ACL Live Shot: The Mavericks

Reunited Nashville honky-tonkers take no prisoners

"...The reformed Mavericks are a miracle. They could almost be..."

Oct. 6, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Chasing Mavericks

Starring Gerard Butler, this inspirational surfing drama somehow fails to inspire.

"...a strong cast and two top-notch directors – Chasing Mavericks details the relationship between 15-year-old Jay Moriarty (Weston) and..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mavericks Tame Rodeo Austin

Raul Malo’s caballeros take opening weekend to the cantina

"...Even on a Sunday afternoon when the cowboys couldn’t rope the calves and the kindergartener-strapped muttons..."

March 14, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Write Stuff

London Mavericks

"...Shane Meadows, writer and director of TwentyFourSeven The most essential people to the storytelling process are often..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Michael Bertin

Mavericks Win, But Sports Fans Lose

The Heat losing is the worst thing that could happen

"...For those who live in the Dallas metro area, congratulations. You’ve won a national championship...."

June 13, 2011 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Point Austin: Meet the Republicans

The Republicans hold their convention while licking their wounds

"...Whatever you think of their politics, the Repub­licans generally find ways to be entertaining...."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Column by Michael King

The Year in Sports, as Pitched to the Head of a Hollywood Studio

"...hard to make it as screenwriters. Every one of them has taken a crack at writing about those golden..."

May 14, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

Fun Fun Fun Live Shot: Rocket From the Crypt

Soul-punk dance party teaches its children well

"...leader of reborn San Diego garage-punk kings Rocket From the Crypt. “We had big foam hats, love beads, and..."

Nov. 10, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Excerpts From Texas Is the Reason, a Look Into Austin Music's DIY Age

Scenes from inside the weird gold mine

"...Read Rachel Rascoe's interview with Texas Is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk author/photographer Pat..."

April 10, 2020 Music Feature by Pat Blashill

The Toros: Season Three Preview (First Less-Than-Successful Attempt)

"...OK, now that the professional basketball season has started again and I can..."

Nov. 25, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Roots of the Left

Scholz Garden recalls a storied political and cultural past.

"...Scholz: Texas Before Deodorant "The Germans had bought half the block years before and..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Whole Truce

Gary Bradley ponders the significance of his proposed settlement agreement with the city of Austin.

"...Long before Jim Bob, there was Gary. Indeed, the fight between the city's environmentalists..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Point Austin: More Mavericks

You need a Texas scorecard to sort out the pretenders from the real thing

"...apology. Last week I mistakenly attributed a passage about the political abuse of the term "maverick" to Austinite Fontaine..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Texas-Sized Basketball: The Houston Rockets and Why I Moved to Texas

"...Coming as I do from the mid-Atlantic, I’ve experienced no end of questions from people..."

Nov. 23, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas hills are again alive with the sound of chainsaws.

"...and Stephen Lee. Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 production of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which was filmed just outside..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Player

"...Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg, Fred Ward and Peter Gallagher. The Player is an insider's movie about Hollywood, but from..."

May 1, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: Moving Out

A leg shaker, not a plan maker

"...Me and my girlfriend broke up over the holidays. It had been a while coming, but we..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Bartenders' Pick: the Best and Worst of Austin

"...lousy string of songs on your favorite jukebox, consider the plight of your bartender; while you may well occupy..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature

Burning Down The Barn

Director Justin Seaman on the joy of rubber and gore

"...Ask Justin Seaman, director of loving retro-horror The Barn, what his favorite Eighties VHS shocker is, and..."

July 14, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Infinite Possibilities in Eno, the Generative Documentary

Director Gary Hustwit lets his biography of Brian Eno make itself

"...working with Joni Mitchell. All core moments in Eno, the new documentary about musical maverick Brian Eno, that you..."

July 17, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Feels Like the First Time

The 36th annual Austin Music Awards mark a number of debuts

"...Agenda item No. 1 for the 2017/2018 Austin Music Awards Show hinged on a landmark..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

On the Fringes of Cinema

Zack Carlson celebrates the creative spirit with new Vice series Outsider

"...filmmakers – outcasts and outliers working so far off the grid that it's insane to judge their work by..."

June 3, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Staying on Message With the San Antonio Spurs

Twitter branding with the NBA's most notoriously conservative squad

"...first glance it seems like an accident. Navigate to the Twitter directory on the San Antonio Spurs' website and..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

The Examined Life

Prior to a retrospective of his documentaries at SXSWFilm, D.A. Pennebaker reflects on a career spent as a fly on the wall.

"...There are precious few living filmmakers today as influential as..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cable Guise

Carrey, Quaid, and the IFC

"...Add to the long list of 20-year overnight successes in show business..."

June 14, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Patroling the CMT Highway

Junior Brown's Success on Country Music Television

"...video as being nothing but a mirror image of the industry's moribund radio scene. Too easy; both media have..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Feature

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...long, passed in a cubbyhole in a bookstore on the Drag with a newly Xeroxed poster that read, "Smash..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'Bacchae' to the Future

How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?

"...In making this statement to the crowd in the lobby of the B. Iden Payne..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...or baseball, find Alvin Crow. If you're looking for the best fiddle player in Austin, Alvin Crow's your man...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Mavericks Screenings

"...TwentyFourSeven and "Where's the Money, Ronnie": 3/13, Convention Center, 7:45pm; 3/17, Convention Center,..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

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