Chile on the Menu

Cine las Americas screens Chilean Cinema of the Post-dictatorship era

"...Taxi Para Tres (A Cab For Three) (D: Orlando Lübbert, 2001): A taxi driver..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Thirty Days Away: What the C&Es Tell

Who's paying the big bucks to see their candidate win?

"...Black & Veatch, and $3,100 from six Lone Star Cab Co. (mistakenly called Blue Star Cab in the reports,..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Retirement and the City

Retirement is tough. Living Downtown makes it all better.

"...and some sliders, plus a nightcap. We called a cab and were whisked back to the 360 by a..."

March 27, 2009 Food Feature by Linda Ball

Telekinesis

Saturday

"...For a band that drafts so closely behind Death Cab for Cutie, Telekinesis' brilliant career launch of having Chris..."

March 20, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Death Cab for Cutie

"...Death Cab for CutieNarrow Stairs (Atlantic)..."

June 20, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

'And Then the Feeling Fades Away/ But You Sort of Wish It Would Have Stayed'

The New York Times' Books blog, Paper Cuts, has a recurring thread called "Living With Music," in which authors write about their perfect playlists.

"...as I set down to blog about The Black Cab Sessions, the site where musicians like St. Vincent, Spoon,..."

June 11, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

What Made Milwaukee Famous

"...Made Milwaukee Famous to make it big? Like Death Cab big? Sadly, What Doesn't Kill Us, the Austin quintet's..."

April 18, 2008 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Rolling Rebellion at Capital Metro

Budget cuts threaten transit services for the disabled

"...Filing out of Special Transit Service buses and taxicabs, they packed into Cap Metro's lobby, where they waited..."

April 4, 2008 News Feature by Justin Ward

Fun, Healthy, and Green

A profile of the practice and business of pedicabbing

"...of weeks ago, those who spend their weekend nights pedicabbing are breathing easier. It's not just the farewell to..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature by Sofia Resnick

Sipping From the Spigot

The time has come for the great boxed-wine challenge

"...in varietal groups: Pinot Grigios, Chardonnays, other whites, Merlots, Cabernets, Shirazes, and other reds. Instead of using a 100-point..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

How Not to Make Your Case to City Council

Painful City Council moments, captured for posterity on YouTube.

"...no favors. Here, in all its cringe-inducing glory, is cabbie Ray Castro's question of whether council is "lining their..."

April 16, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

City Council Notebook

So much stuff before Council this week …

"...can and will fuck this up: A) Capital City Cab Company outranked runner-up Lone Star Cab Company by a..."

April 2, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

ACL Music Fest Preview

"...the starkness of Montreal winters? Maybe it's Murray Lightburn's cabaret slur that approximates the sounds of a London pub...."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature

Idlewild

OutKast has been operating as two separate and distinct musical personas for at least three years now, and Idlewild unwisely continues this trend into the cinematic realm.

"...if any, effect. (At one point there's mention of "CabCal," shorthand for Minnie-mooching legend Cab Calloway, and just for..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...response to the acquisition of Roy's Taxi by Yellow Cab, the city created 55 taxi permits for a new..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature

Beside the Point

City Council summer cheat sheet

"...Yo, Taxi!: Just as controversy from the Roy's Taxi/Yellow Cab merger diminished, the Urban Transportation Commission takes up the..."

July 21, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

One Perfect Day

This earnest, soulful, and jarringly melodramatic rave-culture love story is from Melbourne, Australia.

"...then listening to it in the rain while Death Cab for Cutie drives by and spits on you. Not..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Puffy Chair

In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.

"...of a soundtrack (Matt Pond PA, Of Montreal, Death Cab for Cutie) that’s never used indulgently – no “this..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.

"...forget TV on the Radio, Bright Eyes, and Death Cab for Cutie), you aren’t snorting with a little less..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Game 6

Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.

"...the film, Nicky is hopping into one slowly moving cab after another as he goes about town visiting his..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...will be wrapping up a European tour with Death Cab for Cutie. The Bay area indie rocker is still..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

My SXSW

"...Our cabdriver is mortified that he's never heard of us but..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Jon Langford

Three Days of Rain

A drama by debut filmmaker Michael Meredith is a Chekhov-inspired collection of semi-intertwined vignettes about a half-dozen or so depressed people living in Cleveland, and features an impressive cast.

"...Don Meredith – yes, that one – as a cab driver whose travels unite some of the characters. Falk..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...so in the closet. I was talking to a cab driver when Jonathan was writing this thing, and this..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Death Cab for Cutie

"...Death Cab for Cutie..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

2046

At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.

"...Su Li-zhen’s unconsummated courtship, as in an emotionally freighted cab ride, Nat King Cole’s thrice-played "Christmas Song," or the..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

No Entry

An exotic dancer tests the strength of two couples in this entertaining Bollywood romantic comedy.

"...had they been hitched to Douglas Sirk’s yellow melodrama cab and then art-designed by a giddy, pre-palimony Liberace while..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...to be in perfect balance: timing, perception, ego. Death Cab for Cutie is a model of that prowess. Justin..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Taxi

Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon comedy stalls at the starting gate.

"...we know), Washburn commandeers a hack piloted by novice cabbie Belle (Latifah), and very nearly nails his quarry. Turns..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Soul Plane

Everything is lewd and crude at this mile-high club.

"...fly with me? Thanks, no, I’d rather pay cross-country cab fare...."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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