Cairo Time

Patricia Clarkson gives a glorious performance in this film about a woman's unexpected discovery of love.

"...taken a break in her schedule to travel to Cairo to visit her husband, Mark (McCamus), who is a..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

This French box-office sensation is a send-up of Sixties spy films.

"...you can jam into an already bloated 90-minute running time. Austin Powers, for example, succeeded as much on the..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Flame in My Heart

"...people. It's a deliberate portrait of obsessive love, at times so deliberate that it becomes little more than a..."

Aug. 30, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hot Luck Fest Reveals 2019 Chef Lineup & First Wave of Music Acts

Buy that Whole Enchilada pass before they sell out

"...Luck Fest is bringing their signature backyard hangout good time celebration of celebration of fire, food, music, and camaraderie..."

March 4, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Food Truck Review: KG BBQ

Cairo comes to Central Texas on a cloud of smoke

"...is the bread pudding. Cooked right there at the time of ordering, this dessert is piping hot and fall-apart..."

July 14, 2023 Food Feature by Rod Machen

Austin Film Festival Review: King of North Sudan

Oddball geopolitical documentary never quite expunges its Americana

"...stint where he was afforded a considerable amount of time off, he got research-happy and discovered a small plot..."

Oct. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

The Staycationer: Hotel ZaZa Austin

Your Close-to-Home Guide to Getting Away

"...pandemic and lockdown restrictions, Austin tourism was at an all-time high. Hotel occupancy rates are still seeing low numbers,..."

April 14, 2021 Food Post by Veronica Meewes

Headlines

"...many years – is unjustified, especially in tough economic times. Be there by 4pm if you want to dive..."

Aug. 27, 2010 News Feature

Neorealism, Now and Then, in Troubled Lands

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 4

"...a remarkable capacity for turning pain into poetry, and sometimes the upside to great tragedy is great art. Two..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Writes of Spring

"...feel rightly scorned by his denial. Nobody has much time for such scorn in this tale, however, since everybody..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

Legerdemain Man Ray Anderson

The fact that magicians around the world revere the magic man of Esther’s Follies is no illusion

"...seeking out Ray Anderson, Austin's much-loved magician, illusionist, and longtime MVP of Esther's Follies? Could be both, actually, but..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Kareem El-Ghayesh Brings a Taste of Egypt to Texas Barbecue

Building bridges with brisket

"...El-Ghayesh grew up in Cairo and came to the U.S. for the first time..."

May 7, 2021 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Red Notice

The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot go comedy-action globe-trotting

"...… well, the Rock meet onscreen for the first time not a bigger deal?..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Reefer Roundup 2/23/11

Your drug war news all in one place.

"...Elliott Naishtat has again filed his medi-pot bill, this time as House Bill 1491, but it's pretty much the..."

Feb. 23, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Decoder

Lawrence Wright reflects on a decade spent exploring and explaining the Middle East in My Trip to Al-Qaeda

"...at Texas Monthly, where I was whiling away my time sorting mail and trying not to get into any..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Point Austin: Clinton's Wars, Bush's Wars, Obama's ...

A peace prize, a peace rally, and more of the same

"...– Barack Obama in Cairo, June 4..."

Oct. 16, 2009 News Column by Michael King

The Terrorist

"...first saw it at a screening during the 1998 Cairo International Film Festival, has come on board as a..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Funny Ha-Ha in a Half-Dozen Languages

AFS Essential Cinema presents Making the World Laugh: Global Comedy

"...Sometimes it's just too much to bear, isn't it? Contemplating..."

May 30, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Book Review: Dark Star Safari

Journey through Africa and the life of author Paul Theroux in his novel Dark Star Safari.

"...his new travel memoir of his overland journey from Cairo to Capetown, will feel that reading "was the next..."

April 11, 2003 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 3-9

"...best-selling Cancerian author Oliver Sacks, who The New York Times called, "one of the great clinical writers of the..."

July 3, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...with Darlin'. That makes her one of three female first-time directors in the Midnighters, alongside British filmmaker Abigail Blackmore..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, Song to Song

As heard in the movies

"...I use my walk/ I'm a woman's man: no time to talk..."

May 19, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...by Terrence Malick. In 1973, this stunning film heralded first-time director Terrence Malick as an unmatched conjurer of cinematic..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Soberingly Preggo

Pot, like most drugs, is pretty fucking wonderful when used recreationally

"...a heavy pot smoker and has been the whole time I have known him. It's never really been too..."

April 21, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...Josh Pineda, a longtime member of the Peaceful Streets Project, the local copwatching..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

The Luv Doc: Some Secret Grotto

Men don't fear commitment

"...date. I have swiped left on Tinder so many times the left side of my right index finger is..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...9:50pm, Stubb's Melbourne's Courtney Barnett's next. Her debut LP, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...Grape St., Hikes, Hospital Ships, Hundred Visions, John Mills Times Ten, The Levites, Jeff Lofton, Mac MacIntosh, Mike G,..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

When You Pause the Heart of an Eagle and Can Feel Its Fear

Steve Moore's smartphone thriller for Fusebox comes to an end.

"...out textually inside the entire audience’s smartphones in real time. It’s the original creation of Austin playwright Steve Moore,..."

Oct. 22, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Gives a Damn About Big Range Austin?

The answer might be a lot closer than you think

"...Range Austin Dance Festival again, for the fourth annual time, but what difference does it make if I tell..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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