Fathers' Day

"...Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski and Charlie Hofheimer. Fathers' Day is a mildly diverting summer family comedy. In..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Father’s Day Gift Guide

Hop on this crop of opps for top Pops shops

"...Want to treat your favorite paterfamilias to a Father’s Day gift that he’s sure to actually appreciate? Maybe something..."

June 9, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Father’s Day Dining Recos

Celebrate fathers worth celebrating, with some of the best noms around

"...You may have heard of this “Father’s Day” thing? It’s been having an annual moment since 1910,..."

June 10, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

James Beard Awards for Local Chefs, the Return of Bufalina, Father's Day Dining, and You Won’t Believe the Food Trucks We’ve Recommended

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...after our first visit to Bufalina back in the day, any time we looked at another pie in this..."

June 15, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sons of Fathers: Spencer Tweedy

Wilco scion Blisters

"...“We cooked paninis, drank Coke, and just laughed all day. We had so much fun in the studio. Recording..."

Aug. 21, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Seven Gift Ideas for Father’s Day

If you have a foodie father, these gifts are a perfect fête

"...Buenos Aires Cafe offers a Father's Day Grill Box that's sure to have Dad roleplaying as..."

June 17, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...of the photo (which was shot on the fifth day of the battle that ground on for another month)..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Son of the Fathers of Texas

Steve Mendell's life, work, and music filled in the gaps

"...These notes come with more and more frequency these days, each a bittersweet reminder of the transience of life...."

Sept. 24, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Mothers & Fathers

Bill Cosby rang up Mother's Day at Bass Concert Hall with a real cell phone call to an audience member's offspring among two PAC-shaking hours of familial riffing via the vantage point of parent- and grandparenthood

"...at the Paramount Theatre, Bill Cosby rang up Mother's Day at the Bass Concert Hall with the real thing...."

May 13, 2005 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Father's Day Roundup of Lagers That Dads Like

Beermongers weigh in on what wets their most dadly whistles

"...of, Reader, know that at the end of the day, he's also hoping to get shitfaced on the recliner,..."

June 18, 2021 Food Feature by Eric Puga

ACL Interview: Sons of Fathers

Friday, Oct. 11, 12:20pm, Austin Ventures stage

"...the South by Southwest marathon, promoting sophomore effort Burning Days – released on their own Blanco River Music –..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Day Trips & Beyond: Ice Fishing, Door County, Wis.

A trip to Sturgeon Bay

"...Early and late in the day, anglers try their luck through the ice for walleye,..."

Feb. 15, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Loving Day

Mat Johnson's novel Loving Day is all there in black and white

"...last novel Mat Johnson wrote before he wrote Loving Day was called Pym. Because we greatly enjoyed Pym's unique..."

June 19, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips

"...children under 12 and school groups. The doors open Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:30am-4:30pm, and Sunday, 1:30-4pm. For..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Rodeo Heritage Museum in Dublin, Texas, tells the story of the beginnings of the modern rodeo

"...1930s that the modern rodeo arrived. During the early days of professional rodeo, the biggest rodeo company in America..."

March 23, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Trailer Park: SXSW Film Day 9

Three picks (and clips) from today's screenings

"...Dream: The Michael Morton Story Documentary Spotlight, World Premiere Saturday, March 16, 4pm, Topfer..."

March 16, 2013 SXSW Post by Monica Riese

Commandments

"...own King Midas, executive producer Ivan Reitman (director of Fathers' Day and Dave, producer of National Lampoon's Animal House..."

May 16, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Prodigy & the Prodigal

Sons of the Fathers Beck & Cauthen ally beyond neo-Americana

"...Well I'm working every day to make something of myself..."

March 29, 2013 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Based on British poet Blake Morrison’s written memoir, this film is a very particular yet universal story about the eternal knot between fathers and sons.

"...be at his sickbed. Told through a mixture of present-day passages and childhood flashbacks, the film reveals the background..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paula Poundstone

The comedian talks about the importance of reading in her life

"...the books to the different smaller branches, and one day my kids and I were in the branch that..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lit-urday: Something Eggers the Imagination

And someone's got to answer for all this … dysfunction.

"...long week, and now you deserve to have one day when you can curl up with a good book..."

Aug. 9, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Your Sister's Sister

Director Lynn Shelton and her spry and compelling ensemble of three explore a curious tangle of sexual secrets and honesty.

"...Writer/director Lynn Shelton follows up her indie breakthrough film, Humpday – an intimate, lo-fi, comic study of male sexual..."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Evelyn

"...of a father's fight for his children is a modern-day male “weepie.” Desmond, despite a weakness for ale and..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Revolutionary Score

The Founding Fathers' first declaration: 'We're an American band!'

"...Keith Womer wants to break to you this Independence Day. The artistic director of La Follia Austin Baroque, which..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Live Action

Judge for yourself among the five films contending for this year's Oscar for live-action short. The five international shorts nominated for Best Live Action Short Film include Patrik Eklund’s “Instead of Abracadabra," Luke Doolan's “Miracle Fish," Juanita Wilson's “The Door,” Gregg Helvey's “Kavi," and Joachim Back’s award-winning “The New Tenants.”

"...attending school but must instead clear bricks night and day to pay off his father’s indentured servitude. Director Joachim..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters From Iwo Jima

In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.

"...Iwo Jima instead looks at the story of the 36-day World War II battle for the island of Iwo..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High Lonesome

"...bluegrass from its European and African antecedents to such latter-day proponents as fiddle prodigy Alison Krauss. It creates an..."

March 25, 1994 Movie Review by Rob Patterson

Hail Satan?

The Satanic Temple’s idiosyncratic quest to remind America about freedom of religion

"...God, leave it to the Satanists to save the day...."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in this secular imagining

"...that takes place toward the end of Jesus’ 40 days in the desert is, for the most part, a..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Headhunters Closes

Headhunters shuts down, Psych Fests both successful and contentious, and Wayne 'The Train' Hancock recuperates while Sons of Fathers call it a day

"...recent years, like the semi-nude go-go dancing of Ta-Ta Tuesdays and a roster of solid regulars like Izzy Cox..."

May 9, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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