Opening the Case on the American Sherlock

Kate Winkler Dawson reports on an early master of forensics

"...tale about the early days of criminal forensic investigation, American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI...."

Feb. 12, 2020 Arts Post by Mike Berry

Importing a 'Low Winter Sun'

Lennie James and Mark Strong on being British actors in a US show

"...Two Englishmen walk into a American police station. That's not the setup to a joke,..."

Aug. 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Fifth Estate

It's the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks before they became household names.

"...achievement: the acquiring and releasing of several libraries of American classified documents...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!

‘Sherlock,’ ‘White Heat’ hit U.S. airwaves

"...Two BBC series cross the pond to debut on American television...."

May 6, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats (Viking, $23.95 hard), Japanese-American would-be documentary auteur Jane Takagi-Little is the director of..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Exhibitionism

"...Department of French and Italian, was given by an American, Julia Frey. A connoisseur of the colorful French artist,..."

March 7, 1997 Arts Review

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...and side projects – the HighBall, Mondo Tees, the American Genre Film Archive, a plethora of impending Drafthouse groundbreakings..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Language of a Broken Heart

Actor/writer/co-producer Juddy Talt fashions a tale about a romance writer who's unlucky in love, and filmed it largely in Dallas.

"...his live-in girlfriend (played by Pulver, better known to American audiences as Irene Adler on the BBC’s Sherlock reboot)...."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Raven

John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in this historically imaginative but dull and off-putting detective story set in old Baltimore.

"...imaginative makeover in this frankly dull and frequently off-putting Sherlock Holmes-ian take on the final days of Edgar Allan..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...Substantial additions to its print collection and contemporary Latin American art holdings, and its acquisition of the Suida-Manning Collection..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Gets Arty

First titles, plus Nicolas Winding Refn on exploitation

"...the Seventies and Eighties, rather than pay to show American movies, Turkish studios would do their own imitations, like..."

July 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...words of a hit song, pot smoking permeated popular American culture. Kinda makes you wonder if, after the bloodshed..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Deep in the Heart of West Update: April 22

More ways to help our neighbors in West

"...medical supplies (plus a hefty $50,000 donation to the American Red Cross of Central Texas), our Texas-bred H-E-B has..."

April 22, 2013 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

Page Two: Lullaby for the New World Order

The birthers have no endgame

"...This column could begin, "American politics has long privileged the trivial over the substantive."..."

May 20, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Christopher Lee, Spies, and Werewolf Sex

The strange tale of Howling II

"...that piqued Mora's interest. He'd be making the first American horror movie in the Soviet Union. He said, "[Hemdale..."

July 10, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

World Cup Watch

Where to watch World Cup games in Austin

"...not likely against Honduras. I give Ecuador the South American edge in Group E, and Argentina should have little..."

June 13, 2014 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"..."It mainly had to do with AIP [American International Pictures, home turf of director Roger Corman] features..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Power Games

Eight reasons to go on living if you don't' own a PlayStation2

"...U.S. super-spy MacGyver ever dropped acid whilst reading a Sherlock Holmes novel, his perception of reality might very well..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...in Blame; Sherry Thomas has followed her acclaimed female Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet Women with Conspiracy..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

These New Crime Thrillers Make Killer Presents

Following the deadly stalkers through the stacks of Mulholland

"...perfidious members of his entourage, and how a young African-American autodidact and streetwise sleuth named Isaiah Quintabe is involved..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

World Cup 2014

"...beer specials for selected teams playing that day. The American Outlaws have been hanging out at Haymaker, so expect..."

June 20, 2014 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

Bedside Manner: The Never-Ending Battle

Fighting for truth, justice, and fewer books beside the bed

"...of mine, in this case, the literary sleuth's sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless master of detection..."

Jan. 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

The Movie Bug

Touching down at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...slippers, but the biggest film festival on the North American continent, held this year from Sept. 9 through Sept...."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Feb. 11-18

"...AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CON­FER­ENCE Thu.-Fri., Feb. 11-12. Hyatt Regency, 208..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Jan. 14-21

"...MLK KEYNOTE ADDRESS American Book Award recipient and NAACP Image Award winner Michael..."

Jan. 15, 2010 News Feature

Postmarks

Hyde Park Baptist foofaraw and assorted cultural allegations.

"...is also the interim director of the Center for Asian-American Studies. This comes at a time when the University..."

March 9, 2001 Column

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 22-28

"...But they were alike in being the most innovative American poets of their time, and equally transgressive in their..."

May 22, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar

New touring production electrifies with freshness and urgency

"...The new North American touring version rises to the challenge by getting back..."

Oct. 15, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

World Cup Watch

"...Thursday and the U.S.A.-Germany game that may send the Americans into the next round out of the Group G..."

June 27, 2014 Sports Feature by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Film: Stuart Murdoch and 'God Help the Girl'

Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch talks about his directorial debut

"...SM: A Scottish director named Paul McGuigan, who does Sherlock and is a friend of mine, gave me some..."

March 15, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

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