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...
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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...
Finding Joy in “Control” — The Biopic on Joy Division, a Post-Punk Band
Sharing thoughts about a film, a band, a friend, a bar, and a pretty city. Ever since high school I’ve been into the distinctively mopey music that emerged from economically depressed Manchester, England in...
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...
Theater Review:Get Your War On
As much as we’d like to change a few things about our first time, we regret we’ll never be able to repeat the experience. We also can’t change history, so catching the currently playing,...
Austinist Reviews: Mr. Marmalade
. . . . . In our culture, children are usually considered innocent until sullied by the grown-up world. Otherwise, why would we have family-friendly TV programming, G-rated movies, and continual furor about “inappropriateâ€...
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...
