Austin

The Texas Acts You Can’t Miss at This Year’s ACL Fest
When it comes to showcasing the biggest names across the most popular mainstream music genres—pop, rock, country, house—this year’s Austin City Limits lineup, like all its lineups in recent year...

This Ferryboat Captain Battles Strong Currents, High Winds—and Ravenous Seagulls
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. My love for the water began as a kid, growing up in Corpus Christi. My friends, brother, and I started hand building small boats...

Austin Film Society Spotlights the “Heroic Bloodshed” of John Woo’s Hong Kong Films
Known for his gripping & guns-blazing sequences, John Woo set the tone for what an action film should look like. But before Woo broke through in Hollywood in 1993 with Hard Target, he was kicking c...

The Green Beret Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight
The mat space at Gracie Humaitá Cedar Park was filled with the sounds of electric guitar, crashing cymbals, and the heavy panting of thirty jiu-jitsu students grappling. A timer ticked away the secon...