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Village of Castleton, Friday, April 29, 2011

"...crazy, but the climate in Austin is perfect for jousting … well, culturally at least. Meteorologically it's ass. Yes,..."

April 29, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Game Changer

How Austin's indie gaming scene got cooking as Juegos Rancheros

"...meeting included playing an as-yet-unreleased game called Johann Sebastian Joust that isn't technically a video game since no screen..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Paging Dr. Mario

Game Over Videogames' Classic Game Fest

"...an attempt to destroy knights mounted on buzzards in Joust knows that reality is overrated...."

June 26, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Meg 2: The Trench

It's Jason Statham versus a giant, ancient shark again

"...up just in time to comedically eat something, or joust with Jason Statham on a Jet Ski...."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Romeo & Juliet

Till death do us part …

"...flavor of staggering insipidness. (Okay, there’s also an off-book joust and the sniggering narrative fillip that Romeo – sensitive..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Film Flam

Alamo books Brooklyn, a hug circle for Matthew McConaughey, and more

"...indie game collective Juegos Rancheros will have a J.S. Joust station – that's the still unreleased (but currently Kickstarting),..."

Dec. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Week in Gaming Events

You will have to leave the house

"...and gaming extravaganza. Show up early for Johann Sebastian Joust courtesy of the fine folks at Juegos Rancheros. If..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Highwaymen

He may be Mel Gibson's choice to play Jesus, but in this car-chase nightmare Jim Caviezel is on the highway to hell.

"...a Hemi, no less – that he uses to joust his antagonist off the white lines when he’s not..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Secret Ballot

Iranian film is sharply observed and resoundingly funny, and tackles such heady topics as feminism, democracy, the voting process, communication, external and internal impediments to personal growth, and more.

"...as needles in haystacks, the soldier and the woman joust with each other and shed some of their protective..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fat Girl

"...bedroom at night, where he and Elena parry and joust in their fumbling adolescent-speak for access rights to Elena's..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Horror-Drama Jakob's Wife Takes a Look Inside a Tortured Marriage

SXSW world premiere looks at life's second acts

"...it was putting the duo together – in a joust that evoked other great onscreen couples like Ellen Burstyn..."

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Money Changes Everything

Or, scenes from the class struggle in Silicon Hills

"...framing, although looking at the forces lining up to joust over the Convention Cen­ter confirms that our War of..."

June 14, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Night Owls

This love triangle winks at The Apartment

"...and career, The Apartment, and evolved into a contemporary joust between idolizing yes man Kevin (Adam Pally) and his..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Darcie Robert

Top 10 Video Games

From impossible geometry to glitching goats, it's our favorite games of the year

"...and shows its polish. The highlight is Johann Sebastian Joust: a full-contact, screenless mixture of tag and jousting that..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Catching Up With Jerry Ferrara

The 'Entourage' co-star has a host of new projects on his plate

"...It was amazing to watch the four of them joust and do their thing...."

Nov. 2, 2013 Screens Post by Patrick Courtney

SXSW Gaming Expo Introduces Awards

In case you were worried SXSW wasn't growing enough

"...it means to be a video game. Johann Sebastian Joust springs to mind...."

Sept. 12, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

SXSW Eco Announces 2013 Programming

Buzzcar founder Robin Cook to deliver keynote

"...The Startup Showcase tournament invites new cleantech companies to joust in a venture capital tournament. The Place by Design..."

June 20, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Gay Place

Volleyballin' it, on the court and on the big screen

"...net, baby. Yeah, we reappropriated that chestnut for the joust-and-spike crowd. Nothing but a delicate wisp of mesh between..."

April 26, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Make Watch Love Austin

Network, check out gear, wine and dine at Austin Studios.

"...Play Plinko hosted by Houndstooth and and get your joust on with Juegos Rancheros. There will be plenty of..."

Dec. 4, 2012 Events Post by Joe Layton

Next: The Revolution!

"...are literally calcified. But I know he enjoys the joust. Next: the revolution...."

July 12, 2009 Postmarks

Five-Star Rollins

"...Miles' rhythm section and a joust with Coltrane...."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Sonny Stitt

Jazz sides

"...dates here, including the original recording of their signature joust, "Blues Up and Down." The three discs are crammed..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Dragonslayer

Dragons have a PR problem, and this movie doesn't help.

"...the 1981 live-action drama Dragonslayer, an engaging but unsatisfying joust with the past from Matthew Robbins, whose short-lived career..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Review by Margaret Moser

Short Cuts

"...by both Ms. Pac-Man and those winged badasses from Joust. What, no Spy Hunter? Bastards! My plainly atrophied video-game..."

June 6, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Heartbreak House

Should you attend the UT Department of Theatre and Dance production of Heartbreak House, you'll have to work to keep up with the student cast, which blasts through the wordy script, but your labors will be rewarded by some fine design work and acting, and G.B. Shaw's timely critique of the leisure classes awakening to a world at war.

"...out, all seeming to have little to do but joust over love and politics and, well, mostly love. Over..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...Robin before he becomes Robin Hood -- "wins a joust and is ordered by the king to collect his..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Like a Bullseye on a China Shop

"...Crowley is this year's local contender in the musical joust that Miles Copeland holds at his castle outside of..."

May 14, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...Citizens Planning Committee (CPC) is the latest planner/architect to joust with official planning dragons on the central city's behalf...."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Susie Bright Comes on Strong Ask a Sexpert

"...of academic feminism (Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin), and joust with icons of not-so-pop culture (porn director Andrew Blake..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Books Feature