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You Can Leave Your Hat On
Watching movies in Marfa
"...In dreamy, big-sky West Texas, festivalgoers from as far as Holland gathered to..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Jardine Libaire

John Sayles
The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper
"...feature films, Sayles has established himself as one of cinema's most intelligent, passionate, and engaged filmmakers. His oeuvre reveals..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Food-o-File
No Reservations, Mindy Kucan's Hot Summer Night, and more
"...in Greenwich Village. The folks at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema decided this restaurant romance would be the perfect vehicle..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Virgin's Guide to Mexico
A rich runaway heads for Mexico City in former Michener fellow Eric B. Martin's third novel
"...case is Alma Price, a runaway from Austin's tony West Lake Hills neighborhood, who attempts to escape her unhappy..."

June 22, 2007 Books Review by Dan Oko

If You're a Viper
From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T
"..."Smokey was an obscure Western swing artist from Oklahoma who worked mostly around Houston..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...see An Inconvenient Truth lately out at the Arbor Cinema [Film Listings, June 2]. It was a great movie..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Column

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...– will indeed be how the city selects its newest taxi franchise. In response to the acquisition of Roy's..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature

DIY Queer Community
Can’t relate to what Austin’s gay scene has to offer? Make one of your own!
"...with such indie film and theatre heavy hitters as cinema gurus John Sloss and Christine Vachon and Greater Tuna..."

June 2, 2006 Features Feature by Kate Getty

Zupan on Impact
'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity
"...Henry Alex Rubin, the film's co-director and cinematographer, has just arrived from New York. He looks up..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Inside the Actor's Superego
How Michael Baldwin got here (hint: It involves a showbiz upbringing, Oreo cookies, and shrieking armadas of flying, brain-sucking spheres)
"...a box-office ripple, but some 5,000 miles to the West, a pint-sized superstar flared nova-hot, unleashing a tsunami of..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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"...was sited on 12 acres of land next to West Bouldin Creek. The city purchased the 11 acres next..."

May 13, 2005 Column

2005 Kids Summer Camps
An annotated list of several places where kids could be going this summer to enjoy physically and mentally invigorating activities
"...in Oak Hill between 7:30 and 8am, or at West Enfield between 7:30 and 9am. Afternoon pickup from 5:30..."

April 29, 2005 Features Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...its 16th season. (Just in time for South by Southwest!) Where the seven new Real Worlders will live, and..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Food-o-File
V.B.W. misses the Paella party but gets the scoop
"...The first Festival of Cinema and Gastronomy debuts this week. The event is designed..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Stratus Properties and a Southwest Austin neighborhood association both got what they wanted last..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

2004 Paramount Theatre Summer Film Series
Clip and save
"...Cinema Paradiso (1988; director's cut): 6/15, 7pm..."

May 21, 2004 Screens Feature

Lights! Camera! Pedestrian!
This month Luke Savisky and Arthouse give a little nod to Austin history with a cinematic installation that involves showing film in and on Arthouse's home space at 700 Congress
"...been decades since movies were shown regularly on the west side of the Avenue, but this month Luke Savisky..."

March 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Toronto International Film Festival
A first-timer's diary
"...films from Africa complementing the rest of the breathtaking world-cinema selection. Which doesn't mention the Discovery series, the innovative..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Born on the Fourth of July
Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)
"...Golden-tousled Midwesterner Chris Hrasky beams, saturated with the sheer gravity of..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Short Cuts
Harry Knowles hits it big, in a manner of speaking. Plus: the Wilsons on SoCo and Bob Ray in the West.
"...who along with film partner Werner Campbell is going West, young man, to drum up funding for the Texas..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood brings good news, good food, and good gossip in this week's "Food-o-File."
"...cream... On Thursday, July 17, the independent merchants along West Sixth held their first "Third Thursday" celebration. Portabla (1200..."

July 25, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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Our readers talk back.
"...CinemaTexas Lives..."

July 18, 2003 Column

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.
"...stands) one could travel from Paris to the Old West to czarist Russia or Brazil. Every night. The screens..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Live From SXSW's Screening Room
"...violence (Earth) were so controversial in India that the cinema where Fire debuted was burned to the ground by..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Getting Their Due
The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
"...actress Anna Deavere Smith (Twilight: Los Angeles, Philadelphia, The West Wing); screen darling Luke Wilson (Bottle Rocket, The Royal..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two
When they label war protesters' speech as traitorous, right-wing war supporters reveal themselves as truly anti-American.
"...South by Southwest 2003 is only one week away. The SXSW Film..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Articulations
The National Endowment for the Arts played Santa Claus last week, dropping federal funding in the stockings of arts organizations, and even went so far as "comin' to town" to do it, announcing $26 million in grants, including $287,000 to 14 local artists and arts organizations, from here in Austin.
"...the presentation of more than 70 curated works of cinema and a separate $10,000 to support post-production costs for..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Mr. Demme's Holiday
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.
"...being interested in that -- seeking war movies and Westerns and just anything with guys in it and the..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye
Film actors take flight for the small screen.
"...and Again and The Job (both cancelled), NBC's The West Wing, and Showtime's The Chris Isaak Show are a..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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"...keep springing forth from the ground along MoPac South, Southwest Parkway, and throughout the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Region...."

July 12, 2002 Column

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