Convert Holly to Theme Park

"...April 29], the city should convert it into a theme park. In Monterrey, Mexico, the old steel mill downtown..."

May 2, 2011 Postmarks

Inside SXSW's Westworld Theme Park

Violent delights have violent ends at this SXSW pop-up event

"...sympathetic to the increasingly woke robots who populate the park. One could draw comparisons to the actors and service-industry..."

March 9, 2018 SXSW Post by Josh Kupecki

Jurassic Park

It's every species for themselves in this Spielberg dinosaur blockbuster now out in 3-D.

"...the marketing hype surrounding the first Batman film, Jurassic Park is the one film of the summer that will..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips & Beyond: Water Park Updates From Around the State

Daytripping in the age of a pandemic

"...It wouldn’t be summer without water parks. Around the state, parks with a water theme like..."

June 19, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"...was used to breed the original dinosaurs for Jurassic Park and has since fallen into disrepair. Hammond, sick and..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Class Action Park

The stunning tale of New Jersey's unfathomable Action Park

"...Theme parks are about the pretense of danger. No matter..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rogers Park

Love dies on the North side of Chicago.

"...director and former Austinite Kyle Henry now resides, Rogers Park is an intimate portrayal of two couples grappling with..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

How Much of Zilker Park Can Austin Return to Nature?

Balancing ecological preservation and the human element in city's Zilker Park Vision Plan

"...Austin has parks, and then it has Zilker Park. With more than..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Public Notice: What Have They Done to Our Park?

What's left of Waterloo can't even be called a park

"...first visit this past weekend back to Downtown's Waterloo Park, recently reopened after a 10-year closure for construction that..."

Sept. 3, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Westworld Themed Park Experience Coming to SXSW

Activation will sprawl over two acres and three days

"...of Westworld set up over two acres of custom-built parkland for a two-hour immersive experience held over three days..."

Feb. 21, 2018 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

ASO Concerts in the Park: The gift at the gazebo

The Austin Symphony is again presenting its summer series of concerts in Wooldridge Park, and the musicians love getting out of the concert hall and inside that park's gazebo

"...head for the Austin Symphony's annual Concerts in the Park. Sponsored by the Hartman Foundation, this year's concerts will,..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Review: Hyde Park Theatre's Caught

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

"...The play begins with Hyde Park Theatre serving as a pop-up gallery showcasing a handful..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Day Trips: Comanche City Park

Chainsaw sculptor turns dead tree stumps into works of art

"...Comanche City Park has been turned into an outdoor art gallery. Among..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Caught

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

"...The play begins with Hyde Park Theatre serving as a pop-up gallery showcasing a handful..."

Aug. 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Rewilding Zilker Park and Reveling in Halloween

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"...the two vision plans for the future of Zilker Park and their different approaches to weighing the cultural value..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Post by Kimberley Jones

The One-Man Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Park Conspiracy

“Do you see it? Cuz if you don’t, then I’m crazy.”

"...early to work, pulling into the Austin Chronicle’s gravel parking lot just as the paper’s founder and publisher, Nick..."

Dec. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...a quiet, forgotten graveyard into a crisp, clean, cemetery theme park. A hill was added to the grounds, along..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Black Knight

"...player who passes the days working at a medieval theme park that's seen better days. The script by Big..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Latest dinosaur romp sticks to the equation, but still evolves the action

"...as much a rehash of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park as a sequel, walking audiences through many of the..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Johns

"...hustle enough money to stay overnight in the swanky Park Plaza Hotel. But things don't go as planned, beginning..."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Most Wanted

"...Equally nifty is his script, basically a fan-designed action-movie theme park, in which enjoyably cartoonish characters are put through..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Gay Place: In & Out

Get in or get out! You can't lose with these Gay Place events.

"...Out in the Park It's a guerilla takeover of Texas' main theme park!..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

What’cha Watchin’?

Screens editor Richard Whittaker is all about that (Disney) park life

"...Theme park historian Kevin Perjurer wanted to re-create lost rides..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Jurassic World

Bigger isn’t necessarily better

"...Well, it’s better than Jurassic Park III, I’ll give them that. This fourth film in..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slippery Slope

To water-park jefe, Schlitterbahn's Jeff Henry, salvage equals whimsy not whim

"...says Jeff Henry, principal and co-owner of Schlitterbahn Water Parks, as he thumbs through a ream of 8.5-by-14 sheets..."

May 16, 2014 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Dumbo

Another Disney live-action remake, but this one has a little magic

"...by: Tim Burton. Starring: Colin Farrell, Finley Hobbins, Nico Parker, Eva Green, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Alan Arkin...."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Magic Mike XXL

The boys are back in town

"...die. Still, women climbed aboard the movie like a theme-park ride and screamed their way through it. Those screams..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Time Travel Is Possible... Texas Renaissance Festival

Scott bravely travels to a world of turkey legs and hot elves.

"...add. The Texas Renaissance Festival is the largest Renaissance theme park in the nation, teleporting people back hundreds of..."

Nov. 22, 2011 Events Post by Scott Driskill

Last Goodbye to Aquarena Springs

Texas State plans to trade in Aquarena Springs' renowned Fifties kitsch for turn-of-the-century simplicity

"...vestiges of Aquarena Springs, a wondrous resort hotel and theme park in its preinterstate heyday, a well-known mainstay of..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

This Old Mouse

Facing accusations of market saturation, cultural homogenization, and unethical labor practices, Disney keeps manufacturing the magic … but for how long?

"...of fun we can have right here in the parking lot," my mom would say, and she'd mean it,..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

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