Sky Cinemas Closes

Dripping Springs theatre forced out over rent during shutdown

"...but still tragic that cinemas - among the first businesses to close and the most complicated to reopen in..."

May 18, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Plant Nurseries and Gardeners Are Essential on Earth Day (and Every Day)

At-home gardening in Austin for food and mental health

"...One kind of business deemed "essential" during pandemic restrictions – a sometimes confusing..."

April 22, 2020 Food Post by Lina Fisher

Carmine Street Guitars

Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon

"...more important than the show or the biz/ Show business is a heartbreaking thing/ But if you got good..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aquaman

The underwater superhero brings long-awaited color to DC's films

"...Justice League, Arthur (Momoa) reluctantly settles into the superhero business, running rescue missions in international waters and spending as..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Spider House Co-Owner Files Civil Suit Against Partner and Former Employee

Legal action responds to 2017 sexual misconduct claims

"...and Ballroom, has filed a civil suit against his business partner Conrad Bejarano and former employee Jeremy Rogers. The..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Food Post by Sarah Marloff

Monrovia, Indiana

Frederick Wiseman's passive observation gets mired in rural life

"...minutes are spent simply watching people go about their business, leaving lots of time for the mind to roam..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story

Lisbeth Salander is back, and now she's James Bond

"...father who was involved in all kinds of gangster business, and an implication of incest. Director Fede Alvarez kind..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Damsel

Austin's Zellner brothers head out to demolish myths of the Old West with Robert Pattinson

"...for Henry, whom he had previously contacted with a business proposition. He wants the parson to marry him and..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

SuperFly

NYC blaxploitation classic gets an ATL reboot.

"...a successful cocaine dealer who wants to leave the business after one last big score, and although in this..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Phara’s Mediterranean Cuisine Needs Help

Longtime North Loop restaurant starts GoFundMe campaign to stay open

"...keeping her restaurant open after a major dip in business...."

April 12, 2018 Food Post by Tinu Thomas

Gringo

Long-delayed stoner comedy is a little stale.

"...Elaine’s failed attempt to cut ties with a former business associate, a cold-blooded Mexican drug dealer, a luckless Harold..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Permission

Polyamory and commitment weigh heavy in this New York rom-com

"...York City, but two homes as well as a business(!) But if you can get past that, you’ll discover..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Point Austin: Sick and Tired

Council moves toward commonsense ordinance, despite business resistance

"...Commerce and the mini-chamber that is the Austin Independent Business Alliance announced their opposition. The AIBA said their membership..."

Feb. 9, 2018 News Column by Michael King

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...salesman, leaves his home and marriage, sells his failing business, and gambles the proceeds in a high-stakes poker game..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coco

A moving and colorful addition to the Pixar filmography

"...strummer dreams and instead insist he enter the family business of manufacturing shoes. Still, there’s a guitar competition coming..."

Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Made

Tom Cruise is a pilot who becomes embroiled in the Iran/Contra scandal

"...shady CIA spook Schafer, who notes Seal’s Cuban import business and instead of arresting him offers him a job..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

California Typewriter

An ode to the analog

"...one of the last of its kind still in business. Ostensibly, the documentary is a profile of the shop..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Home Again

a lifestyle comedy with a soupçon of pain

"...of young men struggling to break into the movie business to live in the guest house of her late..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Southwest Theatre Productions' The Understudy

Southwest Theatre's focused cast overcomes the oddities in the script to serve up a snarky, funny look at the theatre business

"...with one another about the nature of art vs. business, The Understudy suffers from a few odd choices in..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Girls Trip

A raunchy and empowering time in New Orleans

"...Cage). But something’s not quite right. Capitalizing on a business trip, she assembles her former girl crew, which goes..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Paris Can Wait

A woman at the crossroads of life

"...over), or dodging the silky charms of her husband’s business partner (Viard) on a road trip triggered by the..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Belko Experiment

A gory social experiment gone wrong

"...steel and glass tower of Belko Industries, a Colombian business whose corporate goals are intentionally left vague, but for..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Founder

Michael Keaton supersizes McDonald's

"...and edged the original McDonald brothers out of the business. It’s an interesting, if not entirely engrossing story. Nothing..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Girl on the Train

Another girl gone in this tedious adaptation

"...Gone girls are very big business. Certainly Paula Hawkins’ bestseller The Girl on the Train..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Grace Bonney Leads In the Company of Women Event

Texas Book Festival brings Design*Sponge founder and friends to town

"...of promoting collaboration and support between creative women in business. This Friday, Bonney will host a conversation with the..."

Oct. 6, 2016 Arts Post by Will McCarthy

Storks

These animated birds never quite achieve liftoff

"...the now grownup Tulip (Crown) to defy this new business model and deliver a little one to a family..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Hollars

Domestic dramedy has flashes of magic

"...condition, as well as the approaching bankruptcy of his business (which he thinks he is keeping a secret from..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Meddler

A terrific vehicle for Susan Sarandon as a meddlesome mom

"...in everyone else’s affairs. If she minds her own business for too long, the loneliness of her own life..."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Boss

This Melissa McCarthy comedy is funny, but should be even funnier

"...nepotism and prevent her career from becoming a family business...."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meet the Blacks

Spoof of the movie, The Purge – with no Marlon Wayans in sight

"...press time. Uh-oh, someone's cutting into Marlon Wayons' movie-spoof business. In this comedic takeoff on The Purge, a family..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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