Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...Convict Lake deserve issuance, but 1942's Rings on Her Fingers begs release. Minted by Laura's first director, Rouben Mamoulian,..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Just an Old-Fashioned Cat

Eartha Kitt is one funny dame

"...children who are making rugs with their tiny, tiny fingers because their fingers are so nimble and small that..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

The pirate genre will always be buoyed aloft on the swells of outrageous action, ridiculous couture, and the derringest of do – and this sequel is no different.

"...aim your prow into the onrushing wave, cross your fingers (or cutlasses), and hope you survive with your sense..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Better Git It in Your Soul

Why listen to jazz's greatest bassist Charles Mingus today? The Creative Opportunity Orchestra's monthlong Mingus Among Us series has answers.

"...Lionel Hampton, who recorded one of his pieces, "Mingus Fingers." He also recorded some of his compositions under his..."

June 16, 2006 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...contributed to the demise of that business.]Baby Has Six Fingers?Dear Editor,..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Column

Domino

Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.

"...a cigarette dangling between Domino’s full lips or slender fingers while absolutely no mention is ever made of the..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dance Fever

With Hot September Flurries, a corps of Austin choreographers burn up the Blue all month long

"...them on both hands. Or even using all your fingers and toes. To tally up the total number of..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

911, We've Got a Smoker

Austin's new smoking ordinance takes effect today

"..."I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed and pray."Section 10-6-10: Enforcement..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Kicking & Screaming

Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, and Mike Ditka all appear together in a film that sings the praises of kids soccer and caffeine addiction.

"...one of the oddest kids films since The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Ferrell plays Phil Weston, a milquetoast..."

May 13, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thursday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...stage presence is wholly compelling. – Greg Beets CROOKED FINGERS12mid, Parish From the Archers of Loaf rose Eric Bachmann's..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Crooked Fingers

"...Crooked Fingers..."

March 4, 2005 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...and walks a few steps to the piano. His fingers are unusually long and exceedingly tapered, with perfect oval..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...woman's red wool sweater; her clenched hands and crabbed fingers haven't the motor facility for so simple a task...."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Girlie Action

Girlie action

"...by Woodward) are augmented with the hilarious live cut, "Fingers." "I've got five fingers and one has your name,"..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Garden State

A mash note to love that speaks to Generation Y as powerfully as The Graduate did to the Boomers.

"...to be after watching the film, which rests two fingers on the erratic pulse of proto-adult trepidation regarding that..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

13 Going on 30

Magic wishing dust allows Jennifer Garner to completely skip over her teens and twenties.

"...of jaded partygoers. She eats fruit leather off her fingers with glee and keeps her business correspondence in Diva..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Tips for a successful crawfish boil

Suck the heads, etc.

"...which can then be easily extracted with teeth or fingers while slightly pinching the tail, allowing one to eat..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

"Prints from the Leo Steinberg Collection: Part II"

The Blanton Museum of Art's "Prints from the Leo Steinberg Collection: Part II" continues the display of works from the 3,200-work collection begun earlier in 2003, and while this batch may contain fewer masterpieces, it's no less captivating or transporting.

"...some fermented beverage delicately on the tips of his fingers...."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Confidence

"...Lily is a beaut, all cool cat and sticky fingers. But that coolness is undone minutes later with a..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hunted

"...to The Usual Suspects’ Fenster, or Snatch’s Franky Four Fingers), reaches deep inside himself and comes out sounding like..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Talk to Her

Gone, with one major exception, are the delicious hysterics of Almodóvar's earlier works; Talk to Her is a mostly restrained, though by no means unemotional, work about two men in love with comatose women.

"...elegant thing, and unlike most contemporary filmmakers, with their fingers always on the splicer, Almodóvar is unafraid to sit..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Song Loon

Second Place

"...I was born with a slight web on my fingers and toes. You had to look hard, but it..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Bonnie West

Gourmet Gadgetry

The Food staff offers some ideas on stocking stuffers for the kitchen enthusiast on your list.

"...blade always stays sharp but is safe for your fingers. Best of all, it goes right into the dishwasher..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...York's Chelsea district. He is pointing dramatically, with spindly fingers, both north and south from this corner; there is..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Snoop Dogg

Live Shot

"...With a blunt in his mouth and both middle fingers flying high, he told the crowd that although Stubb's..."

June 14, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Coletti

Knee-Jerk Reactions

APD Chief Knee announces plans to fix the city's police response time problems and reduce traffic fatalities. But will simply moving cops around work?

"...like the little Dutch boy, plugging holes with our fingers every time they appear. Eventually we're going to run..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Little Otik

Brazenly bizarre animated feature by Czech filmmaker Svankmajer.

"...Karel (Hartl), he has a mass of twigs for fingers and a dark and puckered puss. Some kids are..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crossroads

Britney's screen debut.

"...only to afford Britney a reason to stick her fingers in the sleeping man's front pants pocket to get..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

Would you like Raisinets and a tall skinny latte with your movie?

"...All of this will be ready for your sticky fingers and frazzled nerves by the time Wes Anderson's highly..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

All-American

Jimmie Vaughan at 50

"...his hands are clenched on the brick-red picnic table, fingers squeezed and knuckles white. They are broad hands, guitarist's..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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