A Wild and Precious "Theraplay" of Gay Experience

One man's 50+ year gay journey comes home to a place that helped launch it

"...Cadwell has processed the trauma, the heartbreak, the joy, and the triumph of patients LGBTQIA. Through the lens of..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Carmen Rising

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor

The life of a same-sex marriage hero sparkles in this collaborative memoir

"...I have to confess that I came to A Wild and Precious Life biased in its favor. Edie Windsor's..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Shawnee Kilgore’s Long Precious Road

Includes a mega writer-director and “beautiful kind of permission”

"...a room, it lights up like a bouquet of wild flowers. No surprise, then, that Kilgore caught the attention..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Greek Fest, Taylor Swift Wrestling, and More Weekend Events

No weekend plans? We have some suggestions.

"...Thanks to Seventies funk band War, the word “lowrider” often calls to mind the..."

May 24, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Savlov's Top Ten Redux Part One: The Good, the Badass, and the Weirder

Savlov's other Top Ten

"...To begin with, Marley is dead, and top ten lists are insane, or, at the very..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Into the Wild

Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's bestselling mystery adventure to the screen with frequently stunning but ultimately unsatisfactory results.

"...Malone, Brian Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart and Hal Holbrook. On April 28, 1992, a scraggly 24-year-old..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Born to Be Wild

"...John Grey. Starring: Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, Peter Boyle and John C. McGinley. A rebellious Generation-X youngster finds meaning..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Quick and the Dead

"...Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henricksen, Woody Strode and Pat Hingle. There is, regrettably, precious little that is..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inside the Seventies Weed Business in Wild Times in Old Austin

Dazed, confused, and profitable

"...As someone who savors his precious reading time and usually spends that time venturing into..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Squirrels, Girls, and Other Pearls in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Acro-Cats, Earth Day, and all manner of arts and culture happenings

"...window at the lives performed in a strange, beautiful, and familiar apartment block.   – Richard Whittaker Lipstick..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Accents and Cowlicks: Julio Torres on Problemista

SNL alum explores the magical world of immigration

"...At the beginning of a long day of press and a screening of his debut feature as star, writer,..."

March 21, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

25 Years Ago, Sublime Arrived in Austin and Cut One of the Decade's Biggest Albums

Local producer Paul Leary put some Austin in the Long Beach surf/punk/dub trio's mix

"...Epitome of tragedy and triumph, Sub­lime's eponymous third album became a generational touchstone..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

"Valerie Fowler: Nature and Other Stories" at the Butridge Gallery

The art here tells local stories but is universal in ways that are loud, strange, and reverent for uncontrolled nature

"...of them are straightforward, really wanting to be pretty and recognizable – the kind of stuff you find in..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

ZZ Top

Live Shots

"...need a new album to sell an arena show. And when you're ZZ Top and have a new album,..."

June 20, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Parks, Gardens, Pisces, and More Arts Events for the Week

Get out and get arty, away from the SXSW crowds

"...Being the Other and Between..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Keep Calm and Party On

Everything you need to know to navigate SXSW Film

"...Unsure about when your boots are made for walking, and when it's time to hail a cab? You've got..."

March 4, 2013 Screens Post

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...shit about superheroes these days. We left those hyperbolic spandex-stretchers and their banal melodrama behind with the Crunchberries and..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...a 6-foot-5-inch man wearing a wrestler's mask, black leather, and a strap-on sex toy that rhymes with "Bilbo" but..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Blood and Memories

"...but rather because I was watching Stevie. He was standing off stage left, his curious brown eyes transfixed on..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...he is an aficionado, one for whom the beat and the noise and fury was All, punk rock has..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Squirrel Fest, a Bidi Bidi Birthday, and More Community Events

Plan your week with some of our recommended happenings around town

"...the ol’ resume, throw on some biz casual duds, and join the city for its lucky 13th annual job..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Wild Ride

Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt made "405" with a digital camera, off-the-desktop software, and a desktop computer. The action / comedy has now become the most popular short film on the Web.

"...lot -- much more than I fly -- on and around the dreaded I-35 collision corridor. Nerve-racking on the..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Simple Twist of Fate

"...Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin, Laura Linney and Alana Austin. Taking its inspiration more from George Eliot's..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Monos

Colombian child-soldier drama is a bleak look into the cruelty of innocents

"...Directed by: Alejandro Landes. Starring: Sofia Buenaventura, Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Laura..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Forsaken

"...Oruche, Matt Reid, A.J. Buckley, Simon Rex, Alexis Thorpe and Carrie Snodgress. It had to happen, I suppose. Given..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Full Tilt Boogie

"...Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Parks and Victoria Lucai. Sarah Kelly's absorbing documentary on the making..."

July 31, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Keeping Life Queer in 2020

A Guide to Gifting Queerly for the coming decade

"...the season of gifting is once again upon us, and once again we at Qmmunity find ourselves puzzling over..."

Dec. 5, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

A Night at the Roxbury

"...Directed by: John Fortenberry and Will Ferrell. Starring: Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon,..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 10-16

"...the next four weeks. Everything you need to happen and all the resources you need to attract will come..."

May 10, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Deceiver

"...Directed by: Jonas Pate and Joshua Pate. Starring: Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker,..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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