Joshua

The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.

"...filmmaker Ratliff, working from a script co-written with David Gilbert, mines a tonally similar vision of the nuclear family..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Guidance for Parentals Suggested

George Ratliff on Joshua

"...take credit for it, but it was all David Gilbert's idea. Gilbert and I have collaborated on a couple..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ain't Nothing but a Good Time: or, How a Lowly 'Chronicle' Writer Learned to Play With the Big Boys

"...Neither title fight made it past the third round. Gilbert "Boogie" Vera and Randy Gatica both easily dispatched their..."

June 20, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Texas Title Fight

"...belts will be on the line as Austin’s own Gilbert “Boogie” Vera (6-0-1; 3 KOs) will take on Gilbert..."

June 14, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

A By-No-Means-Comprehensive List of Austinite Comics Writers and Artists

Some of the most illustrious comics creators to have made their home in Austin sometime between 1960 and 2006

"...Gilbert Shelton – comic strips/series Wonder Wart-Hog (The Texas Ranger,..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature

Sloth; I Love Led Zeppelin; Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution; TV's Grooviest Variety Shows of the '60s and '70s

"...by Gilbert Hernandez..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...villain (or a mad, bloated patrician from some rodent Gilbert and Sullivan operetta), keeping a smoking jacket and a..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Day Trips

The Turkey Shop Smokin' Cafe in Abbott is back and cookin'

"...UsaLee and Gilbert Tufts were looking to decrease the number of toms..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...His friends and fellow dissenters included Freak Brothers artist Gilbert Shelton, Avalon Ballroom founder Chet Helms, singer Janis Joplin,..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Stanley GilbertFates Worse Than Death?Dear Editor,..."

July 14, 2006 Column

Airline Discrimination?

Burundian author and runner Gilbert Tuhabonye has check-in trouble at Denver airport

"...When Burundian author and runner Gilbert Tuhabonye showed up at the Denver airport an hour..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Page Two: Loss Upon Loss

Legendary cartoonist, historian, and Texan Jack Jackson passes on

"...Off Press with fellow artistic Texan West Coast refugees Gilbert Shelton (Wonder Wart-Hog, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers), Fred..."

June 16, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Election Donors

"...Firm, LLP$315,150 John L. & Barbara NauHoustonSilver Eagle Distributors$295,378 Gilbert T. AdamsBeaumontGilbert Adams Law Firm$276,390 James/Shirley DannenbaumHoustonDannenbaum Engineering$275,697 Edith..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature

In Person

¡A Viva Voz! featuring Jaime Hernandez, co-creator of 'Love and Rockets'

"...25-year-old Love and Rockets series he created with brother Gilbert (as Los Bros Hernandez), credited with helping ignite the..."

April 21, 2006 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Endorsements

Democratic and Republican Primaries, March 7

"...working for Halliburton in Iraq), nor Tyler-area rancher Hank Gilbert are likely to give Staples much of a race,..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature

Culture Flash!

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society finds a new artistic director in an old friend, Robyn O'Neil is the People's Choice for the Arthouse Texas Prize, and Laguna Gloria is the spot to start that yuletide spending spree

"...The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin has a new artistic..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Côte D'Azur

The French still like to get their sex on, a fact confirmed again and again in this breezy, featherweight sex farce.

"...by: Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. Starring: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffé, Edouard Collin, Romain Torres,..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Aristocrats

The gleefully profane The Aristocrats provides a survey of some of the best comic minds in the business.

"...fateful Friars Club Roast held shortly after 9/11 where Gilbert Gottfried resorted to the joke as a last-ditch attempt..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Appointment With Death

Even without Hercule Poirot, the Different Stages production of Agatha Christie's 'Appointment With Death' provides a satisfying mystery

"...black, the matriarch Mrs. Boynton (played aggressively by Paula Gilbert) has an eerie, hypnotic hold on her grown stepchildren:..."

July 8, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2005

The Austin Critics Table has named six inductees for the 2005 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...Texas at Austin, Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin) The new Hall of..."

April 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Reviews

"...D: Melody Gilbert..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Film News

The stars are out already – just look around; plus Guadalupe Arts Center groups regroup and more industry news you won't find anywhere else

"...the mockumentary Oil Storm in San Antonio... Producer Bruce Gilbert (Jack the Bear, On Golden Pond, 9 to 5)..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"...pre-Ali fight robe and trunks labeled "Cassius Clay"; vintage Gilbert Shelton posters for Austin's Vulcan Gas Company; a Robert..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Out of the Shadow

Which new scary-programming cable channel will longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?

"...of additional characters he created – the Igor-ish Dan-Dan (Gilbert Austin) and sultry vixen Usher (Kim Shafer) – Professor..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Triumph of the Yellow Kid

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

"...underground comix, with artists such as R. Crumb and Gilbert Shelton and Jaxon tapping the rebellious, experimental attitudes of..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Misses Overbeck

Different Stages' production of The Misses Overbeck generates an affectionate quality that personalizes the particular objects surrounding all of us

"...and the historical puzzle with strength and confidence. Paula Gilbert, as the masterful craftswoman Elizabeth Overbeck, is lively and..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

L'Orontea

The Texas Early Music Project's concert rendering of this Baroque gem L'Orontea left no doubt as to the opera's musical pleasures

"...1656 opera, L'Orontea, has so much in common with Gilbert and Sullivan – stock characters, class-crossing forbidden romances, disguises,..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Gilbert O'Sullivan

"...Gilbert O'SullivanCaricature: The Box (Rhino Handmade) If Gilbert O'Sullivan's limp,..."

May 7, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Food-o-File

Think things are slowing down after SXSW? Not when it comes to the food business in Austin.

"...N., 266-9445) has recently changed ownership. New owner Brian Gilbert worked with Brinker International's Chili's concept and Central Market..."

March 26, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

The Texas death train rolls again, using chemicals deemed too cruel for dogs

"...executed last Wednesday for the 1987 murder of Leslie Gilbert Hooks during a drunken knife fight in a Beaumont..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

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