Wes Marshall's Top 10 Places for a Glass of Good Wine

"...Fino Josh Loving runs the wine program at both places, which the proprietors, the Fox family, have made into..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Double-Barrel Beautiful

Texan sweetheart of the 1960s folk rodeo, Carolyn Hester

"...knew and played with around town. She was going places and it didn't surprise me. Carolyn was eye catching,..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Seven Places to Get a Healthy SXSW Lunch

You've almost made it to the finish line

"...treat. Blenders and Bowls serves up tasty smoothies and beautiful fruit bowls that will keep you feeling energized for..."

March 17, 2017 Food Post by Sierra Diaz

Beautiful Loser

Keith Ferguson: No Apologies, No Regrets

"...halfway house for down-on-their-luck friends. Sweet old hippies and beautiful losers recline on his front porch to chew the..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Josh Alan Friedman

Your Beautiful New Home

Welcome to the City Hall you thought would never come

"...also the focal point of the Art in Public Places project that anchors the southwest corner of the plaza,..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Changing Places

The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood

"...the Austin Independent School District built the center, a beautiful facility distinguished by sustainable design elements and artistic flourishes,..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Conversations With Builder Paul Lamb and Architect Don Crowell Is This My Beautiful House?

"...monkey with. I like to add windows in unexpected places. It doesn't have to be in a living room..."

July 28, 1995 Arts Feature

Some Parts of the World Pt. 2

Every day is moving day

"...the road?” It is a treat to drive through beautiful places, try different foods, and meet all kinds of..."

June 2, 2011 Music Post by BettySoo

The Namesake

Mira Nair's complex meditation on family, relationships, and identity traces the saga of two generations of an Indian-American family, as outlined in Jhumpa Lahiri's bestselling novel.

"...disappoint. Alternately vibrant and restrained in all the right places, The Namesake is beautiful and engaging. A complex meditation..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Innocent Blood

"...Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia and Don Rickles. Fatally beautiful, doomed to suck blood through eternity: what's a nice..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Transforming a Neighborhood Near You

Since 1985, Austin's Art in Public Places program has placed more than 100 works in 57 facilities, transforming not only the look of the city but neighborhoods and the lives of people in them.

"...one. As the administrator for Austin's Art in Public Places program, Peters knows the delicate dance of diplomacy that..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Blade Runner 2049

This visually lush sequel was worth the wait.

"...the original, it’s even stronger and more assured in places. I’ll be back watching it after it opens in..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Princess Kaiulani

This costume-drama and historical romance tells the story of Hawaii's last princess.

"...and Ocean Kaowili. It's certainly one of the most beautiful costume-drama/historical-romance naps you'll ever have, but this effortlessly evocative,..."

June 4, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Under the Sun

"...slow. Olof (Lassgard) is a lonely, 40-year-old farmer who places a personals ad for a housekeeper to tidy up..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mifune

"...in need of someone to care for him. Kresten places an ad for a housekeeper and hires Liva (Hjejle,..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pelican Brief

"...again to the fertile fields of conspiracy in high places (perhaps he should think about teaming up with Oliver..."

Dec. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Midnight Clear

"...the movie). Based on an actual occurrence, the film places a battle-weary squad of young GIs in the surreal,..."

June 5, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Station

"...introspection is dangerous. But then, one rainy night a beautiful apparition from another class, another planet, appears. Buy turns..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Jungle Fever

"...family life who strays from the path with his beautiful temporary secretary Sciorra, who's from Bensonhurst of all places...."

June 14, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

1% for Soul

Weighing the Costs of the Art in Public Places Program

"...art for the center through Austin's Art in Public Places Program (AIPP). The artists used broken pieces of china..."

March 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Sunset

Period drama keeps the techniques of Oscar winner Son of Saul but loses the emotional weight

"...In the film’s opening image, Irisz Leiter (Jakab), a beautiful young woman with piercing eyes, is trying on hats..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Red Turtle

Poetic beauty abounds in this animated gem

"...But like Botticelli’s Venus sprung from a half-shell, a beautiful copper-haired woman later emerges from the split casing of..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy

What a bizarre, beautiful, and tonally askew sex-and-sadism romp this Hong Kong freak show is.

"...3-D update ends up going into some pretty dark places – absolutely no pun intended – as it chronicles..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bottle Shock

Stuff the cork back in: This wine movie was sold before its time.

"...feature films, is flat-footed and plodding in all the places he should be swift and sparkling, too bogged down..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vanaja

Unlike the Bollywood films most mainstream audiences expect from India, Vanaja operates on a far more realistic level, with the added bonus of a melodramatic story that's a real heartbreaker.

"...eyes that it's never anything less that breathtakingly, stunningly beautiful. Even the most impoverished lives are marked by fleeting..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aeon Flux

Its heart is in the right place, but Aeon Flux's head is just a little too high to make much sense.

"...Aeon Flux may be a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess, full of the sort of far-futurist thinking that..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mother

From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.

"...Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and writer Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette) raise the stakes in The Mother by posing..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sex Addiction and the City

Steve McQueen on Shame's New York state of mind

"...sublimely, when he catches the eye of an equally beautiful young woman sitting across the aisle (former Austinite Lucy..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

The writers' strike may be almost over, but we're gonna be feeling it for a while now

"...hundreds of choices. The recognized ON Networks' podcasts are: Beautiful Places, about outdoor adventures, gear, and trails, hosted by..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Inner Worlds We Inhabit

Denise Prince Martin's photographs transport us to places within where the unspoken waits

"...afraid to talk about. For example, there is one beautiful, romantic photograph of a woman in an orchard. She's..."

May 25, 2007 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

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