Jim Brown's Shades of Gray

Spike Lee's latest documentary, Jim Brown: All American, looks at the turbulent life of the "greatest football player ever." Lee and Brown will be in town Tuesday to present the film at the Westgate Cinema.

"...Spike Lee makes the most of his time. He's speaking with me by phone as..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...the only witnesses to his murder, the first murder of a Texas prison guard by an inmate since 1985,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

The House of the Spirits

"...and Visconti, The Leopard. Now Bille August (the director of 1988's Best Foreign Film Oscar winner Pelle the Conqueror..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Writes of Spring

"...sensitive" willow right in his own bedroom. The parts of his body that do remain are nothing but unidentifiable..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

After We Fell

Part three of the only franchise to make 50 Shades of Gray look classy

"...franchise rumbles on, with its bizarre eroticizing and romanticizing of emotionally abusive relationships. Seriously, what did poor Harry Styles..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review

The One About Erotic 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction

Filmmaker Clay Liford on fan fiction from '50 Shades' to 'Star Trek'

"...It came into vogue (well, micro-vogue) around the cancellation of the Star Trek TV series, when people felt the..."

Sept. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Clay Liford

The Luv Doc: A Total Bitch

Orange is not the new black. It’s the shittiest shade of gray.

"...I don’t know if this applies to your area of specialty, but here goes: I work with a woman..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

The Luv Doc: Just Exhausted

You might be the gardener

"...happy with what time we do spend together, instead of obsessing about the hours we spend apart?..."

March 31, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

"Xavier Schipani: Chasing Desire" at Lora Reynolds Gallery

The artist probes the history and crisis of masculinity by placing beefy men in salacious tangles, exposed and unashamed

"...may never have seen another time when the idea of masculinity has been in deeper crisis," Xavier Schipani writes..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

DVDanger: If There Be Thorns

Dear Lifetime, we need to talk

"...are, rope-wrapped in a death grip to the bottom of the ocean...."

July 15, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy

Consequences of perception

"...like it's been four or five lifetimes now (most of them not even mine). A weekly publication emanates from..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Record Reviews

"...TONY BENNETT..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Blurry Vision

The Hightower hasn't found its groove – yet

"...banquette on the other. The interior is done in shades of gray with recessed lighting overhead and accents of..."

April 4, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

1998 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund

"...The Austin Film Society has announced the names of the grant recipients of this year's Texas Filmmakers' Production..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Screens Feature

Veg Out!

There's no better place than Austin to branch out into meat-free eating

"...quit meat when my stepfather brought in the foreleg of a deer he'd been field-dressing in our backyard and..."

March 30, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Skies Partly Cloudy

Two years down the road, liberal network still struggles to establish itself

"..."F the President" bumper sticker on the rear window of Lisa Simmons' aging BMW. She's a single mother, a..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature by Kevin Brass

"Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection"

"Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection" contains a broad sampling of contemporary sculpture, painting, and photography from the past 40 years, and among the jubilant range of concerns and expressions, the riot of form, scale, color, and style, it reveals again and again the tension that exists between the technological world and the human one.

"...Present: The UBS Art Collection": Connecting the DotsAustin Museum of Art, through Aug. 10..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Haranguing the Hugos

"...Children of God by Mary Doria Russell Ballantine, $12.95 paper..."

July 30, 1999 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

Primary Colors

Shades of the Travis County Elections

"...mother, Hazel Livingston and supporters. Livingston won with 57% of the vote over opponent Karen Parker. photograph by Mary..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature

Record Reviews

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...The Buena Vista Social Club recordings of the last two years, featuring some of Cuba's great,..."

June 11, 1999 Music Review

Shoot for the Moon

Actor Danny Trejo has made a film career out of playing criminals. Before that, he made a career out of being one. In town to shoot Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids, Trejo visited Travis High School to talk to students about the lessons he learned the hard way.

"...with their Sharpie markers and Polaroid cameras. The apprehension of Trejo's fans no doubt stems, in part, from the..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

The Luv Doc: Uncool!

Yes, you should stop checking his phone

"...should stop checking his phone. There is no ethical gray area here. You need to cease and desist. Leave..."

July 1, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

After a Fashion

Guest reporter (and Blackmail owner) Gail Chovan brings news of the bountiful Mens Fashion Week in Paris.

"...REPORTER ON THE RUN International fashion icon and owner of Blackmail (2040 S. Lamar), Gail Chovan, gives us this..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...No Mo', is reason enough to check out one of the few remaining regional blues juggernauts.
50; Jay TrachtenbergBEAUSOLEIL..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Leave It to Beverly

This send-up of sitcoms can't solve its problems as smoothly as the old shows it spoofs did

"...The Off Center, through Nov. 21..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'Off the Edge: The Experimental Prints of Cynthia Brants'

Brants' restless exploration of printmaking has created a lush and compelling body of work

"...'Off the Edge: The Experimental Prints of Cynthia Brants'..."

June 19, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Next Fun Fearless Female Rock Star

Austin's now generation comes of age in Suzanna Choffel

"...Striding across the full parking lot of Central Market near Ben White on a partly cloudy..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...On the first of October, if you wanted to contact the Texas Minutemen..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Playback: The Austin Music Poll's 11th Hour

A final push to get out the vote in the Austin Music Poll

"...I'm talking about unfiltered democracy, the power of the people, a collective voice that cannot be ignored...."

Jan. 29, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...was a hot Sunday afternoon late in the summer of 1978. Having arrived in town only two weeks prior,..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

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