Austin Music Hall, 10pm

"..."The Soft Boys weren't punk and they weren't New Wave and they weren't Old Wave. It was just rock..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Flashback, Cash Back

The Trickle Down Economics of Eighties Music

"...are part of what could be termed the "new wave" of classic rock -- or more simply, Old Wave...."

July 18, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Veterans Leading the Charge

Psychedelic healing around Austin and beyond

"...saturated by the jungle, its heat, its fecundity, the waves of white noise from its millions of insects...."

July 5, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema

From New Line to Warners, the exec discusses his career

"...full-time. And at that time, there was a second wave of independence when I joined the studio as an..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Slash/Back

Smart Canadian horror sets Indigenous teens against alien invaders

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

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

House of Darkness

Neil LaBute takes a smart bite out of the vampire drama

"...Frank, plunging headfirst into the cosmic curiosity of The Wave. As the clear prey in the trap set by..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Who Won the Cocktail Showdown at Hotel ZaZa?

Who combined spirited liquids the best to beat this murderous heat?

"...Demetrius Thomas, who conjured up the aptly named Heat Wave based on Bombay Sapphire gin...."

Aug. 17, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Punk Chronicles: "Hard, Fast & Unapologetic" – Raul's Shifts Into Fourth Gear

In the wake of the one-night debut of the Skunks and the Violators, Austin punk begins in earnest in Chapter 5, Part 2 of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...– What's A Punk,'" James shrugged, "That's what New Wave's done mostly – people aren't afraid to stand up..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

What We're Listening To Right Now

Kydd Jones, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Rose Sinclair, Carson McHone, and Berkshire Hounds

"...pays tribute, home. – Michael Toland Rose Sinclair Rides the Wave..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Column by Derek Udensi

The Tunnel

Fire in the mountain in the Norwegian disaster flick

"...Greenland, had terror come from the skies, but The Wave and The Quake showed the massive devastation that tectonics..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Breaking Surface

Underwater survival thriller scales down the disaster movie but not the tension

"...version of another fabulous boulder-meets-water Norwegian flick, 2015's The Wave: an epic disaster movie on an intimate scale...."

Jan. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

State Races Make for Critical Choices in the Middle of the Ballot

Taking a look at the state slate

"...winning in what by all appearances is a Democratic wave year. [inset-1-right]..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...history of Nashville in the Seventies, when he made waves with cult classics like "Sold American," which earned him..."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

VFW

Ultraviolent Fantastic Fest throwback makes its vengeance-filled return

"...cadre of of Vietnam War aging veterans taking on wave after wave of zombified addicts, hooked on a new..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Weathering With You

A magical rainy adventure in Tokyo with sympathy for the underdog

"...in Masaaki Yuasa's ocean-driven double bill of Ride Your Wave and his mermaid musical eco-comedy Lu Over the Wall...."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Aquarela

Incredible documentary is a song of the power of water

"...in our place, a species at the whim of wave and storm and ice...."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

It's Knives Out For Rian Johnson at Fantastic Fest

The Last Jedi director's latest to close fest

"...film, and as the headline announcement for the second wave of movies, announced today...."

Aug. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft is back again!

"...or at least the 2001 movie. Director Uthaug (The Wave), working from a tight script by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

YA dystopian trilogy finally comes to a close

"...Woodley signaling she wouldn’t go with it. The 5th Wave was a nonstarter. Arguably, the appetite for ruined civilizations..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Miss Hokusai

The life of an artist through the eyes of his daughter

"...best known for the woodblock print titled The Great Wave off Kanagawa. (Director Keiichi Hara incorporates the iconic artwork..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

EDM: Etiquette to Dull the Masses

EDM bounds styles too astute for its vapid pursuits

"...a means for hype-driven norms to fabricate a second wave American rave movement. Like the term “pop,” the acronym..."

July 30, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Superior in nearly all ways to its predecessor, this second film in the prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a welcome surprise.

"...and the ugly mugs of the Orcs come in wave after wave – that it’s easy to lose sight..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man

Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club

"...in 1959 with Richard Burton, launching the British New Wave, which was the subject of a 2007 Austin Film..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: In the Moment

New novel finds John Sayles at the peak of his powers

"...About: The French New Wave, the United States at the turn of the last..."

July 22, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Of Sonograms and Airport Scanners

How an intrusive probe is not like a body image (apparently)

"...eight years of GOP-backed security theater, apparently the new wave of millimeter wave scanners being installed at airports by..."

March 22, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar confides in Secret Circus and tattles on Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...what I'll wear to the Austin Children's Shelter's New Wave Ball this Friday, Feb. 25, at 8pm at the..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Page Two: Inner Sanctums, Outer Orbits

The intertwined legacies of indie music and the alternative press

"...from country and progressive country to punk and New Wave. Located in the Bluebonnet Plaza building on 24th Street,..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Insider's Outsider Guide to Texas

Remembering Bud Shrake

"...for Morris is called "The Land of the Permanent Wave," and it describes what happens when a moderately long-haired..."

May 15, 2009 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Fishing for Change

Hightower's latest is a collection of inspirational tales

"...end we just couldn't cover all that." Riding the Wave..."

March 14, 2008 News Feature by Michael King

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