Dead Man Walking

Sarandon won an Oscar for her performance as Sister Helen Prejean in this nuanced story about capital punishment.

"...is make us reflect on our convictions and beliefs. Dead Man Walking, Tim Robbins' second effort as director and..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave

As terminal cancer ticks down Jimmy LaFave’s life, he says the show must go on

"...evening, in a long phone conversation, the Texas-born, Oklahoma-reared songman detailed his health status. For months after diagnosis he..."

April 21, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dead Man Writing

"...The libretto of Dead Man Walking was written by playwright Terrence McNally, author..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Michael King

The Walking Dead

"...portray the plight of African-American soldiers in Vietnam,” The Walking Dead instead comes across as a straight-ahead, cookie-cutter festival..."

March 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ladies Man

"...crème-colored flairs, and open-just-shy-of-the-navel rayon disco shirts, he's a walking anachronism, a pleasant enough fellow who just happens to..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'The Walking Dead' Returns: But Where's Merle?

Michael Rooker teases the return of the zombie-slaying badass

"...So season three of The Walking Dead debuted last night, and the series got gorier..."

Oct. 15, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...Austin receives no such shout-out in "Truckin'," the Grateful Dead's highest-charting single of the Seventies. The psychedelic shamans also..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Wizard World: The Brothers of Destruction of 'The Walking Dead'

Reedus and Rooker talk hunting, fishing, and zombie killing

"...So Merle Dixon is back on AMC's The Walking Dead, and he's cozied up with The Governor, the..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Back From the Dead

Stephen Romano cheats the grim reaper to launch Eibon Press

"...By all rights Stephen Romano should be among the dead himself, albeit the non-ambulatory,..."

July 15, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Miracle Man

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

"...When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Medieval Times: Being Dead in an Era of Cruelty and Despair

The story of a real band and a fake band in two acts

"...of the bar. There, at a cocktail table, a man sits alone except for the two cans of Pabst..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Stan the Man

The legendary name behind Marvel Comics comes to town for Wizard World

"...reader could look at the character and instantly associate. Spider-Man fretted about his aging aunt's health. Daredevil was a..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window washer and a young German spitfire working in a bakery on Courtlandt Avenue near..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...and Mable Tumey, who, according to the Austin Daily Statesman, died seven days apart in 1888 of diphtheria:..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

A Gay-Bashing in the East Sixth 'Dead Zone'

A brawl outside Emo's raises questions about police protection east of Red River

"...cell phone. As they passed the group, Cell Phone Man leaned over and reached under the skirt of one..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

DVDanger: Thanatomorphose and Dead Weight

Two indie horrors tackle how the living contend with death

"...of visceral fascination rarely seen since The Fly or Dead Ringers, In fact, while Cronenberg's son Brandon has inherited..."

Jan. 25, 2014 Screens Post

SXSW: Two Dead, 23 Wounded on Red River Street

Police say drunken driver drove through festival barricade

"...critical; the rest have been classified as mild or "walking wounded," Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told a gaggle..."

March 13, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Dead Walk by Night

Marathon meeting turns City Council members into zombies

"...of imminent disasters – the vote was 5-2 (Bill Spelman and Laura Mor­rison dissenting) to move forward with the..."

July 6, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...for an opera, even one that deals, as so many operas do, with death. Were it a wooden scaffold,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arias From Death Row

In conjunction with its production of the opera Dead Man Walking, Austin Lyric Opera will present a seminar focusing on the unlikely journey of her story about providing spiritual counsel to a convicted murderer on death row to the operatic stage.

"...When San Francisco Opera General Director Lotfi Mansouri brought together composer Jake Heggie and playwright Terrence McNally..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'The Death Penalty Is About Us'

'Dead Man Walking' scribe Sister Helen Prejean speaks in town tonight

"...The year Sister Helen Prejean published her bestselling book Dead Man Walking – 1993 – was the same year..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Cradle Will Rock

"...of their work? This is a big question with many intriguing subtleties that seem to be vanishing in a..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Last Dance

"...storytelling of Last Dance, has generally been treating Stone's performance as one of the revelations of the decade. Review..."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Traces of Red

"...Goldwyn. Sunset Boulevard opened with a voiceover from a dead man, enraging some critics who just didn't feel comfortable..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Short Cuts

Dead Man Talking: A panel of local film academics & critics discuss the Tim Robbins' film in anticipation of the opera adaptation.

"...Dead Man Talking Dept.: Fans of Tim Robbins' brilliant sophomore..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Dead Man Walking

The extraordinary new opera Dead Man Walking takes its audience on a journey from a place of horror and abhorrence to one of comprehension and compassion, a place where we may see the humanity of a murderer, and in Austin Lyric Opera's potent production we feel each step taken on its long and stony way.

"...Dead Man Walking: Feeling Every Step of the Long, Stony..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

There Is No Evil

Iranian anthology walks the line between life and death

"...Jesus Christ) with the thematic aplomb of a thinking man’s Cecil B. DeMille spectacle. Over the top, both narratively..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Quite Insensitive

"...sensationalistic title seems quite insensitive to me ["Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave," Music, April 21]. Jimmy has..."

April 20, 2017 Postmarks

Deeply Disappointed

"...diagnosis for just a few more days ["Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave," Music, April 21]. But if..."

April 20, 2017 Postmarks

The Merry Gentleman

Michael Keaton directed and stars in this glum story about a suicidal hit man and the woman who may save him or prove to be his undoing.

"...quiet, but mildly stirring movie about a laconic hit man suffering from walking pneumonia of the lungs and soul..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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