This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth episode 5. As Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth hurtles into its second half faster than the USCSS Maginot barreled toward Prodigy City, was anyone expecting the Fargo director to give us an unexpected Alien movie worthy of Ridley Scott himself? While both Scott’s Prometheus and Alien: Covenant were accused … Read more
Superman has a fairly robust rogue’s gallery under his belt. You might not know this if you only watch comic book movies, where the Man of Steel faces alternating rounds betwen Lex Luthor and General Zod, but outside of Batman, Spider-Man, and maybe the X-Men, Kal-El has one of comicdom’s top shelf villain rosters. So … Read more
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~Albert Einstein, adapted I often feel like I was born into the wrong story. I grew up in a time when success meant something quieter. My father was a public school music teacher. We didn’t have much, but there was a dignity in … Read more
Five gardens across Austin will be open to the public on Saturday, November 8, for the Garden Conservancy’s Open Day tour.… Read More The post Austin Open Day garden tour coming November 8 appeared first on Digging. September 02, 2025 Mark your calendars and get ready to tour gardens, Central Texans! Five gardens across Austin … Read more
Introducing yourself can be the start of making new amici (“friends” in Italian). So… Introducing yourself can be the start of making new amici (“friends” in Italian). So you must get it right! In Italy, getting acquainted with others often goes hand in hand with Italian greetings and other polite phrases that can get your … Read more
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is now apparently an Oscar player. That’s the news coming out the Venice Film Festival, as his movie The Smashing Machine—directed by Benny Safdie and co-staring Emily Blunt—received a 15-minute standing ovation. While it’s true that The Smashing Machine could put Johnson on a level never before reached by his fellow … Read more
Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights has been serving up high-quality scares for decades. The fright-inducing Halloween event opened its 34th season on August 29 and just keeps getting better. Case in point: this year’s haunted house lineup, which includes scary walkthrough experiences based on popular intellectual properties like Prime Video’s Fallout TV series, the Five … Read more
The garden is showing a gradual turn toward autumn with fall bulbs in bloom, ripening berries, and mellower light.… Read More The post Oxblood lilies, berries, and other signs of summer’s end appeared first on Digging. September 01, 2025 Austin got a “cold” front this weekend, a full month early. Temps are still in the … Read more
Now approaching its 20th gathering, Fantastic Fest has become the undisputed home for genre cinema in North America. Fans and studios alike know that if they want an early peek at the best (or at least weirdest) in new horror and science fiction, they have to come to Austin. Fantastic Fest didn’t build that reputation … Read more
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~Helen Keller The phone call arrived like a silent explosion, shattering the ordinary hum of a Tuesday morning. My uncle was gone, suddenly, unexpectedly. Just a few months later, before the raw edges of that loss could even begin … Read more