Day Trips & Beyond: September Travel Updates

Go the social distance

"...Nueces County beaches have reopened to vehicular traffic, but a beach curfew..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: December Events Roundup

Plenty of fun still to be had in 2019

"...coast by the millions and wash up on Texas beaches. Animals often mistake the plastic for food. It’s easy..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Fantastic Fest Asks "Who Is Wrinkles the Clown?"

And why do we want him to scare us?

"...any positive clown role models at all," said Michael Beach Nichols. Maybe it was John Wayne Gacy, the serial..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...business of taking it easy in Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum. Meanwhile Robert Rodriguez seemingly snuck a break from..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Christopher Robin

Back to the Hundred Acre Wood in this live-action sequel

"...after small parts in Darkest Hour and On Chesil Beach). Yet while he superficially seems fine, there's something missing..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music

Singer-wongwriter Michael Winningham on the story behind his genre-fusion debut, Ryou Cannon

"...evenings," remembers multi-instrumentalist Michael Winningham, formerly with alt-folk-rockers Gold Beach, of his latest outfit's origins. "It felt right that..."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

SXSW Music: Second Band List of 2016

Tommy Stinson, Thee Oh Sees, Mercury Rev, and 212 more

"...Medicine Bow, Future Blondes, Ghost Wolves, Colin Gilmore, Gold Beach, Hard Proof, Mr. Kitty, Ramesh, Sertified, and Sweet Spirit...."

Nov. 17, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Key Biscayne

Second Place winner

"...patterned like 95, the A1A, the 812 after Palm Beach Gardens, 41 maybe but never 75. He had birthmarks..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Remy Barnes Klein

Gay Place

Who knew the guys at Chain Drive had a "soft" opening?

"...LGBT BEACH CAMPOUT IN CORPUS Beach baby, beach baby, come see..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Just Don't Call It Wakeboarding

"...found her lying out on a towel on the beach. Again, something they'd never seen before. Soon after, Raleigh..."

May 16, 2014 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Beach House and Beachwood Sparks

"...Beach HouseBloom (Sub Pop) Beachwood SparksThe Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)..."

July 20, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

It serves your seafood both ways: fried and fried

"...Baffin Bay Cafe in the ghost town of Riviera Beach is not for everyone. It is a great place..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Off the Record

Austin celebrates 20 years as the live music capital of the world; OTR bristles

"...commonly used, actually applies to Michael Winningham. The Gold Beach singer/guitarist owns RubyAnne Designs, a modern construction company specializing..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Ice Cream Man Presents!

"...My most-listened-to album last year was Beach House's Teen Dream. I'm not sure if it was..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Matt Allen

Cool It

Based on the book by Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, this documentary approaches the problems caused by global warming without panic.

"...Truth) curdles mom and dad's blood. Quick, to the beach, while there still is a beach! "Chill out," says..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Song

Miley Cyrus steps out of her Hannah Montana comfort zone to play a rebellious teen in this Nicholas Sparks melodrama.

"...summer with their divorced father, Steve (Kinnear), at his beachfront Georgia home. Ronnie is a handful, as they say...."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ice Cream Man Presents!

"...the ice cream truck from my hometown of Long Beach, Calif. A couple of years back, the Ice Cream..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Matt Allen

Beach House

"...Beach HouseTeen Dream (Sub Pop)..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...zoning ordinance and our various codes – wetland setbacks, beach dunes setbacks, and so forth – to make sure..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Spash Down in H-Town

This weekend is Houston Splash, H'Town's black gay pride.

"...to partake in my absolute, all-time favorite Pride event: Beach Party!..."

May 8, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...with April's Sugar Hill debut, Fascination. – Jim Caligiuri Beach House..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Day Trips

Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on water

"...piers, according to the Texas General Land Office's Texas Beach & Bay Access Guide. You can access a free..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Freedom Writers

Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.

"...(Swank) and her students in Room 203 of Long Beach High School is true. Yet when placed in the..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Master of the Improbable

When someone says something can't be done, trust Turk Pipkin to say 'Wanna bet?'

"...tee off on the legendary 18th hole of Pebble Beach Golf Links. The view is grand, with the azure..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Riding Giants

A creative wipe-out from the director of Dogtown and Z-Boys

"...first poster boy and showman; Jeff Clark of Maverick’s Beach near San Francisco, who surfed that treacherous coastline alone..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Steady as She Goes

Li'l Cap'n Travis humbles its way into Austin's musical heart

"...sunglasses are regulation despite the fact that the nearest beach is 300 miles away. Everyone's on a first-name basis:..."

July 2, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Die Mommie Die!

Charles Busch's campy send-up of Fifties melodrama falls flat.

"...to this penultimate genre after his campy send-up of beach movies in 2000’s Psycho Beach Party. Busch is indeed..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Weird, Spooky, and Rich

David Dewhurst runs against everybody but money.

"...at the General Land Office, managing state lands, coastal beach and erosion programs, and the veterans' home loan program...."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Cockettes

"...with LSD.) Eventually, the group's enormous celebrity in North Beach (devotees included Janis Joplin, Rex Reed, and Truman Capote)..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas Amusements

"...World Squirt pools, water slides, tube rides, a sandy beach, an arcade, and go-carts. 12300 E. Hwy. 80 W.,..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Elizabeth Morgan

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