Landmarks Debuts Michael Ray Charles Sculpture at UT

For his Landmarks art commission, Michael Ray Charles transforms crutches into stars

"...Michael Ray Charles – you may remember him as a professor in..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

"...Directed by: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

ACL Live Shot (Second Weekend): Dynamites feat. Charles Walker

Singer proves ‘Love Is Only Everything’

"...Charles Walker is not as nimble or as desperate as..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Michael Ray Charles' New Art Asks Hard Questions About Race and America

The internationally acclaimed artist returns to Austin with new work that, as ever, leaves us asking ourselves what we see

"...so it is with the work's creator, Michael Ray Charles. Standing in this intimate space containing some 20 paintings..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

For His Dance (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson Keeps Moving

Through the pandemic and other obstacles, the choreographer and UT teacher continues to adapt

"...– Charles O. Anderson..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Online Keynote Speaker Charles Yu on Insecurity, Fatherhood, and Representation

The Interior Chinatown author reflects on how Asian American lives are characterized in popular entertainment

"...Charles Yu is comfortable living with "a lot of self-doubt."..."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature by Vivie Behrens

Soul Stunner Miss Lavelle White Turns 39 (or So)

“I had a hard life, but it channeled into the music”

"..."Don't go there with my age," Miss Lavelle White warns me...."

July 5, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...characteristic of her spiritual nature as is the Western/Indian/Mexican/folk art/white trash decor throughout her house. "The Rolling Stone writer..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Charles Atlas / William Basinski

The artists' live layering of video and music immersed audiences in images of suffering and transformation

"...Curiosity drew me to experience the one-night-only performance by Charles Atlas and William Basinski, a fleeting part of the..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Review by Madeline Irvine

Charles Pasco

Remembering the Texas State University educator and playwright for children

"...of Texas historian Oscar Brockett, Texas State University lost Charles Pascoe, professor of Child Drama and the director of..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Other Voices on Michael Ray Charles

"...Houston artist Garry Reese, describing his child's reaction to Charles' painting Beware in an open letter published in ArtLies..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Charles Whitman in the UT Tower

"...a face, perhaps resembling your grandfather's -- a kindly white-haired old guy. He sits down beside you...."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

Painting Race

Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images

"...SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME, SOMEDAY. IT COULD HAPPEN, says Michael Ray Charles on his Liberty Bros. Permanent Daily Circus poster-style painting...."

Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Glass Shield

In this often overlooked film by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, To Sleep With Anger), a black cop in an all-white police station confronts racism from his colleagues and incredulity from his family and community

"...Directed by: Charles Burnett. Starring: Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Ice Cube, Elliott..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight

We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles

"...world-class organist, and former arranger for the great Ray Charles, speaks in these measured hues. The literal key(s) to..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Post-Minstrel Syndrome

Blackface Is a white fantasy about the way things used to be

"...these thoughts in mind, I sought out Michael Ray Charles...."

June 20, 2003 Arts Feature by Verushka Gray

Drumline

"...Directed by: Charles Stone III. Starring: Nick Cannon, Orlando Jones, Zoë Saldana,..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Frankenweenie

Tim Burton’s animated, black-and-white movie about a boy and his dog is sweetly filtered through the lens of Frankenstein and other famous monsters.

"...it, Frankenweenie is to The Nightmare Before Christmas as Charles Addams is to Gahan Wilson...."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ali G Indahouse

Unlike its televised predecessor, Ali G Indahouse just isn’t that funny.

"...Mylod. Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Kellie Bright, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance, Rhona Mitra, Martin Freeman and Barbara New. Like..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Altamesa Maps Lone Star Existentialism on Sophomore Stunner Idol Frontier

Evan Charles and Sean Faires brave the myth of the Southwest

"...Chronicle, served as a troubadour turn for then-26-year-old Evan Charles, who formerly fronted pure, homegrown rock & roll acts..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Quiz Show

"...was kept at a safe distance from middle-class (read: white) America. Evoking the Eisenhower era as few contemporary films..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

"...of Warp and Weft" at Davis Gallery

Using wood and cheesecloth, Caprice Pierucci and Charles Heppner's mutation of form and fiber is beautiful even as it is foreboding

"...show, "...of Warp and Weft," artists Caprice Pierucci and Charles Heppner transform common materials, wood and cheesecloth, into works..."

July 13, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Foreign Student

"...Marco Hofschneider, Rick Johnson, Charlotte Ross, Jack Coleman and Charles S. Dutton. In the fall of 1956, Phillippe (Hofschneider)..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Surviving the Game

"...Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton, John C. McGinley, William McNamara, Jeff Corey,..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Doug's First Movie

"...comes to a certain little red-haired girl. But unlike Charles Schulz's character, Doug doesn't ponder theological and existential questions;..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Black Dog

"...Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Brenda Strong, Charles Dutton and Stephen Tobolowsky. Patrick Swayze does some “dirty..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let Him Entertain You

Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen

"...Charles Duggan probably doesn't want me telling you this, but..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Girl Cut in Two

French master Claude Chabrol's latest film is the tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons who falls in love with two different men.

"...or less the same time, two very different suitors: Charles (Berléand), a wealthy, worldly author 30 years her senior,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Woman Chaser

"...adapted the script from a novel by hard-boiled author Charles Willeford (other Willeford adaptations include the Alec Baldwin vehicle..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death Wish

Bruce Willis picks up where Charles Bronson left off.

"...gun violence and personal responsibility in a time when white flight left our major cities festering in poverty, decay,..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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