Hanging Up the Torches
After 20 years of juggling fire and other foolery, the Flaming Idiots are calling it quits.
"...Most of the time, people want you to stop being an idiot...."
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Dec. 26, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
Bad cat makes stink in theatre.
"...this book had a hook, a miraculous hook of the kind kids most dig – this book was quite..."
Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Let the Battles Begin!
The new city budget promises less is less.
"..."I heard the city manager hoping out loud," said Mayor Will Wynn..."
Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Pride of the Yankees?
Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.
"...Burka, senior executive editor and lead political reporter for the magazine. "But Evan Smith, though ... that's an interesting..."
July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Angel in the Dark
The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.
"...In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival oozing good vibrations and California..."
April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
All the Way to State
A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.
"...The stage may be empty, but that does not keep..."
May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola
How the West Was Sung
The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History
"...THE NEWTON PLAYERS..."
March 20, 1998 Music Feature
The Last Picture Show
Untimely Death of the Texas Union Film Program
"...photograph by Jana Birchum The obituaries offered no mention of it as a notable..."
Jan. 23, 1998 News Feature by Walter Cole
A Chip off the Auld Sod
Off the Bookshelf
"...One of the nice things about freelancing as opposed to being on..."
Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review
The Li'l Green Aggravation Society
Rock & Roll's Cain & Abel: The Kinks' Davies Brothers
"...Everything you've ever heard about the Kinks is true. Everything you've ever heard about the..."
Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall
Cream of the Tech-Top
The Year in Multimedia
"...2. SXSW Multimedia Festival sets attendance record; attracts national sponsors...."
Jan. 5, 1996 Screens Feature
The Thompson and the Loren: A Tale of Two Hotels
One long weekend, two impressive but different vibes
"...When your Canadian girlfriend comes to visit Austin for the first time, and..."
Jan. 27, 2024 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indy's final adventure remembers the whip, forgets the charm
"...someone ask a question to which you already know the answer? In this case, it's, "Whatever happened to Indiana..."
June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Little Mermaid
Inessential remake of the Disney classic is bloated as a puffer fish
"...Two years ago, Disney announced that, for the first time in a decade, they were starting to..."
May 26, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Hideout’s 48-Hour Improv Marathon Returns!
This grueling yes-and fest won’t put you to sleep, citizen
"...a tad obsessed, maybe. And, ultimately – more to the point of bang-for-your-buck entertainment value – talented and funny..."
May 16, 2023 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Something in the Dirt
Benson and Moorhead's pandemic whimsy takes on the perils of conspiracy theory
"...There are two recurrent threads in the creative collaborations of..."
Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Black Phone
Ethan Hawke is a villain for the ages in this brilliant horror
"...true villain, a monster who relishes delivering pain? Is there some inherent likability, something about his eyes or his..."
June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Ben Wheatley Goes Digging In The Earth
Of mushrooms, men, and subterranean superintelligences ..
"...Over the last few years, forest management has become part of..."
April 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Watch: Urban Heat Dances As the World Burns
“A Simple Love Song” reiterates romance during the apocalypse
"...Presenting a vision of end-times passion, Urban Heat frontman Jonathan Horstmann contrasts the innocence..."
Jan. 29, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
The Painter and the Thief
Intriguing tale of crime and redemption
"...There's a theory that criminal justice is about a balance..."
May 22, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981
Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted
"...Beauty and the Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All of the..."
April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The saga ends … in fan service
"...isn’t dead. This huge bombshell is thrown out in the opening crawl of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker..."
Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Jumanji: The Next Level
Back in the game for a fun if flimsier sequel
"...was going to be a terrible idea, but you end up falling in love with anyway. Remember when everyone..."
Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn
Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth
"...Dr. Charles Urdy, at 86, can still remember the names of long-gone nightclubs along East 11th Street. He..."
Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Humanity's scarring of Earth mapped out in graphic, terrifying detail
"...This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in..."
Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Wen Ren’s End-of-the-World Drama Last Sunrise Found Its Spark in China
Light in the dark
"...There can be no more definitive end of the world..."
July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Roosevelt Room Stands Its Ground in a New Downtown
How the right lease negotiations kept the Fifth Street bar in business
"...to Rainey, Fifth and Lavaca stalled. Almost all of the establishments on the corner, including Rebel's Saloon and Hudson..."
July 12, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader
The Dead Don't Die
After the vampiric bite of Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch shambles through this zombie flick
"...search of hot coffee and warm flesh – apparently the undead no longer crave cigarettes – is just one..."
June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
A gentle, poetic look at gentrification that shimmers with the winds of history
"...The Last Black Man in San Francisco, already one of..."
June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Anna and the Apocalypse
Scottish zombie musical is your new Christmas playlist
"..."There's no such thing as a Hollywood ending," chorus the..."
