Austin's Kerri Lendo Has Almost No Shame At All

The popular comedian runs one hella weird open mic

"...Yes, Kerri Lendo's going to be performing at Moontower Comedy Festival this year – but that's not what this..."

Feb. 14, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Django Unchained

As entertaining and subversive as Django Unchained is, Tarantino's latest also suffers from a certain slackness.

"...Django Unchained has obvious roots in the spaghetti Western – Django being the name of a character..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Land of the Freberg

Interview with radio-comedy pioneer Stan Freberg

"...TV show is seemingly boiled down into a two-minute comedy sketch, was instantly endearing and repeatable. For those too..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Woo

"...Something does, but unfortunately it's an amorphous blob of comedy goo, and it slithers right down to the baseboard..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monster Hunter

The beast-slaying game gets the Paul W.S. Anderson treatment

"...been pulled straight out of a 1980s martial arts comedy – or, more likely, a comedy spaghetti Western, with..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Movie Studios Play Santa With Three Christmas Day Openings

New reviews of 'Django Unchained,' 'Les Mis,' and 'Parental Guidance'

"...writes Chronicle reviewer Leah Churner in her intro to comedy Parental Guidance, one of three new films ready to..."

Dec. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: Music to My Queers

Queer Vinyl Collective plays the chord of qmmunity creation, while Hyperreal and Blue Starlite screen a coming-out comedy classic

"...heralds the first of two screenings of gay coming-out comedy classic But I'm a Cheerleader as part of Hyperreal..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Column by James Scott

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...aren't you doing sci-fi, why aren't you doing a spaghetti western, why aren't you doing, you know—it was also..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

New Year's Eve Dining & Lodging

It's time to start making reservations, party people

"...CAP CITY COMEDY NEW YEAR'S SHOW WITH JOE ROGAN Although we have..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Food Feature by Sara Robberson

Savlov's Top Ten Redux Part One: The Good, the Badass, and the Weirder

Savlov's other Top Ten

"...evil bitch goddess Fame since forever. It is the comedy shit and that is no lie, unlike J.T. Leroy,..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

A commando unit takes on the Nazis in this hyperviolent Guy Ritchie action-comedy

"...audibly jangling like spurs, in concert with Christopher Benstead’s spaghetti western flavored score. The audio cue is amusingly on-the-nose:..."

April 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Dressmaker

Kate Winslet stars in this adaptation of the Australian best-seller

"...To the foreboding drum of a spaghetti Western score, the dressmaker steps off the bus like..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Chow Downtown

Dining in the Heart of Austin

"...drinks and food, a club housing the hilarious young comedy troupe Esther's Follies, Wylie's bar, the original Antone's location,..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Food Feature

Ana Lily Amirpour on Her New Film The Bad Batch

Cannibals, cult leaders, and friendship

"...Amirpour, whose first feature was the 2014 Iranian vampire, spaghetti Western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, comes..."

June 23, 2017 Screens Feature by Lars Nilsen

Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu

Talking turkey with Archers of Loaf, Erika Wennerstrom, Robert Ellis, Sunflower Bean, the Suffers, and PJ Morton

"...a hot take on the unique Cincinnati pairing of spaghetti and chili...."

May 24, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Dancing About Architecture

Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.

"...promising businesses come and go, with the Bad Dog Comedy Theater being the latest victim of the highly traveled..."

March 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

New Year's Eve Events

"...385-6767. Tickets: $60; hotel packages starting at $150. www.jetsetnewyears.com.Theatre, Comedy, and MoreHYDE PARK THEATRE NEW YEAR'S BASH features Lonely..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

New Year's Eve Events

"...385-6767. Tickets: $60; hotel packages starting at $150. www.jetsetnewyears.com.Theatre, Comedy, and MoreHYDE PARK THEATRE NEW YEAR'S BASH features Lonely..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Man With Susan's Plan

"...Since his directorial debut with the displaced ape-man comedy Schlock! (which featured the director in the title role),..."

June 25, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Now Streaming in Austin: Mr. Roosevelt

Life in the ATX as a struggling artist

"...Austin movie and SXSW title, the Zellner brothers 2008 comedy Goliath, Mr. Roosevelt takes its name from a cat:..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Moontower 2014, Day 1: Demetri Martin

Good: his set; Bad: when it ended; Interesting: the time

"...who hails from Canada and previously wrote for Martin’s Comedy Central series, Important Things with Demetri Martin, shares much..."

April 24, 2014 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...with elderberry wine, Frank Capra's 1944 black (and white) comedy is nevertheless one of Grant's most memorable turns onscreen...."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Legerdemain Man Ray Anderson

The fact that magicians around the world revere the magic man of Esther’s Follies is no illusion

"...assistant Ellana Kelter over a kid's inflatable pool, the comedy bit as sleazy Amazing Frank, the dancing cane, and..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Niche Streaming Sites for the Holidays

Give the gift of worlds of entertainment just a click away

"...be stomach-churning gore, to others is just jelly and spaghetti, and one watcher's creepfest is another's snore-a-thon. That's why..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Brand on the Run

Synergy is the name of the game at Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of the Alamo empire

"...for a one-of-a-kind outdoor screening of the filthy-dirty Dutch comedy. But League is already thinking about his next film...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Working Playwright

Steven Dietz just wants to get in, roll up his sleeves, and make the words better

"...able to write in almost any style, from ensemble comedy (Becky's New Car, his newest work) to topical docudrama..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

E Is for Everything

Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.

"...seven years ago after the release of the Gen-X comedy Reality Bites. Still, it's a lot of juggling for..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Candy Factory. I elbow my way up to the comedy beat.Louisa C. Brinsmade It was 1992, the beginning of..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Double Down

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.

"...his buddy Vince Vaughn since the duo's 1996 breakout comedy, Swingers. That film -- a lovably self-conscious kind of..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Storming the Citadel With the Russo Brothers

How the new Prime series depends on global storytelling

"...Steven Soderbergh. They looked set for a career in comedy, first as feature directors with 2002's Welcome to Collinwood..."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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