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June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Applause! Applause!
The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.
"...Alfred and Ellen King (community) -- philanthropists, civic leaders..."
June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Till Human Voices Wake Us
"...line of T.S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," a poem that, fittingly for Petroni, opens with..."
March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Articulations
Twelve more friends of the arts have been named to the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, and Austin Lyric Opera loses Managing Director Michael Murphy to a performing arts organization in San Diego, from whence he came.
"...Wayne Bell; visual artist and educator Kelly Fearing; patrons Alfred and Ellen King ; Indian classical dancer Gina Lalli;..."
March 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, another bunch of Lone Stars are being honored by the Texas Cultural Trust Council with Texas Medal of the Arts Awards, and John Walch wins an award from the American Theatre Critics Association.
"...Walch is currently living in Brooklyn and is an Alfred P. Sloan playwriting fellow with the Manhattan Theatre Club,..."
Feb. 14, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
A family of Austin artists facing deportation stays a little longer, and Zachary Scott Theatre Center postpones its Parade.
"...Steakley, who is itching to stage the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical Parade at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires
The Gods of War
America is distracted by the Pledge "crisis" while our government readies for war.
"...1892 by a New England Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy. (Alfred T. Goodwin, the Republican federal judge who wrote the..."
July 12, 2002 News Column by Michael King
Fright or Flight
Screenwriter Evan Hunter will be in attendance at the Paramount screening of The Birds, his 1963 collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock.
"...four little words go right to the core of Alfred Hitchcock's wicked genius: The idea of something can be..."
July 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Litigious Linda
Even after being dropped, Linda Curtis' lawsuits could impact city politics.
"...not with her -- was Goodman campaign finance manager Alfred Stanley, who distracted the television cameras with a sign..."
April 19, 2002 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Day Trips
At Fred's Lounge in Mamou, Louisiana, the good times roll pretty early.
"...of those returning to the village of Mamou was Alfred "Fred" Tate. On November 20, 1946, he purchased the..."
Dec. 28, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Day Trips
The Amon Carter Museum has a new, modern look, but it's still the same old great place to get culture.
"...covered with the works of masters like Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, and Alexander Calder. The majority of the paintings..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
The Man Who Wasn't There
The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.
"...Santa Rosa, California, which fans of Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock will recognize as home base to Shadow of..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Art of Saving AMOA
Crisis at the Austin Museum of Art: Layoffs, Reorganization, Uncertain Funding
"...Board member and longtime arts patron Alfred King is similarly confident in the new chief's abilities...."
July 13, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith
With a Friend Like Harry ...
Tasty psychological thriller from France (by way of Hitchcock).
"...and Sophie Guillemin. The title (intentionally) recalls one of Alfred Hitchcock's latter-year suspenses, The Trouble With Harry .... The..."
May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Naked City
A Hard Lesson
"...hired last August as AISD's Dropout Prevention Coordinator, Dr. Alfred C. Maldonado, has already tendered his resignation, saying he..."
Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
World of Books
The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival
"...was totally confident in his convictions about the book. Alfred A. Knopf himself took an interest in the book..."
Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland
Years of the Dead
The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.
"...The Years With Laura Díazby Carlos Fuentes translated by Alfred MacAdam Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 544 pp., $26..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza
Day Trips
Sleep and shop 19th-century style at the Comfort Common Bed and Breakfast in Comfort, TX.
"...two owners, it was built by famed frontier architect Alfred Giles. Lord calls the style "Victorian Country." The second..."
Sept. 1, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Unfaithfully Yours
"...the writer-director's best wartime films. In the film, Sir Alfred De Carter, a symphony conductor whose mad jealousy dwarfs..."
July 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Perfect Storm
"...Murph (Reilly), sad-sack Bugsy (former Austinite Hawkes), and taciturn Alfred Pierre (Payne) -- the final days of October, 1991,..."
June 30, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Strangers on a Train
"...Bendix, Hugh Beaumont, Howard DaSilva.STRANGERS ON A TRAIN D: Alfred Hitchcock (1951); with Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman,..."
June 23, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw
Psycho Analysis
An interview with Psycho scribe Joe Stefano
"...Thirty-nine years ago, screenwriter Joseph Stefano was tapped by Alfred Hitchcock to adapt Robert Bloch's psychological horror novel Psycho..."
Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
For the Love of the Line
In the exhibitions “Old Master Drawings From the Suida-Manning Collection” at the Blanton Museum of Art and “Selected 20th-Century Master Drawings” at the Norwood Gallery, we can indulge our eyes in samples of art spanning five centuries.
"...study and reflect upon them -- and the gallery's Alfred Kren and Catherine Craft have set the pieces enticingly..."
Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Articulations
A spin on the Austin art gallery carousel.
"...scene but not in the form of a gallery. Alfred Kren is a dealer and consultant of long standing..."
Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires
An American in Paris
Even if you think you've watched this musical to death during home viewings, you have never really seen this most tragic of all the director's tragic musicals if you haven't viewed it on a big screen with its shimmering color photography.
"...photography by John Alton, the great noir artist, and Alfred Gilks, who shot the extraordinary 20-minute ballet that "closes"..."
July 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Off The Bookshelf
Poachers: Stories
"...a poetic force to reckon with. --Lissa Richardson The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography & Quiz Book..."
July 9, 1999 Books Review
Off The Bookshelf
"...while Hitchcock's Notebooks does not disappoint, it's for hardcore Alfred Hitchcock fans only. Since the Hitchcock estate granted Aulier..."
May 28, 1999 Books Review
Exhibitionism
Blood Wedding: Folk Tale Under a Glitter Moon
"...design right out of the movie (right down to Alfred P. Doolittle's hat), but most of it looks good...."
April 30, 1999 Arts Review
1999 SXSW Music Festival
"...Ni--os con Bombas ALFRED FLORES & ZARABANDE: On 1998's Welcome to Being Here,..."
March 19, 1999 Music Feature
Psycho
"...Van Sant should want to shadow a director like Alfred Hitchcock, for whom doubling, doppelgangers, and mistaken identities were..."
