Collateral Beauty

Will Smith mopes around in this preposterous drama

"...So manufactured and preposterous is the sentiment in Collateral Beauty that you’re more likely to shake your head in..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Ma Belle, My Beauty

Love, independence, and heartache in the South of France

"...The alluring Ma Belle, My Beauty, written and directed by Marion Hill, inhabits the precarious..."

March 18, 2021 SXSW Post by Vivie Behrens

Beauty Shop

Amiable Queen Latifah comedy is the latest offering from the Barbershop franchise.

"...storyline loses steam, the film simply moves on to another instead of wrapping up the loose ends (as it..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Listen to This: March and Beauty Celebrate Friday the 13th by Covering “Scary Monsters”

Austin rock foursome spins a fun and spooky tribute to David Bowie

"...the 13th, it seems fitting to share March and Beauty’s spooked-out cover of “Scary Monsters.”..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: Another Evil

Carson D. Mell on crying exorcists, plus home release update

"...do, you might just be opening your home to Another Evil...."

May 6, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Working Beauty

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

"...At this moment Bonnie Cullum probably envies Sleeping Beauty. The artistic director of the Vortex has had a..."

March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dita Von Teese: Your Beauty Mark

Our intrepid reporter and his friend take the new book for a test drive

"...Figure, if this coffee-table compendium of beauty advice and autobiography and in-depth reportage called Your Beauty..."

Dec. 9, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Terrible Beauty

The first day that Sam Baker could hear again

"...currents were just not terribly strong one way or another. It was all soft...."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

One Ounce Opera's There's Beauty in the Beast

The new operetta by Esther's Follies veterans Michael Nesline and Steve Saugey played Frankenstein for laughs but also found its heart

"...of Fleet ... Street," you could see where There's Beauty in the Beast was headed from that initial line...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Good Eye: Tales From the Beauty Box

Side-eyeing the confines of female film roles

"...doors, sometimes with men, but usually just with one another. In a competitive industry, some fear being perceived as..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Fierce, Fierce Beauty

The title for Keith Carter's exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, "A Poet of the Ordinary" describes the photographer to a tee, a man who takes subjects from the everyday world and takes pictures of them that tell their story with the distilled purity of expression that characterizes great poetry.

"...then. As the screen flashed one sepia image after another -- sober-faced maidens in dark, heavy dresses, mustachioed gentlemen..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beauty and the Beast

A live-action remake of the Disney film

"...the auspices of introducing a new generation to yet another version of the enduring 18th-century French fairy tale La..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

'Beauty Is the Best Priest: Short Plays of the Harlem Renaissance'

ACC's Department of Drama polishes a few rare gems by black women playwrights

"...the public consciousness. With the opening this week of Beauty is the Best Priest: Short Plays of the Harlem..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Just Another Pretty Face

With the Naughty Austin theatre company, there's more than meets the eye.

"...see, she has all the makings of a traditional beauty queen: the meticulously coiffed hair, spray-starched into immobility; the..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Some Unspeakable Beauty

Don't call it magic realism: Josephine Sacabo's photography and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo make a powerful pair.

"...light that plays one way before the eyes and another when refracted through the lens, and other factors can..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Destruction as Beauty

Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna

"...need to know about the difference between destruction as beauty and destruction as malevolence. Although they'll never have to..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Stuporwoman and Other Exhausting Dances of Mad Beauty, Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crafting the Autobiography of Another Man

AFS Documentary Tour: The Windmill Movie

"...as the foolishness of complaining about the richness and beauty of those formative summers he spent at his very..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Verde Report: Ilie Sánchez Brings Barça Beauty, Brains to Austin FC’s Midfield

After a season-opening win, the Spaniard’s impact is already being felt on and off the pitch

"...del Bosque once famously said of midfielder Sergio Busquets, another all-time great, “You watch the game, you don’t see..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Thirteen Notes for Another Future Passed

So science fiction doesn't predict the future, its visions of tomorrow can still be filled with beauty

"...the nautilus dies. And yet there is such incredible beauty in a room – or a museum, say –..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Not Another Teen Movie

UT grad Catherine Hardwicke and Thirteen

"...anything. I saw her obsessed with make-up and the beauty myth that we basically cram down everybody's throat every..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Can't Stop the World

Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat

"...30th anniversary reissue of the Go-Go's multiplatinum 1981 debut, Beauty and the Beat, seminally peerless SoCal power pop. Surprised..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Another Beauty

"...Another Beautyby Adam Zagajewski..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Review by Lissa Richardson

Caramel

The denizens of a beauty parlor in Beirut depend on one another for friendship and support in this lovely Lebanese film.

"...Semaan. The idea of using the setting of a beauty parlor or barbershop as a microcosmic array of human..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shallow Hal

"...Tony Robbins (playing himself) into seeing only the inner beauty of the opposite sex -- provides the Farrellys with..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019

Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer

"...It’s here, it’s queer, it’s back again for another year. That’s right, y’all, it’s your ultimate guide to..."

March 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Madame Butterfly

"...to the local American consul about his intended's “porcelain-figure” beauty. We know that, despite his wedding night declarations of..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Frankie Starlight

"...Dork of Cork. Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Object of Beauty) read the story and said, “Let us begin with..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Hearing Voices

"...perfect but she's also fair game for her lover, another model, who reassures himself about his own beauty by..."

June 26, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The People's Gallery at City Hall Shows Women With Disabilities in a New Light

The Bold Beauty Project of Texas exhibits portraits of courageous women from across the state

"...a People's Gallery capsule exhibit created by the Bold Beauty Project of Texas. The goal of the project is..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Laura Jones

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