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Brokedown Palace
"...a series of home experiments with an eye toward discovering why, exactly, lye is harmful to your retinas. Things..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Detroit 9000
Blaxploitation classic re-released in 1999 by Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder distribution company.
"...Velveeta that manages to make Rudy Ray Moore's Avenging Disco Godfather look like an auteur-driven masterpiece by comparison. When..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Jealousy
"...also be seen currently in The Last Days of Disco) is terrific, though, all smarm and chilly East Village..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boys Life 2
"...a night on the town at a popular gay disco where Jason and Kevin end up vying for the..."

April 18, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Party Girl
Parker Posey's breakout role came in this NYC coming-of-age indie in which she plays a hipster party animal who tries to settle down as a librarian.
"...for library science what Saturday Night Fever did for disco. Well, maybe. At the least this film -- Mayer's..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema
"...transported back to the hedonistic heights of 1970s gay disco life as Thelma Houston coos and pleads “Don't Leave..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

City Hunter
"...some thug, we hear what appears to be a disco chorus singing his praises -- “Citeeee-Hunteeer!”). A very, very..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chain of Desire
"...cross between a 1930s Berlin cabaret and a cyberpunk/clubkids disco. Alma has just ended a relationship with her boyfriend,..."

July 30, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Best of the Best Two
"...Wayne Newton, stars as a sleazy manager of a disco called the Stock Exchange on the Vegas strip which..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Blood & Concrete: A Love Story
"...possible murder suspect, an elephantine drug lord and his disco-driven blond toady are suddenly convinced that Joey knows the..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where The Girls Go/ATX: Mix It Up Edition
Your best bets at finding the ladiez and friendz this weekend
"...things up, belly laughs, and just a touch of disco...."

May 9, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Interview: Kid Congo
Gun Club/Bad Seeds/Cramps guitarist just being himself
"...first a teenage glam denizen of Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco, then the president of the Ramones Fan Club, before..."

March 16, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

That's the Way I Like it
"...Png, Anna Belle Francis, Medaline Tan and Adrian Pang. Disco dead? Perish the thought. At least not in Singapore,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace
Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.
"...listening to Greezy Wheels and end it at the disco dancing to ABBA...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

This Is My Life
LZ Love's reveal: dance music!
"...music, DJs, 12-inch singles, industrial music, and New Wave. Disco was DIY music that spoke an international language. Its..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

In Goth We Trust
Or is that disco?
"...Society’s Peace & Love, Inc. EP because I love disco. Always have. This comes as no surprise to anyone..."

Jan. 16, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Reissues
"...out of its time, one that deserves to be rediscovered...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records/Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Kiss sang 'Rock & Roll All Nite,' and their label followed suit – and disco! Disco, from the inside out.
"...Jeff Suhs Backbeat Books, 320 pp., $24.99 Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Cultureby Alice Echols W.W...."

June 11, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Turn the Beat Around
The Pre-Millennium Rise of Dance Music
"...draining all the life and surprise out of post-Kraftwerk umlaut-disco. Too rigid for dancing, too emaciated for catharsis, too..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Consigned to History: The Last Days of the Austin Antique Mall
When two iconic Austin businesses share an address, someday one was going to lose out
"...“Liquidation sale: see tags for discounts.”..."

May 17, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

How Did Legendary DJ and Londoner Paul Oakenfold Land in Bastrop?
The Londoner finds his way to a Texas ranch
"...DJ" who mainly went out to meet women and discover the latest trends...."

July 30, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hits!
Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel
"...were -- at unhip outlets such as drug and discount stores...."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Clinton Disco & the Halfway to Discontent (Luaka Bop)
National Records
"...ClintonDisco & the Halfway to Discontent (Luaka Bop) Hop nimbly..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Review by Ken Lieck

The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir
Disco doesn't have much to do with anything in Clane Hayward's memoir of her late Seventies, peripatetic preteens, which were spent shuttling between a hippie mom, redneck dad, and anybody else with an open space – but not necessarily an open heart – in which Hayward could crash
"...The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoirby Clane Hayward Chronicle Books, 240 pp., $22.95..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion
It was a "Mighty Real" period in at least one young man's life: Oh, those heady disco nights! Oh, the power! The Passion! The psychedelics! Oh, it's all within reach through the grace of MP3s! Oh, I should have saved them!
"...the light of day for weeks on end. The discos provided a haven in a treacherous world, and for..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Last Days of Disco
This Whit Stillman movie perfectly illustrates how white the disco fad became, but at times, the audience has to wonder if Stillman has any idea about the era that he's trying to capture.
"...THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery

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"...Strinfield, Neve Campbell, Ellen Albertini Dow and Heather Matarazzo. Disco may suck but it's certainly not dead, as evidenced..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doomed. Bourgeois. In Austin: The Films of Whit Stillman
Indie legend on Austin, Austen, and his landmark trilogy
"...by 1994's Barcelona and 1998's The Last Days of Disco, all of which screen this month at AFS Cinema...."

Oct. 11, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Hot & Spicy Homoscopes
Pride Month predictions for what queer events you'll end up enjoying
"...SCORPIO Crisco Disco A tribute to the titular shortening's use in the..."

June 23, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: 50 Years Queer History
Everything you need to know to make the best of Pride Weekend
"...Austin Pride 2019 Disco on down to celebrate Stonewall's 50th and 29 years..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

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