Osama

The first feature to come out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, Osama tells the story of a girl who masquerades as a boy.

"...Toyota pickup trucks with two men in the cramped cab and four or five in the bed, resemble nothing..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...of Hours. Subset kicks the daylights out of Death Cab for Cutie with a tart power pop mix found..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...Sept. 4, 2003 Marge Baumgarten and I take a cab in from the airport. The press office is at..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Elf

Will Ferrell's Elf is a new way to spell fun.

"...someone dressed in a bear suit to hail a cab or piles dozens of people in goofy costumes into..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dirty Pretty Things

Stephen Frears’ low-key thriller casts its eye toward the furtive lives of London’s illegal immigrants.

"...a refugee from Nigeria who, by day, drives a cab and, by night, is the desk clerk at the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The American Analog Set, Ben Gibbard & Andrew Kenny

Texas Platters

"...NYC-relocated frontman Andrew Kenny and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. The nine songs here evoke the same..."

July 11, 2003 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Minister of Grace

At the age of 88, legendary dancer Fayard Nicholas continues to spread the good word of tap, and this week he does it in Austin as the Festival Legend at the third Soul to Sole Tap Festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company.

"...quickly to the Cotton Club, where they performed with Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington; Broadway, where they appeared in..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Armed with a new album, Let Go, on Death Cab for Cutie home Barsuk Records, Brooklyn's Nada Surf are..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Austin Music: A $616 Million Industry

"...buy drinks, that's direct activity; when you pay the cab driver to take you home, that's indirect activity; and..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...at the roadblock onto Robert E. Lee. Saturday our cab had dropped us here on the shoulder successfully and..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

In Memoriam

Longtime friends and colleagues of Eagle Pennell remember the filmmaker.

"...and showed up to borrow money to pay the cab for delivering him to the Chronicle and then to..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature

From the Bistro to the Beard

Austinite Shawn Cirkiel makes a pilgrimage to the home of American gastronomy, the James Beard House in New York.

"...York when we were and he got in a cab, took the tortillas to TriBeCa Grill and fried them..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Liquid Assets

Texas Wines With Texas Game

"...Becker Vineyards Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon ($22): Goes perfectly with game and an ancho..."

June 7, 2002 Food Column by Wes Marshall

A 'Bullet' to the Gut

In The Bullet Meant for Me, his new memoir, Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid explains why he went to Mexico and was forced to return as a changed man.

"...the men knew not to hail a green, unlicensed cab, but for one reason or another, they did. When..."

March 29, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Better Than Sex

"...up.) There's also a thin subplot involving an omniscient cab driver (McQuade), a conceit that injects an ill-fitting metaphysical..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...Rhonda's studio apartment in Brooklyn. I look out the cab window to see if the snow is falling, but..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

Our Lady of the Assassins

"...night are driving Fernando crazy. He kills a rude cab driver, and then others against whom he has vendettas...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Robert et Robert

"...Charles Denner, Jacques Villeret and Jean-Claude Brialy. A fussy cab driver and an apprentice traffic cop make for a..."

Sept. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eyewitness to Terror

"...board meeting. I was walking out to get a cab to go into the city. But then everyone is..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature

In Person

Sue Brandt McBee at the Carver Branch, August 9

"...these vividly," said Bertha Means, president of the Austin Cab Co., formerly the Harlem Cab Co. "I'm sure some..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Fast Food Fast Women

"...course with romance, of course -- with British expatriate cab driver and fledgling novelist Bruno (Harris), a skirt-chaser and..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Calle 54

Superstars of Latin jazz are captured as they perform in the studio.

"...Bronx, wizened bandleader Chico O'Farrill waxing contemplative on a cab ride to the legendary Birdland club, and tenor saxophonist..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Aterciopelados (the Velvetey Ones) and their beguiling, oceanic pop. Cabrito Vudu is listed as pop-rock from Monterrey, so one..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

15 Minutes

"...the Manhattan sidewalks. He immediately begins filming in the cab as the pair speed toward their appointment with their..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cubana Be Cubana Bop

Field guide to Cuba's second-biggest export after cigars

"...bands of Noble Sissle, Chick Webb, Don Redman, and Cab Calloway from 1932-1941. A section mate of his in..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Screen Play

Austin Film Festival Reviews

"...midnight in Memphis -- do you know where your cabbie is taking you? intersections, the feature film debut of..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Blue Room: Bad Cyan's Fiction

Local Arts Reviews

"...linking each act. Like the acts go: Girl and Cab Driver, Cab Driver and Au Pair, Au Pair and..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.

"...that stand out in my mind are the fabulous cab drivers of the Yellow Cab Co. They were some..."

March 24, 2000 Column

More Than a Pair of Jokers

While she was growing up, Anne S. Lewis thought of Randy and Jason Sklar as just her crazy twin cousins. But now, after an MTV sitcom and success on the comedy club circuit, she's thinking her relatives may be more than just a pair of jokers in her family deck.

"...we'd perform in one club, then hop into a cab and race across town to make our second gig..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Going Long

Scoping Out the Long Fringe of FronteraFest 2000

"...actress, playwright, nobleman, politician -- with the more modern cab driver, student, model, and married student serving as adequate..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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