SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...this year's South by Southwest Film Festival lineup, released today...."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

A Mission To Communicate

Austin ISD's new multicultural, multitasking outreach director has a big job ahead: telling the district's story and getting the district to listen to the response

"...the changes, Sanchez said his first month on the job had been about filling existing vacancies and then looking..."

Nov. 11, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Time Bandits in Uniform?

APD officers question whether union 'leave time' deal violates their contract

"...is 40hrs ABL Tues thru Sat 8 hrs each day," he wrote. "I am out of state. Thanks."..."

Aug. 12, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Two Weeks Notice

"...Liberal Lucy squirms at first at her new corporate job, but George promises her vast reserves of cash to..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Fluffer

"...Debbie Harry, Guinevere Turner, Tim Bagley, Richard Riehle, Roxanne Day, Taylor Negron, Scott Gurney and Michael Cunio. Despite a..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Art of Parenting With Art

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

"...morning on our way along MoPac to the girls' day care. Elder daughter Ari contents herself with sage observations..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...Sarah Bird Résumé, p. 2:Jobs:..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Gun Shy

"...is about as interesting as a mayo sandwich on day-old Wonder Bread. It's a downright odd hybrid of feel-good..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Love, Last Rites

"...on narrative, First Love, Last Rites does a good job of capturing the sense of young love's first flush..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Parallel Universe

Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's

"...in his chair, Ramos, who will be 58 on Monday, stares straight ahead at the wall above his mother's..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gattaca

"...as the new underclass forced to roam from dead-end job to dead-end job, picking up the refuse left behind..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who Is Jesus?

It's Judgment Day for Austin's City Manager

"...On day two of the retreat, Garza knew he was in..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

White Man's Burden

"...so oversimplifies the problems of race relations in America today that its intended purpose as a wake-up call, a..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mac

"...were his carpentry skills and the value of a job well-done. As the film opens, we find Mac (Turturro)..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

True Believer

You're at SXSW today because of its late creative director, Brent Grulke.

"...appearances by music's biggest names – this year Green Day, Depeche Mode, Prince, and the guy who turned the..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Live Action

Judge for yourself among the five films contending for this year's Oscar for live-action short. The five international shorts nominated for Best Live Action Short Film include Patrik Eklund’s “Instead of Abracadabra," Luke Doolan's “Miracle Fish," Juanita Wilson's “The Door,” Gregg Helvey's “Kavi," and Joachim Back’s award-winning “The New Tenants.”

"...conduit for yuks. Writer/director Luke Doolan does a nice job building tension in his eerie, largely silent piece, but..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Art of the Business of Art

Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art

"...know how to get it, short of working a day job that comes nowhere close to holding their hearts..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story

Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith explores

"...By all accounts, Thursday, January 7, was as average a day as any..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

New Kid on the Block

Neighborhood Services office aims to help neighborhoods help themselves

"...to neighborhoods," says Cora Wright. That would be her job, or at least one of the mandates of the..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Dreamlife of Angels

This gritty film won the French Cesar award as well as Best Actress awards at Cannes for its two leads.

"...in Lille has moved away, secures a (very) temporary job behind a clanking industrial sewing machine. It's the sort..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Something to Live For

"...middle of what he would later call his sinful days. "At that time," he wrote, "I was a jazz..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

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

"...way we should to do what we do every day is just the beginning of a long list of..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

Eighth Grade

Modern middle school life has never been captured better

"...In the painfully astute dramedy Eighth Grade, 13-year-old Kayla Day (Fisher) is a child of the iGeneration, weaned on..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sonic Highwayman Dave Grohl

Foo Fighters frontman documents ATX culture and tradition

"...We did a good job on that, but it was such a massive undertaking...."

Nov. 20, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Best-Laid Plans

How does the patchwork of separate plans for the future of Central Texas fit together? No one knows.

"...chosen now will determine where we end up when today's toddlers hit the work force in 2030. They'll also..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Armored

An armored truck robbery of $42 million is an inside job in this action film starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jean Reno.

"...of the new millennium (that would be The Bank Job) nor the worst (Tony Scott's snoozy remake of The..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

August Evening

This quiet, contemplative gem of a film paints a painfully accurate portrait of familial love, loss, and healing-by-degrees among the migrant communities bordering San Antonio.

"...one and only film performance, was plucked from his day job as a computer-network installer by the director, while..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sub Mission

There's No Substitute for a Teacher - Just Ask AISD

"...could just rely on people who made it their day job. There's not enough of those people anymore. We're..."

May 29, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Need to Flip a Car or Burn a Building Down? Call EB3 Effects.

How brothers Everett and Craig Byrom went from building maintenance to making movies

"...reduction DC motors. And you just know that some day you're going to need it."..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Only the Brave

Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

"...out again and do it all over the next day, as well as the day after that...."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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