Keeping Up With the Steins

This story about one-upmanship while staging a bar mitzvah in L.A., should, by all rights, be very funny, but, sadly, it is not.

"...Starring: Daryl Sabara, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz, Garry Marshall, Doris Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Cheryl Hines, Larry Miller and Richard..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rosenstrasse

Von Trotta puts a human face on 1943's Rosenstrasse uprising, one of the few public, and moreover, successful citizen protests against the power of the Nazi regime.

"...by: Margarethe von Trotta. Starring: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Martin Feifel and Svea Lohde. With..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice

Buy Nothing Day? Public Notice tells what it knows about this annual international event while encouraging you through the rest of the column to buy lots of things (or at least donate the stuff you no longer use) for the less fortunate.

"...of affairs.) Next Fri, Nov 26 is Buy Nothing Day. Buy nothing. Consume nothing. Pay for nothing. Think that..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Austin Hip-Hop Pioneer Tee Double Perseveres

Holding the vision through institutional racism, isolation, and a double transplant

"...Casanova (Ashton Irons) said performances took place "mostly at Doris Miller [Auditorium], at Givens Park, at the gyms, or..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...Thursday Picks..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Estate Sale Roundup: September 4-7

Vintage camera and Victoriana lovers, heads up!

"...and various USAF bases. The love of his life, Doris "Mac" Lee, also served during World War II, taking..."

Sept. 4, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Up South

Austin MC Bavu Blakes takes it to the streets.

"...I wreck until the day of reckoning,..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Music Feature by Chale Nafus

Summer Film Previews

Pearl Harbor: From Eternity to Here

"...the movie's historical source material (December 7, 1941: the "day of infamy," when the Japanese navy and air force..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Faster Than Sound: City Council Supports Music-Focused Arts Facility on East 11th Street

Harold McMillan breaks down civic steps to the envisioned Kenny Dorham Center

"...fall. Other properties mentioned in public discussions include the Doris Miller Auditorium and Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

How the American Genre Film Archive Is Saving Movies One Reel at a Time

Austin nonprofit preserves cinema’s underseen and underappreciated

"...was a food runner at the Alamo Village. One day, he went up to the projection booth and found..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...apiece, have been expanded to ten films each. While today’s press release doesn’t explicitly spell out the reasons for..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Civics 101

"...Thursday 13..."

June 14, 2013 News Column

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...Wednesday Picks BROWNOUT..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

What's That on Your Blog? Fred Schneider, Part 2

One part of the B-52's/Superions front man was not enough.

"...this one Texas stop on the B-52's tour, next Thursday, November 11. Here's Fred Schneider in Part 2 of..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Don't Let Me Fall

One ancient, cracked 45 opens the doors to the church of the Relatives

"...corners, I'm thinking a lot about fate on this Saturday afternoon in August...."

Oct. 1, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Harvey Pekar and Bob Swain

Remembering the man behind American Splendor and the local theatre director

"...known to friends as Bob, died July 7, one day shy of his 82nd birthday. The native of Detroit..."

July 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...to BYPU,' the Baptist young people's group, 6 o'clock Sundays. So we'd go into Ebenezer, then out the back..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'A Proprietary Love'

High-strung, hot-tempered Tom Miller made self-interest -- and his feuds with LBJ -- into Austin history.

"...perfumed beginnings as "Guy Town," Austin's original red-light zone, today's Warehouse District was suffused in later years by a..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Fame

Fame, a fictionalized but not entirely glamorized look at the High School for Performing Arts in New York, requires a complete suspension of belief, but once suspended, it's as easy to swallow as ice cream.

"...and never again realized her full potential. But with Saturday Night Fever, Xanadu, and Flashdance as evidence, it was..."

July 26, 2002 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Emily Sings

New Texas Music Works is kicking off the ninth annual New Texas Festival with the Emily Dickinson Song Symposium. A conference dedicated to art songs featuring texts by the master American poet.

"...This week, the venerable choral organization is hosting a three-day symposium in which there will be sung many strains..."

May 17, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Penelope Lively's Unfortunate Englishness

Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively visits her archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

"...Two weeks ago, Penelope Lively spent a day at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center going through..."

March 15, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Back Home in Texas

The return of the reigning Queen of Austin Country Music

"...course I have my favorites: Gruene Hall on a Saturday night when it's a sweltering 100 degrees -- inside...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Beat Box

SXSW: Tee-Double, Jungle Brothers, South Park Mexican, Botany Boyz, Big Daddy Kane

"...it was only getting started? That's where hip-hop is today. Dre, DMX, and D'Angelo cruise the upper echelons of..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...and fellow playwright Marla Macdonald (Street Noise, The Last Days of Paradise Park) take on a handful of scripts..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Every Picture Tells a Story

Lone Star Producer Maggie Renzi

"..."Born in the U.S.A.," "I'm on Fire," and "Glory Days." Even when the rewards are rich and obvious, Renzi..."

June 28, 1996 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Let's Start Off With a (Mag) Neato Story (Ville)

"...Signings seem to be in a rare abundance these days. For one thing, Miles Zuniga and company have finally..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Column

Lineups Revealed for Rancho Alegre, CMT Awards, Float Fest

Festivals log notable location changes, too

"...returns April 5-7 at a new location, East Austin's Doris Miller Auditorium. Free and open to all ages, doors..."

March 19, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

True to the Blues: Eastside Kings Festival Returns

"It's not three chords, it's the heart and soul of a nation!" – Birdlegg

"...This weekend, Willis makes his Austin debut, playing Friday at Antone's and Saturday outside on 12th and Chicon..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Now Streaming in Austin: "dawn."

Ya'Ke Smith focuses on how hard it is to leave prison

"...titular Dawn (Mikala Gibson, aka Fear the Walking Dead's Doris) is on her first day out of prison and..."

June 3, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Does This Relationship Have a Future?

If dogs aren’t welcome on the Starship, I’m not going either

"...years. (That interbreeding has continued so consistently, up to current-day wolf hybrids, that some scientists disagree with this taxonomy..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

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