The Christmas Candle

This inspirational film is as picturesque and beautiful as a holiday card but equally two-dimensional.

"...good acts and neighborly actions vs. the power of blind spiritual faith, The Christmas Candle comes out in favor..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...5. Blind Ambitions by Lolita Files..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Column

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...5. Blind Ambitions by Lolita Files..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Books Column

When Creative Types Combine Powers

Monofonus Press' multimedia ambitions

"...former Austinite Rebecca Bengal's short story "Captioning for the Blind," with illustrations by Virginia Yount and a five-song EP..."

June 13, 2008 Books Feature by Audra Schroeder

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...9. Blind Ambitions by Lolita Files..."

April 6, 2001 Books Column

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...10. Blind Ambitions by Lotita Files..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Column

Great World of Sound

David Wingo's success scoring film fuels his band Ola Podrida

"...continues garnering critical acclaim. New third album, Ghosts Go Blind, is the quartet's best...."

May 24, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Dealt

The remarkable life of a blind card mechanic

"...qualify his amazing sleight-of-hand talents by mentioning he’s completely blind, for reasons both understandable and yet not. (You can..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Reflections

"...BLIND LIGHT Dir/prod/scr/ed: Pola Rapaport; DP/co-prod/co-scr: Wolfgang Held; Cast: Edie..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Soundscaper Strawberry Hospital Reclaims an Outcast Genre and Herself

Rate Your Music-faved producer plays Chess Club this Friday

"...who was even willing to commit to the project's ambitions," she says. "I needed to fulfill my vision, even..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...is caught between the world’s expectations and his own ambitions. His story is an odyssey of dogged determination: a..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...guitar roar cut with a spiraling anxiety. – Doug Freeman Blind Pets..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions steer him down a criminal path. Cast: Aml Ameen,..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...sabotaging his entire life, teenaged Ethan channels all his ambitions into a deluded obsession with uber-hottie Madison Sweet...."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Sauce Boss

Lauri Raymond looks back on – and forward to – the life and times of SASS dressing

"...part of the small staff of Recording for the Blind. Lauri, an acclaimed actress, was a member of the..."

June 11, 2004 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...the Australian director whose debut film Proof, about a blind photographer, was so penetrating and perverse. Certainly, How to..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Seven of the Best With Owen Wilson

From small-town crook to the ultimate speedster, the most unmissable roles of the Texas actor's career

"...malice to the literal boy next door, his stalkery ambitions to get Pam back all wrapped up in smooth..."

April 7, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...hero’s quest must grow bigger than his own personal ambitions...."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Checking In: Caroline Rose Dreams of England

“I’ve had this really awful travel bug”

"...“On Superstar, Caroline Rose follows a protagonist fueled by blind ambition en route to L.A.,” wrote Rachel Rascoe in..."

Sept. 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Lit-urday: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

All the single ladies: Edna, Edith, Neith, Maeve, Char ... and Kate

"...in the night for a generation of women driving blind, those of us for whom our mothers’ roadmap to..."

May 16, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

The Road to 10-1

The City Council districting destination is settled. Is anybody driving the bus?

"...or apparent political influence; the selection process features a double-blind application and a bureaucratically layered selection headed by Mory's..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

The Spirits of Texas

Texas spirits to keep your spirits up

"...offer the world's top vodkas beside his in a blind tasting, altering his recipe until it was able to..."

July 29, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The State of Utopia

Karen Valby’s dispatches from a small Texas town

"...When Karen Valby set out for Utopia, Texas, her ambitions were modest. A reporter and blogger for Entertainment Weekly,..."

May 28, 2010 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

The Informant

Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby

"...all, a contemporary portrait in progressive rationality and sustainable ambitions...."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch

Building Buzz, One 'Bag' at a Time

The Duplass Brothers buck New York and Los Angeles to premiere 'Baghead' here in the town where they started it all

"...on real equipment, too often the potential material gains blind them to the perils of studio intervention...."

June 6, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Outsider Art

Music on the margins

"...U.S., Fleck finds redemption in collaboration. Playing with a blind kalimba (finger piano) player in Tanzania, he discovers that..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Campaign Buzz

Distant city and county elections begin to draw early feelers

"...running again. Brewster McCracken is known to have mayoral ambitions; Leffingwell is the other name most often mentioned. "I'm..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Page Two: Sugar or Salt?

Severed heads, barbecue, and SXSW

"...casually hostile, and insistently negative, of anyone's intentions or ambitions, especially mine...."

Feb. 23, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

"...history, sometimes an observer, sometimes a participant, sometimes a blind, near mad prophet. There's the mytho-poetic Young, almost at..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...gets a district for Midland to fuel his own ambitions. When the Democrats stymie these plans, the goalposts keep..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

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