Qmmunity: Stop, Drop, and Shop

Qmmunity advises on what local places are best for gay gift shopping this year

"...this cold water dip. Featuring tunes by DJ Lavender Thug and drag by Honey Baby and Eddie Divas. Door..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by James Scott

Back to School With Queer Austinites

Queer Austin artists and icons give their two cents on surviving ATX

"...of being gentrified and homogenized. It’s imperative that the young Queer people choosing to relocate to Austin, from elsewhere,..."

Aug. 18, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...constricting parameters of mainstream mentality by labeling her a "thug bitch." No woman who works incredibly hard to move..."

March 28, 2003 Column

Giants Have Us in Their Books

There are moments of magic in Shard Live Performance Collective production of Giants Have Us in Their Books, Jose Rivera's five-play take on human vices and virtues, but they are few and far between in an evening filled with urban and suburban angst, folly, and outright nastiness.

"...the world that all five plays inhabit. What the young actors of Shard really have going for them is..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Traffik

Sleazy modern exploitation falls off its poorly staked moral high ground.

"...Brea has a cryptic conversation with a druggy, unkempt young woman with perfectly bleached teeth in the ladies’ room..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lawless

Abundantly violent yet decidedly listless, there’s very little kick to this moonshining picture from director John Hillcoat and musician/screenwriter Nick Cave.

"...in comparison with his brothers; and Jack is the youngest, but wants to be more of a player than..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Drillbit Taylor

This mediocre tween comedy that stars Owen Wilson comes from some very talented people – Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen – who appear to be experiencing a delayed sophomore slump.

"...and Frost's bully boy is patterned after every school-yard thug ever created, up to and including Matt Dillon's turn..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

L'Enfant

This Cannes Palme d'Or winner presents a maelstrom of grit, crime, poverty, and bureaucratic gridlock.

"...is not a feel-good love story between the rumpled young couple you see in a clinch. Oh, no. Revolving..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye

I saw two seemingly unrelated things on TV that set my mind ablaze last week. The first was a commercial for toddlers' disposable underwear. The second was the series premiere of Jonny Zero on Fox.

"...In the commercial, a young woman is trying on clothes in a department store..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Mystic River

Clint Eastwood's newest is a dark, lachrymose tale of slowly snaking evil.

"...Celeste (Harden, in an exceptional turn) and with a young son, but never truly far from the back seat..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews

"...too. Unlike blues, which is dead among black youth, young Creoles still pack the zydeco dance halls in Louisiana,..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Review

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont's debut feature based on the Stephen King novella receives a 10th anniversary reissue. The prison drama features standout performances by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

"...surround it. It is here, in 1947, that a young introverted banker by the name of Andy Dufresne (Robbins)..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sugar Hill

"...may at first seem like a bedrock cliché: two young brothers (Snipes, Wright) in the City's heroin trade in..."

March 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three Ninjas

"...arts mentor (Wong) and three, as opposed to one, young proteges (Treanor, Slade, and Power). Meanwhile, a flimsy plot..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Qmmunity: More Pride, Less Prejudice

In a way, we're all gay Darcys looking for our gay Elizabeths in the thrush of Pride parties

"...for the daytime Pride Is for Families, 10am-noon, where young and old alike can enjoy LGBTQ arts & crafts,..."

June 9, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: The Puzzle of Pride

Putting together all the pieces of queer history with Pride Month events

"...Slay! Werk! Bewts! Lavender Thug's wild card drag show, where every week a new..."

June 2, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Real Roxy Hours

Local queer comic and jill-of-all-trades Roxy Castillo talks her performance style and history ahead of her run on the Moontower Just for Laughs Fest

"...package, she aims to present a conversation between her younger and older self. "It's me trying to make sense..."

April 14, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Update Me Daddy

Updates on what's what in Austin's queer community, plus more queer events

"...my craft and community, will propel me into heights young KB could never fathom."..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Column by James Scott

DVDanger: I Hear Voices

Horror elevated aurally by Henry Rollins and Jeffrey Combs

"...concrete basement. Lindsay Smith and Ryan Kotack are two young lovers in 1988 Niagara, on the cusp of the..."

March 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Making a 'Killing'

Joshua Oppenheimer on the half-decade he spent filming for 'The Act of Killing'

"...victim. In 1960s Indonesia, Anwar Congo was a street thug who became a death squad leader. In The Act..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interviews

Chamillionaire & Paul Wall: Texas' last great tag team gets back in the ring; Nas & Damian Marley: Kindred spirits or Distant Relatives?; Brian Posehn: Going to 11 with Fart and Wiener Jokes

"...(Asylum), featuring Jim Jones, Devin the Dude, and Slim Thug, drops this summer even as the latter builds serious..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

There Can Be Only One

Fronting and posting at B-Boy City 16

"...4) No oversized shirts and/or pants, unless you're a thug...."

April 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Shoot for the Moon

Actor Danny Trejo has made a film career out of playing criminals. Before that, he made a career out of being one. In town to shoot Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids, Trejo visited Travis High School to talk to students about the lessons he learned the hard way.

"...days, Trejo is recognized as Razor Charlie, the knife-wielding thug in From Dusk Till Dawn, or as Johnny-23, the..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...and humor. First-time director Yang Ik-June plays an angry thug named who gets involved in a dysfunctional relationship with..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Justice or Vengeance?

A tale of tragedy and punishment in Williamson County

"...of a moment that changed the destinies of two young men, Threet turned and, for no apparent reason, kicked..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Wednesday Showcases

Wednesday SXSW showcases at a glance

"...lush, love-struck sweetness and dark, while the Choir of Young Believers calls Copenhagen home and incites action/reaction with dream-pop..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Two young men agreed to settle their differences in a way..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Column

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

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

"...not as sexual as hip-hop today … I was young in an adult environment, but we always had a..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Fantastic Fest Snags Arrival

The Handmaiden, Sadako vs. Kayako in wave two

"...min D: Nick Pesce After a traumatic event, a young girl begins to associate pain and death with love..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hour Has 22 Minutes

Pop quiz on Canada, with a SXSW 07 musical cheat sheet

"...epic Montreal Arts & Crafts labelmates the Dears and Young Galaxy, and things really start getting incestuous...."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

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