The First Omen

Gruesome gynohorror prequel to 1976’s satanic masterpiece The Omen

"...not orphans, but unwanted kids given up by single mothers who are subjected to the agonizing indignities of the..."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Movies, Comedy, Books, and More Recommended Arts Events

Find an art that fits your tastes

"...body of work with this new collection featuring single mothers, seniors, and people with multicultural backgrounds as living vases..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Spider Sculptures, Gore Feasts, and More Arts Events

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

"...bio. Amplify’s pick for March, Pet, was Emezi’s first young adult venture and received a Stonewall Honor. Its plot..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Relays, Rides, and Rasslin' Headline This Week's Community Events

Recommended happenings around town

"...from the Italian lotto game, bingo has been delighting young and old – okay, mostly old – since the..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: We Were Dangerous

Reform-school girls break the rules

"...and train them to become good Christian wives and mothers or, at minimum, shop workers...."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hundreds of Thousands Denied Medicaid and Food Assistance in Texas

It's a department of dysfunction, and it isn’t getting better

"...Program, SNAP. "Governor [Greg] Abbott and Commissioner [Cecile Erwin] Young, how can you reasonably expect anyone in the situation..."

Dec. 1, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Mami Wata

Nigerian fable melds modern politics and ancient beliefs through intoxicating imagery

"...these dead children taken at a whim, these grieving mothers inconsolable? Zinwe goes into exile, but Mama Efe's other..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Austin Chronic: Inside Texas’ Busiest Medical Cannabis Facility

State restrictions are bonkers, but that hasn't stopped Texas Original from expanding

"...prohibition, now uses it for Alzheimer's, but many are young kids with seizure disorders, including one whose chart shows..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by Kevin Curtin

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...Austin community, and with the approval of their churchgoing mothers, Cooly Girls became a fixture of local schools, talent..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

How One Cottage Food Purveyor Helps Launch Careers

Kimchi Rók and the Clifton Career Development School bring young chefs to the table

"...can I [highlight an] underrepresented community?' I thought about mothers, how they can often be forgotten with their hard..."

April 14, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Eight April Music Festivals In and Around Austin

From Rancho Alegre to Austin Blues, April offers ample opportunities

"...beats from Philadelphia's ANTI-signed Son Little, the festival highlights young, new talent. Die Spitz's punchy hard rock and Superfónicos's..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

What We’re Listening to This Week

Angela Strehli, Quentin Arispe, and an improvisation supergroup

"...percussionist Lisa Cameron (ST37/Suspirians/her own projects), guitarist Jonathan Horne (Young Mothers/Plutonium Farmers/a dozen others), and saxophonist Joshua Thomson (Atlas..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Column by Jay Trachtenberg

The Most Memorable Moments of Sunday’s ACL Fest

Spoon, Buffalo Nichols, and Paramore’s devotional nostalgia

"...and Christabel Lin on violin. A strong showing of young women fans focused on Zauner – two nearby leaping..."

Oct. 10, 2022 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...has finally come to resemble that musical interplay. As young men, they found it impossible to imagine a happy..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Pro-Choice Demonstrators Turn Out by the Thousands

Protests at schools, the Texas Capitol continue after leaked Supreme Court decision

"...American women will now have fewer rights than their mothers had growing up. "It's not just our daughters and..."

May 20, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...Producers: Yulia Gulyan, Antonina Lee A child prodigy, the youngest Soviet poetess, and by the age of 27 a..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sex Sells: 40 Years of Forbidden Fruit

Terri Lynn Raridon gives Austin over to absolute pleasure

"...And how did Raridon, a young woman pursuing a BFA in dance at the University..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ethan Azarian’s Life on the Fringe

A new album emerging, the songwriter-painter reflects on his journey

"...As leader of the Orange Mothers, Azarian’s pop style could be joyous and provoking, and..."

Oct. 21, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Ten Things That Defined ACL Fest's First Weekend

Abortion ban opposition, a weather delay, and the unforgettable performances

"...messages delivered in front of crowds so full of young women felt resonant. Miley and Megan..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Most Memorable Moments of Friday’s ACL Fest

Megan, Miley, Maidza, and one really long line

"...“Hypnotic” fans from 2014 got the works from this young artist, who ended with her version of “You Sexy..."

Oct. 2, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Before Stonewall

The short stories in this collection from Austin's Awst Press simmer with queer rage, grief, and longing

"...narrators and protagonists of these stories are almost exclusively young gay men working in and around the New York..."

June 25, 2021 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...of the many lysergic faces of Levitation vets Acid Mothers Temple. Instrumental flourishes abound, guided by flute, violin, even..."

May 21, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Shiva Baby

Wry observational comedy puts the fun in funeral

"...Baby," Emma Seligman cast Rachel Sennott as Danielle, a young Jewish woman begrudgingly attending a mourning gathering, only to..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

"Deborah Roberts: I'm" at the Contemporary Austin

In Deborah Roberts' solo exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, we learn what it is to be seen and not seen

"...of different photographs – say, one eye of a young girl, the other of a middle-aged man, the lips..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

True Mothers

Japanese adoption drama gets tangled up in melodrama

"...eyesight in Radiance; and now, her latest film, True Mothers, is about teenagers who become pregnant, and the families..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...thanks to scratchy-voiced, high-octane rhyming about gritty environments. The young MC used this momentum to strike a deal with..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Herself

Irish Lifetime Movie of the Week-style melodrama is cheering enough

"...without homes in recent years, many of them single mothers. Sandra is one of those moms, raising two young..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Be Filled With Dredd For Other Worlds

Judge Dredd retrospective plus new hits for SF fest

"...life, suffers a breakdown. But Ren is unlike other mothers; she is an android, her breakdown a glitch, and..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFF Short and Sweet: "The Yellow Dress"

Alex Ko on his French tale of a boy and his dress

"..."The Yellow Dress," director Alex Ko's story of a young French boy, Raphael (Jules Leyendecker), whose mother rejects his..."

Oct. 28, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Challenges of Going Back to School

Parents, teachers, and students share their anxieties over starting the fall semester while COVID-19 is still rampant

"...pandemic has been tough on every parent, but single mothers like myself have been hardest hit. Luckily I have..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

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