The Cinema of Dual Citizens

In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.

"...Sometime in the late 1930s, the Hollywood dream factory started birthing the occasional nightmare. Suddenly, audiences could see..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

TCB

SXSW News

"...Man" and "Pure Imagination" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Finally, we stopped by the impressive Flatstock exhibition downstairs,..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Short Cuts

"...for the lease (the site now houses a Cheesecake Factory, which we think would make a great place for..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Some people should not talk to reporters: The Associated Press reports..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tracks of My Tears

A new documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, signs a light on the men behind the Motown sound, the Funk Brothers.

"...was the first major artist to desert Detroit's dream factory in 1964, never to achieve another substantial hit before..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

It's a Wrap

Austin Film Festival 2002 reviews

"...classical music becomes a political act, simply because black people were told they couldn't play these instruments. Elvis Costello's..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Sam Hurwitt

'Bad Boy Brawly Brown' Reviewed

Has Walter Mosley's seventh novel in the Easy Rawlins series lived up to its predecessors? Jesse Sublett lets you know in his review of Bad Boy Brawly Brown.

"...a Blue Dress. Back then, he was a black factory worker struggling to survive in the Watts section of..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Day Trips

"...a really big place and there are a bazillion people, places, and things that could fall in that category...."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Kevin McKinney

Texas Platters

"...guitars phatten and peal. The lazy glow of "T.V. Factory" recalls a Sixth Street rerun of McKinney/ Schneider/Pike from..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Stuart Bloody Stuart

Filmmaker Stuart Gordon hits the Alamo with his latest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation.

"...training. I was very lucky in that I had people around me that knew what they were doing. The..."

June 28, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

2002 Summer Camps

"...KINDERMUSIK ADVENTURES CAMP The people at Capital Music know that to turn your infant..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dancing About Architecture

Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.

"...packed crowd seemed to be made up entirely of people who think Danny Crooks totally rules. There were more..."

March 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postscripts

Photojournalist Shepard Sherbell's visual record of the end of the USSR and Gerald Duff's new novel set on the Gulf Coast

"...Shepard Sherbell Coming to BookPeople..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Naked City

Conflicts, corruption, charges of favoritism: When will that TDHCA ever get its act together?

"...build in an industrial zone, next to a paint factory. Last week, Encinas sued TDHCA and its board members...."

Aug. 17, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Hightower Lowdown

The media buys the Pentagon's lies, W can't keep his free-market ideology straight, and biotechnology brings us Frankenpigs.

"...stood alone against a proposal to help a billion people in impoverished lands get electrical power from clean, low-cost,..."

Aug. 17, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Sarah Bird Reviewed

"...since that would require her to talk to other people. She is preternaturally, painfully shy, and, like all good..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

After a Fashion

"After a Fashion" reviews the recent Summer Sweat & Schmoozarama presented by Star Costumes & Clothiers.

"...the name. Taking place in an old Eastside bread factory, it looked like the kind of show that the..."

June 15, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Mi Son

Rick Treviño returns to his roots.

"...or respect his culture, or the Tejanos and the people around him. I used to think, 'Why can't they..."

June 8, 2001 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Carmen: Hot! Hot! Hot!!

Austin Lyric Opera's latest staging of Bizet's Carmen is such a refreshing and vivid presentation -- and at the City Coliseum, no less -- that this tale of a gypsy love-sorceress and her jealous soldier-lover should smolder in audiences' imaginations well after this production's last embers have flickered out.

"...her voluptuous figure cavorting among hundreds of suitors, gypsies, factory girls, and hordes of children, her Carmen is coquettish,..."

May 25, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

In God's Country

Why U2 is the best band ever

"...never their thing. Instead, they prefer the company of people like Wim Wenders, Salman Rushdie, and Bill Clinton as..."

March 30, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Hightower Lowdown

Star Wars boondoggle, MBNA's bankruptcy fraud, and the CIA's cooked books

"...voted for the industry's bill -- and against the people -- this year. With our coin-operated congress, the rich..."

March 30, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters at 3AM

Our secret fantasies were made public by Elvis Presley.

"...lot of a joint that calls itself a burrito factory ... the sign in the window says "Closed" but..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Drums & Tuba Water Damage Re-issues, Vol. 1: Box Fetish (My Pal God)
Drums & Tuba Water Damage Re-issues, Vol. 2: The Flying Ballerina (My Pal God)

Texas Platters

"...new regular gig at the stalwart venue the Knitting Factory, and a new, eager, and productive record label in..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Heat

"...His methodology and notoriety were born in Andy Warhol's Factory, where the only people in suits and ties were..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Review by Bryan Poyser

Day Trips

The defunct Comal Power Plant in New Braunfels finds new life as a hotel.

"...largest power plant west of the Mississippi, the electric factory has been reduced to its steel girder skeleton and..."

June 2, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dancing About Architecture

Another live music venue closes. So much for the Live Music Capital of the World.

"...club was shutting its doors for the Guinness beer people who were opening an Irish bar in its place...."

May 26, 2000 Music Column

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...delivers refined tunes that waver between Automatic for the People-era R.E.M. and slightly tweaked Beatles-influenced pop. (Park Ave, 11pm)..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Spinning Yarns

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

"...People tend to have some misconceptions about trumpets, that they..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

TV Eye

David E. Kelley is one of the most gifted and savvy television writers of the late Nineties : So why is he degenerating into Aaron Spelling?

"...into a tirade about the products of the Kelley factory, particularly his packaging of women. But television critic Jane..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Playing Kissyface

Profile of eclecto-rockers Adult Rodeo

"...Group, aligning it idealistically and financially with the Knitting Factory label and making Kramer Shimmy-Disc's sole A&R man. For..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

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