Vortex

French cinema’s enfant terrible faces the horrors of growing old

"...Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz, Kylian Dheret, Corinne Bruand and Eric Fourneuf...."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Deborah Hay's New Work for Dancers in Sweden Was a Long-Distance Creation

The pandemic forced the Austin choreographer to adapt her dance and even premiere for an audience of no one

"...Plenty of time to flatten the curve...."

Sept. 10, 2021 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music

Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert

"...Gamba Sonata in D major, which paired Womer with Eric Smith on viola de gamba, the music took an..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Counter 3. Five. VII

Congress Avenue's new math

"...back with glee, perhaps saying that "this Counter falls flat," or "3 Five VII adds up." (The restaurant itself..."

May 8, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Short and Sweet From SXSW

The full list of short docs, dramas and animation playing this year

"...wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One Man's SXSW ... Times 4

Our intrepid correspondent wanders through all four Festivals – and lives to write about it

"...Firstly, that the major media corporations have been caught flat-footed by the digital era and are still playing catch-up...."

March 29, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: September 20

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Although I never trust the “facts” from the flat-earthers at Fox, they certainly know how to be sensational...."

Sept. 20, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...2008, were assembled by the following writers: the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Clare Croft (dance), Randy Harriman (music),..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin: Save the last dance for me

Four of the company's most gifted dancers are taking their leaves after this season's finale

"...Eric Midgley joined Ballet Austin in 2001, dancing Romeo to..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Media Watch: Gunga Jenny Meets the November Sweeps

November sweeps news, rumors, and other stuff

"...the horrors of a world without granite countertops and flat-screen TVs...."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

The Constant Wife

Different Stages has put together a production of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, which makes for an elegant, enjoyable, urbane evening of theatre

"...relentless exchange of bons mots can, at times, ring flat, the cynicism a shade brutal...."

July 6, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...Dharma and his wife, Sandy, on 1982 solo album Flat Out (reissued at www.woundedbird.com), impersonates Spectres only now that..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...based on federal privacy laws). Your pal would laugh hysterically because that would be the end of their company...."

April 21, 2006 Column

The Big Three Bike Projects – Still Spinning Their Wheels?

Austin still struggles with bicycle mobility

"...bicycle commuters in Austin, a puny 1%, has remained flat since 1990...."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Rethinking the Three R's

Reagan High's digital-media lab opens doors for young students into filmmaking.

"...of Reagan High -- it's a Saturday morning -- Eric Corona adjusts his backpack and prepares for another take...."

May 2, 2003 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

After a Fashion

You'd think we'd be all star-f***ed out after SXSW, but here it is, Oscar-time and we are just beside ourselves with the bold type and the dropped names! What? No silly. We said "fawned."

"...Styler, fashion-victim wife of Sting, sported messy hair and unflattering make-up that belied her beautiful Jean Paul Gaultier dress...."

March 29, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Harken back to the days of yore … on the dancefloor, as "After a Fashion" trips the disco ball fantastic in this boogie down Memory Lane.

"...the Popular Front; Russian miners in the Thirties; and American volunteers during the Second World War. I want to..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...by the rootsy wisdom of journeyman songwriter-shaman Walter Salas-Humara. Eric Johnson's Alien Love Child then crank it up a..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Sugarland Express

Laying down the law on Mayberry's favorite twang-rockers

"...as the Rounders, playing self-described twang-rock. Barfield and guitarist Eric Danheim cut a swath through the Austin/Houston club circuit..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...time England's Springfield teamed with the legendary trio of American producers Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin in..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

Ani Difranco

"...the homeless have been criminalized, and the erosion of America's industrial base coupled with a shift to a more..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Review

From Script to Screen

"...D: Eric Bross; Scr: Tom C. Cudworth; Prod: H. M. Coakley,..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"...War II provided another boost for the industry, as American jukeboxes figured prominently in the dance halls of homesick..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

SXSW Record Reviews

"...harmony, her voice nasal and steady, his just as flat and smooth: "Way down in bowling green, prettiest girls..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

SXSW Record Reviews

"...Grifters Prayer" or the album's centerpiece, "The World Ain't Flat," and imbued with a middle-aged sense of nostalgia ("Young..."

March 13, 1998 Music Review

Mapping Out a Solution

Austin's Homeless Task Force

"...tornado around the siting of the campus. Former Councilmember Eric Mitchell tried to ban any attempt to place the..."

July 4, 1997 News Feature

Activism on Wheels

The Helmet Law Spawns a Movement

"...operate. According to a 1992 study cited in the American-Statesman, 273,000 Austinites own bikes; 86,000 ride them at least..."

May 23, 1997 News Feature by Lee Simmons

Politics Top 10

Top Ten Political Stories

"...well. David Travis, a local who worked at the American Atheist General Headquarters shortly before the disappearance and discovered..."

Jan. 10, 1997 News Feature

The Budget Is Hell

Mitchell Loses Big While Griffith Saves the Day

"...the Electric Utility Department, Bruce Todd got $2.7 million. Eric Mitchell got sick on the dais...."

Sept. 20, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Rock and a Hard Place

Balancing the Austin Music Ledger

"...former club manager Wayne Nagel, "people expected somebody like Eric Johnson or The Cobras to play all night, and..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Music Feature

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