The Word Made Flesh

Ebenezer Baptist Blends the Spiritual and Temporal

"...Rev. Marvin Griffinphotograph by Minh Carrico The Downtown view is impressive,..."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...Chale Nafus introduced me to my wife. When he allowed me to..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

In Search of the Wild Art

'Cracks in the Pavement' leaves art objects in unexpected spaces throughout the city

"...Where does art belong?..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Keeping the Faith

The Texas Documentary Tour presents festival hit Trembling Before G-d, in which Orthodox Jews try to reconcile religion with their homosexuality.

"...On so many fronts the pain inflicted by religious strictures. (As so well put..."

April 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

"...Etta James is wailing. From a scratchy vinyl 45 comes her voice, anguished..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nailing the Market

The next time you go out to eat, keep an eye out for the work of Austin artist Elizabeth Guenthner. She's showing in almost every cafe where it's possible to display art, and her works' precise, distinctly disturbing beauty is simply transcendent.

"...Austin native Elizabeth Guenthner is exhibiting her artwork, throughout the..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Myth of Che

The Short Life of Revolutionary Che Guevara

"..."I have said that all the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason..."

July 11, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"..."Well, I used to go to Antone's every weekend but..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

What Color Is Your Parapluie?

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

"...For weeks now, my boss has been making faces at me..."

July 19, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chasing C. Robert Cargill's 'Dreams and Shadows'

AICN veteran on goblins, research, and if he's done with criticism

"...It's an old insult: If critics know so much about films and books,..."

Feb. 28, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Dark Shadows

Billy Miller on the return of Cold Sun at Austin Psych Fest

"...Cold Sun is an anomaly in Texas psych history. As significant as Bubble Puppy or..."

April 29, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Werewolves! Do They Get AIDS?

about AIDS

"...It was a dark and stormy night! The fog was thick, so thick you feel it clinging..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Column

The Mighty Finn

AFS Essential Cinema presents the Chilly Humorist of Finland: Aki Kaurismäki

"..."I don't want anything from anybody. I'm Nikander ... ex-butcher, now..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bold One

Action / horror heartthrob John Saxon brings two classics to the Alamo.

"...After nearly a half-century in Hollywood, Brooklyn-born actor John Saxon, who began his career..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Summoning the Blair Witch

Into the woods with Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard

"...Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project birthed a genre, and any sequel..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What's Past Is Prologue

Recreating classic tap routines from the screen and stage opens an exciting new future for Tapestry Dance Company

"...The moves are familiar. You've seen those feet rocket around..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Lighter Side

Todd Smiley is the gaffer in Austin

"...I meet Todd Smiley at what he calls a warmly lit coffee shop. I tell..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

The Faculty

Co-written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), The Faculty is pure Robert Rodriguez: jam-packed with action, suspense, humor, horror, and plenty of cinematic homages.

"...Directed by: Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, Clea Duvall, Josh Hartnett, Laura..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dragon & the Tiger

Shadow Warriors, Glorium

"...Welcome to the shadow world of Glorium, a band shrouded..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature

Pop Goes the Western

Bob Boze Bell Gets Graphic About the Old West

"...Do you worry that alternative media such as books on..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Who's Got the Hootie?

Comparing Austin' and Dallas' 1995 Output

"...Edie Brickell always seemed harmless enough. What she and the New Bohemians may have lacked in..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Feature

The General Specific

AFS Essential Cinema: Love on the Largest Continent: Ten Asian Films

"...The pages of my passport mock me with the paltry..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Me, Ange, and the Interlocking Shadows of Trees

Why do I love Naruto? Because I love my daughter.

"...I've read comic books before. By the time I was her age, I'd read hundreds of..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Qmmunity: Homoscopes to the Future

Where we’re going, we won’t need common sense – only astrology!

"...I’m writing this column from behind a crystal ball, within which..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Column by James Scott

ACL Preview: Riding the Wave of BALTHVS’ Psychedelic Funk

Practicing charged tranquility with the Colombian trio

"...Colombian triumvirate BALTHVS arrive where the best of their Latin contemporaries dock: in the future..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: The Law Is a Ass

The Great Open Meetings Scandal comes to its legalized conclusion

"...So ends one of the sillier yet more lamentable episodes of Austin politics, although..."

Oct. 26, 2012 News Column by Michael King

A Stitch in Time: Revisiting Stitch V

In lieu of an event, a virtual trip around the online crafting world

"...may not seem much like an Age of Enlightenment (the recent election notwithstanding); we really are still so many..."

Nov. 23, 2008 Design Post by Anne Harris

The Hightower Report

Don't Look Down at Immigrants, Look Up; and a New Horror From the IRS

"...DON'T LOOK DOWN AT IMMIGRANTS, LOOK UP Here's a modest..."

April 21, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

No Repeats, No Regrets: Metallica Catches Lightning in Arlington, Twice

Symmetrical nights on the M72 World Tour dug deeper into the catalog

"...“What else should we play?” James Hetfield grinned late Sunday..."

Aug. 21, 2023 Music Post by Austin Powell

Sorcery and Special K: The Neuroplastic Visions of Zoë Shulman

How ketamine therapy helped the Austin artist transmute her psychedelic insights into gallery gold

"...John Dee, the demon-haunted alchemist and court astronomer to England's Queen Elizabeth..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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