Family Classic and Timely New Productions for Zach’s 2024-25 Season

List includes latest from Austin’s Tony winner Robert Schenkkan

"...20, 2024-Jan. 1, 2025, the Topfer at Zach By Charles Dickens Adapted and directed by Dave Steakley Musical direction..."

May 8, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

At Besame Mucho, a Latin Music Capital Por Nosotros

Inside the all-star, 84-band, Spanish-language spectacle

"...while shucking outfit layers like a nesting doll. Lake Charles twosome Ha*Ash pranced and pounded a keyboard or two,..."

March 4, 2024 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

How UT’s Tom Schatz Shaped Austin’s Film Scene

Austin’s film community looks back at the 45-year legacy of a guiding force at UT RTF

"...media studies luminaries including Janet Staiger, Horace Newcomb, and Charles Ramírez Berg. He made his mark in the academic..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

Yet Another Reason to Oppose Police Violence: It's Costing Us Millions of Dollars

Money for victims, perpetrators, and alternatives all comes from the same place

"...for $1.85 million, three years after former APD Detective Charles Kleinert fatally shot Mercer's son, Larry Jackson Jr., in..."

April 23, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

SXSW Taps Baby Rose, Heart Bones & Laundry Day

108 more acts added to music fest

"...Molly with Charles (Berkeley, CA.)..."

Feb. 13, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...All I Crave. The Nashville-born, Indianapolis-raised pianist and Ray Charles precursor died from alcoholism at 30, leaving a smooth..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Six New Shows to Distract Yourself With This Year

Your 2018 TV preview

"...life into the characters created by comic book writer Charles S. Forsman. The show just recently hit stateside, but..."

Jan. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...= terrorism). Gilliam, along with co-screenwriters Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown, created an Orwellian world that fits the dystopian..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of High Noon

Glenn Frankel’s new book on the classic film explores a very timely history

"...his Austin days, when Frankel heard UT film prof Charles Ramírez Berg's talk about High Noon. Frankel saw the..."

March 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Following Linklater's Dream

Richard Linklater: dream is destiny finally opens in Austin

"...the duo, along with cinematographer Lee Daniel, UT professor Charles Ramírez-Berg, and Chale Nafus founded the Austin Film Society..."

Aug. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Playback: Barracuda on the Block

"...A Christmas CarolDec. 12, Museum of Human AchievementCharles Dickens' novella gets abstract in this version focusing on..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

News Roundup: Marriage (In)equality, Buehler, and the Mayor

Paxton vs. true love; Buehler civil suit dismissed; and more

"...impossible to undo,” Paxton writes in his petition. Attorney Charles Herring and County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir remain steadfast in..."

Feb. 23, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

A House DVD'd

Criterion and Rooster Teeth give you something worth wishing for

"...Mexican cinema authored by University of Texas teaching treasure Charles Ramírez Berg...."

Dec. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Please Cover Light Rail

Sept. 24, 2013 Postmarks

Lady Be Good

Austin Film Society presents pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck

"...kickoff on Aug. 6, University of Texas film professor Charles Ramírez Berg will deliver a special introduction and post-film..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Record Store Day

Record Store Day – inclusive, not exclusive

"...shares a name with Austin's most famous mass murderer, Charles Whitman...."

April 19, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward

Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all

"...Charles Ramírez Berg, the Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor in..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Say What?

Mapping the Rolling Roadshow tour in movie quotes

"...Bob Briggs, and University of Texas film studies professor Charles Ramírez Berg – scrap over competing idears of the..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...Black Narcissus screens Thursday, June 17, 7pm, at the Charles Nelson Prothro Theater at the Harry Ransom Center...."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Make 'Em Laugh (And, Yes, Even Learn)

The Alamo Drafthouse inaugurates a new film appreciation series with Ninotchka

"...it anymore," says University of Texas film studies professor Charles Ramírez Berg. "Not only do people not know what..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Surrogates

Bruce Willis is a cop in a future society where human beings live in isolation and interact through robots.

"...12 Looks Just Like You," penned by sci-fi legend Charles Beaumont) to WALL-E. Surrogates' morality is less Asimov than..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lance Letscher Collage

This first full-length monograph of the local collagist's work is pure pleasure

"...Lance Letscher Collageartwork by Lance Letscher, introduction by Charles Dee Mitchell, essay by Brooke Davis Anderson University of..."

April 24, 2009 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Politics Perks Up in Hays County

Two Hays incumbents try to keep their Commissioners Court seats

"...choice," perhaps belies the desperation behind his campaign. Unlike Ram­us, however, Wyatt has both raised some money and filed..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

All in the Family

The Agrasánchez Film Archives

"...Mexicano, including one co-written with University of Texas professor Charles Ramírez Berg titled, natch, Cine Mexicano: Posters From the..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

King of Bongo

Tracking Spain/France's illusive King of Latin punk rock, Manu Chao

"...Oscar Tramor's musical prime elements. His Galician father, writer Ramón Chao, and Bilbaon mother left Spain for the more..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Charles PonzioTime to Bring in DeLayDear Editor,..."

March 18, 2005 Column

Al Green

Gift guide

"...of the Hodges brothers – Mabon (guitar), Leroy (bass), Charles (piano) – and either Al Jackson Jr. or Willie..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

On the Lege

The Lege week in court, in correspondence, and in West Texas

"...that Craddick's map would more likely defeat U.S. Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Abilene, thereby giving West Texas four GOP congressmen...."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Lights Out

The Seventies represented the heyday for film programming at the University of Texas. Marjorie Baumgarten recollects the days of CinemaTexas and the Texas Union Theater.

"...as Hong Kong, London, Iowa, and Harvard. One alumnus, Charles Ramírez Berg, returned to the University of Texas where..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

In Print

UT professor Charles Ramírez Berg has crafted an academic dissection of film stereotypes. Moreover, it's an enormously readable and instructive volume.

"...Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, & Resistanceby Charles Ramírez Berg University of Texas Press, 328 pp., $24.95..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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