After a Fashion

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"...CLOSER THAN THAT Have you seen Far From Heaven with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid? Wowowow. What a..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Fassbinder's grimy Berliner sensibility coats the bare bones of Sirk's original tale in a slick sheen of weary cynicism and pits true love against societal mores in a battle to the bitter end.

"...could successfully remake Douglas Sirk's 1955 über-melodrama, All That Heaven Allows, proved once and for all that the universe..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Right Where They Belong

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

"...Alligator" rips into Terry Allen's "Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy," holy hitchhiking Panhandle anthem...."

July 26, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The 2002 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll

Readers Poll

"...Runners-upVeggie Heaven, Threadgill's..."

May 24, 2002 Food Feature

TV Eye

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

"...came on stronger in the Eighties in Highway to Heaven (1984). Michael Landon played a probationary angel, sent to..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Veggie Heaven

Vegetarian and Vegan Spots in Austin

"...Veggie Heaven1914-A Guadalupe, 457-1013..."

March 9, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Here Comes a Regular

The dark world-view of Jeff Klein

"...released his powerful local debut, You'll Never Get to Heaven if You Break My Heart, on local indie label..."

March 2, 2001 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Songs in the Key of Ethan

A Postmodern Fear of Significance

"...have to be drinkin' to even get close to that."Heaven" Ethan: "Heaven" was one of those songs that just..."

June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Plump Fiction

"...thought that says each person has their own personal heaven or hell preordained by the powers that be. Each..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Show Low is the name

"..."You ever heard `Knockin' on Heaven's Door' by Bob Dylan?" He said it quietly, almost..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Column

The Prophecy

"...it, there has been a full-fledged war raging in heaven for the past 2,000 years, with the archangel Gabriel..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Future Gladiators and Fantastical Stories Mark the Literary Year in Review

Pulled from the shelves

"...James McBride's wonderful ode to his family's roots, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Riverhead Books, 400 pp., $28)...."

Dec. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Best New Year’s Eve Concerts Happening in Austin

Eleven live music options to ring in 2024, from Snail Mail to Gary Clark Jr.

"...whose digits ZIP code the Delta.  – Raoul Hernandez Heaven & Hell Block PartyThe Coral Snake & High Noon,..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Five Graphic Novels That Will Supercharge Your Sequential Existence

A smattering of comics to keep your eyes busy

"...you've just hitchhiked through Europe with a new friend. Heaven No Hellby Michael DeForge Drawn & Quarterly 228 pp...."

May 21, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

This Is Who We Are #10: Austin Lyric Opera's Candide

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...us to where we could catch a glimpse of heaven; the heaven in a loaf of bread, the heaven..."

May 19, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Decade in Austin Films

The city’s cinema, from indie visions to Oscar winners and international blockbusters

"...storylines both past and present. – Sarah Marloff Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke(2016, D: Brenda Greene Mitchell..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

The Most Read Film Reviews of 2015

How to enrage God's flock in 322 words or less

"...William Goss’ 3.5 star review. 8) 90 Minutes in Heaven..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...Three Works; and Trouble Puppet Theatre's The Wars of Heaven, Part I. In all, the Critics Table distributed honors..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Three Works; and Trouble Puppet Theatre’s The Wars of Heaven, Part I...."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Elliott Smith Doc Debuts in Austin

Heaven Adores You scores a limited run

"...suit with the dirty hair?” he laughed. In most Heaven footage, alternately, he more readily sported a worn Willie..."

May 13, 2015 Screens Post by Neph Basedow

Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago

On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup

"...Fred, and Mother'd say, "You got any questions about Heaven, just remember the smell of baking bread and put..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Wake of the Red Witch

Everything that begins also ends

"...Speaking of surprise: "Do they dream of Hell/ In Heaven/ Are they restless/ With their reward/ ... Is there..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interview: Sparks

A two-man show promises to get bigger and better

"...travelers on late-Seventies Giorgio Moroder collaborations No. 1 in Heaven and Terminal Jive...."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time? (Part 2)

With Tim Doyle, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kareem Badr, and more

"...favorite book is The Five People You Meet In Heaven, because it rings true for me that the perfect..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"...To Be or Not To Be and melancholic masterpiece Heaven Can Wait a year later, Lubitsch celebrated two decades..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

FF2012: 'Doomsday Book'

Two bangs, one whimper on Fantastic Fest apocalypse anthology

"...film as a whole are overshadowed by the wondrous 'Heaven's Creation.' Kang-woo Kim plays a robotics engineer sent to..."

Sept. 22, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Heaven-Earth-One

A breathtaking aerial dance that successfully connects the earthly with the heavenly

"...Heaven-Earth-OneCity Terrace at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside www.bluelapislight.org..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

Higher Ground

Stevie Wonder in 10 songs? It's a start.

"...acquits the entire genre. – Raoul Hernandez 4) "Heaven Help Us All"Signed, Sealed & Delivered (1970)..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

Heaven & Hell

Metallurgy

"...Heaven & HellNeon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & HellLive..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Seasons in the Abyss

Pixies, Rush, Megadeth, and Slayer: the return of the album.

"...guaranteed certain hits at a concert, “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” “Debaser,” “Here Comes Your Man,” works. All sounded terrific...."

Sept. 29, 2010 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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