SXSW Film Review: The Frontier

Retro-neo-noir blends all the pulp eras

"...The Frontier is a welcome reunion of The House of the..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Focaccia on the Frontier

North Toward Rome

"...Harris, sometimes refer to the restaurant's neighborhood as "the frontier." And the gently rolling pastureland between Austin and the..."

April 28, 1995 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Frontier Television

The Territory 2003 season schedule

"...short films that explores the edges of the media frontier, she's seen the changing landscape of independent filmmaking and..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

What's the real meaning of Christmas? Well, it's doubtful you'll find it in the typical cheery holiday TV programming. But two upcoming documentaries -- The Forgotten Americans and First Person Plural -- remind us of the importance of home and family and offer a thought-provoking alternative to more traditional holiday fare.

"...Area Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival.The Frontier House Didn't make it on Survivor? Too old for..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Animation

Be ready for your office Oscar pool when it rolls around later this month.

"...little boy's Sunday – a trip to the grandparents' house, a fixation on smashing coins on nearby train tracks,..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Crawl No. 4

Uncorked, Takoba. Gourmands, Frontier Bar

"...mole ($11). I washed it all down with the house specialty, a mango habanero margarita ($8) that set my..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta runs down programs to take our minds off the upcoming election, along with programs to make us confront it.

"...and video art "exploring the edge of the media frontier" is showcased in this 13-episode, half-hour series airing every..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Fall in the air, fall on the air

"...A rebroadcast of Frontier House: Three modern families wear muslin, take up butter..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Technology is making great strides in the development of interactive TV. Now when are TV execs going to start paying attention?

"...families relive life as homesteaders in 1880s Montana in Frontier House, a new reality series. The three-episode special airs..."

April 26, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Day Trips: Polly's Chapel, Bandera

Frontier chapel survives 140 years in the woods

"...E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnson on the Texas frontier...."

June 5, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Plantation at Comal Bluff

Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin

"...what has come to be known as the "Sneed House." Like teasers in a TV news report, they typically..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Sam Ramos

The Weird, Weird West

Giddings gets retro-futuristic for Weird West Fest

"...be celebrating the era of bespoke engineering and steampowered frontier busters this weekend in Giddings...."

Dec. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Weekend Tip: Queens of Cattle

Capitol Visitors Center honors women who rocked the Texas cattle boom

"...Before androgynous hipsters became Austin's herd du jour, fearless frontier blazing Texas women broke gender norms way back during..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Post by Carmen Rising

Bringing Home the Bacon, in a Kind of Time Machine

Flying Pig Provision Company's old-school smoke

"...a well, making an apple press, and building a smokehouse. Jerry Ater first saw the book as a 10-year-old..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Frankenstein's Flat Tax

Part Forbes, part Bush, Perry cobbles together financial policy

"...plan: Take bad, failed plans from previous right-wing White House incumbents and failed presidential wannabes, and bolt them together...."

Oct. 26, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

ABCs of ACL

Bump & Hustle's alphabetical total recall

"...H is for hip-hop: The final frontier, beats and rhymes are still terribly underrepresented...."

Sept. 30, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

TV Eye

Technology is making great strides in the development of interactive TV. Now when are TV execs going to start paying attention?

May 3, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...#4), Cynthia Grezaffi (Girl #5), Colette Purpera (Girl #6); House of Blue Lights: Toni Basil (Mary), Karen Black (Karen),..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...named J. Frank Dobie might walk over to the house of another old man named Roy Bedichek for a..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...by Steven Saylor -- have been published by major houses already this year. Perhaps the coincidence isn't that odd,..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Cyberculture Evolution

From Zines to Zen With R.U. Sirius and Jon Lebkowsky

"...Thursday nights on Hotwired (http://www.hotwired.com/eff), Lebkowsky hosts the Electronic Frontiers Forum (EFF), a kind of an Internet think tank..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Screens Feature

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...park located directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Revenge

Bloody vengeance fit for the #MeToo era.

"...by Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible, and the grotty..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Proposition

The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.

"...production design. Striking a dainty blow against the untamed frontier is Stanley’s wife, Martha (Watson), who creates an illusion..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

The Lindheimer Home in New Braunfels stands as a monument to the "Father of Texas Botany."

"...the four small rooms of the wood and fachwerk house. Operated as a museum by the New Braunfels Conservation..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Joycean Riff of Race

Juneteenth

"...by Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan Random House, $25 hard..."

June 18, 1999 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Playback: Mother Falcon vs. Scottish Rite Theater

Mother Falcon's open letter to the Scottish Rite, Frontier Bar's transformation into Lost Well, and soul man Bobby Patterson

"...even Henry Rollins performing in the 19th century opera house. Smith promises "Quality, wholesome entertainment for families." For now,..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips

The Outdoor Art Museum reproduces some of the most famous works of the art world on the walls of the little town of Eastland

"...of Graham, has gone from being the center of frontier defenses to being a favorite reunion spot for families..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

When Comic Do Good

Thanks to the benefit 'Stand-Up Is Dead,' some Central Texas wildlife won't be.

"...your back door. You can't hide. There's no more frontier."..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Gay Place Guide to a Kweer SX

LGBTQIA SXSW and why queering SXSW is a big f-ing deal

"...her site’s panel, Queer Style: Visual Activism & Fashion’s Frontier, to be quite political. “Queer style has its own..."

March 9, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

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