Badly Drawn Boy
"...an interesting, if problematic, companion to Bruce Springsteen's working-man's anthem "Born in the U.S.A." Put bluntly, Born in the..."
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March 16, 2007 Music Review by Melanie Haupt
Lear Jaunt
Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn
"...At the moment, I'm teaching them the Welsh national anthem. Lear was a Romano-Celt, so that's my argument. I..."
July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell
Just an Old-Fashioned Cat
Eartha Kitt is one funny dame
"...But who can sing the songs?! Like the national anthem. That's it! Oh my God! Have you ever tried..."
July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer
Hey, Hey, Woody Guthrie, I Made You a Film
The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: 'Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home'
"...Is Your Land," are more familiar than the national anthem. For leftie Baby Boomer fans of Guthrie's folk music..."
May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
This Chinese film presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at the Cultural Revolution.
"...bonfire, claiming that his favorite sonata is a Party anthem: "Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao." Enter the village..."
Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Power, Forward
Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'
"...Nugget] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's refusal to stand for the national anthem in 1996 pretty much led to your career as..."
Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley
2005 Austin Film Festival Schedule
Thursday, Oct. 20, through Thursday, Oct. 27
"...7pm The Special: The Story of an American Anthem*..."
Oct. 21, 2005 Screens Feature
TCB
Going yard with a litany of baseball songs, a hot-rod
show, and Trail of Dead
"...Cub Fan's Last Request": Goodman, who famously wrote redneck anthem "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" for..."
April 1, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray
Home Front
In our post-9/11 world, Michelle Mayer's 'Open
House' hits us where we live
"...in their daily lives to speak the truth. [In Anthem], here is an image of bombing in Baghdad –..."
Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine
The Ballad of Joe Hill
Get up, stand up – stand up for your rights
"...everywhere, particularly in Country Joe & the Fish's Woodstock anthem, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag...."
Oct. 22, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
Articulations
Playwright Dan Dietz gets his second play staged at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Johnson / Long Dance Company heads to Hamburg, and Zach shuffles its season
"...director of Austin Script Works had his play "Trash Anthem" staged at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's prestigious dramatic..."
Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
Nine current and former Austin playwrights storm
the finals for the 2003 Hedieman Award, while
playwright Lisa D'Amour storms New York.
"...won the 2003 Heideman Award for his play Trash Anthem and saw it produced at the Humana Festival earlier..."
Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires
A Mighty Wind
Christopher Guest and his recurring cast of players give Sixties-era folk music a gentle poke in the ribs.
"...add up to Spinal Tap greatness. And the titular anthem, performed in a star-studded closing jamboree, has a wickedly..."
May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...shrewd wordplay, but be warned, Growl also contains an anthem liable to replace "Redneck Mother" as the song Hubbard..."
March 14, 2003 Music Feature
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...Ferret Records, was actually not a play on the anthem "New Noise" by digi-punk Swedes the Refused. The Austin..."
March 14, 2003 Music Feature
Undisputed
"...of a prison hip-hop group (they sing the national anthem before the big match). It's arguable that Hutchen's character..."
Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Coach's Corner
Coach's new dog, Jasper, is a joy. So was the Canadian gold medal in men's hockey.
"...These nine medals equaled nine long renditions of the anthem and noxious, sappy face-time for the winners. They didn't..."
March 1, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Native Talent
Local filmmaker and UT RTF student Bennie Klain has been invited to screen his new short film, "Yada Yada," at the Sundance Film Festival. It's the second film he's ever made -- it's also his second film to show at Sundance.
"...familiar, but the words are not. The American national anthem is being sung in a foreign tongue. Another few..."
Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Grateful Dead
Box Sets
"...cross-country treks, but metaphorically, this line from the Dead anthem "That's It for the Other One," represented a distinct..."
Dec. 7, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg
Simon & Garfunkel
Box Sets
"...duo. It also presented America's alienated youth with an anthem, "The Sound of Silence," a song so powerful and..."
Dec. 7, 2001 Music Review by Margaret Moser
Fastpitch
"...Canadian natives introduces the World Championship with a Lakota anthem. Meanwhile, despicable junk-mail magnate and sports-franchise dilettante Peter J...."
Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Light of Day
"...the movie sings out like a rock & roll anthem...."
Oct. 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Patti Smith Gung Ho (Arista)
SXSW Records
"...with Jay Dee Daugherty's tom-toms, a Spector-al nod to anthem pop that tapers into a subtle, yet powerful ode..."
March 17, 2000 Music Review by Kate X Messer
All About My Mother
All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.
"...other words (which are also redolent of the rock anthem “Sweet Jane”): to all those who've ever played a..."
Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Dancing About Architecture
Mourning Becomes Electric
"...night as he sadly wailed a Jimi Hendrix-style national anthem on his plugged-in acoustic guitar. Then, Sunday night, following..."
April 16, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Jesus Gonna Be Here
Johnny Toxic
"...something surreal about listening to Escovedo bellowing the garage anthem "I Wanna Be Your Dog" in a child-friendly, broad..."
March 26, 1999 Music Feature
Wag the Dog
"...Nelson to pen a “spontaneous” We Are the World”-type anthem, the advertising Fad King (Leary), and a whole studio..."
Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Daytime TV Diaries
TV Eye
"...long, strange trip to get to The Grateful Dead: Anthem to Beauty (8/9, 9:30pm), but if you've gotten this..."
Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser
Brassed Off!
"...rampant sentimentality (including a lachrymose version of the schmaltz anthem, “Danny Boy”), and a certain chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that dares..."
June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
In It for the Money
Choreboy's Punk Premise
"...then, "We're in It for the Money" is Choreboy's anthem, as well as the lead-off track from the group's..."
May 23, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer
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