Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 29 - October 5

"...21): Have you been sensing a phantom itch that's impossible to scratch? Are you feeling less like your real..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

There There

Mumblecore pioneer innovates again with his pandemicless pandemic film

"...logistical restrictions. The quarantine made traditional production all but impossible, so new modes emerged. Call it accidental Dogme 95...."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Eternals

Marvel’s immortal heroes overstay their welcome

"...discount Tony Stark). Without them there would be no light or shade...."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ride the Eagle

Jake Johnson gets his head straight in this comedic kin to Walden

"...not so much of a stretch for him. In light and introspective comedy Ride the Eagle, he’s disturbed from..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Dark and the Wicked

Gone to Hell, gone to Texas in this intergenerational horror

"...the door, and casts shadows where there is no light...."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald‎

Fewer beasts, but a much better story, make this sequel magical

"...big baddie Grindelwald still rankles; was it really so impossible for Yates and writer/producer JK Rowling to locate an..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Sisters Brothers

A murderers’ row of great actors in this contract killer Western comedy

"...framed far away and in pitch black makes it impossible to divine the heroes from the villains. (In this..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Love, Gilda

The SNL original in all her shining joy

"...life and precise comic timing. There are beings that light this planet, shining brightly. And Radner shined. It is..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Minding the Gap

Sundance-lauded Hulu skateboarder doc surpasses Thrasher equation

"...old footage so smoothly that it would be nearly impossible to detect the transitions if it weren’t for the..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Hereditary

Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror

"...additional elements of uncanny disquiet – a ring of light, an almost subsonic pulsing, sudden shifts from day to..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Beethoven to Beyoncé

SXSW Music panels – topics over talent. Except they're also star-studded.

"...legacies of the Lomax family and Lead Belly are impossible to untangle. Born in Austin in 1915, Lomax had..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Feature by The Music Staff

A Late Quartet

A string quartet – whose members are played by the likes of Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener – gets stuck in its own resins.

"...Ivanir) is an unyielding perfectionist who makes honest discussion impossible. Second violinist Robert Gelbart (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and violist..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beginners

Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor play father and son in this lovely drama about what happens to both after the older man discovers near the end of his life that he's gay.

"...his dead father – but true beginnings are well-nigh impossible. From the moment of birth, we become imprinted by..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rio

In this animated film from the makers of Ice Age, a domesticated macaw finally learns to fly.

"...Directed by: Carlos Saldanha. It's probably unfair but certainly impossible to avoid using the metaphorical Pixar yardstick when discussing..."

April 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Is That a Wrap for Incentives?

Amid economic woes and a race-baiting controversy, the future of TV, video game, and film funding in Texas looks shaky

"...The commission's decision put the spotlight on a part of the legislation that almost seemed..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Although it's conventionally made, this documentary offers a streamlined and resonant account of recent history.

"...the breach. Mostly, however, Most Dangerous Man is an enlightening portrait of one man's moral evolution. Through the years,..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cove

This marvelously made agitprop documentary exposes the dark secrets that underpin the world’s dolphin mania.

"...the speakers in this marvelously made agitprop documentary that enlightens, horrifies, and is a call to action to protect..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...living in other parts of Austin – it appears impossible that the move would reduce traffic in the Barton..."

July 1, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Light Rail: Another Chance?..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Column

Years of the Dead

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

"...that the country as it exists now seems an impossible descendant of the largely agrarian land that first wrested..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

A Walking Contradiction

Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley

"...that left the funeral home got through the first light and everybody else was stopped. When the light turned..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Shaky Railing

Three former Capital Metro board members and two former employees claim that the transportation agency attempted to put Longhorn Railway, its costly freight rail operator, out of business.

"...hoping to convince voters that Austin needs a 14-mile-long light rail system costing $700 million that will extend from..."

Dec. 10, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...then some are willing to spend what has been highlighted as ridiculous amounts of money for this quality urban-housing..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Housing, ACC, and Spooner.

"...ACC still have problems? Absolutely. It would probably be impossible to run such a large institution without problems. A..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column

Exhibitionism

One Night Only!: in Uncharted Waters with an Über-diva

"...Will Keep Us Together," "Beauty and the Beast," "You Light Up My Life" — you get the idea. Charlie..."

July 31, 1998 Arts Review

Postmarks

For the Record

"...Jason Meador Starter Light Rail Stops Here..."

May 15, 1998 Column

Mulling Over Mueller

"...Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the inevitability of Mueller's closure seems impossible for Austin, or at least for Austin lawyers and..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Wreckless Recs?

Garza's Affordability Strategy Slides Into Uselessness

"...between, say, library circulation and library staffing levels, or streetlighting expense and population density. (Many of these relationships, intuitive..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...tones and samples a disorienting whirl, with the strobe lights leaving the audience rooted to the floor, proverbial deer..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Southeast of Austin, an Unarmed Immigrant's Killing Galvanizes a Quest for Justice

Why did Adil Dghoughi die?

"...saw a car parked in his driveway with the headlights off. He went to his bedroom, grabbed a pistol,..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

« 1    ‹ BACK    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     NEXT ›    24 »