Silver Lining

The Octopus Project's Avalanche instrumentalism

"..."We got the idea from a travel show about Japanese baseball games," recalls Miranda. "There's a traditional point of..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Paila Peruvian Cuisine

Cutting-edge traditional flavors and combinations that deserve to be tasted and appreciated

"...Quechuan Indian, Spanish, Italian, French, Moorish, African, Chinese, and Japanese. Madrid Fusion 2006, the world's most influential culinary forum,..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Food Review by Mick Vann

In Space

ON Networks' Proper Ollie

"...pitch to the Food Network a year and a half ago," Moss says. "It was on sushi, and I..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Mordecai Richler once remarked that 'the novelist's primary moral responsibility is to be the loser's advocate.' It's difficult to imagine how anyone who takes that dictum to heart could outdo Junot Díaz here.

"...the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits." Time failed to change anything, as Oscar quickly found..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Will Texas Catch Some Solar Rays?

Local and worldwide solar-energy experts convene in Austin and deliver this message: The day when solar energy will compete economically with traditional fossil-fueled power is fast approaching, and Texas is doing much less than it could be to utilize its solar potential

"...it predicts, solar energy's true cost will fall to half of today's average residential electricity rates by 2010, thanks..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Me, Ange, and the Interlocking Shadows of Trees

Why do I love Naruto? Because I love my daughter.

"...graphic novels these days. Also, it's manga. It's a Japanese comic book. You don't read from left to right,..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

I'm Lovin' the All-American Tennis Clown

There were a lot of clowns at the All-American Tennis Shootout.

"...we sauntered over for a closer look, and a half-hour long conversation. Turns out, this clown has been working..."

Dec. 18, 2006 Sports Post by Taylor Holland

Film News

Solid reporting and decent rumors

"...for the most coveted of gigs, on Quentin Tarantino's half of Grind House, his double-feature project with Robert Rodriguez?..."

July 28, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Food-o-File

Off with our heads on some misreporting of the Lazy Fork Barbecue legacy; plus, an Independence Day Event Menu

"...and healthy for the heart, the folks at Zen Japanese Food Fast (three area locations; www.eatzen.com) have good news...."

June 30, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Lone Star

Another man in black: Kris Kristofferson

"...our leader? We thought it was awful when the Japanese bombed us at Pearl Harbor. That was "A Day..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The 'Gatchaman' Cometh

Four episodes of seminal Seventies animé get Alamo treatment

"...was reborn via Robert Wise, there was the seminal Japanese animé series Gatchaman, aka G-Force, aka Battle of the..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

More Than a Festival, Less Than a Movement

At Slamdance, tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope

"...Abduction, for instance, fascinatingly details the bizarre kidnapping of Japanese citizens by North Korea's Kim Jong Il, while The..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

First Night Austin

First Night Austin gets ready to ring out the old year in a big way, with a cultural extravaganza on a scale the city has never before seen

"...Break dancing. Mardi Gras Indians. Giant puppets. Chinese yo-yos. Japanese drumming. Cuban drumming. West African drumming. Bollywood dance numbers...."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ping Pong

Is it possible that one of the greatest (if not the greatest) sports-related films of all time is not only from Japan, but also about pingpong?

"...Panorama (Japanese import), $24.99 The sports movie genre is one sorely..."

June 17, 2005 Screens Review by Mark Fagan

Culture Flash!

See a show and aid local theatres, catch some more Crush, show some dramaturgs how to two-step, and read up on Austin artists in national mags

"...see it as it heads into its final week: Half the proceeds from the Thursday, Feb. 17, performance will..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Statistics on American education tell a dreadful story, the story of an advanced technological society slipping back to a state of ignorance and superstition

"...• Bill Moyers reports "nearly half the U.S. Congress ... 231 legislators in total ......"

Feb. 18, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

Artists have tried to replicate the method of creating cement sculptures that look like wood, but few have mastered the technique like Dionicio Rodríguez

"...finest creations, many of them accessible to the public. Half a dozen of his sculptures were added to the..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Upcoming Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines

Of all the secrets in Uncle Walt's vault, one would expect Donald Duck decked out in SS regalia to rank with 'Song of the South' and the pseudo-sex subliminals of 'The Little Mermaid'

"...Duck was busy, as he's also seen routing the Japanese in the excellently choreographed "Commando Duck," going AWOL for..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...fine, combed back from the forehead. In 1944, a Japanese grenade blinded him in the left eye; it rolls..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...chanteuse and former Wild Colonial's magnificent voice is only half the story. Her solo debut, Manhattan Records' The Things..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...(Manifesto), Ken Stringfellow hasn't been resting on his laurels. Half of influential Seattle popsters the Posies, he's filled his..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Being Robert McNamara

Through 'The Fog of War,' Errol Morris gets inside a mind full of hindsight, regret, and the lessons of Vietnam

"...for devising the fiendishly effective firebombing of some 67 Japanese cities. On one single night in Tokyo, in March..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Disco Hospital

Live shots

"...surroundings, he tossed in a Julian Cope cover about halfway through but otherwise stuck to crowd-pleasers like "Sound Exchange,"..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Music Review by Christopher Gray

After a Fashion

The story of how the Style Avatar got his sew on

"...community college program in Seattle, run by painstakingly detail-oriented Japanese women, we had to know how to sew very..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Death Becomes Her

Kier-La Janisse unleashes CineMuerte on poor, innocent Austin.

"..."One of the few strictly horror outings of renowned Japanese porn director Hisayasu Sato, Naked Blood is about a..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Dead Girl Talking

Showtime approaches the subject of death with Dead Like Me, a new series that moves the focus from those left behind to those dearly departed.

"...Billy & Mandy. The toon, now expanded to a half-hour, features children who befriend the Grim Reaper and follows..."

June 27, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...squabble over signs while a war is being fought half a world away. The war is currently affecting and..."

May 16, 2003 Column

War Drums

"...of a city of 5 million people, more than half of them children 15 or younger...."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I thought we used the atomic bomb on the Japanese for the same reason we had been dropping tons..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the merchants and landholders were full of insinuation and half-truth, yet you quoted their most preposterous balderdash with approval...."

Sept. 27, 2002 Column

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