Margin Walker Owners Discuss Closure

Graham Williams and Ian Orth step back to reassess amid unknown future

"...during the COVID-19 pandemic, local concert promotions company Margin Walker closed up shop for good on Monday after staging..."

Dec. 15, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Walker

Woody Harrelson stars as a professional escort for political wives in this Paul Schrader movie about sex, murder, scandal, and adultery in Washington, D.C.

"...Bleibtreu, Mary Beth Hurt, Lily Tomlin, Willem Dafoe and William Hope. Armed with a wardrobe of perfectly tailored suits,..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

William Shatner Keeps on Trekking

On Christmas songs and The Wrath of Khan

"...Musician. Raconteur. Filmmaker. Writer. Actor. William Shatner (Bill, as he insists on being called) has..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Art + Commerce

Marc English Design's DIY Criteria

"...nearly forgotten slice of thrillingly mad filmmaking called, simply, Walker...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Thirteen Ghosts

"...Tony Shalhoub. The cinematic exhumation of Sixties schlock-genius producer/director William Castle continues unabated, and, sadly, remains uninspired, uninteresting, and..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Running Scared

Wayne Kramer's follow-up to his crime drama The Cooler has no moral compass, and swings wildly out of control while blanketed in hyper-violent digital gore effects and a thick, black nausea of the soul.

"...Directed by: Wayne Kramer. Starring: Paul Walker, Chazz Palminteri, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Johnny Messner, Ivana..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where the Dope Don't Grow

Feds turn down application for research-marijuana cultivation project

"...with the public interest," wrote DEA Deputy Assistant Administrator William Walker. Further, the FDA had not yet received a..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Shinyribs Frontman Kevin Russell Will Perform Gourds Set for Electric Lounge Reunion

Reliving the wild and woolly Nineties music scene downtown

"...SIMS Foundation. Former Asylum Street Spankers frontman Wammo (born William Walker) hosts the following bill of music and poetry:..."

April 11, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Naked City

"...business as usual." – Capital Metro board Chair Lee Walker, announcing his retirement in a letter to state Sen...."

April 4, 2008 News Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Candidate D: Jasmine Stodel Producers: Jasmine Stodel, Chevis LaBelle, William Dorrien-Smith Kid Candidate tells the story of Hayden Pedigo,..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Castlemania

One boy's induction into horror

"...to my rapidly growing list of really neat filmmakers: William Castle...."

Oct. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The King’s Daughter

Long-delayed historical fairy tale is an overdue oddity

"...Directed by: Sean McNamara. Starring: Kaya Scodelario, Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Fan Bingbing, Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Clarke..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...D: Kiefer Sutherland; with Sutherland, Mykelti Williamson, Kevin Pollak, Vincent Gallo, Kim Dickens...."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making Lists

"...Cisneros, James Crumley, Laura Furman, Dagoberto Gilb, Albert Goldbarth, William Hauptmann, John Irsfeld, Mary Karr, Beverly Lowry, Willie Morris,..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Carl Franklin; with Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger, William Hurt, Nicky Katt, Tom Everett Scott. This screen adaptation..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives

"...by Martin Walker..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...think, feel, do just as one pleases," wrote essayist William Hazlitt in the early 19th century. One hundred fifty..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Skulls

"...Directed by: Rob Cohen. Starring: William Peterson, Steve Harris, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Bibb, Hill Harper,..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Story of G.I. Joe

"...THE STORY OF G.I. JOED: William Wellman (1945); with Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith, Wally Cassell,..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Letters at 3AM

Dictates

"...mandated institution (the FBI). "At issue here," the conservative William Safire wrote in protest some days later, "is Congress'..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...gaffer: Tex Hall. Production manager: Paul Lewis. Associate producer: William L. Hayward. Executive producer: Bert Schneider. Raybert Productions, Inc...."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...to hopefully get into UT. I remember telling Johnny Walker, the KLBJ deejay, that a moment with him on..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Live reviews of Big Bill, Protextor, Black Fret Ball, and Margaret Moser’s memorial concert

"...2016 grant recipient Walker Lukens owned the evening with a drunken award presentation..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Alone in the Dark

There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.

"...Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Will Sanderson, Matthew Walker and Frank C. Turner. There's a certain majesty to..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Here Come the Transporters

In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace

"...pay tolls on their roads, specifically South MoPac over William Cannon and U.S. 290/Texas 71 through the Y in..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Taking Pictures

This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.

"...Walker Evans: The Lost Workby Clark Worswick and Belinda Rathbone..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

TV Eye

Caprica, a prequel series to SyFy's Battlestar Galactica, is out of this world

"...as Joseph Adama, a powerful criminal defense attorney and William Adama's father. (William will grow up to be Edward..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Fleming, Babz Chula, Earl Pastko, Suzy Joachim, Deanna Milligan, William McDonald, Mary McDonald, Faustino Cachilapo...."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Big Money for Big Roads

Deciding how the Mobility Bond is spent on Austin's most traveled streets

"...Urban planner and Vision Zero ATX member Heyden Black Walker told me that while the elements it puts into..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...and Alex North’s weary, sweat-drenched score elevating the Tennessee Williams play to new heights. Taxi Driver and A Streetcar..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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