Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...GLOSSO BABEL: Often thought-provoking lyrics placed on top of smooth and..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Texas Platters

"...GLOSSO BABEL..."

May 23, 1997 Music Review

The Year’s Best TV (According to Me)

Star Wars gets gritty as The White Lotus flowers again

"...across so many platforms. The watercooler is close to Babel-esque, with common ground hard to come by and consensus..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

True Love Cast Out All Evil

New oral history explores the head and mysteries of Austin's psych pioneer

"...more than 50 respondents in erecting an anti-Tower of Babel documenting a singular language: Buddy Holly-lined spook rock. One..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

ATX Film News

Austinites on HBO and Netflix, plus big casting news

"...in Bastrop. The thriller stars Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel)... Young Austin actor Cole Allen has just picked up..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

"Disparate Mythos: Women of Sculpture" at Dimension Gallery

In this varied group exhibition, Magdalena Jarkowiec's two-ness shows the richness of sameness and difference in duos

"...dialects at once; a labyrinth of tongues mishmashed like Babel in the spirit of one...."

Aug. 19, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

We Can't Make It Here Anymore

As the city's Economic Development Department readies its recommendations to City Council on Mayor Adler's Austin Music & Creative Ecosystem Omnibus Resolution, is it already too late for local artists in terms of local affordability?

"..."The environment is akin to the Tower of Babel, where music venues are not speaking for the music..."

May 27, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Luv Doc: The End Times

Don't expect Mickey D's to bring sick game

"...shower from a bulimic vomit painter in a 60-foot tower-of-Babel vending machine replica, but I doubt it. Well, OK,..."

March 20, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

One of the Good Guys

Is Chris Ohlson the nicest film producer in town, or just the hardest working?

"...was nominated for an Oscar for her work in Babel and has since gone on to Pacific Rim and..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Pachanga Announces Line-up

Julieta Venegas headlines pared-down May fiesta

"...Academy Award-winning Gustavo Santaolalla (scores for Brokeback Mountain and Babel), collaborator for top-tier Mexican acts including Café Tacuba, Juanes,..."

Feb. 13, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Big, Beautiful Books

Adorn your coffeetables with these hardbound masterpieces

"...Mr. Spock said to his mother in "Journey to Babel" (episode 39): "Humans smile with so little provocation."..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

FF2012: The Good, The Bad, And the Weird of Fantastic Fest

Surviving the liver-crunching, spine tingling, head-expanding fest

"...some people raved, for me it was the new Babel or (sorry) Crash, its "we're all connected" message drowned..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Football Prophecies

Stone cold locks for week 4

"...and pile high the jalapenos like the Tower of Babel, lest he be not faithful...."

Sept. 27, 2012 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

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

"...Biography) Michael Ennis (The Malice of Fortune) Michael Erard (Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

A Few Visual Art Galleries: In Your City and Beyond Right Now

So much to see, how far to go, an embarrassment of riches…

"...say the least. It's like, if Borges' Library of Babel had space for framed artwork on the walls between..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Strange Attractors

"...gives way to the tough bubblegum pop of "Psycho Babel," faintly echoing the late-Eighties Ramones covering "Little Bit o'..."

May 25, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Our Bands Are Bands

"...sparking a major-label bidding war. Essential listening: Tower of Babel (Alpha International)..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature

Wreck Collection

Tim Kerr's cassette for Monofonus' Your Name Here

"...Bad Mutha Goose & the Brothers Grimm, Tower of Babel..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature

Thursday Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...working on film scores (Oscars for Brokeback Mountain and Babel). Timeless yet contemporary, sizzling yet poised, they lit up..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Page Two: Looking Up

Along the path back to wonder

"...Not being able to put down Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry when I was hitchhiking from Vermont to..."

May 22, 2009 Column by Louis Black

'Speechless'

Third-Place Winner

"...evolved at once, the city was like a spastic Babel. Fingers numbed by the new cold communicated little more..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature by Benjamin Reed

Secular Cinema in the Holy Land

Screenwriter Noah Stollman talks about how to make a movie about Jerusalem without taking on 2,000 years of tumult

"...show Jerusalem as a sort of multicultural city of Babel, where there's a mix of people and traditions and..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), to see it – but that cinematic rebirth is..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

One Size Does Not Fit All

The international community reacts and adapts to a Westernized Web

"...also warns against believing that online translation tools like Babel Fish can save the day. "Automatic translation is clunky,..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Border Crossing

AFS Essential Cinema presents 3 Mexicanas en Hollywood

"...Barraza is the Oscar-nominated Mexican actress who starred in Babel. But if you're a student of Mexican cinema, the..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Motel Life

Richmond Fontaine's Willy Vlautin comes to BookPeople.

"...are facing, it ends. Fittingly, Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter for Babel and 21 Grams, bought the movie rights to the..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Babble For Your Soul

Babble for Your Soul is a rare opportunity to see live theatre with very minimal commitment and the pleasure of being entertained, engaged, perhaps edified

"...confronted with the task of building the Tower of Babel. It is by far the weakest of the evening,..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

Arthouse: America's Got Talent!

Curator Anne Ellegood explains her picks for this year's New American Talent exhibit at Arthouse

"..."Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces"; and "Candice Breitz: Babel Series." This distinct interest in how architecture acts culturally..."

July 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Letters @ 3AM

Family life in the Bible mirrors the worst in anyone's family

"...10, lots more begatting. Chapter 11, the Tower of Babel – a story neatly explaining why nations misunderstand each..."

April 13, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Once Upon a Time in Spain

Guillermo del Toro on fairy tales, facists, and everybody's new favorite movie

"...did 21 Grams, Amores Perros, City of God, and Babel...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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