A North Austin Don Rickles Love-In
Along with many, Anna honors Don Rickles Okay, it’s time for me to come clean. Summer before last, I planned a visit to my in-laws around seeing a Don Rickles show in Manchester, New...
Category: Austin
A Quiet Evening with Vietnamese Food and Film
Anna knows the city and the people Monday is a quiet day for the Austin Film Festival. Nothing is scheduled before noon, and there are no features being shown until the evening. After reading...
Dog-Tired at the “Hair of The Dog” Brunch
I started Sunday with a whole lot of other festival attendees at a Hair of the Dog brunch at Ranch 616 restaurant. Admittedly, it took my husband bringing me two cups of coffee to...
Historic Hotel Hosts Humdinger of a Festival
Beautiful sunshine and moderate Texas temperatures in the 80’s greeted attendees at the opening of the 14th annual Austin Film Festival. Many festival panels focus on up-to-the-moment topics like discussions on using the newest...
Austin Film Festival: A Sunny Day with Film + A Balmy Evening with Celebs
The second day of the Austin Film Festival went by in an absolute blur. I think part of the reason was Thursday’s late-night world-premiere of the zombie-riffic Street Team Massacre at the tiny Hideout...
Revisiting the 60s…in a space from 1915!
The screenings for the 14th annual Austin Film Festival started last night at Austin’s historic and glamorous Paramount Theatre. Before the evening got properly underway, I spent some time staring up at the painted...
Last Night at the Alamo Grindhouse (aka Watching Vintage Prints with director Quentin Tarantino) (2007)
Dressed in jeans and a black hoodie– and clutching a beer– film director Quentin Tarantino paced in the spotlight of the small stage of the Alamo Drafthouse theater in downtown Austin, Texas. He told...
Focusing on Horror Films at SXSW Film 2007
At the 13th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, science fiction, supernatural and horror films comprised an increasingly larger proportion of the festival’s 600 plus films, according to SXSW film programmer Matt Dentler, 27. Among the events at the spring festival was the “Grindhouse 101” panel where “GRINDHOUSE” director Robert Rodriguez and Harry Knowles of Aintitcoolnews.com discussed their appreciation of the vintage low-budget films with shocking gimmicks that were played in the old theaters known as grindhouses.
When locals and luck collide
Earlier this month, I was standing at the bar at the Hole in the Wall with JoDee Purkeypile, lead singer/songwriter/lead guitarist of Austin’s quintet the Alice Rose. The band was playing the club near...
Fantasy Films Draw their lifeblood from Austin
For the last year, my husband has spent his Saturdays helping friends build a 9-foot copy of the TARDIS time-traveling spaceship from the BBC’s “Doctor Who” TV series. To the uninitiated, it looks like...
