Visual Art Review: Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation’s “The Still Life”

This charming exhibit rehabilitates neglected stuffies, then puts them to work creating art

"...Burnet Road, the SARF is owned and run by artist, web designer, and general polymath Wendy Mitchell, who also..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kristoffer Borgli Is in a Dream Scenario

Norwegian filmmaker discusses his new satire starring Nic Cage

"...character, aging academic Paul Matthews. Instead, versions of him start popping up in the dreams of people around the..."

Nov. 22, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: Our Lady of Loreto Chapel, Goliad

The little Loreto Chapel stands tall in history

"...is known for its architecture as well as its art. It is one of the few buildings in the..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 30 - July 6

"...Byatt speaks for me: "Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...13-18. South by Southwest Music 2023 invites over 1,400 artists to play on more than 75 stages throughout the..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...a notable food truck, excellent branding, live music, live art, or heck, live animals. There should be zero beer..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

LookOUT Fest, Circle Jerks, Holy Fawn, Bernell Jones II, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and a Buddy Holly Birthday tribute

"...Long Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday 3, noon..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Pretty in Pink: A Gabriela Bucio Story

The millennial Midas brings reggaeton and Mexican regional to Sixth Street and beyond

"...after an improbable rise from daytime paralegal and nighttime bartender to mogul helming a small empire, Bucio's plans for..."

July 8, 2022 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Monstrous

Babadook wannabe falls over its own metaphors

"...gorgeous, a pastel-tinged recreation of 1950s coffeetable magazine ad art promising a great, big, beautiful tomorrow...."

May 13, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

AFS Cinema Programmer Jazmyne Moreno Wants to Challenge How We Watch Movies

Shades of gray on the silver screen

"...for, at Vulcan Video. While working at Austin's dearly departed film rental haven was nothing like Empire Records ("It's..."

April 29, 2022 Screens Feature by Ella Martin-Gachot

Queer Workout Queen Invites You to Erica’s First Holy Sh!t

The agony and the ecstasy of Erica Nix

"...The spiritual sister to 2019's Austin Motel poolside performance art show "This Is Not A Cult: An Erica Nix..."

April 29, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

Moontower Star Sophie Buddle on How Comedy Is Becoming More Welcoming to Women

“Austin is such a comedy city”

"...creative career paths and encouraged her to find a niche. Because she's always loved acting and writing, comedy immediately..."

April 15, 2022 Arts Feature by Dina Barrish

Barbarians

Dark trip to a genteel English dinner party gets bloody

"...I’ve avoided dinner and birthday parties like the plague lately because that damn plague of..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Riley Stearns Helps Karen Gillan Look Herself in the Eye in Dual

Riley Stearns' new sci-fi drama makes its world premiere at Sundance

"...Faults. He had a script for a short titled "Niche" that he planned to make as a follow-up to..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

You Deserve an Escape This Year, to Hotel ZaZa

Because you've totally earned this level of comfort

"...dozen miles away – or just in another, snazzier part of your local environs. And not just change for..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Local YouTube Project Proves There’s Still a Creative Community

Austin Sunset brings back the wild days of public access for filmmakers and artists

"...rabbit hole of influential NYC public-access variety show TV Party, as well as Eighties area counterparts like Austin Community..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...considered how a brewery maintains its quality of product, particularly with its mainstay beers and the quality of experience..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Fantastic Fest Review: Barbarians

English dinner party drama goes straight to darkest hell

"...I’ve avoided dinner and birthday parties like the plague lately because: that damn plague of..."

Oct. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

After the Pandemic at the Alamo Drafthouse

New management, new owners: Can the Austin movie chain retain what made it special?

"...Executive Chairman Tim League. Now, after being shuttered as part of the Austin-based arthouse and grindhouse chain's 16-month pandemic..."

July 2, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What the Drafthouse Has Been Up To, From A to Z

Tim League breaks down what's happening with everything Drafthouse-related that's not a cinema

"...two months," League said) but it will remain a part of the portfolio. League described it as a unique..."

July 2, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Learning to Love Austin FC's Roster Through Their Native Cuisines

International players' kitchen

"...their official debut. At long last, after years of half-hearted jeers and jealous sneers toward Dallas and Houston’s shiny..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Adam Wood

Bored, Unemployed, and Extremely Online: Textile Artist Finds the Silver Linings

After losing her office job, Odalys Vargas turned a quarantine hobby into her artform

"...cavity. This piece, like all of Odalys Vargas' textile art, extends into another dimension, existing somewhere beyond earthly constraints...."

March 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Laiken Neumann

KMFA's New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music

Austin's classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds

"...sits in her office there and explains how a niche-audience public radio station came to build a new $11..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tarka Indian Kitchen Expands Their Empire

CEO talks mother sauces and customizable curries

"...The co-founder, along with wife Regina and three other partners, is laser-focused on staying true to their passion for..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

OroBianco Italian Creamery Makes Magic With Water Buffalo Milk

Making mozzarella from white gold

"...the story goes, Tedesco and Marianna had been discussing starting a buffalo mozzarella project for a couple years prior..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Prey

Vietnamese cinema is back with a vicious bang

"...four-inch-long scar on my back that looks like a particularly nasty tributary of the Mekong River if you squint..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...sections of it to nine musicians who tracked their parts without the knowledge of what any other contributor played...."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Other Music

History of a lost Manhattan record store keeps a basic tune

"...for the national chains. Each indie store had its niche, and they interlocked into a network: One would have..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Craft Brewers vs. COVID-19: Zilker Brewing and Nomadic Beerworks

How local breweries are responding to the pandemic (Part 3)

"...bottled packaging after 12 years of elusiveness. For a niche industry like craft beer that relies heavily on the..."

April 8, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

Star Parks Album Review

The New Sounds of Late Capitalism (Modern Outsider)

"...of American fantasy. Songwriter Andy Bianculli, who notes the niche as a reference for his sophomore LP as Star..."

April 3, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

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