Ngozi Ukazu Hip-Checks This Year’s Staple! Expo

Local artist brings a hockey team’s worth of wit & bro-centric warmth

"...most successfully Kickstarted webcomic in the history of Kickstarter. Young, brilliant, funny, and *sigh* too pretty for words...."

Sept. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Emma Cline's The Girls

This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969

"...story as classic and time-tested as American literature itself: Young first-time author writes a coming-of-age novel with some social..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

This nonfiction account of a teen's encounters with sex, drugs, and jail is one long, raw primal scream

"...immediate publishing sensation and bestseller, well beyond its intended young adult audience. But the power of the prose and..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Review by Tim Stegall

Personal True Tales, Plus New and Returning Texas Legends at SXSW

Film festival director Janet Pierson gives us the 2014 rundown

"...that she's got a Twilight in her, some super-blockbuster young adult material, because she's really great with young adult..."

Jan. 30, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fun: Join the (Book) Club

Summer reading programs for Austinites young and old

"...to be a book club out there for you. Young readers and seasoned pros, fiction-lovers and fact-fans alike can..."

May 15, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Hugo

Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.

"...Hugo is perhaps not a story for the youngest of children as there are no talking animals or..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Incendies

A powerful and eloquent anti-war drama, this French-Canadian film unites the personal with the political in a stunning manner.

"...interweaves episodes of Jeanne’s search with others of Nawal’s young-adult life in this country. Many surprises surface but not..."

June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Am Number Four

This filmed adaptation of the first book in the proposed Lorien Legacies series follows the tribulations of an alien refugee on Earth.

"...McAuliffe and Kevin Durand. A charismatic but despotic ruler. Younglings struggling to catch a foothold. A universe dictated by..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Still Bringing It

Jessica Bendinger on the 10th anniversary of her snarky cheer comedy Bring It On

"...the acerbic gymnastics comedy Stick It, and a new young adult novel, The Seven Rays, which Bendinger will adapt..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Penguin With the Pulitzer

Berkeley Breathed on putting Opus to bed and what comes next

"...Texan with his college-based comic strip Academia Waltz, a young Berkeley Breathed (kinda rhymes with "method") carved his name..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Edward and Bella are back for more thwarted young vampiric love.

"...(in a projected four-film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling, young-adult vampire series), and her successor, Weitz, brings zero sense..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fun for the Whole Family

Traversing the Texas Book Festival

"...them coming: One of the unexpected pleasures of my adult life has been a kind of ongoing all-family book..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Inkheart

This fantasy adventure, in which characters come to life when the books they're in are read aloud, boasts a strong cast and an ingrained love for reading and the well-told tale.

"...27 languages and found a comfy home in the young-adult section of libraries the world over. I haven't read..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings star as the titular bridge-and-tunnel kids at the heart of this New York City after-dark romantic comedy.

"...Cohn and David Levithan's infinitely readable he said/she said young-adult novel, wants to be loved at least as much..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Kid B'

Linden Dalecki's new novel: an excerpt

"...so with the most complexity and ambition despite its young-adult aim, at least according to Harrigan and Strom. Bird..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Winter Solstice

Neither a change of seasons nor truly wonderful performances can breathe life into the dismally enervated drama Winter Solstice.

"...of the film, Jim has lived with his two young-adult sons Gabe (Stanford) and Pete (Webber). Pete goes to..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Do the right thing! Or not.

"...to the 1909 World Series, where Joe is a young adult (played by Shawn Hatosy). He gets to drink..."

April 2, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Gotta Dance!

Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.

"...grown over the past few years, both as a young adult and as a dancer?..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Lindsey Schwartz

Why I Read ...

"...Young adult and children's author Louis Sachar: I actually have..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...a famous and beautiful actress, has died recently. Three young men sneak into the morgue to see her naked...."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Kids Stay in the Pictures

When the Cinemaker Co-op and the Center for Young Cinema combined to make the Motion Media Arts Center, at least one thing stayed the same: the importance of kids

"...created by the kids over at the Center for Young Cinema, which merged with longtime Austin film group the..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Exhibitionism

Sandbox: Young at Heart

"...The Yard @ The Vortex, Through Jul 17 Running..."

July 16, 1999 Arts Review

World on a String

Young violinists from across the globe flock to Austin for North America's first Menuhin Competition

"...violinists under the age of 22. Every two years, young players from around the globe vie for the competition's..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Different Stages

The divergent paths of one disease, in life and on film

"...that it exists at all is a little mind-boggling: Young adults with cancer are so widely ignored that being..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Dave Marsh

10 in Focus

Alma

"...about role-playing. It's about this real estate agent bringing young couples in to look at these older people's house..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...long-running partnerships with Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, and Neil Young, the guitarist boasts dozens of LPs both solo and..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Jolt Aims to Energize the Latino Vote

Local activist nonprofit engages a growing demographic

"...the mid-July heat. In crowns and sashes, the 15 young Latina women chose an unlikely spot to hold their..."

Sept. 1, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Amassing Awards

"...for his book Holes: a National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Medal Award, an American Library..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Books Feature

Far from Hollywood

"...made a short film in 1969, "Several Friends," about young people in a South-Central community...."

Jan. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Nafus

Juliette Binoche and Trần Anh Hùng Sample The Taste of Things

The ingredients of the lauded French romance about cooking

"...in and it becomes a sauce.” Then, as a young adult, she added, her interest in cooking, and the..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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