Packs a Punch

Chances are you've seen Powerhouse Animation's work, whether you know it or not -- its portfolio includes Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, Disney TV's The Proud Family, and plenty of local TV spots, ad campaigns, and one-off Flash animation projects.

"...the game was written up in a dozen-odd media outlets: It's just that cool, man. (For more on Jen..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"...Dept. of Criminal Justice's Segovia Unit prison, located just outside the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg, singing "Fever."..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

They're History

The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.

"...Funny thing about that, though...."

April 27, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Pilgrim Returns

Q&A with Kris Kristofferson

"...first tour in more than three years. Somewhat apprehensive about performing live, he says it doesn't take a Rhodes..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Star Maps Hustle

Interview With Filmmaker Miguel Arteta

"...Todd V. Wolfson Perhaps the first thing you notice about Miguel Arteta is his voice. It's subdued in tone,..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wonder Seven

"...all three Chinese Ghost Story films, does an abrupt about-face with this above-average Hong Kong actioner that relies more..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teenage Catgirls in Heat

This Troma film was made right here in Austin and tells the lurid story of cats that metamorphose into nubile women and "rub up against things" and cause havoc.

"...I'll wager it had something to do with the working title of the production being Teenage Catgirls in Heat..."

Feb. 17, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild West

"...a band called the Honky Tonk Cowboys, an anomalous outfit that nobody takes seriously. With his brown skin, fringed..."

Nov. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thirty-Five Up

"...good jobs or big houses in the country. The working class kids have grown up to be working class..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The UT Grads Who Helped Moana 2 Take to the Seas

How Hei Hei became the mascot for all those finishing touches

"...Working on a Disney movie means being part of a..."

Nov. 26, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pandemic Production: Karen Wacker, Producer

“It’s not fun telling a whole bunch of people that they’re not going to be working for a long time”

"...On March 14, Karen Wacker was in Philadelphia working on HBO's upcoming murder mystery, Mare of Easttown, starring..."

July 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Sofia Tafich

Last Christmas

This is a movie inspired by a Wham! song, and you know what? It works.

"...incredible aspects to Last Christmas, it’s difficult to figure out where to begin. It’s akin to an unexpected present..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Annette Bening soars in the last days of starlet Gloria Grahame

"...God knows women in Hollywood have enough trouble without pitting them against each other. Nevertheless, a thought experiment:..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Claw-in-Claw With The Lobster

Director Yorgos Lanthimos reveals the beast within

"...for the pains and perils of being in or out of a relationship...."

May 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chicago Remixes Chicago

Founding keyboardist Robert Lamm’s gym kismet

"...We even talked about the band’s cameo in Larry David’s 2013 feature Clear..."

July 16, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets

One of the Good Guys

Is Chris Ohlson the nicest film producer in town, or just the hardest working?

"...that's the very first thing they tend to say about this Austin film producer-slash-writer-slash-director...."

Jan. 9, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Liam Neeson has taken to shooting at bad guys again in this slow-burning Matthew Scudder mystery.

"...He alternates his time between AA meetings and hanging out at his favorite Hell’s Kitchen all-night diner, while waiting..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jenni Finlay Promotions Turns 8

From sleeping on pool tables at Cheatham Street Warehouse to radio

"...was James McMurtry’s Live in Aught-Three. “Everything I know about radio promotion, and most of what I know about..."

Aug. 20, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Heart of the Community

SXSWedu gathers voices on schools in communities, communities in schools

"...policy has slowly but steadily turned that thinking inside out...."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Narco Cultura

This documentary about the Mexican drug wars and their relationship to populist narcocorrido music becomes a fascinating study of the cultural cycle of violence.

"...It’s impossible to watch Shaul Schwarz’s grueling documentary about the Mexican drug wars and their influence on the..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What's Going On in APD's Organized Crime Division?

Union says politics at play, brass says business as usual

"...To hear the APD administration tell it, nothing out of the ordinary is happening in the department division..."

Sept. 9, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...I interview a person older than 65. As an out-of-state student in my first semester, I only knew one..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Austin's WriteByNight Is a Writer's Port in the Media Storm

Goldberg & Duhr: Easing the agony of blocks and deadlines

"...A writing center, right? In which working or wannabe fictioneers or journalists or any permutation of..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward

Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all

"...(and in his many talks and lectures available on YouTube). You could reasonably divide independent filmmaking into two categories:..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'We're the Guinea Pig'

A chat with FNL producer Nan Bernstein

"...the one who leased office space and did early scouting for locations, chief among them the football field, ("I..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Ajami

This Oscar-nominated Israeli film reveals not only the divides between Jews and Arabs, but also those between Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and women, and rich and poor.

"...for the 2009 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar lost out to Argentina's The Secret in Their Eyes, but that..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faces of Homelessness

Another Downtown attempt to find answers

"...purse, pocket, or high-stylin' D&G messenger bag when you're out and about Downtown. Despite a visible uptick in Austin..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature by Marc Savlov

Corps de Garbage

Allison Orr's latest dance pays tribute to the working folks who take out the trash

"...ago, and for years the award-winning choreographer has been working toward creating a dance that would showcase the movements..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Welcome to My Studio

The East Austin Studio Tour offers a rare chance to see where artists work and live

"...of her head: You know a whole lot more about her, very quickly. Visiting an artist's studio works the..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

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