SXSW Comedy Review: A Good Trip With Shane Mauss

Mauss lights up Hideout with cleverness and faux-slacker charm

"...night to perform his acclaimed stand-up show A Good Trip, he wore a hoodie, a graphic T-shirt, loose jeans,..."

March 15, 2017 Arts Post by Sean L. Malin

Culture Flash! March 2016

Honors for Dietz, compassion for ASO, and China for the ballet

"...international premiere for the symphony, and a very special trip for the ballet's Big Six-Oh...."

March 23, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

'My Trip to Al-Qaeda': Lawrence Wright's journey from page to stage

Lawrence Wright's experiences in the years he spent researching The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 have become the basis for a one-man theatrical work

"...piece to explore his personal struggles. The result, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, has been presented four times around the..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

“The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip” at the Blanton

Aperture Foundation’s survey is a portrait of what we find with our cameras when we travel

"...in "The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip" – an exhibit as expansive as the country we..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Luv Doc: A Big Camping Trip

There is a huge difference between encouragement and pressure.

"...friends are undeterred and are planning a big camping trip (keeping social distance, of course) at a nearby state..."

April 10, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Culture Flash!

Tapestry can dance this season after all, Austin artists may be the new Marfa lights, Angelina Eberly fires up the Avenue, and 'Cracks in the Pavement' gets national recognition

"...the West Texas outpost of contemporary art. The road trip coincides with Open House, the annual free festival of..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Stephen Mills in Montreal, Conspirare in the studio, the Blanton's first Impressionist painting, and party for the Texas Biennial

"...from his days directing the professional choir Chanticleer).But this trip includes a first for Conspirare: its first trip into..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The (Re-)Rise of Start-Up Culture

Are we closing in on a sustainable model?

"...even extend to picking who attends SXSW. Her first trip took place because she was the only one in..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Culture Flash!

A museum show for three shutterbugs, a prize for a canny sculptor, and calling all Young Masters

"...Oct. 8 to 19, Beale is getting an all-expenses-paid trip to Art Basel in Switzerland. "Winning anything is wonderful..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash

The Paynes peregrinate to the Parish and choreographer Allison Orr returns to Venice

"...For more about Eastman, visit www.peregrineimages.com. To follow Orr's trip by blog, visit www.livejournal.com/users/forkliftdancewk. She'll return just in time..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

The funniest person in town now, Austinite responsible for critical mass, 'Intergalactic' to go national, and the Map covers downtown

"...third place went to Jim Hamilton, making his first trip into the winners' circle...."

June 3, 2005 Arts Column

Culture Flash!

Geeeeet a piece of Bernadette Peters or Reba McEntire from Arts on Real

"...silent auction, which includes items for both the nice (round-trip tickets on Southwest, getaways at assorted Central Texas Marriotts..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Arts Column

Culture Flash!

New theatre that aims to light a political fire under you, a new warehouse theatre for South Austin, and Central Texans sing out at Carnegie Hall

"...within you die out. Keep it burning with a trip to the Bonfire Festival, a performance party-cum-book fair with..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Two Turntables and a Microphone

Austin's DJ Culture

"...had something going on that leap-frogged industry and pop culture boundaries like a marmot dipped in napalm and methedrine...."

May 29, 1998 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Bhaji On the Beach

"...the cares of daily life. That's what this day trip for some “Asian Ladies” from Birmingham, England is supposed..."

Sept. 30, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Kalifornia

"...someone to help with expenses and driving for the trip, so Brad posts an ad on a bulletin board..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Barbecue Summer Camp!

What is it about Texas and barbecue? Chronicle Food Editor Virginia B. Wood knows, and she knows we know, but the Southern Foodways Alliance is about to find out on their Taste of Texas Field Trip. Plus, "The Barbecue Song"!?

"...The Southern Foodways Alliance Taste of Texas Barbecue Field Trip, with major financial support from White Lily Foods, takes..."

June 14, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Calendar

"...a photographer (Egoyan) whose wife left him during a trip to Armenia where he was photographing churches for a..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Dumb and Dumber To

They're ba-ack!!!

"...… well, because there’s always a place in our culture for dumb humor. Certainly, the endeavor’s reputation precedes it:..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reincarnated

In this documentary, Snoop Lion goes to Jamaica to cut a reggae album and reinvent himself – and smoke the ganja, too.

"...records a reggae album and immerses himself in Rastafarian culture...."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley find love and companionship in the face of the apocalypse.

"...Oswalt, William Peterson, T.J. Miller and Gillian Jacobs. Western culture has taught us to expect fire and brimstone; Hollywood..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hype!

"...mid-Eighties Seattle punk scene to global domination of youth culture. The co-factor which allowed this whimsical, self-mocking local movement..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Black or White

Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer play guardians who fight over the custody of their granddaughter.

"...willing to meet the zeitgeist halfway, their liberal guilt trip about how racism makes white people uncomfortable too feels..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

R100

Drafthouse Films is distributing this Japanese S&M mindwarp. You could do far worse for midnight-date movie fare.

"...at all, it’s probably from seeing his 2007 head trip (and Fantastic Fest favorite) Big Man Japan, wherein Japanese..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deep in the Art

Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade's 40-year road trip through all that is Texas

"...who's full of enough stories to last your whole trip from Beaumont to El Paso, even if that ride..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Herdsmen of the Sun and Les Maitres Fou

"...it's not the looking glass aspect of the Wodaabe's culture that's most interesting. It's the people themselves. Perhaps they..."

Jan. 17, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

No No: A Dockumentary

Famous for pitching a no-hitter while high on acid, Dock Ellis the man was so much more.

"...in a 1970 game against the Padres. (That historic trip on the mound was previously chronicled by animator James..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

The genius dog and his adopted human son return for these animated adventures in time travel.

"...Trojan-horse humor, and thumbs a nose at the lowest-common-denominator culture to – egads! – celebrate a brainiac. What a..."

March 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Total Recall

This Total Recall is fast, furious, and frequently fun, but it lacks the snappy, weirdo vibe of its predecessor.

"...hunch on my part. Wiseman's film dispenses with the pop-culture-laden irony in favor of blazingly fast action and a..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Friends With Benefits

This Mila Kunis/Justin Timberlake rom-com is smart enough to decry Hollywood’s romantic clichés but never savvy enough to truly subvert them.

"...long as you grab a clean plate for each trip. But humans by nature are messy creatures, and the..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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