Richard Whittaker is the Culture Editor at the Austin Chronicle. He specializes in arts and entertainment, with a focus on film and cinema, covering topics such as the film industry, filmmaking, and entertainment news, while also exploring urban art, concerts, and theater. Richard's work has been featured in the Monterey County Weekly and The Austin Chronicle.
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Richard's focus is predominantly on entertainment news, particularly in the film industry and around events related to cinema. To effectively reach out to him, consider offering insights or exclusive access related to local film festivals, movie premieres, or events taking place in Austin or Texas.
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By: Richard Whittaker
Sara Nelson and Justin Sherburn never planned to become cinema managers. Like everyone else, the husband-and-wife musician duo found themselves at loose ends during the pandemic. Best known at that point as composer and keyboardist for instrumental ensemble Montopolis, Sherburn had just received a touring grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for The […]
By: Richard Whittaker
The last place on Earth that Austin filmmaker Margaret Brown expected to be on Sept. 29 of last year was in the city of Austin Council chambers. She was supposed to be heading to the set of her next project, having recently wrapped the press cycle for her four-part true-crime HBO documentary series, The Yogurt […]
The greatest danger of social media is how it reinforces our own private fixations. When medical student Hana (Midori Francis, Good Boys, Grey’s Anatomy) looks at her feed, half of it is body positive influencers telling her that this is what a real woman looks like. The other half is skinny girl peer pressure dropping […]
Austin is losing another of its beloved coffee shops and important community spaces with the announcement that Brentwood Social House will be winding down operations.
By: Richard Whittaker
Backrooms Review: The King in Yellow Wallpaper
By: Richard Whittaker
Tuner Review: All the Right Notes at the Right Time
By: Richard Whittaker
The Canine Take on Literary Classics in What’s the Story, Wishbone?
By: Richard Whittaker
The most pivotal scene in Miloš Forman's 1984 musical epic Amadeus has the young and arrogant Mozart take the old, staid Salieri's “March of Welcome” and, with a few flourishes, transform it into the jaunty “Non più andrai.”
By: Richard Whittaker
There's a moment in Airport BLVD , the debut feature film from Austin filmmaker Alejandro Hendricks, in which artist John Fisher perches on scaffolding
By: Richard Whittaker
Disclosure Day Review: Close Encounters of the Emotional Kind
