To Build a Home

Four Austin writers discuss how they create their fantastic worlds

"...Maresca, Donna Dechen Birdwell, and Katherine Catmull all make Austin their home base, but each has introduced readers to..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Tradition Meets the Marketplace

AFS Documentary Tour presents Weaving Worlds

"...and their traditional way of life so, well, of another time...."

July 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...business. But sometimes, desirable side effects can result from others' profiteerial instincts. And the booty to be scored from..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial debut, Lost River...."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Panic Fest Review: Vicious Fun

Serial killer comedy gets to the bloody point

"...horror experts Black Fawn, and a freshly-announced addition to Austin's upcoming Other Worlds Return to the Galaxy all-day event,..."

April 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Toward the Skylin3s With Liam O'Donnell

How the alien invasion franchise took the fight into space

"...The third film, which gets its Texas premiere at Other Worlds Film Festival before its Dec. 18 release, sees..."

Nov. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Visual Acoustics

The architectural photographer Julius Shulman is the subject of this documentary, but through his work we learn an awful lot about modernist architecture.

"...vast popularization and commercialism. Widely seen in magazines and other media outlets, Shulman’s famous images helped advertise and preserve..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Order of Myths

This smart and subtle documentary looks at the ingrained traditions of racial segregation that still remain in the dual Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Ala.

"...Area Mardi Gras Association to be their queen? None other than a direct descendant of one of those slaves..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Meow Wolf Announces Opening of Its Newest Alternative Universe in Grapevine

A vacant mall becomes art July 14

"...multidimensional mystery house with secret passages, portals to magical worlds, and mesmerizing art exhibits. Omega Mart at AREA15 in..."

May 16, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Q&A Hole: What Got You Hooked On the Weird Stuff?

Waiting for the manlike creature with the glowing eyes

"...Compare the joy of reading to a sort of..."

July 13, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...things at once. Katherine Catmull has just returned to Austin from a West Coast sojourn (that included legs in..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

HEAT

Stepping into D. Berman's exhibition 'HEAT' can transport you to a few alternate realities as powerful and reality-bending as any virtual world inside a computer

"...On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, Austin's own D. Diane Davis, professor of rhetoric at UT,..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

SXSW Interactive 04

Exclusive Web-only 'Austin Chronicle' coverage of the wonks, the weekend, and the wilder side of cyberspace

"...Today's Gaming, Tomorrow's Virtual WorldsFriday, March 12 The speakers at Friday's presentation Today's Gaming,..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of growing up in the shadow..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Friends to the End (of the World)

Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler reunite in Greenland

"...Carpenter. Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog (OK, bad example). Austin-based filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh has found that kind of..."

Dec. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Television Festival Goes From Small Screen to Big Screen to Small Screen Again

How the celebration of TV is leading the way in streaming fests as it becomes ATX TV ... From the Couch!

"...a real option. However, as the dominoes fell, and other festivals like Tribeca Film Festival canceled, McFarland explained they..."

June 5, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...once he gets ahold of them, hop over one another, bleed messily into one another, and are sometimes just..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...Is there a Latino visual art movement in Austin? Most observers would nod in the affirmative. In the..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

CAMP Film Fest Brings Online to the IRL Theatre

New event designed to break down career divides comes to the Paramount

"...IP mania. The new CAMP Film Fest, coming to Austin later this month, aims to bridge that divide...."

April 9, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Totally Killer Time With Nahnatchka Khan

Director of the new horror comedy on time travel and more

"...Austin Chronicle: So many time-travel movies, the characters are blissfully..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner

The books I haven’t read keep me warm at night

"...warm little phase where we endeavored to “out-lexicon” each other. We’d coolly slip esoteric words into casual conversation then..."

April 16, 2012 Books Post by Russ Espinoza

Home Field Advantage

Sure, Austin can become a sustainable center for TV production. Just ask the Friday Night Lights gridiron gang.

"...and football in small-town Texas is committed to each other, but the sting of that experience can't have worn..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Words Are Bonds

Worlds intersect at the 17th annual Austin International Poetry Festival

"...spring, you could be forgiven for not knowing that Austin also hosts a poetry festival, and an internationally notable..."

April 17, 2009 Books Feature by Michael Agresta

Fade In

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

"...Miller photograph by Kenny Braun Now as ever, the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference is driven by a..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Chef Yoshi Okai Chats About His One-Week-Only Otoko Pop-Up

No months-in-advance rez needed for this special sushi & cocktail menu

"...Bar of the South Congress Hotel, but experientially, they’re worlds apart...."

Sept. 30, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Richard Linklater: dream is destiny

Doc on local filmmaker is a thoughtful portrait

"...It’s been a quarter-century since Austin-based filmmaker Richard Linklater released Slacker, a sublime and crafty-cool,..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Praise of Designers

A show of gratitude as two of our finest, Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato, depart Austin

"...provide a stage production's sets, costumes, lighting, sound, and other design elements deserve much more attention than they typically..."

July 17, 2015 Arts Column by Robert Faires

In Between Days

Austin's Gaming Community on Where It's at and Where It's Headed

"...Chris Norden, Lead Programmer of Deus Ex, Ion Storm, Austin Personally, I'm the most excited about the new console..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Brendan Sinclair

Visual Arts Review: McLennon Pen Co.’s “Tenfold”

Gallery’s strong roster and new location aim Austin talent worldwide

"...McLennon Pen Co.’s two-year run in Austin, despite its hidden location in a tiny bungalow next..."

June 13, 2025 Arts Feature by Lina Fisher

Trans Awareness Week: aGLIFF’s Bears Rebecca Fonté on Queer Cinema’s Power

“It's important that we have people who are telling our stories”

"...never spoke to the local filmmaker, artistic director of Austin’s queer film fest, aGLIFF, and founder of the Other..."

Nov. 15, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

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