Culture Flash!

Art in Public Places sets a fingerprint at the forensics lab, and Austin theatre is all over the map – of the U.S.

"...a dude productions, with its B. Iden Payne Award-winning mob drama HIT; Physical Plant Theater, with its unnerving slapstick..."

May 13, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Rob Nash's latest gets a holdover, and those truly were picketing clowns

"...Regarding last week's item on the mob of clowns who picketed the Physical Plant Theater production..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Clowns picket Physical Plant, Mills takes the prize in Montreal, Steakley mixes up some 'Tuna' in Louisville, and Salvage Vanguard wants you to join their party

"...A flash mob of clowns? That's Carlos Treviño's story, and he's sticking..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Game Night

Monopoly was never this brutal before this crime-com.

"...never really a party until someone pisses off the mob...."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Adrenaline Drive

"...Ando. So much of what passes for American pop culture in the movies these days -- from the work..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fighting to Stay

As Austin's housing market booms, its poorest residents fight to exist

"...has put neighborhoods around town on edge, and a culture of resistance to gentrification has stirred. Unfor­tun­ately, when the..."

April 15, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

We Give Two Thumbs Up to These Weekend Events

Arty and culture-y things to get up to

"...tale of a blues singer/private detective getting involved in mob mayhem? Not the director’s most known film – that..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Checking In: Skeleton Releases Best Death Metal in Recent History

20 Buck Spin debut puts blackened ATX death metal on the map

"...since 2014. Their debut LP advances the gathering movement’s mob mentality.”..."

July 22, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

England Made Me

Culture editor Richard Whittaker presents a season of classic British movies that defined the nation's cinema

"...of hubris in a corrupted London, where the American mob and the IRA want their slice. Violence is smeared..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Where Will You Watch Election Returns?

Culture Mob has an extensive list of e-night parties

"...Check it out: The Culture Mob blog has an extensive list of Election Night..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Austin's Hip-Hop Pioneers, in Their Own Words

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

"...the awards show have sold out and decades of culture-crafting pack a behemoth script, the Chronicle Music team interviewed..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Double Down

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.

"...in Austin to premiere his latest film, Made, a mob caper that marks his debut as a director and..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Postmarks

Keep Off Barton Creek

"...We Americans have enough Target/MegaCinema/Wendy's stripmall culture; surely we can do without another blast of it..."

July 18, 1997 Column

The Luv Doc: A Thin Mustache

True iconoclasty in America is in woefully short supply

"...yet we do surprisingly well in team sports and mob mentality. We don't really embrace mysterious loners as much..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two: Workingman's Blues

The real history of labor and union organizing is ignored and largely unknown

"...these factors together may affect the cost of American automobiles, making them too expensive according to some considerations...."

Dec. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

First Sunday

Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play petty criminals who spend a night reckoning with the lord when they rob their neighborhood church.

"...hood would end up crossing over into mainstream pop culture via a series of increasingly bland, intermittently funny, but..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior

The mass release of this top-notch Thai action film should havee American audiences grinning ear to ear and shore to shore.

"...Master or Police Story in years, although as a pop-culture powerhouse he continues to surprise when paired with Owen..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000

"...changed (it's "gaming" now, not gambling), but the city's Mob values mirror more than ever the ethics of corporate..."

May 11, 2001 Books Review by Dale Smith

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...his physical stature, like Eightball, Big Pun, or Goodie MoB's Cee-lo, with rhymes clean enough for his little nephews..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...man while shooting a homemade action movie. Romance, stolen mob money, and a disastrous road trip to the Hamptons..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...Al Pacino plays a mob veteran who mentors young associate Johnny Depp -- who..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Am Hiphop

One of the hiphop elders delivers a sermon.

"...it. I find it fascinating how Hiphop as a culture mirrors every mythology from the beginning of mythology. The..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...early Nineties, with the birth of Austin's electronica/dance, music/rave culture, the little love drug that could has become a..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...who is mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two

Prelude to a column on cinematographer Haskell Wexler – by way of defending the ideological, political, and philosophical passions of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi against the intellectual bankruptcy of most current film criticism

"...men and women more concerned with ideas, politics, and culture than how they were dressed, the weather, or weekend..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Alternate Universes

"...sociological texts that examine the fluxing state of our culture, Gabler's treatise bodes ill for the current state of..."

March 12, 1999 Books Feature

Weird City Hip-Hop Festival: Dilated Peoples

Rakaa Iriscience: “People demand better, they’re gonna get better”

"...What are your influences outside the context of hip-hop culture?..."

Sept. 25, 2014 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Fantastic Fest Gets 'Looper' For Second Wave

Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans

"...know his way around Austin from bringing his remix culture experiment hitRECord to SXSW 2010, but if he gets..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback

Storm (Thorgerson), Chaos (in Tejas), and gender dysphoria: Welcome to summer music!

"...just sing about whiskey and weed, either. Lyrically, there's low-culture themes like goat races, people suits, and donkey punches..."

June 1, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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