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March 18, 2005 Music Feature
Wednesday Sleepers
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...ARE SCIENTISTS9pm, Hard Rock Cafe Another Wire-y trio from Brooklyn, WAS' EP, The Wolf's Hour, leavens its jabbing guitars..."
March 11, 2005 Music Feature
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...BUBBLE CORE SHOWCASE: Brooklyn's Bubble Core label has carved itself a unique niche..."
March 14, 2003 Music Feature
Keeping the Faith
The Texas Documentary Tour presents festival hit Trembling Before G-d, in which Orthodox Jews try to reconcile religion with their homosexuality.
"...Malka and Leah, South Floridians who, growing up in Brooklyn, met at a high school for Orthodox girls and..."
April 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Ordinary Seamen and Ordinary Nobodies
New and Noteworthy
"...in its dock in a devastated portion of the Brooklyn waterfront. They lived there for months without heat, plumbing,..."
April 11, 1997 Books Feature
Further Reflections
SXSW Film Festival
"...guy who's spent his life growing up in the Brooklyn streets, surrounded on a daily basis by the grim,..."
March 21, 1997 Screens Feature
Music Reviews
"...The Brooklyn Side (TAG/Atlantic)..."
Nov. 10, 1995 Music Feature
SXSW Film Review: The Black Sea
Charming experimental debut blends improv and travelogue
"...young man working a lame service industry job in Brooklyn. Promises of a huge payout tempt Khalid to drop..."
March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Autobots get wild as their animal counterparts join the fight
"...about Noah (Ramos), a bland, techy guy in Nineties Brooklyn where he struggles to land a job and to..."
June 9, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
A bitter-sweet farewell to the MCU's dysfunctional found family
"...– one long-take sequence set to “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” is memorable, though far from groundbreaking...."
May 5, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Bullet Bills and mushroom gags can't save this awful video game flick
"...and Day voice titular brothers Mario and Luigi, two Brooklyn plumbers who accidentally get sucked into another realm and..."
April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves
Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup
"...There are also the Midnighters including period horror Brooklyn 45, the latest from SXSW alum Ted Geoghegan, and..."
Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
Babylon
Star-studded, bittersweet love letter to the golden age of Hollywood is cinema maximus
"...bag, doomed for a tin ear and a thick Brooklyn accent? That film was the victors writing history, but..."
Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest Weekend Two
Lido Pimienta, Habibi, and Princess Nokia’s Kirby squirt gun
"...(S.H.I.T.).” With sickening body rolls and deafening moans, the Brooklyn native made her arrival known with a full-length recreation..."
Oct. 16, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin
Q&A: Legendary Jazz Drummer Andrew Cyrille Speaks On Pleasing a Crowd, His Dream Collaboration, and Playing with Billy Harper
Modern Jazz Masters Play Scottish Rite Theater on Saturday
"...rescheduled. What follows was recorded by phone from Cyrille’s Brooklyn home, and intended to run the week of the..."
May 4, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland
The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Wednesday
The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop
"...of the busiest buzz bands of SXSW 2022, the Brooklyn sextet did indeed look worn down only halfway through..."
March 17, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland
Sundance Review: Meet Me in the Bathroom
NYC music doc is as rambling as the city
"...they serve as a brief entry point to the Brooklyn scene around the millennium - without ever necessarily defining..."
Jan. 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
A fleeting glimpse at the tragic life of the Greenwich Village singer
"...their film was the experience of sitting in a Brooklyn bar, listening to a jukebox, and discovering every one..."
Oct. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
What We're Listening to Right Now
Duel, Cactus Lee, Kady Rain, Sweetfeed, Startographers, and the You're Gonna Be Great 2 comp
"...Cactus Lee went stag in Brooklyn. The ever-changing Austin outfit, led by Kevin Dehan, was..."
Oct. 15, 2021 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez
BLK ODYSSY Caught in Ida’s Severe New Jersey Flooding
Austin band launch fundraiser for lost instruments and gear
"...forward with their BLK VINTAGE release show tonight at Brooklyn venue Elsewhere. Chronicle writer Thomas Fawcett recently lauded the..."
Sept. 2, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
The Outside Story
After a year trapped inside, a welcome comedic reminder of life in fresh air
"...fact that he’s accidentally locked himself out of his Brooklyn apartment – to rediscover the small pleasures and weighty..."
April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Would You Believe, National Caramel Day?
Five delicious reasons that will make you go yum
"...2. CLARKSON AVENUE SALTED CARAMEL CRUMB CAKE Straight outta Brooklyn, as they say. Well, to be precise, what they..."
April 2, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
SXSW Music Adds the Chats, Boyo, Babeheaven, and Bongeziwe Mabandla
Artists broadcasting from “unusual, as well as iconic, settings”
"...Kosha Dillz (Brooklyn, NY.)..."
Feb. 23, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
Tasty Find: Savorly’s Cocktail Bites and Mini Pies
Fancy, delicate, delicious, and just as warm as you want them
"...grew up together in Belgium and then moved to Brooklyn – of course it was Brooklyn – and started..."
Dec. 7, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Checking In: Tara Bhattacharya Stages Interference Fest – Women Making Noise 2020
Sound artist and festival curator promotes the creative class
"...+ Sistazz of Tha Nitty Gritty, featuring Anaiet and Brooklyn Skye Scott. Angel’s work incorporates themes around Black identity..."
Dec. 4, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something
The "Cat's in the Cradle" musician who was so much more
"...the sprawling family from which its focus emerged in Brooklyn: four brothers, two half-brothers, and the two broken marriages..."
Oct. 23, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez
Save Yourselves!
Affable alien invasion comedy is really a lightweight relationship story
"...about flight trackers. When they decide to leave their Brooklyn apartment to reconnect with nature and each other, they're..."
Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Broken Hearts Gallery
Clumsy meet-cute should have looked at the best friends instead
"...to let her take over space in his under-construction Brooklyn boutique hotel and create an art gallery displaying the..."
Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Black Magic for White Boys
Sorcery and gentrification wrapped together by Onur Tukel, the Brueghel of Brooklyn
"...circle in their own nothings. Tukel, the Brueghel of Brooklyn, deliberately eschews a single focal point character or even..."
July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Checking In: Sweet Spirit Alights to Trinidad
Austin glam rockers’ third LP casts a deep digi/Tropi spell
"...Andrew Cashen: Currently, I am sheltering in Brooklyn with my partner and our two dogs. It has..."
