Sound Unseen Review: Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

An intimate and emotional dance with the tap great

"...evening at the Sound Unseen Festival’s screening of Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back...."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Sara Hutchinson

Parker

Action star Jason Statham plays the latest screen version of Donald E. Westlake's master thief Parker.

"...haven’t loved one of Hackford’s movies since his Mikhail Baryshnikov/Gregory Hines Cold War dancing-buddy movie White Nights. Snicker all..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

No Dominion

A partial roll call of people who died in 2003.

"...Carter, Celia Cruz, Robert Palmer, Earl King, Johnny Paycheck, Gregory Hines, Al Hirschfeld, Donald O'Connor, Felice Bryant, Herbie Mann,..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Big and Getting Bigger

Austin comic Eddie Gossling has always gotten a lot of attention for his size, but these days he's getting more attention for his comedy, and J.C. Shakespeare explains why.

"...One of his first professional gigs was opening for Gregory Hines at the Carver Cultural Center in San Antonio,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...GOOD LUCK D: Richard LaBrie; with Gregory Hines, Vincent D'Onofrio, James Earl Jones, Max Gail...."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Articulations

RIP Troupe Texas

"...is a neighbor of the pup's owners. Tapestry Wins Hines It took them four years, but they got him,..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Column

2005 Soul to Sole Festival Concert

The continuum of tap from 1930s elegance to today's stomping rhythm pulsed in the concert concluding Tapestry Dance Company's 2005 Soul to Sole Festival

"...Stormy Weather. To thoughtful narration by the great dancer Gregory Hines, these lanky lightning tappers, who famously punctuated their..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Review by Ann Ciccolella

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...Ebsen, "Baby" Laurence, "Peg Leg" Bates, Sammy Davis Jr., Gregory Hines, "Sandman" Simms, Jimmy Slyde, Tommy Tune -- and..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...When a Chinese schoolteacher is absent for a month, his students are..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...MAURICE HINES: BRING THEM BACK D: John Carluccio (US, 93 min,..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...as its rhythmic backbone, now drawing parallels to both Gregory Hines and Spanish hand-percussion scholar Rosalía. Nakedly steel strings..."

April 30, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Paul Beutel Retires

Arts leader who ran Paramount, Long Center wraps 42-year career

"...Connick Jr., Phyllis Diller, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Gregory Hines, Ruta Lee, Patti LuPone, Hugh Masekela and Miriam..."

June 7, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Chronicle Recommends: Films from 1981

Experience cinema from the Chronicle's founding year

"...stunningly bleak cinematography matched by great performances by Finney, Gregory Hines, and Edward James Olmos make this an Eighties..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Acia Gray

Local rhythm tap legend to be honored with a major national award

"...they represent the top of the field: tap legends Gregory Hines, Ernest "Brownie" Brown, Jimmy Slyde, Mercedes Ellington, and..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Acia Gray: From Austin, an Ambassador of Tap to the World

The artistic director of Tapestry Dance Company has just been named president of the International Tap Association

"...festival with Charles "Honi" Coles as honorary chairman and Gregory Hines as honorary president. Gray has been deeply involved..."

July 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kicking and Screaming

So how does it hold up, the arch back-and-forth of these kids treading water in dead-end video-store gigs and oddly affecting affairs with underage girls?

"...slice of Cold War hokum, but the execution – Gregory Hines on tap, Mikhail Baryshnikov handling the balletics –..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Soul to Sole Festival

Hoofers from around the country are tapping their way to Austin for the sixth annual Soul to Sole Festival, featuring tap master Arthur Duncan as one of the 2006 Festival Legends

"...shows, and on film in the movie Tap, starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr. An opportunity to see..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

.com

You know the way Dilbert can sometimes get the whole office / cyber scene down perfectly? That's what Tapestry Dance Company does in their new show .com, and just as cleverly -- but with dance. And with some real depth and beauty worked in there, too. It was like the best of Dilbert, but with Dilbert as drawn by one of the Wyeths.

"...of almost dorky at times? Because we've already seen Gregory Hines get his groove on in the movies, and..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wolfen

Director Michael Wadleigh's only narrative effort is a terrific post-George Romero modernist horror film about ancient spirits, deadly animals, and the nightmare landscape of the modern urban city.

"...(1981); with Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan, Dick O'Neill...."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Review by Louis Black

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...Marshall; with Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Anka, Burt Reynolds, Billy Idol,..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...psychosexual head games that also goes nowhere (though Beals shines, even with a gag in her mouth). ItÕs RodriguezÕs..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Renaissance Man

"...Directed by: Penny Marshall. Starring: Danny Devito, Gregory Hines, James Remar and Cliff Robertson. Dead Poets Society..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Rage in Harlem

"...Directed by: Bill Duke. Starring: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover and Badja..."

May 3, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Wary Campus Community Readies for COVID at UT

Gone to Texas ... for now

"...feedback from our contact tracing team," said Dr. Terrance Hines, the executive director and chief medical officer of University..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Music: Mega Third List

L7, the Cult, Loretta Lynn and 556 more added to the Fest

"...Amasa Hines (Little Rock, AR.)..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

AFF Announces Lineup

Serious Moonlight, scripted by the late Adrienne Shelly, will open the fest

"...the directorial debut of Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines, who had a funny supporting role in Shelly's first..."

Sept. 28, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...Adam Pitluk, Jesus Chavez; Moderator: Barbara Hines..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley