Return to Paradise
"...Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow and Ming Lee. Return to Paradise is sort of Midnight Express retooled for Gen-X sensibilities...."
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Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Paradise
Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."
"...the Nuggets box set. A photo book, full of dark-eyed Mexican women and defiant Mexican men, in San Antonio..."
June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Stranger Than Paradise
Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own
"...tucked away in the Catskill Mountains, 1,400 acres of paradise lost. National Lampoon's indie rock vacation...."
Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Down the Dark Highway
Bradley Denton Talks about Blackburn
"...and America divided like a yellow-striped highway median. Sal Paradise's incessant roaming from the Atlantic to the Pacific was..."
Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature
Journey of Hope
"...biggest upset at this year's Oscarfest occurred when this dark horse from Switzerland nabbed the honors for best foreign..."
May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Adam's Apples
Pitting a skinhead against a priest, this Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark.
"...Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark. The film's humor offers an odd blend..."
June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
All I Want for Christmas
"...serendipity and good cheer. Really, just about the only dark cloud in this Manhattan Island paradise is the nasty..."
Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ready Player One
Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment
"...an action romp, and a comedy spoof, and a dark techno-thriller akin to Spielberg's Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority..."
March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Golden Compass
The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come.
"...the source material, British children's author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy? The Golden Compass trades in the novels'..."
Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Gay Place
Welcome to Hell ... Halloween, Austin queer-style
"...DARK PARADISE HALLOWEEN BALL Enjoy Patricia Vonne, Eva Strangelove, Merci..."
Oct. 25, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer
Down the Rabbit Hole With Avant Glam
Darkly dreaming with Sassy Delure about her newest show
"...The stage is lovely, dark, and deep, but Sassy Delure and the performers of..."
Aug. 1, 2014 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker
White Lung’s Mish Barber-Way
“You gotta scream to be heard”
"...tinges of metal and punk on their new album, Paradise, a crazed cacophony and triumph of an LP. Led..."
July 6, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster
The Empyrean
Ascending the heights of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and guiding light John Frusciante's new solo disc, ‘The Empyrean’
"...fire or light b: the true and ultimately heavenly paradise...."
Feb. 20, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Eat Your Heart Out
Corazon development is a foodie paradise
"...the combination of minty fernet with shavings of Valrhona dark chocolate created a gustatory love story. Espresso fans should..."
May 1, 2015 Food Feature
deadmau5, Kaskade, and Chris Lake Announced to Play Seismic Dance Event 6.0
The Austin house and techno festival unveils its November lineup
"...Ear-blasting subwoofers and dark techno music will make the Concourse Project feel like..."
June 15, 2023 Music Post by Adam Cherian
Tyler Childers’ Universal Sound
High lonesome and dark-hollered grit
"...out Tyler Childers for “Please Don’t Bury Me” and “Paradise.” He then ceded the stage completely for the Kentucky..."
July 20, 2018 Music Post by Doug Freeman
Goodnight Irene
Timeless music time-travels – backward, forward
"...4) Horrendous, Anareta (Dark Descent)..."
Jan. 1, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Ho99o9
"...angles with D-beat screamer "Hated in Amerika." Avant-gutter closer "Dark Paradise" underscores screwed poetry with circuit bent sounds, then..."
March 20, 2015 Music Review by Kevin Curtin
The Texas Book Festival
Chapter Three
"...you're not afraid of humor that rustles through the dark attics of human behavior. And if you're not averse..."
Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature
Barge to Hell, Part 3
A final metal injection from HeadCrusher
"...hanging out with Adrian, drummer of At the Gates, Paradise Lost, and Brujeria. Our neighbors were Bonded by Blood..."
Jan. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
The Summer Revival Spirit
Can I Get a Witness?
"...CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945)..."
June 12, 1998 Screens Feature
Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler
A look back at illustrated album covers old and new
"...his spiked door, yet metal's maelstrom most suited his dark magic. Celtic Frost's Tom G. Warrior was so grateful..."
July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland
SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon
Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list
"...YouTuber in the world whose feel-good videos masked the dark and reckless new ethos of online celebrity culture. (World..."
Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Music Amidst Used Furniture
The History of the Red River Strip
"...they're looking for the Club DeVille to be a dark, smoky room where people can hang out, have a..."
Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature
Under the Same Moon
The film's parallel stories of a mother and son seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché – but as a sociological study, it’s fascinating.
"...Isaac Bravo, Ernesto D’Alessio, Julie Dove and America Ferrera. Paradise is a relative term, and Shangri-La is simply a..."
March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Bright Lights, Inner City
When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway
"...I was a kid. Right next door was the Paradise Inn. They had a jukebox, but every now and..."
July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Rollergirl
A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star! You are a muse on eight wheels! You are roller skating!
"...you entered the big white barns that were so dark, so cool inside...."
May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola
It's a Mystery to Me
"...Jesse Stone, sheriff of the sleepy little town of Paradise, Mass., who debuted in last year's Night Passage. An..."
April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett
Belle
Social media and fairy tales meet in this gorgeous, grounded version of Beauty and the Beast
"...incredibly accessible look at online life in all its dark menace and strange potential...."
Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
SXSW Adds Speakers, Films
Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more
"...with a totally surprising agenda. Two Pigeons is a dark, urban morality tale with an underlying streak of jet-black..."
