DVDanger: 'Grabbers'/'Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear'

Rummaging through the 'how did we miss this?' files

"...(Ruth Bradley) so succinctly puts it in Irish comedy-horror Grabbers, "It's always the quiet places where the weird shit..."

Dec. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Grabbers

Men are not at all civil

"...the men I know aren't gratuitous ass or breast grabbers. In fact, grabbing anything – anatomical or not –..."

April 14, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Cracking Open The Devil's Doorway

Horror director Aislinn Clarke on Ireland's dirty secret

"...follows two priests - Father Thomas Riley (Lalor Roddy, Grabbers) and Father John Thornton (Ciaran Flynn, the young Bobby..."

July 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...is on a blinding streak at the moment, with Grabbers, Citadel, Let Us Prey, and From the Dark pretty..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: From the Dark

Star and director talk monsters, mud, and New Kids on the Block

"...new wave of Irish horror directors like Jon Wright (Grabbers), David Keating (Wake Wood), Ciarán Foy (Citadel), and honorary..."

April 11, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Blackness And Shadows

Period piece "The Black Torment" and the world's end in "Dead Shadows"

"...of Attack the Block and the monster madness of Grabbers, it ends up closer to the mad-sad-mad discordant meldings..."

May 3, 2014 Screens Post

DVDanger: 'Dark Touch' / 'Argento's Dracula'

Two very different dances with Irish Gothic

"...sociological terror of Citadel to the monster comedy of Grabbers. Set in one of the increasingly gentrified agricultural communities..."

Feb. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

2022/2023 Austin Music Awards Winners

You voted – here's Austin's favorite artists, albums, and more

"...led the proceedings as we rolled out the highest vote-grabbers in categories across artists, albums, and instrumentalists...."

Feb. 26, 2023 Music Post by James Renovitch

2021/2022 Austin Music Awards Winners

You voted – here's Austin's favorite artists, albums, and more

"...Sir Woman and more, we rolled out the highest vote-grabbers in categories across artists, albums, and instrumentalists...."

March 8, 2022 Music Post by James Renovitch

Playback: The Healing Hand of Jonathan Horne

Following the free jazz guitar phenom as he undergoes hand surgery

"...Horne's hands aren't the big, meaty grabbers you see on some guitarists. They're fair and agile..."

July 27, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: Stressing Out

How many long, luxurious bubble baths can a man take?

"...Of course, if you have already tried all that..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later

Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?

"...music can be played Downtown, meaning 2016 still saw headline-grabbers like the Westin's million-dollar lawsuit against the Nook over..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report: Rampaging Debt Collectors Are Committing Highway Robbery

Corporate souls achieve "truly evil" status

"...each year who get robbed by these rampaging money grabbers. Out of the blue, she got a rude call..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...for future generations, that liberals, car-haters, animal-rights compassion-fascists, gun grabbers, and other assorted wackos stop breathing...."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

DVDanger: Real Monsters

Documentarian John Borowski studies Serial Killer Culture

"...of the world make serial killers into superstars and ratings-grabbers, while criticizing people who look deeper into the underlying..."

Jan. 10, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

PrintAustin: Big Medium, Art.Science.Gallery, and Immediatag

Three galleries at Canopy offer such resonant and vital prints that they're hard to tear your vision from

"...and further pigment-based explorations by Ryan O'Malley, among other eye-grabbers. Beyond whatever's gracing the sound system, the inner ear..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

FTA 'New Start' Funds MetroRapid Buses

Federal grant covers 80% of $47.6 million bus rapid transit program

"...Rogoff argued that people need to look beyond those headline-grabbers. "There's far too much attention paid to them and..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Feast Your Eyes on This

SXSW Film Conference announces panels with an eye toward the visual arts

"...easily and affordably you can put these proven attention grabbers to work for you. Demo!..."

Nov. 17, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Hightower Report

Public Works Work; and Big Oil's Charm Offensive

"...profit of any corporation in history. So the money grabbers are putting on masks of altruism, hoping we won't..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Heavy Metal

Even in blazing summer, Austin's welders and forgers fire it up and make like rock & rollers

"...anvil to create holes for a series of "snake grabbers" that could double as long-handled fireplace pokers. (He was..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

History Is an Important Factor in Las Manitas' Loan

"...plan, their manifest destiny. Atrocities were committed by money-hungry land-grabbers in the past, and now highly unethical practices are..."

June 20, 2007 Postmarks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...West Coast bands like the Cadillac Tramps, Adolescents, and Grabbers, taking punk anthems like X's "White Girl" and making..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...how we lost a radio station to these superradical power-grabbers. The sad story is archived at www.michaelbluejay.com/savekoop...."

June 27, 2003 Column

Season's Grazings

Giving the gift of food this Christmas

"...Heavy Duty Pan Grabbers..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Blondie

Reissue

"...slid from sneer to sob in one measure with chart-grabbers like "One Way or Another," "Hangin' On the Telephone,"..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...good for Dateline NBC and 60 Minutes II sweeps-week ratings-grabbers, but Louis says the reality of Texas' Ecstasy scene..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

PostFest

Organizers of Three Recent Arts Festivals Pass on Lessons Learned

"...novelties scattered lightly across our urban landscape, these attention grabbers have now become ubiquitous; no matter where you go,..."

March 10, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Temper, Temperament

Emotions v. Experience in 261st Dist. Court Race

"...and Livingston. The particulars in this race aren't exactly headline-grabbers, but they do boil down to a couple of..."

Feb. 27, 1998 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Lewis Rebuts Ads

"...for future generations, that liberals, car-haters, animal-rights compassion-fascists, gun grabbers, and other assorted wackos stop breathing...."

May 30, 1997 Column

Record Reviews

"...burden alone? Yes and no. There are three quality grabbers on Sound of Lies: the crunchy single with catchy..."

April 25, 1997 Music Review

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