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Nothing to laugh at in ‘The Last Circus’

Alex Williams September 12, 2011

Editor's note: The following red band trailer contains graphic content. “The Last Circus” certainly won’t be curing anyone’s clown phobia, but there’s not much else it...

LGBT festival grand marshals remember rough times, prejudices

Julie Rene Tran September 12, 2011

Even in Austin — a city often characterized as a bubble for its liberal mind-set encompassed in a conservative state — it hasn’t been easy for those in the LGBT community. As hundreds...

UT professor creates program to identify people by word use

Henry Clayton Wickham September 12, 2011

UT psychology professor James Pennebaker, author of “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us,” developed a program with his research team called Linguistic Inquiry and Word...

Wild Frontier Fest returns for second year

Julie Rene Tran September 10, 2011

In a city saturated by aspiring musicians and overwhelmed with music venues and concerts, surprisingly, a good live set can be hit or miss. But in the case of Wild Frontier Fest, however, there will be...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Movie

Alex Williams September 9, 2011

50/50 In theaters Sept. 30 Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, “50/50” is arguably the starting gun for this year’s Oscar season and almost certainly the first film to justify...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Local Art

Rachel Perlmutter September 9, 2011

After Dark Wally Workman Gallery | Dec. 3-23 In this group show, 30 artists were challenged to create works inspired by the exhibition title. Although each artist is sure to interpret the task in a...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Books

Katie Stroh September 9, 2011

"1Q84" Haruki Murakami | Oct. 25 "1Q84" is already a hit in Murakami’s native Japan, where it was released in three volumes to wild success. In October, the complex, surreal...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Music

Ali Breland September 9, 2011

Blakroc 2 | Fall TBD Blakroc is a collaborative effort between The Black Keys and various rappers they enlist on each record. A teaser for the new album popped up in August and featured a tiny portion...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Television

Aleksander Chan September 9, 2011

“American Horror Story” Premieres Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. on FX Recovering from an affair, a psychotherapist moves with his wife and teenage kids to a new town and into an old house imbued with...

‘Contagion’: Infectious horror story done right

Alex Williams September 9, 2011

“Contagion” may be the most unexpectedly terrifying movie of the year. It’s not exactly a horror movie in the traditional sense of the word, since there are no axe murderers, ghosts or...

‘Contagion’ depicts realistic viral chaos

Robert Starr September 9, 2011

[Corrected Sept. 11: Changed Lauren Meyers title] Monster movies are scary, but they aren’t that scary. Sharks, snakes, spiders, mutant beasts — sure, they can kill you, but that’s about...

“Bucky Larson” is as dumb as raunchy comedies can get

Alex Williams September 9, 2011

There is no reason for “Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star” to exist. It has one good joke in its entire run time and this is it: There’s a throwaway gag at the end of the second act about...

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