Give Me Freedom and Give Me Death Metal

'Death Metal Angola' director Jeremy Xido on capturing a country's first-ever metal festival

"...Staging a rock festival is hard. Staging the first-ever rock..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Flesh and the Faith of 'We Are What We Are'

Director Jim Mickle on remakes, religion, and America's dark history

"...vampire tropes with 2010's Stake Land, horror fans lauded the arrival of a radical new talent. So there were..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Ups for ‘Detective Downs’

Norwegian P.I. at Fantastic Fest updates the gumshoe tradition

"...He wears a trench coat and fedora. With a cigarette dangling..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Narco Cultura' Sings a Song of the Drug War

Director Shaul Schwarz explores the balladeers of crime

"...There's a pivotal image in Narco Cultura: A dotted line..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Little Shop of Horrors

This year's Zilker Summer Musical swaps the Swiss Alps for Skid Row, but it's as hugely entertaining as ever

"...Little Shop of HorrorsSheffield Zilker Hillside Theater, 2206 William Barton Dr., 512/479-9491 www.zilker.org Through Aug. 18..."

July 26, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

DVDanger: 'Wolverine Origin'

No, not the terrible movie. The groundbreaking comic, animated.

"...There's a joke in the comic strip Twisted Toyfare Theater...."

July 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lone Star State of Mind

Neal Barrett Jr.'s characters, clues, and unparalleled career

"...you he's a writer. You'd have to look for the details: the books on the shelves, the awards on..."

June 7, 2013 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Dark Skies

Keri Russell is a modern suburban scream queen

"...Remember when we still liked Nicole Kidman? No, I'm not running for..."

June 3, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

Partly because her movie's in the Seattle International Film Festival

"...This blogpost is about Jennymarie Jemison partly because The Quiet Girl's Guide to Violence, the short film she..."

May 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Unknown Soldier

Bill Carter steps out from under the shadow of Captain Jack Sparrow

"...Grill says she likes Bill Carter's big silver skull ring. It's from the set of Pirates of the Caribbean..."

May 3, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Growing Pains

HausBar dispute shadows city's urban farms

"...Public reactions to initial reports of the closure of HausBar Farms (see "Com­mun­ication..."

April 26, 2013 News Feature by Anna Toon

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"...can cease hostilities, sometimes even be besties for once in their mistrustful lives. In the heyday of the great..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Orbiting SXSW

Return of the Secaucus 7? Try the arrival of a SXSW septet: Dana Falconberry, Shakey Graves, The Eastern Sea, My Jerusalem, Black Pistol Fire, The Preservation, and The Boxing Lesson.

"...Out of the tens of thousands of words we'll generate on the..."

March 1, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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

The Flip Side

In Poor Shadows of Elysium's Richard II, a coin makes all the difference in what you see

"...The stars of Poor Shadows of Elysium's production of Richard..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

The Bandera Way

Scenes from a marriage in four acts.

"...a comfortable Hyde Park address, bright natural light pours in through the large windows of a house owned by..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'Black and White Photograph'

The second-place story

"...In the bottom of a drawer filled with nylons, white..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Bill Cryer

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...In addition to announcing its after-dark Midnighters slate, today SXSW..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...I want to tell you about the men and women with the live fireworks exploding off..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

Somebody That I Used to Know

An interview with Australian hitmaker Gotye

"...YouTube finally hijacked the pop charts in 2012. Karmin landed on..."

Oct. 13, 2012 Music Post by Austin Powell

From the Vaults: When Shirley Clarke Met Roger Corman

Shirley Clarke was to direct "Crazy Mama"

"...I wrote a piece this week in the Chronicle about filmmaker Shirley Clarke and her..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chris Jericho: From Y2J to 'Sin and Bones'

WWE superstar on touring and the next big things in wrestling and metal

"..."When I was a kid, I wanted to be in a rock and roll band, and I wanted to..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: 'I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing'

"Route 66" taught me that I did not want to be rooted again

"...was 13 and on my own. Strangers took me in. I wasn't grateful. I felt no loyalty. They were..."

June 29, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Shine a Light

'In the Shadow' and more selections from the 15th annual Cine Las Americas

"...With its blood-red tides, ominously exotic seaside location, and multiple layers of feverish, sexual..."

April 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'Sheds'

Short Story Contest third-place winner

"...I went out to the mailbox in my bare feet. The..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Melanie Westerberg

What about Brooke and the Wolves?

This is where the wild things art.

"...What are you scared of?..."

Feb. 9, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Juan Williams: Word for Word

Author of Muzzled speaks up

"...News analyst and author Juan Williams will be in town this week (Saturday, Oct. 22, 10am, C-SPAN/Book TV..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Michael King

Justice Is a Joke

"...Dear Editor, Like most institutions perpetrated on its subjects by our government, probation is..."

Sept. 13, 2011 Postmarks

Jennifer Hart

An Austin choreographer journeys to an international competition

"...A text from a friend encouraged choreographer and Ballet Austin Academy faculty member Jennifer Hart to apply for the..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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