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Letters at 3AM
Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up
"...a panorama of individuals unheard of in history. Hamlet, Lear, Lady Macbeth, Falstaff, Prospero, and on and on, kings..."

April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Cine las Americas Previews
"...skin. What exactly is going on is never completely clear, yet Veró's uneasiness is always fully palpable. Martel frames..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Feature

Mister Z Loves Company
Rubber Repertory's revival is a marriage of depravity and delight, of filth and fantasy
"...a Marvelous Party" and when the other unleashes King Lear's "Cataracts and Hurricanos" speech. In between (and sometimes while)..."

April 17, 2009 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
"...not smart. Pip, who nicked his name from Edward Lear, kicks it Oscar Wilde-style and skewers all with a..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Chill
Wild Thing Chip Taylor waxes political on 'New Songs of Freedom'
"...the Runaways, Geno Washington, Manfred Mann, the Divinyls, Amanda Lear, the Kingsmen, the Muppets, and – yes! – the..."

June 27, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft
"...with each play representing an NFL franchise. Imagine King Lear done in silver and black, with the royal Al..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

How the West Was Won
SXSWUK 2008
"...cup of Earl Grey and a bite of Edward Lear...."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Toros: Season Three Preview (First Less-Than-Successful Attempt)
"...wind and rain of an uncaring universe, like King Lear in a tank top: “I refuse to be Charles..."

Nov. 25, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Starting Over
For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm
"...costumes in full view of the audience – as clear a gesture of farewell to the work as these..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Trailer Park Boys: Seasons 1 & 2
Alliance Atlantis released the show's collected episodes season by season last year without frills or fanfare, but even without extras, they're worth discovering
"...modern cousin, and the name of sitcom genius Norman Lear is alive...."

March 23, 2007 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

The Out-of-Print VHS Titles You might never find on DVD
"...Another Van Dyke film. This one, directed by Norman Lear, is a comedy about a small town offered $25..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back
The play 'Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back' seeks to honor the New Orleanians affected by Hurricane Katrina, but the level of intensity in the UT staging often makes it hard to connect to
"...characters, in a roar of wind and water that Lear would shrink from...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Shakespeare at Winedale 2006 Schedule
"...King Lear: Saturday, July 29, 2pm; Sunday, July 30, 7:30pm; Thursday,..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature

The Hightower Report
Pity for CEOS; and the Granny Peace Brigade
"...women had blocked access to the recruiters. But Judy Lear responded that if someone had approached, she would have..."

May 19, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

'Biscuit: A Retrospective'
Gallery Lombardi’s posthumous exhibition of 150 collages by local punk rock renaissance darling Randy Turner is a friendly walk through the brain of Biscuit
"...Rollins', but with the finesse and whimsy of Edward Lear. His Eighties and Nineties gig flyers, riddled with Magic..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

The Bad Sleep Well
Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing
"...to accompany Throne of Blood's Macbeth and Ran's King Lear), this lesser-known intrigue scalds with cynicism and wit, echoed..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Genghis Khan
In 'Genghis Khan,' Salvage Vanguard Theater crafts a surprisingly traditional, surprisingly intimate, and absorbing operatic portrait of a lion in winter
"...the "wrath of God." Before the dawn, he will learn the price he has to pay for killing, and..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Fever
In producing Wallace Shawn's The Fever, Physical Plant Theater issues a call to think, from your car radio, and it's worth heeding
"...Surrounded by million-dollar lofts with the occasional Lear jet passing overhead (and, in one exquisite bit of..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

In Person
The first book Jasper Fforde remembers reading, he told the smiling crowd at BookPeople, is Alice in Wonderland. Which explains an awful lot.
"...British tradition that stretches from Jonathan Swift to Edward Lear to the Monty Pythons...."

March 12, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...This is nonsense typical of Edward Lear...."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column

School Management at Fault
"...the business/school, etc." This is nonsense typical of Edward Lear...."

Oct. 3, 2003 Postmarks

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?
The Artists' Recent and Upcoming Projects
"...In 2004, she will design the costumes for King Lear at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.Jennifer Rogers Rogers has been..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature

La Musica y el Director
Robert Rodriguez adds "composer" to his long list of film credits.
"...Imagen Award for best film director and the Norman Lear Writer's Award for Spy Kids 2: The Island of..."

July 25, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM
In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.
"...is Daniel Day-Lewis' character and performance: Part Iago, part Lear, part Falstaff, Day-Lewis' Butcher is capable of love and..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Tracks of My Tears
A new documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, signs a light on the men behind the Motown sound, the Funk Brothers.
"...rise and demise (label patriarch Berry Gordy as King Lear), suffered his own inglorious curtain call. As re-enacted toward..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Novel Writing: America's Latest Extreme Sport
National Novel Writing Month now competes with Veterans Day and Thanksgiving as the November celebration -- except that it lasts all month long and demands 50,000 words, or one novel, from its participants.
"...her for one of the bad sisters in King Lear. Brown is also a published author (The Woman's Way:..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way: Poems
"...Has the Right of Way, Coen bounces from Edward Lear nonsense and rollicking sea chanteys to Byronic outcast verse..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Articulations
Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Most Valuable Players
A Guide to Austin Stage Actors
"...roles: Various, Raised by Lesbians, STC, 2001; Goneril, King Lear, PD, 2001; Laura, Fish, Aunt Lulu Plays, 2000; Jane,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Articulations
Oklahoma!, A Macbeth, and Art were the big winners at the 27th Annual B. Iden Payne Awards.
"...(tie) Paul Norton, King Lear & Marco Noyola, Roosters..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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