Richard Whittaker

Austin Animation Phenomenon RWBY Returns for Volume 10

Learning to Pivot: New Documentary Looks at Austin Restaurants During Covid

Austin Film Festival Goes Hogg Wild With On The Road Series

Two Women Review: Sex and the Married Woman

Hidden down a leafy Irish backroad, the Bilberry Woods Inn is the kind of oak-paneled and leather-padded manse that was once a destination for the wealthy decades ago. Yet now it is tired, and closes for the winter season. The very name hides a bitter secret: Unlike its sweet colonial cousin, the blueberry, the wild-growing […]

The surprise decision to relocate this weekend’s inaugural KUT Festival out of its long-planned home on the University of Texas campus and to two venues in East Austin has left the Austin NPR affiliate struggling on two fronts: first, in trying to rebuild their entire event with almost no notice, and secondly, in a war […]

Robert Christgau Doc Captures the Birth of a Literary Form and the End of an Era

Nothing can cross divides and cultural differences like comedy. That’s part of how Megan Rico, a Catholic girl from Florida, found her place as a student at the Mormon-run Brigham Young University in Utah. “Two slightly different sects of Christianity,” she laughed. BYU is where she became a three-season regular on Studio C, the hugely […]

People make movies for many reasons – fame, fortune, artistry. Mor Cohen and her husband, Polaris Banks, ended up saving their marriage when they went to the middle of nowhere to film twisty meta-horror And Her Body Was Never Found. Premiering at South by Southwest this week, it’s a literal two-hander from the Austin filmmaking […]

For decades, when visitors arrived in Austin for South by Southwest, the first thing they did was head to the Austin Convention Center to pick up their badge. If they try that this year, they’ll be confronted with a massive hole in the ground, and that’s just the first shift to what people have come […]

You’ve all seen it. The shaky footage of a Bigfoot, arms swinging, walking across a creek bed against a background of trees in autumn colors. Suddenly, without breaking its stride, it looks back over its shoulder at the person holding the camera and then walks into the woods. That minute of Kodak film, known simply […]