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Nov. 12, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall
Swanson Rants, Raves, and Insults, Same As It Always Was
Nov. 10, 2003 Postmarks
Better Living Through Circuitry
"...demystify the culture of those all-night bacchanals known as raves, is full of thoughtful dialogue from a veritable cornucopia..."
July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
47 Meters Down
It's this year's The Shallows (but not as good)
"...You’d never guess that Mandy Moore, the actress winning raves for her nuanced performance in this past season’s new..."
June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud
"...Prevel and his women listening as the hawk-faced Artaud raves incoherently. “An army of men is masturbating on me..."
Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Agony of the Ecstasy
Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?
"...traditional usage. In other words, when it comes to raves, the party may well be over...."
Nov. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Countdown to Ecstasy
A New Drug for a New Millennium
"...City Records (www.spacecityrecords.com), organizes some of Houston's most slamming raves (the last one, April 29th's Mystic Rhythms, played host..."
June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
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Our readers talk back.
"...Don't Stop the Raves..."
Nov. 30, 2001 Column
Postmarks
Raves for Marc Savlov's recent article on Ecstasy.
"...testing program! Dancesafe sets up booths at West Coast raves, where individuals can bring their drugs. Using a simple..."
June 23, 2000 Column
Two Turntables and a Microphone
Austin's DJ Culture
"...cops. There's no task force set up to bust raves. It's the hippie town of Texas, you know? It's..."
May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
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Our readers talk back.
"...individual, rather than organizational, responsibility. Obviously, creating laws against raves won't stop people from partying. Even at an event..."
Aug. 30, 2002 Column
The Life of the Party
Marc Savlov talks with San Francisco-based director Greg Harrison about his new film, Groove and the burgeoning rave movement it depicts.
"...very moment it has begun to gain mainstream recognition. Raves, those all-night parties fueled in equal parts by pounding..."
June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Seeking Divinity With the DJs of Bitches Play Music
At the collective's pre-sabbatical, post-freeze Club Eternal party
"..."When we became friends and started going out to raves in Austin, we found that there was something sort..."
Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood
The Concourse Project Brings the Raver Spirit Back to Austin
High-capacity event space looks to diversify their sound
"...fact, that – grownup candy kids fondly remember (illegal) raves and (legal) massives from the turn of the century..."
Nov. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Christina Garcia
Spell
Appalachian hoodoo horror flips the switch on hillbilly cinema
"...he has to go toe-to-toe with Devine, who rants, raves, coos, giggles, and storms across the screen with glee..."
Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Beats
Scottish rave-culture story gets the details right but loses sight of the big picture
"...Public Order Act of 1994, which explicitly targeted unlicensed raves - although the commercialization of the scene had arguably..."
June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Jojo Rabbit
Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos
"...as the titular 10-year-old’s imaginary bestie, Jojo Rabbit nonetheless braves the no-man’s-land between genuinely laugh-out-loud comic moments and the..."
Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Bill Cunningham New York
The film provides an intimate portrait of Cunningham, whose two weekly New York Times photo columns document the city's fashion trends.
"...he duct-tapes the tears in a plastic poncho and raves about his $3 breakfast sandwich – and the monied..."
May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
Recalling the tone and spirit of Eighties horror films, this is an homage to exsanguinations past.
"...with his eerie The House of the Devil scoring raves from genre fans and generally positive reviews from the..."
April 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Fast & Furious
This third franchise sequel doesn't have as much smarts as speed, but it's still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.
"...groping each other at house parties and parking lot raves nor the continued employment of Brian, quite possibly the..."
April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
La La Love You
Alex Holdridge does the impossible and makes Los Angeles impossibly romantic in 'In Search of a Midnight Kiss'
"...something of an indie-film prince in Austin, having won raves for his 2001 debut, the scrappy Wrong Numbers, about..."
Aug. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Sketches of Frank Gehry
The controversial architect is brought into focus by veteran filmmaker Sydney Pollack.
"...is the one speaker Pollack interviews. A journalist, she raves about the associated rise in tourism since the building's..."
June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Before the Fall
Every movie about the Holocaust should be this good, but few are. Heartbreaking and brutal, its tale of two boys training together at an elite school is as intimate and truthful to its characters as it is powerfully topical and politically brave.
"...it’s not a slick European import (considering its festival raves, it should be traveling under the Miramax banner) and..."
Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Wednesday Sleepers
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...Goransson (Cardigans, Cotton Mather, Fastball). – David Lynch GARY GRAVES8pm, Pecan Street Ale House Somewhere between Daniel Johnston and..."
March 11, 2005 Music Feature
Glow Sticks: A Menace to Society!
The drug cops win one, lose one in the appellate courts.
"...possession and use of pacifiers and glow sticks at raves. At issue is a 2001 plea agreement resulting from..."
July 11, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Dancing About Architecture
Rave debacle leaves one dead.
"...Daisy Carnival, all was set to prove that so-called raves are safe, wholesome affairs; Balch and the Austin Nightlife..."
Aug. 23, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Dancing About Architecture
Everyone is retiring or dying.
"...lose track of that other ongoing freedom-sucking saga, the put-raves-in-their-graves movement. A new bill on that subject has quietly..."
May 31, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...Alice Cooper. Their 1999 Motel Record CD, Nightlife, got raves in the national press, but there's a better pair..."
March 16, 2001 Music Feature
The Rockpile
Any Old Way You Choose It
"...Rolling Stone Raves: What Your Rock & Roll Favorites Favor..."
Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Margaret Moser
Pariah
"...Jones. “Great. Astonishing. The best film in Park City,” raves filmmaker Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization, Wayne's..."
