City Hall Hustle: An F1 Piñata

Break it open, and out streams council confetti

"...in this issue (see "Formula One Deal on the Bubble,"), the agreement brokered between council and the local F1..."

June 24, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Headlines

"...flag this meeting. See "Formula One Deal on the Bubble."..."

June 24, 2011 News Feature

Tovo's Triumph

Place 3 winner pledges to look out 'for the public interest, not special interest'

"...of Formula One (see "Formula One Deal on the Bubble"), a proposal that Tovo turned into a political flash..."

June 24, 2011 News Feature by Amy Smith

I Shutter To Think

Six photographers offer a snapshot of the state of the art

"...each other on the back and working in a bubble but pushing each other. And the dialogue that we..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Record

South by Southwest turns 25, the Austin Music Awards score a Bubble Puppy coup, and Ted Nugent leaves his hat on

"...Disco Doom, Wye Oak, YOB, Bubble Puppy, Mexicans With Guns, the Jezabels, Unnatural Helpers, Fernando..."

March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Gay Place

Free your mind, and your ass will follow right over that bridge

"...– to get outside of my ken and my bubble. And I gots bubbles. We all do. Sometimes we..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation

Get a leg up on your Oscar pool by checking out all the nominees in this category.

"...spot of magic. When Day (blobby) and Night (Mr. Bubble-esque) make each other’s acquaintance, it begins as a pissing..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rabbit Hole

In the wake of their child's death, a couple tries to claw their way back to "normal" life.

"...each one holds the grief close in a protective bubble that serves as a shield against emotional collapse and..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everyone Else

A German couple teeters on the jagged peaks of passive aggression and self-doubt.

"...barbed and disjointed sort. They're in their own little bubble apart from "everyone else," and while he appears to..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Great Scott!

Edgar Wright and his Scott Pilgrim cast touch down in Austin

"...be the film. I feel that a literal panel-for-panel, bubble-for-bubble adaptation can make a film too slavish to the..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sons of Austin

Murph and Ben Willcott develop a new paradigm for the next generation of a beloved family business

"...campus area. And perhaps most significantly, the local dot-com bubble began to enlarge, bringing with it national attention, job..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Legion

God loses faith in humanity and sends a legion of angels to start the apocalypse.

"...has ever done, and more come to mind and bubble over into random play in Legion, making this more..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Food-o-File

Another successful Eat Local Week, and foodie news about town

"...opportunity to win their choice of the cafe's popular bubble tea drinks for an entire year in the Bubble..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Point Austin: When a House Is Not a Home

Workers and homeowners seek justice from home builders

"...Thursday stop on this week's campaign.) Building a Bigger Bubble..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Column by Michael King

All About Steve

Sandra Bullock plays it kooky in this romantic comedy in which she stalks a CNN cameraman (Bradley Cooper) with whom she's smitten.

"...carnival-like picaresques found in early-Aughties comedies Road Trip and Bubble Boy, but lacks, er, the sophistication of both. And..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

9

9 is a beautifully and imaginatively animated fable, whose vague story about social cooperation is not equal to its visual grandeur.

"...least since he turned a batch of cool Sixties bubble-gum cards – Mars Attacks! – into a colorful, feature-length..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Orestes'

A contemporary playwright explains what drew him to adapt an ancient Greek tragedy

"...and questions Apollo's existence, though this thought seems to bubble under the surface a few times in the play...."

July 31, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

Rushkoff's latest is not just a critique of corporate culture but a call to arms, as well

"...the evaporation of liquidity, the burst of the housing bubble, or even our overfinancialized culture, awash in credit cards,..."

July 24, 2009 Books Review by Wells Dunbar

The House Bunny

A Playboy bunny who's been ejected from the mansion becomes a sorority house mother.

"...to prepare her for the world outside the bunny bubble. Out of necessity, Shelley ends up at the run-down..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Who Did He Serve?

Scott McClellan on Bush, bipartisanship, loyalty, and duty

"...the eternal Republican majority, without ever leaving the campaign bubble...."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.

"...from the start, should in the end outshine her bubble-headed charge, a real live wire from the get-go, is..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tradition in Transition

Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...all over Israeli director Eytan Fox's excellent comedy/drama The Bubble (which also screened this past year at the Austin..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Naked City

"...being completed in coming months. That's because the big bubble of major condominium projects, almost all of them Downtown,..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature

The Fountain

Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him: The Fountain is a dry well.

"...travels through time and space in a big clear bubble. It’s astonishing here how Jackman, who of late has..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sound and the Fury

Nic Armstrong's IV Thieves, stealing thunder in Austin.

"...to Hamburg," says former Young Heart Attack guitarist and Bubble Studios co-owner Chris "Frenchie" Smith, who produced Escape. "How..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Wassup Rockers

Larry Clark, the director of Kids, is back 10 years later with this look at a group of teenage male Latinos in Los Angeles who have more than the usual difficulties finding somewhere to fit in.

"...photographer, a drunk matron who gives one boy a bubble bath, and a filmmaker who shoots trespassers first and..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crackin' Up

The Arm muscles up to 'Call You Out'

"...entirety of Call You Out in Lyon's studio (the Bubble) between paying bands' sessions in a little over a..."

April 14, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...and recently recorded a follow-up at local studio the Bubble. – Christopher Gray FIVE HORSE JOHNSON11pm, Red Eyed Fly..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

City of Chillin'

How my attempt at hard-core gaming proved too hard

"...Demonicus decides to ruin the moment with a speech bubble that reads, "Hey look! I'm playing City of Villains!"..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The 14th Floor

Austin's (and Corpus Christi's) other psych-era survivors

"...to be true, literally, as with Todd Potter of Bubble Puppy, as well as, figuratively, the case of Roky..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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