Down Low Deconstructs State Divide

Texas techno out of Dallas and dormancy - part I

"...suburban wasteland, slag away, but when infrastructure ruptures into culture, our criticism gurgles forth as uninformed – much like..."

Sept. 3, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Amplify Austin 2015: Turning Up Arts & Culture

Focusing the Amplify spotlight on Austin arts

"...music icons, and organizations committed to keeping Central Texas culture alive...."

March 4, 2015 Chronolog Post by Tamar Price

High Tech, Low Priority?

Not Everyone Is Sold on Computers in Schools

"...the past, for example, she had taught about Mayan culture from books and showed photos from her own personal..."

July 25, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Eastside Vibes: Come Experience the Culture

Celebrations, food joints, & moves to make on the Eastside this summer

"...multitude of opportunities to experience the music, food, and culture that is the true essence of daily Black and..."

May 24, 2017 Chronolog Post by Montinique Monroe

Culture War: How to Fight the Right

Texas academics and politicians discuss the how to revive progressivism

"...is left," said author Bertrand Russell. In the so-called "culture wars," however, the Right's rhetoric has for too long..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Culture Wars Come to Austin

New think tank sets up shop near campus

"...the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture. On the veranda of a buttercream Victorian, the fellows..."

Feb. 19, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

A Culture of Subterfuge

"...Iraqis is patriotic. Not only does Crash hit the lowest of low for the Hollywood totem, it's also one..."

May 11, 2005 Postmarks

Dear Glutton: How to Have a Romantic Low-Key Valentine's Day in Austin

It’s the little things, not heart-shaped confetti, that count most

"...In a culture that often has a hard time with sincerity, Valentine's..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Food Column by Emily Beyda

Andrew Bujalski Explores Breastaurant Culture in Support the Girls

Hot wings and rules of engagement

"...about one day in the kind of restaurant where low-cut T-shirts are as ubiquitous as happy hour appetizers. Bujalski..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...and audience, between yesterday and today, between highbrow and lowbrow. They will be inducted in a ceremony during the..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

The Longs give a million, the Rudes add a co-PAD, Mills shows his new dance, and Kitch joins a board

"...Kirk Lynn, Shawn Sides, and Sarah Richardson in the "low-pay, high-stress job" of planning, guiding, and implementing artistic projects..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Payne Award nominations on the horizon, a big banner dresses up the Long Center, a record haul at the Pink Eye Ball, Patsy Cline aids AIDS Services, and Hyde Park Theatre's garage bonanza

"...in 32 categories for the period August 2003-July 2004. Following ballot voting by the ACoT membership, the awards will..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Column

The Fate of the Furious

The car thieves are back to save the world

"...uncomplicated joy. Sneer all you want at the so-called low culture of F&F, but never underestimate the pure pleasure..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Undertow

Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.

"...get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture. Imagine a spectacularly bent Twain story, if Tom..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two

Persistence of memory

"...A fellow student stopped by our table. I can't remember who,..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

The Make It Movement Wants You to Learn a Trade and Love What You Do

Can skilled jobs and career education change Texas culture?

"...less fun. His voice is round and syrupy and low. "'Littering is going up every year 20 percent,' [former..."

Dec. 27, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Page Two: Slave to the 'Rhythms'

Art is afoot, and words only slow it down

"...to play the other side. When the writing was flowing, this often meant long stretches of silence before the..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Fighting to Stay

As Austin's housing market booms, its poorest residents fight to exist

"...has put neighborhoods around town on edge, and a culture of resistance to gentrification has stirred. Unfor­tun­ately, when the..."

April 15, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Page Two

On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW

"...SXSW is about: 1) the vitality of culture, 2) Austin, and 3) education – the sharing of..."

March 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Beefcake

"...Macivor. By turns a campy goof on 1950s muscle-mag culture, a slackerly attempt at investigative journalism, and a heartfelt..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...has cost him dearly. He is described by most fellow professionals as an extraordinarily accomplished doctor – among other..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Buena Vista Social Club

Intended less as a concert film than as a set of cinematic liner notes, BVSC is about the vanishing musical culture of Cuban stars who became famous in the Forties and Fifties while playing in the legendary Havana night club of the title.

"...ultimate triumph for the performers: sold-out shows in Amsterdam, followed by New York's Carnegie Hall. Wenders (Wings of Desire;..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sweet Heat

The 16th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival

"...cuisine does. Haute cuisine, like other forms of high culture, is supposed to be more sophisticated than peasant cuisine...."

Aug. 25, 2006 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

Cinema of the Americas

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

"...the south, Mexico slides, swells at the sides, and slowly sinks into a narrow strip as it nears the..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Feature by David Garza

Hype!

"...mid-Eighties Seattle punk scene to global domination of youth culture. The co-factor which allowed this whimsical, self-mocking local movement..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

This Land Is Your Land

This muckraking populist grab bag of a film isn't so much a documentary as it is a harried piece of grassroots agitprop.

"...Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright. It feels like a low blow to point out that this muckraking populist grab..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...what happens when this story is translated to another culture?..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

Fired Up

This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.

"...Stir in scatology, snarky observations, and a few dozen pop-culture references that pass for jokes; mix well with life..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Out Cold

"...avoid this substance. This snowboarding comedy is a smutty, low-brow, PG-13 teen sex farce, and before attacking me for..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Acid House

"...face first through the muck and mire of Scottish low-rent, drug-crazed awfulness. But where Mark Renton and the Trainspotting..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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