Rebuilding Paradise

Ron Howard hides an eco-warning in the story of the Camp Fire inferno

"...morning of November 8, 2018, nine miles east of Paradise, California (pop. 26,000). Aided by an accelerant combination of..."

July 31, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Return to Paradise

"...Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow and Ming Lee. Return to Paradise is sort of Midnight Express retooled for Gen-X sensibilities...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...autographs across posters, cassettes, even an acoustic guitar, for almost as long as his band's 40-minute set. A melting..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...of my entire life. Standing Waves played that night almost a decade ago, and because they’re in Roadie big..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Wasota Vegan Paradise Is Simple, Savory, Life-Sustaining

Two local vegans, Lawrence Eguakun and Graham Reynolds, talk meatless meals and The Movement

"...Thus, this interview with Lawrence Eguakun of Wasota Vegan Paradise was conducted by Graham Reynolds – the composer and..."

July 31, 2020 Food Feature by Graham Reynolds

Almost Willie

On the Road Again with the King of the RV Parks.

"...Almost Willie, a wiry man blessed with the long locks..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Austin Film Festival Announces (Almost) Full Slate

Opening and closing night films still to come

"...Cumberbatch, and writer/director Andrea Di Stefano’s debut feature Escobar: Paradise Lost, starring Benicio del Toro...."

Sept. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Groover's Paradise

Those were the days …

"...passed for dancing in the Sixties. Paul Ray was almost single-handedly responsible for keeping slow dancing alive in Austin..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Trouble in Paradise

Rebecca Chastenet de Gery explains why her visits to Pacifica Fine Dining have varied in quality.

"...plate garnish.) The shrimp's sauce, in particular, is notable. Almost a glaze in consistency, it packs a powerful punch..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Groover's Paradise

The Hole in the Wall has seen it all

"...Drag forever changes. Students, workers, bums, and businesses recycle almost annually. One marquee maintains everlasting: a green and yellow..."

June 20, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Butcher’s Ball Is a Carnivore’s Paradise

Rockin’ Star Ranch hosts the ultimate Texas meat-up on Sunday

"...Marfa, and – oh, on and on, until we’re almost drooling at the thought of the gathered talent and..."

Oct. 14, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Almost Famous

Three years after leaving Austin for Hollywood, comics Chip Pope and Howard Kremer still aren't celebs, but with pilots for HBO and Comedy Central and a willingness to schmooze, they've come agonizingly close.

"...you," and she'd be mine; we'd shop forever in paradise. We interviewed with Ben Stein for a job. I..."

July 20, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

The Hairdresser's Husband

The Hairdresser's Husband is a tightly knit, though slight, tale told in the best of humor. It's the story of despair bred by utter happiness. The story of this marriage begins with the husband's childhood in which he developed an adolescent crush on the town's buxom barber and also a severe case of jock itch thanks to the red wool bathing trunks his mother made him wear. Freud would not approve.

"...seems he has found perfect happiness. In their blue-tiled paradise, her little shop with windows along the front and..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Sixth Street Survivors

The cafes Paradise and Pecan Street: still plating after all these years

"...Paradise Cafe401 E. Sixth, 476-5667..."

June 4, 2004 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

The Idol

The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol

"...one of Palestine’s foremost filmmakers, the award-winning Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar)...."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saving Silverman

"...the lamest material to create something of a knucklehead's paradise. You may not want to sit next to Sandler..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...gold across a filth-streaked city, James actually knows this paradise. One day he takes a bus to the outskirts..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Waterboy

"...of The Mumble that Walks Like a Man will almost certainly rejoice that Sandler is back to his old..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

"...the audience exhausted at its conclusion -- amazingly, it's almost too much to take.¶Also billed with Tetsuo is Greg..."

Sept. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pop Rocks

Making music in mecca for parents and children alike

"...Watching a Joe McDermott show is an exercise in almost painful nostalgia. As the hoard of children in front..."

June 18, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Rollergirl

A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star! You are a muse on eight wheels! You are roller skating!

"...a song comes on: Mike Reno and Ann Wilson, "Almost Paradise."..."

May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

Glass Half Full Theatre's Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse WOW!

This playful eco-fable by Caroline Reck and Indigo Rael creates a surprising plastic paradise under the sea

"...her waste-disposal transporter to its endpoint in Polly's plastic paradise on the ocean bed. This starchy brainiac – you..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Youth Theatre, Late Movies, Brat Dances, and More Recommended Events

It's not scorching! Get out while you can!

"...struggle.   – Cat McCarrey KOOP Nightbeat Film Series: Almost Famous..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Gallagher, "Teen Wolff" Power Austin FC to First Road Win of 2023

ATXFC defeats Real Salt Lake, 2-1

"...It’s the age-old spring breaker’s debate: surf in the..."

March 12, 2023 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Utopia Fest Announces New Location and Lineup

Music festival lands in Burnet County

"...To transplant utopia, one must first locate paradise. Last fall, Utopia Fest founder Travis Sutherland bid adieu..."

April 16, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Tuesday Showcase Picks

"...punk percussion meet in Philadelphia's Suburban Living, whose debut Almost Paradise coalesces cinematic Eighties synths with dense reverb and..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

2nd Annual Blue Hole Concerts for the Park

Best of both summer solar systems – live music and coolant

"...and went. End of music festivals until ACL, right? Almost. While I always space the spring/summer concerts at Barton..."

June 7, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

RZA Sez: 'It's (Nearly) Your Birthday, Jim Jarmusch!'

Happy (almost) birthday to Jim Jarmusch, no stranger to paradise!

"...We watched Stranger Than Paradise over the weekend and ended up so engrossed in..."

Jan. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

'Footloose' and Fancy-Free

A crowdsourced parody/homage – with puppets! – plays tonight

"...want to oversell the thing – this sounds like almost paradise...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Natural State

San Antonio-based Presidian wants to enter into public private partnerships with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

"...driven resource management," says Fitzsimons. A Civilized Cocoon It's almost certain that the late Edward Abbey, one of the..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

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