Gay Place: Liberace Was Gay???

Adelina Anthony comes back to town, and Liberace on the radio

"...I mean, women loved him. I didn't see that one coming, no...."

May 10, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Letters at 3AM: Me, Myself, I, and Muriel

A poem can awaken many selves

"...of one of the the finest poems of the 20th century...."

April 5, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind. Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Mrs. Santa's Book Bag

"...the volume appear photographs and histories of these wonderful women and the challenges they faced – and overcame –..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Memento Mori

The three artists showing here exhibit so much sentience, mystery, and grace

"...manifest in huge, perfectly printed, vivid photographs of young women, often doubled, within mysterious settings of some urban or..."

April 13, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Something Wild

AFS Essential Cinema: Hong Kong New Wave Cinema

"...comedy. Set in Beijing at the beginning of the 20th century, it follows – breathlessly, just barely keeping up..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Big Range Austin Dance Festival

The Big Range Dance Festival shows why that art is worth everyone's attention

"...a performance style that emerged in Japan in the mid-20th century, make it marvelous, I think, for getting out..."

July 8, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

About Time They Repealed DADT

"...cruel policy to perpetuate upon the gay men and women serving in the U.S. military between 1993 and 2010...."

Dec. 20, 2010 Postmarks

Acia Gray

Local rhythm tap legend to be honored with a major national award

"...to a "lost generation" of tap artists – mostly women who studied with the founding tap artists of the..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New American Talent / Dance

Energy and choreographic craft keep this competition springtime fresh

"...by Beny Moré and other Latin singers of the mid-20th century, the movement is relaxed, smooth as Cuban coffee,..."

April 2, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Merry Sitcom!: Christmas Classics From TV's Golden Age

Celebrate the season from the couch

"...boat crew during World War II. Cheerfully, three leading women of TV sitcom history are included on this compilation:..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Review by Amy Smith

The Skin of Our Teeth

A quick-tempoed, caricaturish style serves Thornton Wilder's play well most of the time

"...through the imaginary fourth wall created by the early 20th century American penchant for verisimilitude and realism, but it..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Great Crusader

Nobody's safe from man-with-a-camera Alex Gibney

"...at Bagram Air Force Base by U.S. servicemen and -women), he found his distributor, THINKFilm, unable to market the..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Catherine Deneuve: 5-Film Collection
Sophia Loren: 4-Film Collection

Lions Gate lionizes two icons – one French, one Italian – in two new collections

"...from 1970. Hardly the director's Oscar-winning Loren vehicle Two Women from 10 years previous, the pair's determined handling of..."

June 20, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection

The world's favorite whip-wielding archaeologist gets a new DVD reissue

"...the most popular and exciting action heroes of the 20th century. The whip-wielding archaeologist Indiana Jones, portrayed by the..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Review by Rick Klaw

Mindstorms Mania: Children are the future, and the future is robots

The next generation of robot-makers showed their stuff at Austin Children's Museum's robotics showcase

"...The actual robots of the latter half of the 20th century, massive industrial mechanisms that welded car parts or..."

May 16, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Anton in Show Business

Jane Martin's Anton in Show Business satirically skewers everything in modern theatre, and the Vestige Group's production will have your cheeks sore from laughing

"...and statements like, "This is the whole problem with 20th century theatre. We used to get stories; now we..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Poor People

It's a noble inquiry, which makes the potential pitfalls of the endeavor more palpable to class-conscious readers.

"...and beyond, Vollmann roams, interviewing destitute, impoverished men and women in an effort to glean "Why some are rich..."

April 6, 2007 Books Review by Dan Oko

NFL Analysis 101: 100 Years of Epicurean, Hedonistic Hound Dogs

Timothy Braun brings you, dear reader, up to date on the AFC North

"...is a classic, maybe the best book of the 20th century, and completely in a world of its own...."

April 4, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie may have been done to death, but the strong cast of the Austin Shakespeare Festival production makes this masterpiece come alive again

"...of performing Shakespeare make a graceful leap to classic 20th century American theatre. Whether it is the iambic pentameter..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Review by Clayton Maxwell

'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

"...and relentless work of alehouse patrons. Drinkers. Men and women of vice. The colonists (not the Puritans – heaven..."

Oct. 25, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

Day Trips

The Nasher Sculpture Garden and the Crow Collection of Asian Art are just two excellent reasons to make a short trip to Dallas to enjoy some world-renowned art

"...and Southeast Asia. Dating from 3500BC to the early 20th century, the artwork in the exhibit includes precious jade..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Playboy of the Western World

As the weather cools, Different Stages brings the warmth of rural Ireland to town in its staging of J.M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’

"...with the trend of industrialization. Locals during the early 20th century practiced an amalgamation of Catholic and Celtic customs..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Food-o-File

More food on TV, openings across Austin, and wine flowing in the streets

"...on TV As of last week's episode, all three women and five of the men are still competing on..."

June 3, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• The League of Women Voters of the Austin Area, in honor of its..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...In the early decades of the 20th century, an enthusiastic advocacy of collectivist philosophy could have..."

July 2, 2004 Column

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...I also remember that my biology teacher insisted that women couldn't feel themselves ovulate. In fact, that's all I..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

'Chronicle' Misses the Most Important Part of the Story

"...mark entirely concerning the Planned Parenthood vs. Danze debate ["Women Dig In," News, Dec. 5]. This withstanding, some noteworthy..."

Dec. 16, 2003 Postmarks

In Print

As Chaplin historian David Robinson is happy to report in the introduction to Charlie Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, "the raison d'etre of this book is not so much the text as the photographs."

"...Charlie Chaplin died Christmas morning 1977, an irony the 20th century's king of comedy would have rued. The Dickensian..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Obscene Calling

Law enforcement crosses capitol politics, and the Rangers get burned

"...In the last half of the 20th century there was a governor of Texas who had..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

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