Testament of Youth

The luminous Alicia Vikander stars as a woman coming of age amid World War I

"...Testament of Youth opens near the end – rather the default framing..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Teenage

Beguiling and maddening in its approach, this odd doc looks at the relatively recent invention of the teenager.

"...biographer Jon Savage’s 2007 book Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, this is an artistic consideration of the conceptualization..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...SXSW showcase: Sat. 16, CU29, 9pm Western Youth..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Songsmiths join forces in Band and Petty land

"...Five years passed before Western Youth followed up its debut EP with last fall's..."

March 8, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Bubble

This gay-tinged Romeo and Juliet story set largely in Tel Aviv shows the complexities of love in a land where the conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers.

"...their given cultures. The conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers. Set in..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Rangers

"...Beek. Call it Dude, Where's My Horse?. This photogenic Western is more ambitious than the usual strenuously middling genre..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Fantasticks

Deep in your heart, you should "follow." Released just a few years ago, this film version of the Off Broadway workhorse captures the feeling of the innocent and bygone era of movie musicals. But it differs from the original work's romantic minimalism as it opens up the play cinematically.

"...period setting, extravagant production design long on artifice, breathtaking Western landscapes (captured luxuriantly in good old Panavision by the..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires

How Austin's Queer Community Supports Its Own

Spotlighting the LGBTQ people and orgs looking after our health, youth, elders, and art

"...nurtured, and determined. After all, without our health, our youth and elders, art, and outlets to let go and..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Arts Feature by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Music Review: From the Hills With Love

Israel Nash’s answer to Luck Reunion and Revival Experience

"...brand of mellow, rumbling, guitar-driven roots rock. That included Western Youth’s more subdued early-afternoon set and ex-Band of Horses..."

March 18, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Tears of the Black Tiger

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

"...series – Tears is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Reveals First 2020 Artist List

Music from all over the map … literally

"...Storm, San Saba County, Tomar & the FCs, and Western Youth...."

Oct. 16, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Tolkien

The trials and triumphs of the man who would create Middle Earth

"...screenwriters David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, intercuts between Tolkien’s youth and education and his harrowing experience as a soldier..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

The notorious life of Serge Gainsbourg is whimsically re-created onscreen.

"...the expected high points of Gainsbourg's semisordid life. His youth in Nazi-occupied Paris offers one of the film's most..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The King and I

"...promote Rodgers & Hammerstein literacy among our Puff Daddy-enamored youth, this shabby, nondescript hack job leaves me no real..."

March 19, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu

Talking turkey with Archers of Loaf, Erika Wennerstrom, Robert Ellis, Sunflower Bean, the Suffers, and PJ Morton

"...blows me away." – Doug Freeman Erika WennerstromBarracuda, Thursday 23; Western Youth opens [inset-2-right]..."

May 24, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW 2019 Reveals Initial Artist List

Amanda Palmer, Oh Sees, Laura Jane Grace, Swervedriver and 236 more

"...Fuvk, Lion Heights, Otis Wilkins, Quiet Company, Sphynx, and Western Youth...."

Oct. 17, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...that's defined her band's recent work. – Doug Freeman Western Youth..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

The Battle for Senate District 14

Incumbent Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos faces a serious challenge in Dellionaire Ben Bentzin

"...Dell marketing executive, would be heavily favored. But the youthful Bentzin has ready access to funding -- his own..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Faster Than Sound: A Month in Austin Rap

Three top-grade hip-hop albums emerged this fall. Let’s recap.

"...the East Austin native recalls late nights returning from youth hip-hop program the Cipher. Now known as Blakchyl, the..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Western Youth

"...– Taylor Williams, Graham Weber, and Matthew Gregg – Western Youth fuses one of the tightest units in town...."

Sept. 28, 2018 Music Review by Doug Freeman

SXSW List No. 4

Dan Auerbach’s father and 118 other acts

"...Western Youth (Austin)..."

Jan. 18, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

London Mayor Sadiq Khan for SXSW

Trailblazing politician to deliver keynote speech

"...roots to the first Muslim leader of a major Western city, he has personified diversity in Britain. Now SXSW..."

Nov. 8, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Bye-Bye, Win Streaks; Bye-Bye, Brits

"...between the Houston Dynamo and Chivas USA for the Western Conference title, David Beckham perhaps set up to perform..."

Oct. 17, 2007 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth photograph by Michael Crawford SONIC YOUTH: Every SXSW, it's..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...After the shockingly on-target coitus during which the practiced youth assuages his young loverÕs fears with hollow promises of..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...scene of frontier violence was Frank Harris, an English youth who had run away from home at the age..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Nowhere to Go

The struggles of homeless teenagers and young adults often go overlooked in Austin

"...to live independent and healthy lives. But most homeless youth – defined by the National Coalition for the Homeless..."

Nov. 6, 2015 News Feature by Makeda Easter

Star Trek

Star Trek is an immensely satisfying origin story that introduces the characters we know – before we knew them.

"...the stars," a canny reference to a wildly popular Western that ended its seven-year run almost one year to..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Riding With Bob

"...praying at the altar of the legendary King of Western Swing. Starting in West Virginia, rambling out to California,..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...as rumba, salsa, and soukous - are results of Western Europe's slavery of Africans, mixing the exiled with the..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

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