Lake City

A heavy-handed melodrama that features a young, brooding antihero and Sissy Spacek as his emotionally paralyzed mom.

"...Maggie to sit for hours staring blankly at the horizon, but I wouldn’t underestimate the damage having a cliché..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Everyone's favorite stoner pals are back; this time running from the law after being mistaken for terrorists.

"...list for the next one to appear on the horizon. Just ask the producers of American Pie or There’s..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Poetry Roundup

Coffee House Press celebrates National Poetry Month with six new titles.

"...read of silos and sod and, repeatedly, of the horizon, made both romantic and apocalyptic. From "Sunsets Off": "The..."

May 2, 2008 Books Feature by Yvonne Georgina Puig

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, is an engagingly sordid meditation on protofeminism.

"...and never quite returned (Hulk was nearly an event horizon for the actor), imbues Henry with enough conflicted emotions..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Book of Lenny

Jonathan Marshall's artwork and video illustrate a mythic journey that's *cough* Star Wars *cough* strangely familiar

"...pedal his boat off into the unknown of the horizon...."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

Bob Dylan

Sunday, Sept. 16, Zilker park

"...("Thunder on the Mountain") and speakeasy ballads ("Beyond the Horizon") as interpreted by proficient but unadventurous session men. Gone..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Music Review by Shawn Badgley

Degrees of Design

The game-design programs at ACC and DeVry face off

"...Austin's gaming industry was once a horizon rich with game-developing studios and studios only, but that..."

June 15, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Page Two: Let's Get Lost

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest

"...Crawling into her bed, I watched Frank Capra's Lost Horizon. I didn't know it then, but everything changed...."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

'Gyre': A swirling vortex of plastic ... and creativity

Ariel Dance Theatre revisits Gyre, its investigation of things we don't want to look at, and pulls into its spinning mass bunches of new artistic collaborators

"...see it? A vast, deep ocean that stretches from horizon to horizon? Now see it rotating within itself in..."

March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Christopher Schade: Islands

When a painting can make you seasick – as the ones in Christopher Schade's Islands series can – you have a work that's worth a look and a look again

"...ground in Shifting Island (2003) to the multiple, curved horizon lines and patterned planes of Colossus Island...."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

Heading South

North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.

"...the screen although others open up only once the horizon line moves past the screen's edge...."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Y' Can't We Be Friends?

The Fix290 Coalition provides a test case for highway and community compatibility

"...most major road projects comes in the 25-year planning horizon, currently codified for Central Texas in the CAMPO 2030..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Challenger Park

"...defined continental edges. All of this coasted toward a horizon constantly renewing itself with prismatic light, and beyond the..."

March 31, 2006 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Getting on the KUTting Edge

Austin NPR affiliate's lofty goals aim well beyond the status quo

"...the Austin Rowing Club, feet apart, gazing toward the horizon, looking visionary.Giant Steps..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Friends of Dean Martinez

Record review

"...Lost Horizon (Aero)..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'

The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it

"..."I Wanna Be Sedated." Black-and-white Holstein cows dot the horizon. It's 5:10pm as we enter the city limits and..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...a "Border Watch Town Hall" meeting Aug. 6 in Horizon City outside of El Paso to recruit for their..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Vampire Vouchers Rise Again!

'Virtual' or 'Pilot' – Lege begins the biennial campaign to siphon money from public schools

"...years ago pledged $50 million to the privately funded Horizon Voucher Program for children who live in the low-income..."

March 25, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Michael M. SimpsonVentura, Broaden Your HorizonDear Editor,..."

March 11, 2005 Column

Young Adam

A finely observed moral drama from Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, one of the rare directors who is equally adept at composition and working with his actors.

"...loins, and Joe always has his eyes on the horizon. Midway through, the story throws a curveball, a true..."

May 14, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Gerry

"...five minutes they drive wordlessly and stare into the horizon. The sky and clouds threaten to lapse into a..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Denying Marisol

Third Place

"...The terrain skated smoothly to the farthest outpost of horizon, occasionally snagging on Yucca, or Ebono on its way...."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Nancy Moser

Resident Evil

Wild, senseless, sexy adaptation of the popular zombie shoot-'em-up video game

"...gaga over a couple of years back -- Event Horizon -- and his plotting is no less bewildering or..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kandahar

"...the mind. A crowd of shapes materializes on the horizon as a helicopter approaches, and a slow zoom reveals..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Public Notice

This week, "Public Notice" revels in the unconditional luv that is kids and pets … but mostly kids.

"...Web site and just go. It's all for Hope Horizon, SIMS Foundation, and the Yellow Bike Project. www.spacetruck.net/poshevents or..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Alive and Kicking

Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.

"...City, Utah, I always feel I can see the horizon of American independent filmmaking for the coming year. Attendees..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Little Station That Could

Austin's AAA station KGSR and its market ascendance.

"...and Patty Griffin rather than Smash Mouth and Vertical Horizon. So, with the merger came the bizarre luxury of..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Unbreakable

"...roles that inexorably wing them toward some unspoken mutual horizon, though few of the secondary characters get much to..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pitch Black

"...and a deuce of Mars films on the event horizon. Pitch Black, however, offers precious few twists on its..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...Somewhere on the eastern horizon lies Cuba, but a storm puts a damper on..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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