The Art of Dying

May Bookshelf

"...she was a woman, the girl began a hunger strike and was consumed by a hurricane. The girl's action..."

May 16, 1997 Books Feature

Media Clips

"...4. The baseball strike..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Column

Free Week Unleashed: These Four Austin Acts Hit the Ground Running in 2024

Catching up with Redbud, lluvii, Daydream Twins, and SINE

"...panorama as SINE. Onstage, crimson waves ruptured with each strike of a digital drum in "Communion," while hypnotic synths..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Music Feature by Julian Towers

The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023

Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return

"...are powerful, bassist César Valencia and drummer Fabian Rincón strike up a mighty rhythm, staying danceable no matter how..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Five Things to Do Online Locally Right Now

Still not risking crowds? We've got your socially distanced virtual back

"...this town, make a note about the ones that strike your funny bone in just the right way, and..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 3-9

"...the rumbling hunches that are available. Be brave, Aries! Strike up conversations with the unexpected, the unknown, and the..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Austin Film Festival Announces 2021 Award Winners

Larry Flynt for President, Disfluency take top nods

"...Ball" D: Rick MacDonald • Narrative Student Short: "Last Strike" D: Zan Gillies • Produced Digital Series: Flux, D:..."

Nov. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Online: Recommended Programming

Must-catch panels, films, music showcases, and more at this year's all-virtual Fest

"...No Justice, No Booty: Sex Work, Art & Activism..."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature

Sundance Review: Censor

Flashback horror to an era of cultural repression

"...moment in British history. In 1985, the long-running miners strike was rumbling, Thatcher was busy wrecking the nation, but..."

Jan. 30, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Back to Zombieland

Ruben Fleischer and Jesse Eisenberg pull the trigger on Double Tap

"...action scenes. But it's this line you have to strike between vulnerability and being able to handle the action...."

Oct. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer Say Goodbye to Broad City at SXSW

If you’re here for spoilers, queen, we’ve got some news for you

"...for weed-induced philosophizing, while Abbi – forever trying to strike the balance between responsibility and her best friend’s freewheeling..."

March 11, 2019 SXSW Post by Beth Sullivan

Public Notice: The End of Single-Family?

Possibly. And look who’s leading the charge.

"...possible permutations those could come in. This seemed to strike city staff and planners like a thunderbolt; consultant John..."

Dec. 8, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Tobe Hooper, R.I.P.

Remembering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director

"...sci-fi blockbuster: the arthouse kid deemed least likely to strike box-office gold. Tragically, Hooper never saw even close to..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music: First Band List of 2016

Initial names for (154) and days remaining until (146) March madness

"...Spanning out a bit, it’s the names that strike little or no chord that are worth vetting. After..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Texas Playboys Baseball Club

Keeping the sandlot field of dreams alive

"...box, I could hear the opposing teams’ parents yelling, ‘Strike this fat kid out,’ or ‘Damn, he’s a fat..."

April 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Fighting City Hall

What began as a play for Austin by a Ukrainian playwright has become a dispatch from the front lines of a war

"...He has an extraordinary ability to renew himself and strike out in unexpected directions, all the while building on..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Universal High School Experience

Sarah Dessen's latest novel is 'The Moon and More'

"...precocious and unique without being overly quirky, Dessen’s protagonists strike a rare balance in the young adult world. Above..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

In the Blind

A weekend at Dai Due's Hunting School for Women

"...To strike a balance between my love of animals and my..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Page Two: Wise, Warm, and Always Welcome

Austin is a quieter place without Brent Grulke

"...He was gregarious, while I was shy. He could strike up a conversation with anyone, while I struggled to..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Making History, Part Two

Director Bill Rauch on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...but I wasn't sure that even though those men strike me as Shakespearean figures, what their drama would feel..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...who died in a Polish prison while on hunger strike...."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Senegal's Père du Cinéma

AFS Essential Cinema explores the films of Ousmane Sembène

"...World War II, Sembène participated in a key railroad strike in 1947 before stowing away on a ship to..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Neighborhoods, Schools, and Budgets

Austin ISD's looming financial crisis is a statewide story

"...around maintaining neighborhood schools, that might seem like a strike against Pease. But for Doughty, that's one of the..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFF: Scene & Heard

A few ramblings about this year's Austin Film Festival

"...to put off the eager person who wanted to strike up a conversation about the various flavors of Luna..."

Oct. 25, 2010 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

The Sound and the Fury

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

"...shading emerald eyes and a lumberjack beard you could strike a match on. You almost expect him to have..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

From Doug to Dax

Austin Film Festival announces early lineup

"...The story of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant in England, where..."

Aug. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Ringing True

The Constitution and the films of Joan Micklin Silver stand above the noise as the alt-weekly series concludes

"...began publication. In 1972, the Phoenix's writers began a strike against the paper. Shortly thereafter, the paper was sold..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Column by Louis Black

'Dune Shack Summer'

An Austin artist's residency in a Cape Cod dune shack yields an art show and a book

"...it as inspiration for largely nonrepresentational paintings, which would strike some folks as moving in opposite directions simultaneously. What..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: SXSW 09: An Intelligence-Impaired Introduction

In which six wise men give up on the elephant and go down themselves

"...that instead of mounting any kind of pre-emptive defensive strike, I helplessly splatter and harmlessly spin in such a..."

March 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...(Strike Theatre) Shakespeare's lost diary drops into the hands of..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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