Quin Galavis Turns Darkness Into His Magnum Opus

Obfuscating the narrative between fiction and lived experience on My Life in Steel and Concrete

"...Quin Galavis begins a three-part multimedia presentation of his new double album, My Life in Steel and Concrete, the..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Other Worlds Austin Lights the Embers

Post-apocalyptic drama joins list of Shelley Award nominees

"...Science-fiction film festival Other Worlds Austin has filled the final..."

Nov. 19, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Clasp

The sly debut novel by essayist Sloane Crosley reviewed

"...Class striving is not a new thing, although its modern iteration certainly puts a unique..."

Oct. 13, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

True Story

A writer meets the murderer who stole his identity

"...The men are Michael Finkel (Hill), a New York Times writer recently fired from the paper for..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lit-urday: All the Single Ladies

The life cycle of a female worker bee sounds strangely familiar

"...unique novel. That is, if Beyonce digs bad-ass science fiction...."

July 26, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

July Is Crime Month

As summer heats up, the 'Chronicle' runs afoul of the law, in fiction and nonfiction

"...no season, but when a curiously large number of new mystery and true crime books slated for summer release..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"And I told her ..."

Joshua Ferris brings his working writer's style to Austin

"...my radar in 2010 with the publication of The New Yorker's '20 Under 40' collection. Among that group of..."

May 23, 2014 Books Post by Rod Machen

News/Print

Texas Book Fest alumni dominate the winner's circle

"...big awards for Texas Book Festival alumni, plus a new bookstore and a book fair...."

Nov. 22, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The Fifth Estate

It's the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks before they became household names.

"...it is conveyed in flashing bits and dashes, real news reports emphasized by these style bombs – which often..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Werner Herzog focuses on Siberian fur trappers in his latest documentary.

"...did with Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog has made a new documentary film from someone else’s footage, although to be..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

The Twilight's over, and the darkness has just begun.

"...The plot kicks in when Bella and Edward’s new progeny Renesmee – half-vamp, half-human, and weirdly recalling baby..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The AggreGAYtor: August 30

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...Tony Perkins discovers new math, Tan Mom goes on a bender, and Ann..."

Aug. 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The Fun Platform

Helen Knode's new murder mystery finds her leaving noir and stepping into the light

"...leg could penetrate: the movie industry, journalism, and detective fiction of the hard-boiled variety...."

April 27, 2012 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Thinking Outside the Box With Books

Lit Crawl comes to Austin

"...literary gala. Today we've got the dirt on a new TBF event this year called Lit Crawl. Dress code..."

Aug. 4, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

In the 'Pale'

HRC & David Foster Wallace, plus the New Fiction Confab

"...will read excerpts from the novel, and – good news for nonlocals or just plain couch potatoes – there..."

April 15, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

news/print

Festivals galore for poetry and prose enthusiasts

"...(1101 E. Fifth). Sarah Bird will read from her new novel, The Gap Year, and a series of afternoon..."

April 1, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Getting Creative

UT unveils a new Master of Fine Arts writing degree

"..."The M.A. itself is just not that marketable." (The new M.F.A. degree will carry over the M.A.'s two-year length..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Splice

Splice is a twisted little update of the Frankenstein story, as well as a thriller, love story, and meditation on the possibilities of science.

"...Polley and Delphine Chanéac. "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin,..."

June 4, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...Partly truth and partly fiction..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Repo Men

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play repo men in this future world where body parts can be bought and sold but also repossessed.

"...van Houten and RZA. Where has all the fun science-fiction filmmaking gone? I mean the kind Ray Bradbury dreamed..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Claudio Sanchez: My Life in Comics

Coheed and Cambria frontman explains how he will Kill Audio

"...the LiveStrong stage at Austin City Limits, but his new comic Kill Audio hits the racks...."

Oct. 7, 2009 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

At Least Five Things You Should Know About, I Mean, If You Were Counting

The bimonthly literary/art/performative series Five Things happens Friday at the Art Authority

"...will be series masterminds Muszynski and Amelia Gray (whose new brand-spanking-new book of flash-fiction AM/PM is on the top..."

June 3, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Quantum of Solace

It's grim, dark, and relentlessly violent – James Bond as Terminator rather than Templar – but it delivers the goods in bloody high style.

"...to be sure, falls squarely on the shoulders of new Bond Daniel Craig. His onscreen charisma and exquisitely thuggish..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

APL's Book Club Reboot

Austin Public Library gets hip with their Downtown Book Clubs

"...rebooting the Austin Public Library's Downtown Book Clubs with new names, new topics, and new non-library homes. The reading..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

My Clone Sleeps Alone

"...“Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” Trish. On the new Pat Benatar, Ultimate Collection (Capital/EMI), disc one cements its..."

July 25, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Being Blocked

British author Jim Crace was struggling with a new book set in Austin. Then Austin came calling.

"...his short story "Annie, California Plates" published in The New Review and his trans-Atlantic stock rise in the eyes..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

I Am Legend

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

"...the result of an unforeseen reaction to a miraculous new cancer vaccine. One minute that vaccine’s developer, Dr. Krippen..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cooperative Play

Richard Garriott and his team at NCsoft unveil their new online game

"...Tabula Rasa is a science-fiction MMO, rare in a market dominated by the 9..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Joey Seiler

News/Print

There is no Dana. Only Zoul.

"...a memoir and a rising star with a first fiction starring a lovelorn pornographer. In between are a young-adult-horror..."

July 11, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Formula 51

"...be interesting, but no, it's not one of the new, shiny ones after all. Like the film it (briefly)..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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