The Unforgettable Fire

Reissues

"...reinvention began by forgoing rock guru Steve Lillywhite for Apollo veteran Brian Eno, who, in the first of a..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

You Make My Dreams

Progressive blue-eyed R&B

"...and "Method of Modern Love." Live tracks from the Apollo in 1985, when they were joined by Temptations Eddie..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Don Rickles

The legendary comic reveals how he 'slayed' Reagan and killed on the moon

"...astronaut Gene Cernan and the last manned moon landing, Apollo 17...."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Latest UT-Aggie Matchup Is More Joke Than Game

How many Aggies does it take …

"...is no joke. He calls it Rocky Balboa versus Apollo Creed only with pseudo military uniforms and lots of..."

Nov. 25, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Space Odyssey

Planet U2 touches down in Houston

"...Brian Eno as Passengers, in which the band’s ambient, Apollo expressionism was accompanied by NASA-provided imagery and a video..."

Oct. 15, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Off the Record

David Garza maps The Road to ACL, inside Ghostland Observatory's new crash pad, and other strange insights into this weekend's festival

"...• Arctic Monkeys' At the Apollo DVD includes a bonus live CD, recorded at Stubb's..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

AFF Announces Lineup

Serious Moonlight, scripted by the late Adrienne Shelly, will open the fest

"...Oren Moverman (Regional Premiere) AFF Presents… Ron Howard Presents… Apollo 13 Michael Hurwitz presents… Stewart Stern presents… The Ugly..."

Sept. 28, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

ACL Music Fest Sunday Reviews

CD/DVD

"...Arctic MonkeysHumbug (Domino) Arctic MonkeysAt the Apollo (Warner Bros.)..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

ACL Music Fest Friday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2009

"...Bass Concert Hall shook like the Apollo Theatre in January when Legend laid his ladies' night..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature

Orestes

Cambiare's Orestes is refreshingly fast but, tragically, a bit loose

"...answer – having murdered his mother at the god Apollo's behest – when the divinity that guided his actions..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Tarzan, Farrah Fawcett, Pink Floyd, and more

"...Pink Floyd performed live in the studio during the Apollo 11 moon landing. The song "Moonhead" from this set..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

A First-Class Seat to Stargazing

Austin's Beef & Pie Productions shines a light on Richard Garriott's space travel in Man on a Mission

"...folks of my generation grew up as 'orphans of Apollo.' Those people who were inspired to get into science,..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'Orestes'

A contemporary playwright explains what drew him to adapt an ancient Greek tragedy

"...return home to kill his mother. He's commanded by Apollo to do this, and if he refuses, he will..."

July 31, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

We did not fall from the Garden; we journeyed away

July 31, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Playing Through

The reason we need to explore the heavens is the same reason we need to sing arias and write poetry and hit baseballs – to transcend our lesser selves

"...weeks, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and wonder what it had all..."

July 24, 2009 Column by Thomas Hackett

Film News

Film News eyes the horizon for another Spy Kids installment

"...Austin Film Festival announced Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13) as its recipient for the 2009 Extraordinary Contribution..."

July 17, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Opie on Top

AFF to honor Ron Howard's extraordinary contribution to filmmaking

"...From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he..."

July 14, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Marvelettes

"...Playboy, and The Marvelous Marvelettes, augmented by live 1962 Apollo material, Greatest Hits, and golden rarities – "He's a..."

June 5, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Lightweight Lightning Lives Up to Its Billing

Boxing fans got what they came for last Saturday night

"...booing them like it was amateur night at the Apollo, but in the fifth round Reyes caught Diaz with..."

April 7, 2009 Sports Post by Justin Sanders

Shot on Location

For All Mankind filmmaker Al Reinert goes walking on the moon one more time

"...walked on the moon. As the years of the Apollo space program recede further into history, that fact seems..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Sam & Dave

DVDnds

"...Even as Motown marks 50, Harlem's Apollo Theatre survives at 75, and Gamble & Huff now..."

March 6, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Frost/Nixon

Ron Howard presents us with Richard M. Nixon – the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

"...provides one of the best newsroom portraits ever filmed; Apollo 13 shows as much, if not more, of what..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coal for Your Stockings

A hard round-up of year-end hip-hop

"...J. Blige shows up untouched, as does Supreme Clientele’s “Apollo Kids” and the Madame Majestic-spotted “Cherchez Laghost,” among others...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Soul Men

Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac play a couple of washed-up and forgotten R&B backup singers, who are on an improbable road back to fame.

"...concert is being arranged in his honor at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and Hinds and Hooks, who haven’t..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Hightower Report

One Mother Makes a Difference; and What We Could Do With $700 Billion

"...international space station into orbit, and launch a new Apollo-style exploration of our planetary system – all for less..."

Nov. 7, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...that much but Joe Tex booked me at the Apollo, the first time I ever played the Apollo. I..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Fly Me to the Moon

This animated film is a simple parable of spirited can-do-ism, in which a trio of young houseflies semiaccidentally tags along on the Apollo 11 moon shot.

"...astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin as Apollo 11 slips the reach of gravity (but not, surprisingly,..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Mulder and Scully, these once-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS and masters of the painfully engorged tease, have become deadly dull in this newest incarnation.

"...the best example to date arrived last week, when Apollo 14 astronaut and probable Spaced fan Dr. Edgar "Right..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

A toilet-seat art museum, aliens exist, and more

"...Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission, says aliens exist...."

Aug. 1, 2008 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

On Location From Planet Rock

Science fiction hip-hop vids

"...thought Method Man would have been perfectly cast in Apollo 13 can check him maneuvering through a spaceship in..."

July 23, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

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