Luv Doc Recommends: Erotica 2008

Gallery Lombardi, Saturday, August 2, 2008

"...Internet these days, really, why even bother with an erotica art show? Perhaps you have a beef with representationalism?..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Recommended Erotica

Chronicle writer Roger Gathman queries local booksellers and various writers on erotica they recommend.

"...From Below. It is an all-around, jam-packed piece of erotica with mystery, a little S&M, and multi-layered in every..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature

Viva Erotica

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...Clinton case, made me curious about the relationship of erotica to the mainstream. Especially since, in the USA 2000,..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy

What a bizarre, beautiful, and tonally askew sex-and-sadism romp this Hong Kong freak show is.

"...update are based on the ancient Chinese book of erotica The Carnal Prayer Mat, and both films have a..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'X: The Erotic Treasury'

Celebrate V-Day with Susie Bright's erotica anthology

"...is sure to leave even the most virginal of erotica readers wet… and not just behind the ears. Responsible..."

Jan. 28, 2009 Books Post by Kate X Messer

Erotique

"...the idea of making a compilation film of “intelligent erotica.” I suspect that's a classy way of saying “a..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kalifornia

"...who just can't seem to sell her portfolio of erotica to any gallery. In desperate need of inspiration for..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Erotica 2005

If some of the works included in Gallery Lombardi's 'Erotica 2005' dip into the realm of juvenile bad taste, they also reveal that sex is of compelling interest to humans

"...Erotica 2005..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Review

Notes from a Kitchen?

You don't have to be Prince to call it foodsexy.

"...Let's agree that there's porn and there's erotica. There's porn and there's erotica and they're two separate..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Shelved Not by Color, but by the Character of Their Content

Director C. Mikki on 'Black and White'

"...of marketing fiction that fell outside the categories of erotica, Christian fiction, or urban fiction, in which stories taking..."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Amy Gentry

After a Fashion

Style X happened, and the throng is still wearing T-shirts and sneakers

"...you all the info about the fabulous annual Art Erotica event that the Octopus Club is putting on to..."

March 25, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasies

While Polly Frost certainly borders on science fiction as much as the supernatural, she keeps slash out, paranormal in, and takes the one-handed read to another level altogether

"...Most erotica falls into a few tired genres: the flowery, full..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Madonna Remains a Prickly Pop Disruptor at Moody Center

First of two nights drives home Madge’s four-decade ubiquity

"...while blue lasers created three boxing rings for an “Erotica” medley. During the 1995 trance track “Bedtime Story” (notably..."

April 15, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Dog Toys and Puppy Sports Lead Our Recommended Community Events

Bucking broncos, drag vampires, and more highlights

"...accompanied by an adult.   – Wayne Alan Brenner Erotica: a Madonna Drag Tribute..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Sanctuary

Deliciously perverse battle of the sexes plays with lust and power

"...streaming platform Cinemax aka Skinemax, the entryway to feature-length erotica for a generation. And there's a whiff of Skinemax's..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

80 for Brady

Four legends of cinema take a road trip to Super Bowl LI

"...And then there’s Trish (Fonda), a former local model-turned-Gronkowski erotica author. Brady is retiring (the first time) and Lou..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...whose work didn't blur the line between terror and erotica, but wiped it away...."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Adult Store and Sex Shop Roundup

Get naughty locally

"...plus a kinkily curated selection of video and print erotica. The staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and always happy to..."

Feb. 3, 2018 Events Post by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

Sundays are the new Saturdays

"...Art Erotica Fundraiser at Tapelenders Meet and mingle with those sexay..."

April 8, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Where Sexy Meets Political

Forbidden Film Festival puts the liberty into libertine

"...a film that's as much about environmental crime as erotica. Legendary sex activist, theorist and Texas Burlesque Festival 2011..."

May 7, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: October 22

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Madonna’s Erotica is all grown up now, sniff sniff …..."

Oct. 22, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

2010 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

OOB dishes up a feast of funny after a summer starved for laughs

"...Hitchcock (Hitchcocked!), in the Twilight series (Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica), featuring James Bond (Topping Haggerty Experience's Today Is Not..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Improv

Three of Austin's top improv troupes get to play away this summer

"...among other formats. Next week, it's Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica, which gleefully riffs off the Twilight series and all..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Filth and Wisdom

Madonna's film-directing debut, which stars Gogol Bordello charismatic frontman Eugene Hutz, is a slight and philosophically dubious effort.

"...as Madonna’s apologia for her provocative book of photo erotica, Sex, and her subsequent turn to the mysticism of..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shadowboxer

Not reviewed at press time. Stars Çuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren as passionate yet unlikely lovers, as well as assassins and stepmother and stepson. And if that's not enough drama, one of them also has a fatal disease.

"...up for in shock value. Stylized violence and deviant erotica come in heavy doses, but it’s all soaked in..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Clerks II

Kevin Smith is on solid footing with this sequel, which finds the filmmaker and his raunchy protagonists at the precipice of maturity but moving ahead with cautious baby steps.

"...that Clerks II, which contains vivid scenes of "interspecies erotica" among other affronts, earned Smith his only uncontested R..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

9 Songs

Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.

"...all fashionably rumpled in lime-washed boho London flats, reading erotica out loud, and doing lines. Maybe once or twice..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

After a Fashion

Stephen weighs in on city planning issues ... at least ones regarding how certain things look. Other than that, he drops a lot of names and tells you where to go. For Valentine's Day, silly.

"...bizarre event of the year comes around: the Art Erotica auction and dance party benefiting the Austin AIDS Emergency..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Starsky & Hutch

Seventies TV shows live on through Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Snoop Dog.

"...away the image in his mental store of jailhouse erotica, is sublime in the depths of depraved silliness it..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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