Gifts to Make You Look Away From Your Screens

Plenty of films to read about this holiday season

"...the works of artists from Franz Kafka to James Whale. He also draws direct connections between emerging horror icons..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Cinematographer Taylor Powell Has Two Homes Making Stoke

From Austin to Hawaii and back again

"...him on their short film "The Bone of a Whale," the real-life couple knew they wanted Powell as the..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Shalavé Cawley

2018 Texas Teen Book Festival Lineup

Tenth fest brings YA stars Marissa Meyer, Patrick Ness, & more

"...question: What if Moby-Dick had been told by the whale?; David Levithan, the co-writer of Nick and Norah's Infinite..."

July 25, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mug Life

Austin isn't a world-class beer destination, but it's close

"...gone dormant for many years. My dad revived the white beer style of brewing, and eventually brought that to..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Food Feature by Eric Puga

ACL Music Festival: Sunday, October 6

October 6, 2013. 76 photos.

"...Noah and the Whale..."

Oct. 7, 2013 Photo Gallery

Greg Abbott and the Same Old Faces

The men behind the "too stupid to be governor" Tweet

"...But what about Cooper? Superficially, he's just one of..."

Sept. 14, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin City Limits Music Festival Aftershows Announced

More ACL means more aftershows – in four different cities

"...Silversun Pickups, Electric Guest (White Rabbit, San Antonio)..."

Aug. 20, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Listing Chaos

"...midtempo street punk with melodic guitar leads and red, white, and blue skinhead song themes...."

May 31, 2013 Music Feature

Playback: Teatro Negro

Reunions, fundraisers, performance videos – trying to rein in local music as 2012 draws to a close

"...House 29th St. Ballroom with local labelmates Thousand Foot Whale Claw, Plump's band Spray Paint, and Kurrakä for XYX's..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Chef du Cinema: Hungarian Ghoulish, Anyone?

"Wait. Where are you going? I was going to make espresso."

"...so lovingly parodies. Brooks' comic take on director James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, The Bride of..."

Oct. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Bloody Good Time at the Paramount

Classic horror season kicks off with blood drive for 'Nosferatu'

"...with double bills of the greatest in black and white horror (and one color ground-breaker.) Tonight it's Teutonic terror..."

July 24, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

"...up for atomic monster sexcapade "Wadzilla," Green goes James Whale hunting with only "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" to..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Review by Richard Whittaker

Life

Junkie chic achieves the ultimate high

"...(sorry), but this Life beats a uniquely epic, one-of-a-kind, whale of a tale, not some music history corrective. Yin..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

New Wine

SXSW Music 2010

"...former assuming lead vocalist duties while the latter uncorked white-water blues licks wearing his cowboy hat and a shit-eating..."

March 26, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

A Guide to the Works

"...enemies strive to escape from the belly of a whale. Inspired by the Decemberists' "The Mariner's Revenge Song." Mature..."

March 27, 2009 Arts Feature

'Mojo' Recommends

The best British music at SXSW as selected by 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander

"...talents of his friends Laura Marling, Noah & the Whale, Johnny Flynn, and Mumford & Sons – Pistolet also..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

The Electric Exchange

Theatre, dance, music, and film meld and get supercharged in the Fuse Box Festival

"...London; Paris; Mexico City; and all across the Great White North. It's indicative of the way Fuse Box has..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

White Hinterland

Thursday

"...White HinterlandPhylactery Factory (Dead Oceans)..."

March 14, 2008 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Kicking and Screaming

So how does it hold up, the arch back-and-forth of these kids treading water in dead-end video-store gigs and oddly affecting affairs with underage girls?

"...Baumbach's recent Oscar nomination for The Squid and the Whale, his critical legitimacy is now finally catching up to..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

2005 Austin Film Festival Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 20, through Thursday, Oct. 27

"...9:15pm Unknown White Male..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Screens Feature

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 1

"...dance trax, local artists releasing their own bedroom mixes, white label 12-inchers, and live-set mix tapes at outlets like..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

Austin from A to Z

"...DEAD WHALE TIDE: Local group who could be refugees from the..."

July 18, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Canoe

Texas Platters

"...the summer has arrived, jetting down Town Lake on white-water beer suds. Like a mad Eighties take on Sixties..."

July 11, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Led Zeppelin DVD / Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

DVD/Record Review

"...long spidery fingers on 12 Middle Eastern-burnt minutes of "White Summer" conscript only John Paul Jones to the shadows..."

June 13, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...I admire the most, like Alfred Hitchcock, Buñuel, James Whale, Terence Fisher, all of them were people who were..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Meteor in the Madhouse

"...When Ahab went down on his "all-destroying but unconquering whale," an ironically self-consuming allegory was born -- for didn't..."

April 20, 2001 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Young Frankenstein

"...movies they are sending up. Shot in black and white, Young Frankenstein looks like it might have been filmed..."

April 7, 2000 Screens Review by Bud Simons

A Dynamic Greater Than You Can Imagine

Buckminster Fuller believed pieces of things could be combined in new ways to create a powerful new dynamic. Now, playwright Alice Wilson is combining her words with Bucky's life for a dynamic new solo show. Wayne Alan Brenner gets the story.

"...I take a sip of my white chocolate mocha, pondering this, and I wonder if the..."

March 31, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Boy Raises Man

Yes, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" often sidesteps grief and even undermines its critics by slyly layering the self-deprecation. Chronicle contributor Stuart Wade explains why, In Eggers' hands, it works.

"...as the SF cast's Tragic Guy -- as the White Dude Other Than Puck.) In these often humiliating asides..."

March 3, 2000 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

Texas Platters

"...You could gag a whale on the minions of young bands who gravitate toward..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Review by Your Side

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