Wiki Communities Never Sleep

Why do gamers spend time boosting products for free?

March 7, 2008 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

No Sleep 'Til Tenure

Top 10 percent survives, but academic reformers may have a new target.

May 28, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin @ Large: While Elephants Sleep

The breakdown of the Travis Co. primary vote suggests interesting possibilities come November

March 19, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Restart, Shutdown, Sleep

A Glimpse at SXSW Interactive

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

You Won’t Catch Max Richter Sleeping

A 60-minute edit of the 8-hour Sleep? Do tell!

"...Richter just returned from a full-length performance of 2015’s Sleep at the Great Wall of China. He samples his..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Music Post by Christina Garcia

Smells Like Preteen Spirit

Kid rockers Three Hourz Sleep confront their first major crisis when their drummer moves away.

"...offspring played with contagious enthusiasm. With them, Three Hourz Sleep was a hit...."

Dec. 28, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Young One

"...Later, Miller befriends Travers and allows the fugitive to sleep in Evvie's cabin, which gives Miller the opportunity to..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Insomnia

"...his own mind), he lies sweating in bed, denied sleep by the relentless midnight sun pouring through and around..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Passengers

Bound for a distant planet, two persons awake prematurely

"...tries to figure out how to get back to sleep. When that doesn’t work, he tries drowning in drink..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shut In

Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller

"...fully attest to the nightmarish half-life brought on by sleep deprivation. So it should cheer the hearts of the..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Be Kind Rewind

Michel Gondry's latest mind warp, which stars Jack Black and Mos Def, is long on vision and heart but short on narrative coherence.

"...his last two narrative features – The Science of Sleep and recent release Be Kind Rewind, written alone and..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dead Man

Jarmusch's elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.

"...godforsaken town without so much as a bed to sleep in. Temporary relief comes in the form of Thel..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deerhoof at Wizard Rodeo and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Austin acts El Combo Oscuro and sleep well. both host album release shows

"...so the lineup will be first-rate.  – Michael Toland sleep well. Album ReleaseMohawk, Thursday 7..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Music Review: Max Richter

SX one-off to rival the Flaming Lips’ garage boombox sync

"...typical concert this would be a horrible insult. For Sleep, it proved a high compliment...."

March 13, 2018 SXSW Post by Dan Gentile

Gina Chavez Tour Diary No. 2: Guat’s Up?

Guatemala City and knowing you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be

"...important lesson in American Music Abroad (AMA) tour survival: Sleep is my mejor amigo...."

April 8, 2016 Music Post by Gina Chavez

The Austin Chronic: A Holiday Shopping List for the Weed Lover in Your Life

From CBD sleep gummies to a gold gilded grinder: a cannabis gift guide

"...way – and it hits like a champ. Snoozy: Sleep With Benefits Gummies..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Opinion: Decriminalizing Homelessness is Working. Now Austin Needs Investment to Take the Next Step.

The ordinance changes in Austin, designed a year ago to decriminalize the basic human need of having somewhere safe to sleep, have done exactly what they were crafted to do

"...ticketed or fined for performing basic human functions, like sleeping, eating, sitting, and asking for money or other resources...."

July 17, 2020 Column by Matt Mollica

Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

The legend of Texas journalism gets the coverage she deserves

"...today – alongside Bill Hicks, maybe – we’d all sleep a little better at night in these uneasy times...."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Holmes & Watson

The Step Brothers bros get literary

"...– something Ferrell and Reilly conceivably do in their sleep at this point – and weirdly out-of-place references to..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Happy Prince

Tragic Oscar Wilde biopic flies sporadically

"...in with Wilde’s death. Others will be lulled to sleep by the tale...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It

This Stephen King adaptation floats with the best of them

"...lives, breathes, and renders you insensate from lack of sleep, just as the source material did? Stranger Things have..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Saw the Light

The sad but mercurial life of Hank Williams is put to screen

"...the spotlight with him) or his enabling mother (Jones), sleep it off, and get up and do it all..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Babadook

Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house

"...we find single mom Amelia exhausted due to the sleeplessness of near-7-year-old Samuel, who fears monsters that he believes..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal gives a terrifically fierce performance as a tenacious and delusional self-actualizer.

"...once at the crime scene. Lou doesn’t seem to sleep, getting the goods at night and staying up to..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

St. Vincent

Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.

"...kind of thing Bill Murray could do in his sleep, this treasured actor instead brings everything he has to..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Post Grad

Bland to the point of pointlessness, Post Grad follows the inane highs and lows of a perky young optimist.

"...to pull double duty as one heck of a sleep aid...."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Whatever Works

Confessions of a cranky misanthrope.

"...for a meal, which turns into a place to sleep – and, before you know it, marriage. The movie’s..."

July 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tokyo!

This triptych of short films by directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho is a gorgeous, sprawling mess.

"...elegiac, melancholy pseudo-twee of his underappreciated The Science of Sleep. In it, a sweet twentysomething girl (Fujitani) and her..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sex and Death 101

This serial-killer comedy, which screened during Fantastic Fest, is a self-indulgent, snarky, scattershot affair.

"...that point but the 72 others he’s going to sleep with before he dies. Then he discovers that the..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Jumper

Jumper is pretty slick, entertaining stuff about what young male teens might do if given the ability to teleport.

"...Christensen done for us lately, other than the cinematic sleep-aid Awake?" The answer to both questions is, of course,..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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