You Can't Bury Me

Octavis Berry died, but he left behind the League of Extraordinary G'z

"...A local rapper died last October because nobody would tell..."

June 8, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Southland Tales

Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.

"...Directed by: Richard Kelly. Starring: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Seann William Scott,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...The Square Now there is something for tomorrow. What are women..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...Like God and the Devil, - - writer Donald E. Westlake has..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Richie Rich

"...Directed by: Donald Petrie. Starring: Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Ed Herrmann, Michael..."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Dwarves Must Be Crazy

Thai horror and comedy collide: butt-licking, bug-eating ensues

"...If there’s one thing the Thai film industry knows how to do, it’s weird the..."

Sept. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Year in Movies, and in Moments

What didn’t make my Top 10

"...I filed my Top 10 list this year, as every year, with a..."

Dec. 31, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Clint Eastwood: Good, Bad & Ugly

Hey, at least Sondra Locke didn't show up

"...We love Clint Eastwood. Period. What happened yesterday at the Republican National Convention..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Sixth Sense

"...Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan. Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Olivia Williams, Toni..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...Summer films = fluff. That expectation can be a pretty fair assumption just about..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

The Eighth Street Survivors

They came out to protest police brutality. They were met by a life-altering wave of police violence. Eight months later, they still await justice and change.

"...Editor's note: This story has been updated since publication with..."

Feb. 5, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

If It Ain't Bruch, Don't Fix It

Just a drummer from Iowa? Just a culinary badass? Hold his beer.

"...Jeremy Bruch: Maybe best known in these parts as the drumming component..."

Dec. 21, 2017 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Darkbird Gets Down With Its Bad Self

Austin quintet goes crazy channeling Prince

"...“I think God is in the third row. He wants to go crazy. And I think he would follow..."

Dec. 5, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Pressing the Flesh

The world's leading adult toy manufacturer for men wants to take the stigma out of sex

"...Steve Shubin, inventor of the Fleshlight and founder and CEO of Interactive..."

May 11, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Rush Hour

Todd Phillips' Frat House, screening at the Alamo this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, asks the question: Will you ever dick a brother?

"...Todd Phillips, co-director of the Sundance-acclaimed Frat House (1998), would..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Pressure Drop

The State of Modern Reggae

"...About two years ago, after some long-forgotten gig, I was..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature

Music Amidst Used Furniture

The History of the Red River Strip

"...The bar's gonna be pushed back, and all this is gonna..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...The fifteenth annual Fantastic Fest – the Alamo Drafthouse's celebration of cinema..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trading One 'Community' for Another

Dan Harmon is talking to you

"...Canceled sitcoms litter the network landscape. Fired showrunners and head..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...It may be hotter than hades outside but the news from..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Shock and Awesomeness

Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival

"...The dream is always the same. It's summer, 1984-ish, and I'm..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

No matter if it's an unknown young singer like 17-year-old Sahara Smith in a little club on South Lamar (the "unknown" part won't last long in her case), no matter if it's in the room of an unknown poet destined to remain unknown, no matter – there are acts of creation, however desperate, that cannot be stopped.

"...Twenty-six years ago (if memory serves) in Venice, Calif., a friend..."

March 31, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...When a friend writes an exceptional book it's your victory too..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Taking Stages

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...KAiROS We had decided to try and not come across..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Booze, Bad Guys, and Bamboozlement

Analyzing the Stereotype of Detectives and the Bottle

"...illustration by Roy Tompkins The beauty of the detective genre..."

April 25, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

OMG, We’ve Reached Peak Yogurt

It’s cocojune, and it’s not even, you know, dairy-based …

"...By “reaching peak yogurt,” I don’t mean that the world’s supply..."

April 5, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fantastic Fest Gets Arty

First titles, plus Nicolas Winding Refn on exploitation

"...Things are about to get weird: Fantastic Fest 2015 has announced..."

July 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Heathers, the Musical

Doctuh Mistuh's staging of the Eighties cult film is ridiculous in the best possible way

"...Man, high school sucks, right? Teachers on your case, parents..."

July 3, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

DVDanger: I Hear Voices

Horror elevated aurally by Henry Rollins and Jeffrey Combs

"...The sealed-room drama is a conundrum. A single location is appealing..."

March 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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