Cheater

With cheating so hip today, Andrea Skola and Shrewd Productions have put together eight original 10-minute plays that explore the contemporary nuances of being a cheat

"...conflict in dramas when you think about Othello, Dante's Inferno, or Pinter's Betrayal...."

May 12, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Holes Before Bedtime

Dan Basila's 'Holes Before Bedtime' is an unsettling work of art; but it is a work of art, as opposed to a mere vulgar spectacle, and that's the really weird thing about it

"...heaven's own jukebox or send you cowering under the inferno's least inhospitable rock...."

June 17, 2005 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...there's smoke, fire, flame, and toxic combustion, a veritable inferno of imaginatively indiscreet geeks having the time of their..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

World of Wonders

Dispatch No. 2: World of Wonders

"...society, Notre Musique includes aspects of autobiography. Like Dante's Inferno, it's divided into three sections: the Kingdoms of Hell,..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Phases and Stages

Live shot

"...It's an inferno in here, and Sound Team is hosting – and..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

The Devil & Daniel Webster

Numbers 215 and 218 of the Criterion Collection DVD series were more celebrated recently, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214 was the true devil in the woodpile.

"...your movie shelf. From Huston's entrance out of the inferno, echoed by his playmate Simone Simon's own appearance, to..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Battle-Ready

This fall, history nerds will have cause to rejoice when the History Channel presents First Invasion: The War of 1812, a collaboration with local post-production facility Match Frame.

"...Discreet Logic's industry-standard nonlinear editing-and-compositing systems Smoke, Fire, and Inferno, as well as the latest animation software from SoftImage..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

WE

Music Showcase

"...salsa company from Havana. Self-described as a "Norwegian rock inferno," Oslo's WE was nowhere to be seen when their..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by David Lynch

Frontier Television

The Territory 2003 season schedule

"...(United Kingdom, 1994, 18 min.) The Brits spoof Dante's Inferno as only they can -- following a game-show winner..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Stan Rice's Final Message

"...Homer, Aeneas in Virgil, and Dante in his own Inferno. In American literature we have William Carlos Williams' Kora..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Book Reviews

"...At the blurry, inferno-red bull's-eye of Donna Tartt's classically trained debut -- the..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood will get back to the restaurant news and advisories next week; for now, she just has to tell you about Timothy Taylor's debut novel, which has quite the culinary theme its own self.

"...Dante, owner of a multinational chain of coffeehouses called Inferno International Coffee (can you say Starbucks?), had been biding..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Gadgets and Gizmos

From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

"...legendary field leaders Discreet Technologies, whose platforms Smoke, Fire, Inferno, and so on are widely recognized as the single..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The teacher pay raises, new computers, copies of Dante's Inferno, will just have to wait. Thar's Mold in the..."

April 26, 2002 Column

Imagine

The music business in a post-911 world

"...Songs like Black Sabbath's "War Pigs," the Tramps' "Disco Inferno" (you know, "burn baby, burn"), and any and all..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...The lieutenant looked like Steve McQueen in The Towering Inferno, his face smudged with smoke, wearing his fire hat..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Coach's Corner

Do we need weather reports to tell us it's hot in Texas in August? How about to tell us it's wrong to have China host the Olympics?

"...benign of summers, we roast in a relentless day-to-day inferno, comparable to spending time in the trunk of your..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy

UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.

"...by e.e. cummings, Annie Dillard, and James Agee. Dante's Inferno. Hawaiian mythology. Indian mythology. The Peace Corps. Isaac Newton...."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...beck and call. Its most recent incarnation has been Inferno, and it's currently called Limelight, but Friends & Lovers..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

The Mighty Mr. Moser steers you toward some fine holiday shopping and fashion events.

"...Velvet Eye Shadows in 18 colors from Angel to Inferno, along with Glitter Highlighters, Spacedust Glitter, and so much..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Postmarks

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

"...troops fired into the compound the day of the inferno. Despite yesterday's finding by the Waco advisory jury, the..."

July 21, 2000 Column

Coach's Corner

"...football might get my mind off of the breath-sucking inferno outside, I'll begin there: As a Cowboy hater with..."

July 21, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

Daylight Savings is a bummer, but Austin's hosting of the NCAAs was an upper. And as the NBA regular season winds down, disappointments outnumber pleasant suprises, but the Lakers are a big, big, exception.

"...continue to herald the coming of summer, a ghastly inferno I've come to dread. Since everyone seems giddy about..."

April 7, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Long Fringe @ the Hideout

"...and South Dakota, accompanied by mythic resonance from Dante's Inferno. Ehn, the gifted poet-dramatist who penned Heavenly Shades of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Sweet Thing

"...its artistic chutzpah. Shot in Austin (local digs Club Inferno, High Life Cafe, and Dallas Nite Club are featured)..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno. Reading it is like staring into a fire --..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...week for Sonic Youth, walking into that no-frills, steamy inferno we've all come to love, I kept reminding myself..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Lilith Fare

"...Williams "rocked." Perhaps it was the blazingly hot July inferno (this year there's the rain to contend with). For..."

July 16, 1999 Music Feature

Off the Bookshelf

Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine

"...an absurdist's metaphor for the stranger caught in the inferno of the 1980s (and beyond). Nersesian's nameless anti-hero's misadventures..."

June 18, 1999 Books Feature

Memories of My Father Watching TV: A Novel

"...chili fans often give their creations names such as "Inferno" and "Red Death." And for all of the posturing..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Books Review

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