Writer-at-Large

"...several of Draper's traits make repeated appearances: Draper's younger brother John, the director of a mental health hotline in..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Parallel Universe

Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's

"...come to the United States with his mother (and brother) after his father had been killed in the Mexican..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ordinary Seamen and Ordinary Nobodies

New and Noteworthy

"...on the responsibility of caring for her mentally-handicapped older brother (nicknamed Eeyore) while her father, K, a famous novelist,..."

April 11, 1997 Books Feature

The Artistic Afterlife

Stevie Ray Vaughan

"...with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and his brother Jimmie, Stevie boarded a helicopter bound for Chicago. According..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Music Feature

Tuberculosis Has Broken Out in Texas Prison System

Advocates and families say there are dozens of active cases

"...Valerie Losoya’s 25-year-old brother, Joshua Losoya, died in prison on June 8 from..."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Iron Claw

The triumph and the tragedy of Texas wrestling legends the Von Erichs

"...in Texas once. In the 1980s, the Von Erich brothers were the smiling, hard-hitting, morally upright heroes of the..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: It’s Bad, and It’s Nationwide

Comfort is the turd in which the mushroom of ignorance grows

"...Last year my husband's brother moved to Austin from a conservative city just up..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Carmen

Maltese midlife crisis comedy is a pleasant if undemanding jaunt

"...to devote her life to taking care of her brother. In addition to becoming his maid and house servant,..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: An Alpha Male Jock Type Guy

Saying someone lives in Houston is irresponsibly nonspecific

"...had a torrid romance, and we got a new brother-in-law that my wife can't stand. He's one of those..."

July 23, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Sister of the Groom

Stilted rom-com is clueless about what to do with its star

"...anguish boils over at the rushed wedding between her brother Liam (Hoffman) and his too-perfect French bride Clemence (Ollivier)...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Monsoon

Henry Golding proves you can go home again in this expat character piece

"...to speak about the war, and he and his brother never pressed them about their pre-expatriate lives in Vietnam...."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

An Excerpt From Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie's New Book

A new family bible Me and Sister Bobbie finds the Nelson siblings moving to Austin and making Shotgun Willie.

"...Brother..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature

Still Life

Jia Zhangke’s 2006 masterpiece on a changing China finally reaches America

"...of the Three Gorges Dam. Jia utilizes his coal-mining brother, Han Sanming, as the protagonist to tell this docudrama,..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Luv Doc: A Bigger Check

A simple "I love you" phone call would have sufficed

"...gets all sentimental and sends checks to me, my brother, and our two stepbrothers. This year, by accident, I..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

El Chicano

A new superhero for the Latinx community (and everyone else)

"...he’s also obsessed with correcting the mistakes of his brother Pablo, a former drug dealer who died after years..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Viceroys' Topdog / Underdog

This black-owned artist collective makes a passion-fueled, powerful debut with Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer-winning drama

"...a white male lens. Lincoln and Booth are African-American brothers living in a cramped, dilapidated apartment (realized here with..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Criminally Innocent

How can you be exonerated of a crime that never happened?

"...did so the state would not prosecute his younger brother, Michael Arena, whom Stephanie had also accused. Yet Michael..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

TV Eye: Anarchy in the UK

A British import brings the horror

"...Brooker, we find ourselves on the set of Big Brother: UK (the most popular and longest-running reality show on..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Storyteller

Nobody spins a yarn like Jaston Williams

"...never do a show that I don't bring my brother [Corky] in at some point, because I've never met..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Smart People

Smart people, dumb choices: It's true for both the characters and the filmmakers in this acerbic comedy that stars Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, and Ellen Page.

"...characters. At the start of the movie, Lawrence's ne'er-do-well brother, Chuck (Church), shows up with the hope of couch-surfing..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sister Bobbie

'Sister Bobbie' puts the 'Family' in Willie Nelson and Family

"...flag. On the other rises a portrait of her brother Willie. Embossed around the stones are the words "Willie..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...but I find it difficult to listen to Big Brother & The Holding Company's 'Down On Me,' Jefferson Airplane's..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007

What's a nice Midwestern gal like Sara Beck doing with an alias like "Pink Nasty"?

"...as a mutual admiration society between Oldham and Beck's brother Ted (aka Black Nasty) turned into opportunity for the..."

March 2, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Break-Up

Thirtysomething icon Jennifer Aniston grieves a failed relationship in one half of the movie, while thirtysomething icon Vince Vaughn grows up in the other.

"...fantastic with Vaughn in a small part as his brother, but it’s as if he’s running in during a..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Undertow

Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.

"...with his widower father, John (Mulroney), and sickly little brother, Tim (Alan). The three men live in isolation and..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Two Lives Lost

Danielle Martin and Jackson Ngai shared a close friendship, a passionate love for music, and mental illness. They cared for each other as best they could. And then he killed her.

"...in Hong Kong in 1981, the second of three brothers. The Ngais moved to Hawaii when Jackson was 9...."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Mitigating Circumstances

James Allridge was sentenced under death penalty laws with no gray areas

"...life until shortly before Clendennen's murder, when his older brother Ronald returned to Fort Worth after serving most of..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Hill Country Dreams

The 'Chronicle' food and wine update: spring, 2003

"...Brother's Bakery519 Hwy. 281 N. in Marble Falls..."

May 9, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Mountain Style

Chatting with Dr. Ralph Stanley, a pioneer of bluegrass music before there was such a thing

"...was a 20-year-old making his first records with his brother Carter, Ralph could easily have been mistaken for a..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

TV Eye

Have you had your fill of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? Are you stuffed to the gills from consuming too many hours of Survivor, Big Brother, The Real World, Road Rules, or Making the Band? Better get used to it -- there's a whole lot more on the way.

"...gills from consuming too many hours of Survivor, Big Brother, The Real World, Road Rules, or Making the Band?..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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