Leonard for a Day

Louis Black and Leonard Maltin reminisce on 50 years of moviegoing

"...Famed film historian and critic Leonard Maltin (author of the annual series of Movie Guides)..."

May 24, 2013 Screens Feature

Elmore Leonard's World

Writing the Rap

"...Elmore "Dutch" Leonard is America's preeminent crime novelist, or so the literary..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Ed Ward

SXSW Eco and TribFest: Festivals for the Rest of Y'all

Sate your inner policy wonk at these two fall favorites

"...entry into the complexities of global climate change from Annie Leonard, the director of the Story of Stuff Project..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

My SXSW ECO 2012 Experience Wrap Up

Sustainability in food and environment and culture! Oh, my!

"...The Friday Keynote address by filmmaker activist Annie Leonard received a standing ovation and seemed to light..."

Oct. 6, 2012 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights

That's Show Biz!

"...work to date -- Peter Pan, West Side Story, Annie, and Gypsy, which it opened last week -- AMT..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature

Book Reviews

"...Skinny Annie Blues..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...Sewell, Pedro Pascal, Michael Panes, Kate Comer, Roland Rubio, Annie Kurzen (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Opera Sets Audiences Atop the World's Tallest Mountain

Joby Talbot's adventurous new opera scales Everest

"...the operatic canon. Austin Opera General Director and CEO Annie Burridge and Nathan DePoint, senior director of artistic operations,..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Bay of All Saints Director: Annie Eastman As the last of the notorious water slums..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Exhibitionism

(Re)Flex: Opposing Dance Camps

"...the efficiency, the pretty, pretty pictures. As Miss Grants, Annie Suite starts out with a girlish naïveté that effectively..."

June 18, 1999 Arts Review

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...musician, actress, producer, director, and writer St. Vincent a/k/a Annie Clark with musician, actress, writer, and director Carrie Brownstein..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...List: Akil Gerard Williams, Lou Lyons, Ayanna Cezanne, Yidah Leonard, Binta Ford, Julio Prince, Trevison Pantin, Kevin Ash, Omar..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

South by Southwest Sends in the Clowns

Pamela Adlon, Frank Oz, John Leguizamo, and more for Comedy Festival

"...Oz meets with the godfather of American film criticism, Leonard Maltin, for a very special episode of Maltin on..."

Feb. 28, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Announces Recipients for Feature Film Grants

$110,000 distributed to 15 Texas projects

"...Story), Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas (Skip Day), and Annie Silverstein (Bull)...."

Sept. 12, 2023 Screens Post by Mae Lackey

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...and became a global phenomenon. Cast List: Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, Emilio Rivera, Tony Shalhoub, Matt Walsh,..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Opera Probes the Power and Perils of Connection With The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

The local company launches a new collaborative production for the nation

"...Austin." So says Austin Opera general director and CEO Annie Burridge, and that's why the company is mounting a..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Claire in Motion Directors/Screenwriters: Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell Claire is sure of herself, her work..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Postscripts

What's happening in Austin's literary life for the upcoming week

"...book of the year, brings back Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the miscreants from Rumble Tumble, Bad Chili, and..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...Sebastian, Donovan, Ten Years After, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and more. (June 20)..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

"...Four Seasons Hotel where they had available stars Keaton, Leonard DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep, director Jerry Zaks, and producer..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Column by Louis Black

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...two bombs drop on his utopia. First, his daughter, Annie, whom his mindÕs eye still views as a pigtailed..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...flying are stranded in the wintry north. Cast: Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf, Sverrir Guðnason, Simon Manyonda, Rob..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...imagined. Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Ben Rosenfield, Lindsay Burdge, Joshua Leonard, Jennifer Lafleur, Peter Vack, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Molly McMichael, Jason..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...Down) Mac Barnett (The Case of the Mistaken Identity)** Annie Barrows (Ivy and Bean: No News Is Good News)**..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

A Night at the Opera

Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor

"...bases stood well covered. Kings (B.B.), queens (Loretta Lynn, Annie Lennox, Madonna), Princes, poets (Leonard Cohen), priests (Al Green),..."

May 27, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

FronteraFest Schedule

"..."Stoners and Self-Appointed Saints" by Annie La Ganga. Monologues and poems about awkward grieving, bad..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...One extreme scenario (Concrete Blonde) wasn't one at all. Annie Lennox/Eurythmics – which intersection? Joan Jett doing Lucinda Williams'..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Broadway's Back (but that's not all)

"...Annie (June 5-7): Martin Charnin, who penned the lyrics to..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Let's Get Lost

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest

"...and SXSW co-founder and managing director Roland Swenson. About Annie and Eli, my wife and son, I am beyond..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...as she tries to transition from prostitution to respectability. (Leonard Maltin says, "Mamma Roma would be the same character..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

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