Lunatics: A Love Story

"...stranded and penniless in the big city by her cad boyfriend. She's ill-equipped to deal with the harsh realities..."

May 29, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...Sachs. Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck, David Wenham and Timothy Webber. Corruption, immorality,..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Sylvia

Sylvia Plath biopic is sad dirge.

"...fodder for the imaginations of speculative literati types, close-text-reading academics, and eager feminists. Plath’s death by suicide in 1963..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Women Want

"...Want. Gibson's Nick Marshall is a charmer and a cad, an ad exec who specializes in producing beer advertisements..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bounce

"...at her tentative new beau Buddy (Affleck), a recovering alcoholic/cad who, unknown to Abby, gave his own airline ticket..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

His Girl Friday

"...and Ralph Bellamy in their eternal stereotypes of the cad who gets the girl and the nerd who loses..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don Juan, My Love

"...the opening credits while flamenco dancers stomp to the cadences. The setting is Seville on the eve of All..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Club 'Stacking' = Democratic Drama

Fairness of endorsement process in dispute

"...groups that meet together on UT's Forty Acres. For decades, the two groups have fused their endorsements into something..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Christopher Hooks

The Most Dangerous Man in Austin?

Cody Wilson's day-to-day life is pretty routine. But the product he's selling threatens to make gun control laws obsolete.

"...The machine runs on CAD (computer-aided design) files easily loaded onto a Windows computer...."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves 2019 funding, ponders next move

"...of applicant arts organizations, members of the Arts Commission, CAD Manager Meghan Wells and her staff, and no doubt..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves FY 19 arts funding, ponders its next move

"...of applicant arts organizations, members of the Arts Commission, CAD Manager Meghan Wells and her staff, and no doubt..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

City Council Endors-gasbord

Who's endorsing who for the five City Council seats up for grabs in November?

"...AFA, AFSCME, ANC, APA, ATCEMSEA, ATD, AURA, AYD, BAD, CAD, CWA, IBEW, LAD, LIUNA, SAD, TARA, UD, WAD, WDAF,..."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Rest of the Races

"...Gisela Triana: ALGPC, CAD, CCYD, NXNW, SD, UD, WAD..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature

The Endorsement Race: Andy Brown, Gómez, Ko Clean Up

Andy Brown, Gómez, Ko clean up

"...Andy Brown: AED, APC, ATD, AYD, CAAAD, CAPD, CAD, SAD, UD, Combined Law Enforcement Assoc. of Texas, Texas..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

The Common Law

Challenge your ever-increasing property taxes

"...appraisal district's decision. Check your county's Central Appraisal District (CAD) website for more information and to see if you..."

May 3, 2019 Column by Luke Ellis

City Arts Funding Tempest

Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern

"...In the letter sent to Cultural Contract recipients, CAD Manager Meghan Wells attributed the cuts to a decrease..."

Sept. 17, 2018 Arts Post

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...access to organizations that have historically had [less access]." CAD staffer Jesus Pantel had the numbers in his presentation..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

HD 50: Will Dem Split Enable GOP?

Front-runners emerge in the race to replace Strama

"...progressive causes, while Reyes shows more caution. At the UTD/CAD event, Israel criticized the gun-show loophole, while Reyes expressed..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Christopher Hooks

Happenings

"...International Center of Austin, 201 E. Second, 974-7854. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/redevelopment/cad.htm...."

July 25, 2008 News Feature

Dan in Real Life

What passes for real life in this Steve Carell film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom.

"...is the girlfriend of his brother Mitch (Cook), a cad who, with Marie, has brought home the first girlfriend..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Venus

Peter O'Toole, in an Oscar-caliber and -nominated performance, pulls off the tricky May-December relationship at the heart of Venus with colossal panache and sublime craft.

"...Maurice may be a dog, but he's never a cad or a boor or anything less than altogether human..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Tucker Must Die

Teen female-revenge comedy doesn't live up to the edginess promised by its title.

"...and sentimental fairly quickly, though to its credit, the cad in the title is only partially reformed in the..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Culture Flash!

The 411 on Zachary Scott, how public art is made, and auditioning for the Macy's Parade

"...will talk about the book Zachary Scott, Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad at – where else? – the Zachary Scott Theatre..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Kinky Boots

One man's ailing boot factory and a transvestite's need for extra-large thigh-highs become a perfect match in this British comedy about tolerance.

"...Shaun of the Dead's Nick Frost as a factory-floor cad). Based on a true story, as far as that..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Good Woman

Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is here set among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope.

"...quite lovely, and Vukotic is a hoot as a decadent contessa with seven or eight yapping lapdogs, but as..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Unleashed

Jet Li, in his first Western role of any depth, convincingly plays both man and beast, although a sentimental script by producer Luc Besson hampers the story.

"...recognize the innate decency behind Danny’s scarred and savage facade. From here on out, the film becomes a literal..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All the Hottest Clubs

"...Central Austin Democrats CAD emerged in the mid-Seventies and is today among the..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature

24 Hour Party People

"...to his credit, it took him more than a decade to do it) and certain personal proclivities that ended..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cat's Meow

"...Chaplin is the libidinous genius you'd expect, a satyric cad with eyes for Marion and damn the consequences. Elwes,..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joshua

"...to see the Pope (played by longtime Lina Wertmuller cad Giannini). And if the Pope, in turn, harbors any..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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