Lady Bird Johnson Documentary Reveals the Legendary First Lady's Wonk Side

SXSW's The Lady Bird Diaries goes beyond beautification

"...The Lady Bird Diaries is a story in three mediums: first, a..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Lina Fisher

Midland Tangles With a Rare Bird Republicans Fowl Property Rights

"...her arms. The jet was whisking Erskine and the bird, which had been shot by a hunter, from Erskine's..."

June 23, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Measure of a Man

Even Donald Sutherland reciting fortune cookie wisdom doesn't save this YA snore.

"...incisive evidence is my time with coming-of-age films. Lady Bird may have melted my heart and breathed some new..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Finding North

"...Molly Mcclure, Freddie Roman, Angela Pietropinto, Rebecca Kreskoff, Anne Bobby, John Benjamin Hickey and Wendy Makkena. It begins on..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blue Chips

"...the dramatic arena. There are gratuitous cameos by Larry Bird and Bobby Knight and larger-than-cameo roles by Shaquille O'Neal..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bus Stops Here

The How's Your News? crew rolls out its unique brand of reportage on MTV

"...TV, for that matter. In the first episode, reporter Bobby Bird, who has Down syndrome and is difficult to..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...Sarah Bird is coming over for lunch and she's promised to..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Wild Hogs

John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star as middle-aged friends who seek life's purpose while on a cross-country motorcycle trip.

"...formulaic Hollywood comedy. Four friends, Doug (Allen), Woody (Travolta), Bobby (Lawrence), and Dudley (Macy) make up the Wild Hogs,..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Free Week’s Big Weekend and More Crucial Concerts This Week

Plus back-to-back gigs from Cactus Lee, Runner and Bobby

"...Potter's Nightmare Band outside.  – Rachel Rascoe Runner and Bobby Mini TourSwan Dive, Friday 5 [Free Week] Coral Snake,..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Turning the Page on the Year in Books

New works by Cormac McCarthy and Sarah Bird make for a memorable year in literature

"...as bright and uplifting either. The story centers around Bobby Western, a laconic salvage diver based in New Orleans,..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

See You On the Moon

Shel Silverstein gets a tribute, plus more new albums

"...gone the way of the CD. That hasn’t stopped Bobby Bare Sr. and Jr. from producing one of the..."

June 10, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...is Texas." – a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the series finale of King of the Hill..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...golden age of animation. "Look, this guy named Brad Bird just told us how to do Iron Giant, and..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Bands break up, sure, but were they even trying?

"...drummer Josh Wienholt ("next Friday will be our last"). Bobby Jealousy's news came later that same evening at Hotel..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...a station that constantly played the local bands -- Bobby Marchand, the Dixie Cups, Aaron Neville, Ernie K-Doe, Irma..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

Qmmunity: Season of the Homoscopes

Change is the name of the game this week in Austin’s queer event horoscopes

"...Día de los Muertos Bobby Pudrido and Thele Magick host a celebration of the..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Column by James Scott

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark Updegrove

The Library's director from 2009 to 2017 on LBJ's evolving legacy

"...presidential historian, his perspective on LBJ's legacy (and Lady Bird's), and the distinctive pull of the LBJ Library on..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Get Out Wins Austin Critics Top Prize

The Shape of Water, Timothée Chalamet get nods

"...by Your Name, but also takes the Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award, named after the late..."

Jan. 8, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon

Reissues

"...Thelonious MonkStraight No Chaser (Columbia/Legacy)Charlie ParkerBird (Columbia/Legacy)Dexter GordonRound Midnight (Columbia/Legacy) Soundtracks, we got jazz soundtracks..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Elmore Leonard's World

Writing the Rap

"...kidnapped. This has come about because he had hired Bobby Deogracias, a slimy Puerto Rican bounty-hunter, to collect a..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Ed Ward

TV Eye

I want Craig McCracken to be my friend

"...Coco is a crazy bird. Literally. She lays multicolored, surprise-filled plastic eggs that are..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

McCanlies, Texas

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

"...a call one day from Warner's Feature Animation: "Brad Bird just told us how to do Iron Giant, but..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Expect a lot of Texas interest on The Lady Bird Diaries, focusing on the life and impact of First..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Rain on Me

A new era at the classic Fourth Street bar starts with Show Director Basüra

"...Ethereal Girl with fairy goddess Louisianna Purchase, mad scientist Bobby Pudrido's Drag Lab, and Arinna Dior Hey's night of..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Column by James Scott

Qmmunity: Homoscope Sweet Homoscope

Homoscopes turns to its close cousin with a tarot reading of cool queer events

"...special guests Gothess Jasmine, Coach Bunz B, and producer Bobby Pudrido. Wed., April 26, 8pm. Lulu's Austin, 10402 Menchaca..."

April 21, 2023 Column by James Scott

Council Backs Parkland Preservation in Vote for New Dougherty Arts Center Site

Austin's oldest community arts venue would relocate to new facility in Butler Shores' southeast corner

"...nearby city-owned parkland, a high-profile site off of Lady Bird Lake that also happens to pose several design constraints,..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Best of the Rest

More of what made Austin good in 2011

"...Care Take Care Take Care (Temporary Residence) The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Early Bird Special (Benchmark Recordings) Ruthie Foster, Live at..."

Jan. 9, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Critics Poll

"...Hernandez Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Music Feature

Juke Joint Blues

Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin' Circuit memory lane

"...("Bright Lights, Inner City," July 4, 2003), the guitarist's bird's-eye view remains one of the most potent landmarks of..."

July 13, 2007 Music Feature by Jonny Meyers

Revolution Rock

At the crossroads of the Clash and the great state of Austin, Texas.

"...In a tip of the hat to Texas, the Bobby Fuller Four's "I Fought the Law" finished everyone off..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Music Feature

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