Complex World

"...bikers who might actually frequent such a place. Yes, Complex World is indeed a complex world. Yet Wolpaw keeps..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience by Howard C. Hughes..."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

A Map of the World

"...character that the supporting actors, including Moore in a complex, deeply affecting performance as Alice's best friend, Theresa, are..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Home at the End of the World

Michael Cunningham's novel is the basis for this story of a love triangle in which everyone's in love with Bobby (played by Colin Farrell).

"...breadth to dig into the characters, to make their complex emotions and motivations less puzzling. (It doesn’t help that..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Evolution More Complex Than Critics' Arguments

"...there ain't no such animal in an exciting and complex world. ... Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth,..."

Dec. 1, 2003 Postmarks

How J.A. Bayona Made a Real Jurassic World

Director explains how his dinos are leaving the park behind

"...the modern, CG-heavy blockbuster? J.A. Bayona, director of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, certainly thinks so...."

June 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: April and the Extraordinary World

Steampunk animation mixes science and alternative history

"...hat. Fortunately, French animated feature April and the Extraordinary World builds the ethos and aesthetic into every weld and..."

Oct. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Fat Kid Rules the World'

Matthew Lillard's directorial debut has a big heart

"...I will always like Matthew Lillard. In a fairer world, everyone would forget Wing Commander and Hackers, and just..."

Jan. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: “World of Tomorrow: Episode Two – The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts”

Don Hertzfeldt's signature stick figures are plump with ideas

"...Gosh. Genius animator Don Hertzfeldt, whose previous animated short “World of Tomorrow” was nominated for an Oscar in 2015..."

Sept. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gary Numan’s Songs From a Broken World

New Wave pioneer takes on global warming

"...Promoting Savage (Songs From a Broken World), Gary Numan’s garnered a good deal of well-earned, positive..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Post by Julie Holden

"Seth Orion Schwaiger: Complex I" at Pump Project

This vast, ambitious solo show transforms the gallery space into a maze and a temple to art past and future

"...Seth Orion Schwaiger's answers are on view in "Complex I," his vast, ambitious solo creation at Pump Project...."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Review by Madeline Irvine

The Serious Play in Saving the World

Gaming gets on the sustainability bandwagon

"...of massively social Internet-connected environments like Second Life and World of Warcraft, where people work creatively together as avatars..."

April 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

Forget the details, relish the intimacy of this music documentary

"...her favorite songs she’s ever written, “ilomilo.” It’s a complex and dark pop track about the terrifying fear of..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The World of Wayfinding in Austin

How we get from here to there in our ever-changing city

"...hospital, or prospective employees arriving at a corporate office complex. Or, like my shuttle bus companion, simply people who..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Taking the World Stage

How more theatre made Here is getting Out There and what that means

"...On visit next month. Nearly half a million people worldwide have watched and quarreled over the Latino Comedy Project's..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

No Room at the Complex

Renters scramble for housing as dirt churns on new condos

"...Austin's changed. That ideal apartment in the funky little complex close to everything is gone – at any price..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Buzz Heard 'Round the World

"...Man]. I've completed a dark comedy called The Apartment Complex. We had to build this apartment complex which, in..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

World, Interrupted

Saving the world, one Web warrior at a time

"...green with an investment in wind energy. In 2008, WorldChanging.com columnist (and Chronicle contributor) Jon Lebkowsky hopes to see..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

A Complex Question?

Central Park's Proposed Housing Project

"...as a big wheel in real estate. In a world where success is measured by the foot, the C.P...."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Been Around the World

Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.

"...and Latino, or Latino and something else. Discovering the complexity of the cultures of the Americas, giving space to..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

A World of Their Own

Growing Population

"...of poor communication between parents and educators. "Autism is complex and hard to decipher," explains one AISD teacher who..."

June 4, 1999 News Feature by Spike Gillespie

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...which believes America has a duty to dominate the world, told Congress that the Second Iraq War wouldn't be..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...venues as the Split Rail and the famed Armadillo World Headquarters...."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Plain Speaking About Complex Things

Robert Jensen on his book Plain Radical and the friendship that inspired it

"...an elegance about the way he thought about the world."..."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Champion of the World Cinema

Chief curator Chale Nafus on the Austin Film Society's latest Essential series, South by Southeast: Films of Thailand and Vietnam

"...one ever say journalism isn't a humbling and emotionally complex profession...."

Dec. 29, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Friends to the End (of the World)

Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler reunite in Greenland

"...cinema, but his specialty is in weaving in more complex plots and narrative techniques than the standard blockbuster. His..."

Dec. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lost World, Found Footage

AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner

"...ones least heard of, outliers from the visual art world, avant-gardists who have more in common with Mark Rothko..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Welcome to the Real World

Rhizome Collective brings activist ideals down to earth

"...are busy nights at the Rhizome Collective, a three-warehouse complex at the dead end of Allen Street in an..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Kings & Queens Jamaican Cuisine Is on a Mission to Make the World Better With Food

Food is love at this Pflugerville eatery

"...the shoulders of long-standing recipes influenced by the country's complex colonial history, is harder to fully grasp. Detailing that..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Food Feature by David Brendan Hall

White Sands: Experiences From the Outside World

by Geoff Dyer

"...and thereby improve their knowledge of: 1) this wide world, and 2) the teeming forms of cultural and personal..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by W. A. Brenner

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