The Martin & Lewis Collection: Volume One

"We don't need writers"

"...Lewis Milestone's 1930 Academy Award-winning masterpiece is an unflinching portrait of the futility of war and the price of..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

All Eyes on First Night

Fireworks rule, parades with kids and bikes rule, giant art rules ...

"...First Night Austin, a celebration of art on the final day of the year that also celebrates our desire..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

The Rise of the Invisible Man

Can longshot Democrat Chris Bell ring up a miracle?

"...a hard news story out of a routine day-in-the-life portrait of a candidate. Jeffers got off the phone and..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Arts Archives: UT makes play for Shepard, snaps up Newman, wins Woody

That treasure trove of cultural archives at UT has recently been expanded to include photographic portrait maker, playwright and actor Sam Shepard, and filmmaker Woody Allen

"...been expanded to include a master of the photographic portrait, a maverick playwright and author who doubles as a..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rembrandt's Etchings

With the exhibition 'Rembrandt's Etchings,' the Blanton Museum of Art has created a rare and intimate opportunity for you to see, study, and absorb the impact of Rembrandt's mastery for yourself

"...variable moods, manifestations, and dress – as works like Self-Portrait Wearing a Soft Cap (c. 1634) illustrate. To this..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Active Disappearance

The agenda is quiet in Okay Mountain's summer group show 'Active Disappearance,' with four photographers focusing their lenses on differing subjects but all recording change

"...blips of white receding in an even pattern. The final image consists of a group of silicon wafers lying..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

The True Originals

In her solo show 'True Originals,' painter Daphane Park has created a series of mutant portraits that are 1/3 female creature, 1/3 creepy textures, 1/3 dreamy background

"...painting, and jars of clear coat on paper. The final product is one-third female creature, one-third creepy textures, one-third..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

TV Eye

A Look Back

"..."Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase" (D: Joan Gratz, 1992); "Portrait of a Woman With Tomatoes" (D: Julie Zammarchi, 1987);..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

'In the West': Living Portraits Avedon Would Die For

The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985

"...come into being. It was that exhibit, the monochrome portraits of Westerners heralded everywhere from Texas Monthly to Rolling..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Glass Eye

Record review

"...decade-long run as Austin's foremost avant-pop enterprise. Although a final LP was planned, it took 13 years for Every..."

April 7, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

SXSW Film

Interviews and reviews

"...result is Summercamp!: a respectful, contemplative, and often blithe portrait of kids being kids. The film shows an intense..."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye

In with old, in with the new

"...with 12 episodes, another annoying break, and then the final eight episodes in 2007. When we return to our..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How the legacy of Townes Van Zandt more than met its match in 'some dumb New York girl'

"...the story – "not just a true and moving portrait of an artist – [the film is] a work..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Point Austin: The Lege v. Austin

The Austin-bashing bills are not just about water – also property, power, and democracy

"...It's hard not to take personally the portrait of Our Fair City that is perennially on display..."

May 27, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Who's Taking Who?

The inside game of the 'property rights' legislation reveals the usual suspects

"...have spent the past weeks, days, and now, the final hours, prevailing on senators to do the right thing...."

May 13, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Circus Maximus

The UT Wind Ensemble's premiere of John Corigliano's Circus Maximus' was more than a concert; it was an event

"...or pulling against the next. It was a symphonic portrait of a world of extremes, of fragments competing for..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Benda Mask

Untold secrets of Jean Arthur

"...video/DVD market. (That's you, Austin.) Columbia, the studio that finally broke Arthur in the mid-Thirties, loaned her out to..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Photography's Turning Point: The Journal 'Camera Work'

Local Arts Reviews

"...in the photographs of Paul Strand from the journal's final issue. Using a hidden camera, Strand took candid photographs..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Naked City

Breaking stories from Austin and beyond

"...Ms. King," Dallas attorney Steven DeWolf wrote in his final report on the King investigation. DeWolf was hired after..."

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"...things he'd ever written, was "meant to be a portrait of New York City as an emerging skyscraper city,"..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Telling His Own Story Fearlessly

With his theatrical memoir "I'm Not Lying," Jaston Williams proves there is more to the man than Tuna.

"...in the hospital with his elderly mother during the final hours of her life. There is the father just..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...meeting to meeting, all for legitimate reasons. Everyone expected final votes to take place in February. All members were..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column

Written on the Wind

Pure camp, with a capital C.

"...even more scandal to be had, ending with that final delicious shot: Marylee, now the queen of Hadley Oil,..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

True West

Boys will be boys -- especially if they're brothers and they're written by Sam Shepard. And this offering of True West from 4th &1 does a damned fine job of showing us what that means.

"...brings this out with skillful nonchalance, acting up a portrait of learned mildness. Lee's the violent one, the predator..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cine Las Americas Schedule

"...myth and reality come together to create a new portrait of Mexican revolutionary, Emiliano Zapata. (ADD, 7pm)..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...another essay, "This Is Palestine Calling," Hamzeh paints a portrait of mass genocide in the territories: "This is just..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...Set in California's Camp Pendleton during the final year of the Vietnam war, Linh Bui's film examines..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

ROYGBIV 2001

In ROYGBIV 2001: A Human Odyssey, ONE Theatre Company sets out to chronicle the universal passages of human existence through an Everyman figure that they follow from birth to death. But the show itself seems to be in the midst of adolescence: Full of big dreams, idealistic, and ready to take on the world, but still a little awkward in its own body.

"...political corruption, the feebleness of old age, and the final exit with an expression of bafflement that never fades...."

May 18, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Se7en

David Fincher's stunning directorial debut about a psychopath who uses the seven deadly sins as a model for his grotesque murders

"...on closer inspection, deadly sins. Fincher paints a captivating portrait of the dark side of man, with shots that..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

The People vs. Mike Sheffield

The new APD oversight agreement is a first for Austin -- but will it do what it's supposed to do?

"...Radicals might balk at the portrait, but Sheffield is a convincing enough Officer Friendly to..."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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