The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...Avalanche, Joe, and Manglehorn) would make this the site for the U.S. debut...."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Comedy: Talk Show the Game Show

Guy Branum’s brainchild yields real laughs and real conflict

"...Being a talk show guest has a very clear formula of anecdote, plug, flatter, and plug again. The show..."

March 12, 2017 Arts Post by Carina Magyar

Gay Place

The end (of SX) is nigh, but she won't go down without a fight

"...exhilarating. It's exhausting. And it's about to get kweerer for each and every LGBTQer. Raunchy "Bear" Big Dipper will..."

March 18, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

John Sayles

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

"...John Sayles on the fates of and stakes for musicians when faced with that seismic moment in musical..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Miranda July's people

"...belong to people like Miranda July. Probably best known for writing, directing, and starring in 2005's indie fave Me..."

June 22, 2007 Books Review by Shannon McCormick

The Latest in Paper

Kathy Acker's "work cut a swath of influence through literary and pop culture so wide that she might have entered the strange, paradoxical state to which all cultural goliaths are prey: waning visibility by virtue of social penetration," writes Cindy Widner. "Two new publications could help keep that from happening."

"...French theory and low culture (again, or still), and for the next 15 years Acker's works, along with output..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Local Bestsellers, 2001

"...5. Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Books Feature

Comfortably Butt Numb

11 movies, 24 hours, 230 stinky film fans -- a diary from Harry Knowles' second annual Butt-Numb-a-thon

"...clean, crisp, and blue, the kind of morning meant for Frisbees and dogs and maybe a light sweater. A..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Santa Claus Is dot.Coming

Some off-kilter suggestions for the online shopper interested in more than Amazon.com.

"...trip to Amazon.com and buy almost anything, but surfing for real finds is much more fun, what with all..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Live Shots

"..."Off the Wagon," a brilliant ode to whiskey, wild women, and everything else worth writing a song about --..."

July 2, 1999 Music Feature

Behind the Mask

Fetish Nights

"...fours, and received a whipping from a couple of women in skimpy plastic outfits. Welcome to Fetish Night. Playing..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

News Ticker: July 31

All the news that's fit to blog

"...facts, readers get the Statesman's stolid kickers. One step forward, two L.A. Gear steps back...."

July 31, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: November 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...largely shot down some of the most anti-equality and anti-women candidates. That group includes team rape co-captians Richard Mourdock..."

Nov. 7, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Gay Place

Hurray for the Riff Raff, Yacht, the Gossip ... what more could your li'l heart desire?

"...there in your hot li'l mitts. Look atcha! Look for it at Bennu, Forbidden Fruit, Room Service Vintage, OilCan..."

March 16, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Luv Doc Recommends: Cleavage Chronicles: Everybody Loves Boobs

The Vortex, Saturday, February 12, 2011

"...closely by tit. They are often used interchangeably, but unfortunately tit is a much harsher, drier sounding word –..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...possibly narcissistic, occasionally pretentious. But it has different connotations for each of the numerous nakedness-prone artists, actors, and stage..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...-- I hope you all are reading. This is for you...."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Sxsw

"..."Picks & Sleepers" and International Band Preview, we've provided information on over two-thirds of this year's performers. The rest..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Maxwell, Charles Cavanaugh, Brandon Bo yce. (NR, 92 min.) Before there existed The Usual Suspects - directo r Bryan..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

The Secret Splendors of Black Emanuelle

New box set and a special AFS screening set to reappraise the Italian sexploitation series

"...The former Alamo Drafthouse booker and Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched:..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Review: Eberly

Style rules over substance at South Lamar hot spot

"...of the red-faced old men ordering bottle after bottle for their much younger dates. Sitting in the velvet banquette..."

March 24, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Protextor’s Fleshlight-Funded Video

“Safe consensual sex is hot”

"...notch-in-the-bedpost posturing and make a song that was sexy for both men and women, playing with kink ideas, but..."

Jan. 3, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin at Large: If We Make It ’Til November

How noisy, chaotic, incoherent, and unpleasant can this election cycle get?

"...WTF months later, that advice no longer seems so comforting, even to me. Not that next month's contests have..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Different Stages' Gliders

Rita Anderson's domestic drama sets one family's frictions against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 mission

"...Even as Apollo 11 was heading for the moon, not everyone on Earth was of the..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'DOOM II: Hell on Earth'

Scott Gelber's video installation will make you nostalgic for the early days of the Internet

"...of car crashes, twirling CD-ROMs, and animations of naked women, a staple of primitive porn sites. The characters of..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

After a Fashion

After a Fashion is people!

"...IS PEOPLE! When I moved back to Texas for the third time in 1973, I went to see..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Luv Doc Recommends: Texas Burlesque Festival 2010

ND Austin, Thursday, April 22, 2010

"...you’re hitchhiking home!” to your 6-year-old from the sideline. Unfortunately, the fact that he recoils into a defensive fetal..."

April 23, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Four Decades of Austin Chronicle Halloween Mask Covers

"...he was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in damages for his Sandy Hook lies, we crowned internationally renowned conspiracist..."

Oct. 24, 2022 Photo Gallery

New Austin Music You Can Enjoy at Home

What we’re spending our time with

"...year at the farm of a compatriot in Northern California's idyllic Mendocino County...."

April 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Jim's Still Frank

Underground comic Jim Norton has changed the way he looks but not the way he speaks his mind

"...seeing you act in small things here and there for years, but it seems like you've finally hit your..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

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