October 11, 1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre rips into cinemas, changing horror and putting Austin on the filmmaking map.

For about a week there, no one was sure Chappell Roan’s Austin City Limits Fest set was going to happen. In the span of a year (or, really, about five months), the singer went from dropped ...

This review has been updated since publication to clarify Sleep No More: VVitch is a co-production between La Fenice and ...

We're months away from the next legislative session, but the Texas Senate Finance Committee was busy yesterday with a long and star-studded hearing about how to attract more film and TV production ...

Fort Martin Scott has been hiding in plain sight on the edge of Fredericksburg for more than a century. It was recently added to the Texas Historical Commission’s inventory as the 39th state ...

Firebrand journalist and author Molly Ivins died in 2007, but her legacy lives on through the play Red Hot Patriot, written by twin sisters Allison Engel and Margaret Engel and first performed in ...

You’ll sometimes hear film fans say that the cinema is their church. But how often can someone say that literally? Well, you can if you’re in the pews for Horror Church, a collaboration ...

After the bodies are removed, the remnants of a homicide or suicide linger. Somebody has to clean the bodily fluids, disinfect the contaminated surfaces, and remove what cannot be salvaged.

For the past two years, Kirk Watson has shown Austinites what it’s like to ride in the sidecar of his mayoral motorcycle. It’s been an at-times tumultuous ride filled with contentious ...

The history of comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live is well documented – probably most definitively in Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller’s oral history, Live From New York – but that ...

My weather app only read 89 degrees Friday afternoon, but Weekend One of Austin City Limits started off so hot that I could feel the sun burning through the leather of my Doc Martens. Sure enough ...

There's something easy about a story of seduction by evil. It's almost always the same: a good person has a flaw that sinister forces use to corrupt them. What's more challenging is what The ...