Day Trips: Rock Art

If these walls could talk

"...Pictographs left on the walls of rock shelters by prehistoric and historic people are some of the greatest treasures..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Ever-intrepid Werner Herzog guides us through a cave in southern France that holds the oldest drawings known to humanity.

"...join galloping horses, woolly mammoths, and other remnants of prehistoric life that were drawn on the walls of the..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Flintstones

"...screen, live action comedy based on the Sixties TV cartoon -- itself inspired on the Fifties TV live action..."

June 3, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...film fantasies are not conventionally populated by extraterrestrials, hobbits, prehistoric creatures, or the like (see Being John Malkovich, Human..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Encino Man

"...Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Megan Ward, Mariette Hartley and Richard Masur. Like some sort of evil Hollywood..."

May 22, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup

News from Hueco Tanks, Black's Barbecue, and lots more

"...the inside the rock preserve is a gallery of prehistoric and historic art...."

Feb. 5, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Explore Texas and beyond in 2022

"...Start the new year off with a tour of prehistoric..."

Jan. 6, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The summer drought is making historical Indian sites throughout Texas more accesible to archaeologists ... and to looters.

"...being stolen. Antiquities collectors who dig through layers of earth covering prehistoric and historic Indian sites on public land..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Stonehenge? In Texas? Yup, yonder down in Odessa.

"...wonder that a replica of the world's most famous prehistoric structure on the campus of the University of Texas..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...Start with Roger Boylan, author of Killoyle: An Irish Farce..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Comin' at Ya!

3-D is back on the big screen -- again.

"...Renowned 3-D artist/historian Ray Zone (www.ray3dzone.com), who specially designed the 3-D glasses..."

July 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Ken Lieck

After a Fashion

Local roboticist Brooks Coleman walks the line between art and fashion with his line of sheet metal lingere.

"...the chest in a series of plates like a prehistoric animal. Some are strips of metal woven and twisted..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Small Wonders

They just nabbed two festival awards, next up is HBO, and Ed Wood is their greatest influence. Meet Austin's most successful 12-year-old filmmakers.

"...camera in hand, I schooled myself in the nail-biting art of stop-motion animation, pitting Colorform clay Brachyosaurs against tiny,..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Music Industry Hall of Fame: Poster Visionary Jim Franklin

The iconic artist reflects on armadillos, self-unemployment, and his influence on Austin culture

"...Though he’s perhaps the most cartoonish character of all Austin’s hippie-era poster visionaries, Jim Franklin..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

Fall events and news from all over Texas

"...the sporting-goods store family, worked to save the folk art monument. She and others created the Orange Show Center..."

Nov. 2, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Reji Thomas Has Left the Building

Pining for Pine Street

"...The dominant testimony was not legalistic. Heartfelt arguments about the importance of Thomas' work – from..."

Nov. 7, 2014 News Feature by Kate X Messer

I Am Hiphop

One of the hiphop elders delivers a sermon.

"...with a nine-tiered curriculum of emceeing, beatboxing, breaking, graffiti art, DJing, fashion, language, knowledge, and trade. More immediately, the..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Postmarks

Stirred up by the arts, sounding off on local TV

"...and I just got around to reading Amy Smith's article on the Austin Museum of Art in last week's..."

July 20, 2001 Column

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Crockett paints James "Slim" Hand as he was: equal parts elusive Western legend and down-to-earth working-class man. "If you..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

Day Trips: Best of Texas

Here’s half a dozen of the best things about Texas travel in 2017

"...of the largest and most diverse collections of rock art in the New World. The Witte Museum of San..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Gettin' Buggy With It? Yes: Gettin' Very Buggy With It

The Entomological Society of America's annual shindig: Now in Austin!

"...arachnids, and the like – as presented by local artists, writers, and bug-industry movers & shakers, as curated by..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips

The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is the Texas version of the Smithsonian Institute

"...the Lone Star State from dinosaurs to modern fine art...."

April 21, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...The Amazing Spiderman: Writer Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos give everyone's favorite web slinger an intro..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...7 / Fase 7 (Argentina) Director & Writer: Nicolas Goldbart Coco just moved to his new apartment with 7-month..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'El Maiz Es Nuestra Vida/Maize Is Our Life'

This touring show is so rich in history and beauty, you can get lost in the maize

"...Mexican American Cultural Center is currently hosting a traveling art show, "El Maíz Es Nuestra Vida/Maize Is Our Life,"..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Ideas of Mountains'

This Creative Research Lab exhibition is a peak of no small aesthetic excitement

"...landscape-defining masses: The lithic record of seismic obstrepery. World warts. Horizon busters. That, as the saying goes, is about..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...GIRLSTART TECHNOLOGY CENTER Girls rule! Especially when they are encouraged..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday --..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...meaning as the title for the Exhalants' sophomore full-length, particularly the second syllable. Atonement packs a lot of "tone."..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Archival Neil Young releases come to mind – contemporary unearthing of prehistoric manna – and perhaps something more twisting..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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