Off the Record

SXSW news and carryings on

"...Chilton in New Orleans, while Stephens expressed interest in writing and recording together again. That sort of insight only..."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Allow Me to Introduce Myself

I'm Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, a brand new blogger for the Gay Place.

"...30s) in New York studying painting, playing in bands, writing songs, singing, making theater. I grew up in Indiana,..."

Jan. 21, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer

On His Mark

Richard Linklater explores the rich contradictions of artifice and reality, theatre and film, love and desire in Me and Orson Welles

"...one (the building that housed the Mercury Theatre, the Comedy Theatre on 41st Street and Broadway, was torn down..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Page Two: Lost Diamond

Robin Shivers' life defined what makes Austin the kind of community it is

"...are going to make, the novels they dream of writing, and the band that they imagine forming (that will..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...from my television work, a lot of which is comedy, like Modern Toss, which I think you get on..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Ugly Man: Stories

Like Kathy Acker and William Burroughs before him (both admirers), Dennis Cooper marries literary ambition and deviance

"...than either godhead's, but the hard shell of his writing denies his characters (and therefore us) the maelstrom of..."

June 19, 2009 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Words Are Bonds

Worlds intersect at the 17th annual Austin International Poetry Festival

"...phrase verge on a dark, self-effacing form of stand-up comedy, and he never fails to deliver a few off-kilter..."

April 17, 2009 Books Feature by Michael Agresta

Women in Trouble

"...more or less how it goes in this derivative comedy that might have been cobbled together from pages left..."

March 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Guide to the Works

"...Campy mixture of song, comedy, and social critique following a Puerto Rican diva. (60..."

March 27, 2009 Arts Feature

The Last Five Years

The new year is prime time to discover this musical anatomy of one couple's relationship

"...that adults, young and old, should see. Composers aren't writing shows with thoughtful adult themes anymore. The only ones..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Film News

Joe R. Lansdale talks about the Bubba Ho-Tep sequel, King of the Hill gets canceled … again, Owen Egerton and pals sell a script, and more

"...of mostly local writers, Warner Bros. has purchased the comedy script Bobbie Sue in a deal made through De..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Wrapping up the Austin Film Festival

"...It's a Seventies/Eighties flashback in Lakeway, where the independent comedy Code Enforcer is in the middle of a 21-day..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Shortcake and the Big Ragu Invade Lakeway!

"...It's a Seventies/Eighties flashback in Lakeway where the independent comedy Code Enforcer is in the middle of a 21-day..."

Oct. 13, 2008 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Letters at 3AM

This two-year-long campaign of such unprecedented intensity may have been the best proving ground for Barack Obama's candidacy

"...be churlish not to recognize that, as of this writing, the man has not once stumbled. Nor lost his..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Elaine: The Extended Cut

The incomparable Ms. Stritch on humor, happiness, Tennessee, Beckett, and bad directors

"...that John Lahr – he was so helpful in writing the script of Elaine Stritch at Liberty, he was..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

Examining the foreign exchange rate with Ocelot, White Denim, and Dizzee Rascal, while Suzanna Choffel promotes further tourism to Texas

"...and features guest vocalists Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy and the Nation of Ulysses' Ian Svenonious. "We've got..."

July 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Film News

Mr. Blonde and the Six Million Dollar Man, making a movie in Kyle

"...in The Lights, a horror film with hints of comedy that was the first flick shot at Ranch Studios...."

June 20, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Muses II: Memories of a House: Home Theatre

A special house in Travis Heights becomes even more special as the setting for Vestige Group's collection of playlets

"...flooded. I got literally 150, 200 people interested in writing."..."

June 13, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Electric Exchange

Theatre, dance, music, and film meld and get supercharged in the Fuse Box Festival

"...supplemented by the Kafka Museum, an installation including sculptures, writings, audio works, and other creations by local artists riffing..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

His Dark Materials

David Gordon Green shines a light on love and loss in Snow Angels

"...I ask him how the experience – that of writing for another director –was different, he laughs, "I was..."

April 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

The government claims it wants to help you switch from analog to digital-ready TV, but they're not making it easy

"...when it was her chance to speak after her writing partner Glen Hansard accepted his award. It was a..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

This Kitty's Got Claws

Teeth tears into everything from abstinence programs to rape culture. Is Austin grownup enough to handle it?

"...Teeth is, simply put, a horror-comedy about a chaste teenage girl who discovers, quite by..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

TV Eye

It's ba-ack: The season debut of The Wire marks the return of appointment television

"...and Conan O'Brien returned last week (the former with writing staff, the latter without). Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Top 10 (plus one) Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2007

'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2007, in the theatre

"...seeing Dave Steakley's high-gloss, high-spirited revival of this Coward comedy. Cliff Simon's set and Susan Branch's costumes had style..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

An updated version of Cohen's 'tolerated' biography

"...Writing about a poet isn't an enviable task, but Leonard..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

The End of the World as He Knows It

Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in Southland Tales

"...you want to try to disarm the situation with comedy, and I figure that's the best way to communicate..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Film News

Forgiveness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and more

"...Look for comedy The Sno Cone Stand, Inc. to shoot here in..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...significance to the country. Developing the context for that, writing the story, and flipping the script from juke joint,..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

TV Eye

Walls come tumbling down

"...and presented. Case in point: Showtime's Californication. The new comedy starring David Duchovny will be available for early previewing..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...in a ceremony at 7pm at the Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research. Here is an introduction to the..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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