SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...SXSW Film Festival staff received about 1,500 narrative features and 1,000 documentaries, and narrowed that down to about 150..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lovecraft and Rest Stops: Rebekah McKendry Takes to the Road for Glorious

Inside the pandemic roots of the new cosmic horror comedy

"...Lovecraft. Master of the uncanny. Godfather of cosmic horror. And funny. After all, as filmmaker and film historian Rebekah..."

Aug. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

The 'Saveur' Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

"...media, the most controversial documentaries, the must-see independent films, and the visiting bands that were just not to be..."

April 2, 2004 Food Feature

A Wink and a Smile

As Food editor Virginia B. Wood relates in a review of Wink, a new restaurant on North Lamar, two of Austin's longtime chefs are busy operating the restaurant of their dreams.

"...Long before chefs Stewart Scruggs and Mark Paul were rather unceremoniously relieved of their high-profile..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Young and Hungry

ACC offers students two restaurants' worth of opportunity

"...top-quality, prime cooking ingredients, both from local artisanal producers and from elite flagship grocers, such as Central Market and..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Fusing Southwestern and Asian Cuisines Brio Grande

"...Dinner 5pm-12am, daily by Tom Philpott Flannery O'Connor wrote that..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Arts Feature

DVDanger: Sasquatch and Zombies and Demons, Oh My!

Let the Halloween countdown commence

"...or the everyday trespasses on the eerie. Beasts abound, and there's a great found-footage Sasquatch movie currently doing the..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Event Menu

Celebrate food in festivals and with foundations this fall

"...• Don't miss Austin's oldest celebration of food and culture at the 78th annual St. Elias Mediterranean Festival..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...week after a battle with cancer, was celebrated locally and nationally for his fiction and nonfiction. He also wrote..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Those Magic Moments

Composer, classicist Stephen Barber's encoding and imprinting

"...musician who has long surrounded himself with similarly eccentric and expressive visionaries: from celebrated rock stars like Keith Richards,..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Gear Up, Beer Up

Craft brewery and brewpub options

"...quickly captivated craft beer loyalists. Recently featured in BeerAdvocate and named one of Draft Magazine's 100 best beer bars..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Food Feature by Anna Toon

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...interesting a story," says Paul Burka, senior executive editor and lead political reporter for the magazine. "But Evan Smith,..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...Power Rankings dropped? You’re looking right at ’em, pal. And this is the year, at long last, that brought..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

SXSW Band Announcement, Part III

1,500 of some 2,000 showcasing acts now vetted

"...Claypool, hardcore supergroup Off!, sissy bounce queen Big Freedia, and rarely touring soul man Cody Chesnutt stand out...."

Jan. 7, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin Restaurants for Special Occasions

Want some ambience to go with your food? No problem.

"...lighting, elegant cutlery, a bathroom with a playful décor, and a million other variables that can transform dinner out..."

June 14, 2022 Food Post

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Emerging Visions, Headliners, the music-oriented 24 Beats Per Second, and more – will screen over the course of the..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of growing up in the shadow of..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Two Trips to Costco

A mother and a private chef share their notes

"...proportions before I decided to give it a go and check it out myself. The noise began as chatter..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Eat, Memory

The food staff on their fondness for holidays past: epiphanies, friendship, near-disaster, disaster, and always a full plate

"...in the turkey was forbidden by both tradition (my Grandmother Walden) and instruction (Mrs. Fright said the bacteria could..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Mug Life

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

"...the moment. With nearly 50 Central Texas production breweries and brewpubs in various stages of operation, the general drinking..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Tony Visconti Part 1

"...Man Who Sold the World, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters, and Heathen made him a household name in my music..."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Golden Arm Symphony

Unraveling the budding symphonic genius of Graham Reynolds

"...Reynolds, Keith opens his brother's well-attended CD release party and buffet dinner with a bruising 45-minute impression of the..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, Aug. 12, has received serious accolades for The Lovely Bones. But Amanda Eyre Ward writes "whether you're willing to listen to a narrator who is telling her story from heaven will determine how quickly you fall into that story."

"...that has been universally hailed as a "triumph" (Time) and a "stunning achievement" (The New Yorker) and to admit..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward

Pete Holmes: The Interview

The comedian on the role SXSW played in boosting his career

"...According to social lore, rare is the occasion when a nice guy doesn’t finish..."

March 10, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

20 Years of Austin Gifts

... And a slew of other local businesses celebrating significant anniversaries

"...Austin. We've seen our town in boom, bust, überboom, and near bust again. For our holiday shopping guide, we..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Chow Downtown

Dining in the Heart of Austin

"...Cafe has since become Shakespeare's Pub photograph by John Anderson The three stoned college students were chilled after their..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Food Feature

Echoes of Excellence

Louie's signature Mediterranean fare claims a strong spot in the city's collective gustatory memory, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes. Indeed for many Austinites, Louie's 106 provided initiation into the world of Spanish tapas and introduced the vibrant, if now omnipresent, "Mediterranean" cooking style.

"...I can, like most food lovers, conjure up a handful of fond food memories. Thinking hard enough about them,..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Food Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...quette, Dina Brooks, Burt Williams, Larry Maxwell, Charles Cavanaugh, Brandon Bo yce. (NR, 92 min.) Before there existed The..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...comes Lee's first real look at urban drug dealing and the effects it has on life in the 'hood...."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...George BanksÕ life is swell. HeÕs survived the defection and subsequent, lavish marriage of his daughter to an irritatingly..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

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