Theatre Synesthesia's The Fault

In Katie Bender's play, an American family tries to save itself from being shaken apart

"...character to speak in Theatre Synesthesia's production of The Fault, addressing us directly, and the way that Chelsea Rhea..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Fault in Our Stars

The film does justice to the popular novel in this judicious teen tearjerker.

"...Elgort’s performance is more mannered than Woodley’s open-faced, direct line to the heart, but it works: His speeches sometimes..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Riding to the End of the Line

Can Cap Metro weather the recession, balance its books ... and run the buses and trains on time?

"...upstream. On the one hand, the agency's revenues have declined sharply over the past year and are expected to..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Integral Care Union Drive Nears the Finish Line

Helping the helpers

"...through an open records request show that initially Evans declined to meet at all with union organizers on the..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Report Shows Snipes at Fault for Sexist Session

Investigation finds Snipes tried to shift blame for training session

"...In its most damning line, the report notes that while Snipes apologized for the..."

June 3, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Geopolitical Fault Lines

Austin's latest attempt at single-member districts is getting a mixed response

"...hybrid, the hybrid is likely to win." Drawing the Line-Drawers..."

July 6, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

San Andreas

This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a guffaw

"...CGI scenes of everything west of the titular tectonic fault line either crumbling into dust, going up in fireballs,..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Week's Waste of Time

Video-game innovation, free of charge and on your browser

"...example. And now there is the time/space warping of Fault Line...."

July 29, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Past Life

Avi Nesher's film is a thoughtful examination of forgiveness

"...stunning in opposite roles – Rieger, anxiously straddling a fault line and flinching at every breeze; Tagar, snarling and..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Twelfth Night

"...and their delivery here inspires sighs on almost every line. The actors take their time with the text, waiting..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

A Neighborhood's Story

John Langmore turns his lens on East Austin and discovers a rich history and community

"...photographer John Langmore in the introduction to his series "Fault Line: A Portrait of East Austin." It was a..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

The film Babel is winning awards, but none of them for Best Comedy. It seems I'm fated to laugh alone.

"...The town was perched inconveniently and conspicuously upon a fault line, wedged between the desert and the sea, where..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

The Wonder Cave has the unique quality of being the only show cave in Texas created by an earthquake

"...earth formed 15 million years ago by the Balcones Fault. Visitors can stand on the dividing line with one..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Knocked Up

Although it’s extremely funny in bursts, Judd Apatow's new comedy flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act.

"...most of Apatow’s work, Knocked Up walks a perilous line between sarcasm and sentimentality, and though it’s extremely funny..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

God's Own Clothesline

In Search of Far Flung Adventures With Butch Hancock

"...pointed out that Cross Canyon sat directly on a fault line that ran across the river and along a..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

"...of The Simpsons, wherein daughter Lisa paraphrases the opening lines of “Howl” while bemoaning a botched Thanksgiving dinner). Aronson..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Perfectly Normal

"...Tate Brewery, Renzo Parachi (Riley) is just another assembly line worker: quiet, efficient, average. To his rinkmates on the..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...in favor of a simple girlfriend-of-a-gangster tale. Through no fault of Kapoor’s, Rupa’s arc is almost completely flat, removing..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

Casa de mi Padre

Will Ferrell commits 100% to this goofy, all-Spanish-language soap opera-cum-horse opera.

"...Ferrell, who delivers all his lines in reasonably pronounced Spanish, is Armando, the doofus son..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008

Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.

"...Sick & Twisted Festival all the more dismaying. The fault isn't due so much to the uneven programming –..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Hardcore

Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history.

"...thoroughfare Interstate 40, I was ideally positioned to lasso white-line-weary touring bands off the road and into a cavernous..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

Government Canyon State Natural Area helps protect the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone while giving visitors a beautiful new area to explore

"...for the former ranch land that straddles the Balcones Fault Zone. Three distinct ecological regions come together in the..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Pearl Harbor

"...“he had such a cute butt,” it's a cringe-worthy line to top any other. The horrors of warfare are..."

May 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elizabeth

Blanchett is indelible as Queen Elizabeth I, the 16th century monarch who took the British throne during divisive times.

"...debilitating Protestant-Catholic conflicts, and a bitter dispute over the line of royal succession had reduced the tiny island nation..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

It Could Happen to You

"...Perez, Wendell Pierce and Isaac Hayes. Generous to a fault. That's what the makers of this endearing comedy want..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Day Trips

Canyon Lake Gorge opens a wide crevice along the Balcones Fault, exposing layers of an ancient seabed

"...New Braunfels, opens a wide crevice along the Balcones Fault, exposing layers of an ancient seabed. Unlike most gorges,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Sex and the City

The new feature stands on its own (typically stilettoed) feet, while holding fast to the series’ singular mix of the giddily ribald and brutally confessional.

"...a steadfast friend. On sentimentality alone, one might be inclined to give the film a pass, but there’s no..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Valleyesque: Not Just Weird for Weird’s Sake

Inside the pages of the new anthology from Fernando A. Flores

"...in ink […] and those eyes widened like a fault line in the ocean ripping open. From the fault..."

June 8, 2022 Arts Post by Valeria Valdez

Shaken, Not Deterred

Despite the many upheavals in 2011, Austin's arts scene perseveres

"...the economy was (and is), it's not the only fault line at fault here. In many of the cases..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ending the Water War

What if enviros and the city partnered on water conservation?

"..."I've never seen them before," he answers. The Fault Line..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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