"Tammie Rubin: Everything You Ever" at Women & Their Work

This sculptural labyrinth of values casts an epiphytic spell

"...Spanish Moss Murders," where the myth of the Cajun boogeyman Père Malfait is modernized and used as horrific plot..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

John Wick vs. John Wick

John Wick: Chapter 2 director Chad Stahelski on the flawed hero

"...first film that the man the mob called the Boogeyman had some kind of redemption, and was out of..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Preacher

Cynical reverend searches for atonement in West Texas

"...still thought Trump Nation was just a funny, nasty boogeyman – into something real and relevant...."

March 15, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Brodsky Beware the Slenderman tells the story of a Boogeyman lurking on the internet and two 12-year-old girls who..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Incentives and R-Rated Entertainment

Amid bigger scandals, lawmaker plays the movie morality card again

"...and actually contains passages entitled "We're So Awesome!", "The Boogeyman", and "The Downside of Crankiness". Oh, well, at least..."

Jan. 21, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: 'Calls to Okies'

Local documentarian Bradley Beesley hunts down prank callers

"...Stout describing Grubbs as "the id of Oklahoma: Part boogeyman, part a can of Miller Lite"). However, he still..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ted Cruz: You, Sir, Are No Jesse Helms

Texas senator praises the grand obstructionist and bigot

"...everyone's noses and deal with every bug bear and boogeyman. But there will always be a tug on the..."

Sept. 12, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little Lucas' closet...."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Come on Jim, Don't Blame Oil Industry; Blame Obama

"...for lower and middle-income voters, on the left's favorite boogeyman, the oil companies. Pretty slick. Must be an election..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Postmarks

Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy

Consequences of perception

"...celebrate the past and use the future as a boogeyman to scare or a holy man to bless while..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Council Preview

Much ado on the dais

"...for a zoning variance request from the neighborhoodniks' favorite boogeyman, Richard Suttle. Suttle is representing barbecue joint and live..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Mackey Annotated

"...– they instead have become simply a caricatured "socialist" boogeyman to frighten the gullible, while reformers struggle to defend..."

Aug. 21, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Something Woolly This Way Comes

The Wild Man of the Navidad premieres on DVD

"...moonshine or getting torn limb from limb by the boogeyman, they give the film a kicky authenticity...."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Wheels Within Wheels

Council's boards and commissions appointments are always good conversation fodder

"...Eyebrows were also raised at the appointment of another boogeyman of the pro-density, anti-neighborhood association gang: Jeff Jack to..."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Variation on a Theme

Following the logical threads of a revolution

"...Marxists, fascists, Freemasons – whatever group is your particular boogeyman – has been driven from office. Out of power,..."

July 24, 2009 Column by Louis Black

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

The Fab Four ruined so-called 'rock 'n' roll music'

"...Miller as a knowledgeable hardass rather than Columbia Records' boogeyman of rock & roll, for example. It was not..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

On Hitch: A Digression

"...what, we didn’t know, because Vertigo’s “villain” isn’t the boogeyman under the bed or in the closet – it’s..."

July 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed Is Afraid of Needles

Bexar D.A. scuttles life-saving needle-exchange program

"...find yourself in jail.” With Reed invoking the jailhouse boogeyman, the needle-exchange start date, Sept. 1, came and went,..."

Oct. 9, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Saddam Hussein Dies Tonight?

"...tried to Kill his Daddy, his ultimate limp-dick Oedipal boogeyman and reason our military is stretched to its breaking..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Unwittingly?

Nov. 4, 2005 Postmarks

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...calling in. The film defines the enemy as the boogeyman we all agree on now. Renegade CIA operating with..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...calling in. The film defines the enemy as the boogeyman we all agree on now. Renegade CIA operating with..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Still Bleeding

APD Officer Jeff White's lawsuit against the department gives new life to allegations of corruption and retaliation.

"...code-named Caballo Negro ("Dark Horse") and Coco Loco ("Crazy Boogeyman"). The investigations were formed and funded as part of..."

May 31, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Bad Blood

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

"...named Caballo Negro ("Dark Horse") and Coco Loco ("Crazy Boogeyman"). The investigations were formed and funded as part of..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

... And Justice for All?

Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost depicted the grossly mishandled trials of three Arkansas teens. With Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, part of the Texas Documentary Tour, they return to the scene of the crime.

"...talking about himself being seen as this "West Memphis boogeyman," you know, is that the confession of a serial..."

April 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Puzzled by Oppel

"...Shawn Bodmann's hysterical screed against some imagined boogeyman he calls "Environmentalism" [Vol. 18, No. 51] shows, yet..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

Postscripts

"...Hannibal is convincing, far more convincing than the maudlin boogeyman copy that shows up on the front inside flap..."

June 11, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

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