The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

"...John Bailey. Starring: Lily Tomlin. There's so much to life. So much uncertainty, so much we can't control. And..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

In Search of Intelligent Life at the SBOE

The State Board of Education reviews biology textbooks, and the battle over evolution rejoins.

"...Institute, a Seattle-based conservative think tank that avidly propagates "intelligent design" theory, which presumes that complex organic structures could..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

A Bug's Life

"...boasts a more sophisticated quality of wit, A Bug's Life strikes a better overall balance of adult- and kid-friendly..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

What's Wrong With Teaching Intelligent Design and Evolution?

"...it, but what's the big deal among liberals about intelligent design? And what's the big deal to right-wing fundamentalists..."

Oct. 18, 2005 Postmarks

"Intelligent Design" Not Science

"...Editor: I wonder why the "intelligent design" crowd wants this concept taught in science class...."

Aug. 29, 2003 Postmarks

How Literature Saved David Shields' Life

The author of 'Reality Hunger' dodges those ol' bullets of anomie

"...that, in the author's new How Literature Saved My Life, you can read all of what he's had to..."

Feb. 4, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Murder, Mayhem, and the Underbelly of Life

Friends in Low Places

"...I asked him to get her out of my life. I asked him to help me kill her. When..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Books Feature

Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk

Her father's death and daughter's birth upped the stakes of the singer's finest work

"...and reserved around people she doesn't know. During his lifetime, Richard Elkin collected 600,000 pennies...."

April 14, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Lush Life

The divine Miss Nancy Wilson brings her lush life to Austin.

"...with the George Shearing quintet, But Beautiful, and Lush Life. The 1962 Adderley collaboration dated from several years before,..."

June 2, 2000 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Body as Canvas, Readying for Life in a Kill Zone

AFS Documentary Tour presents Tattooed Under Fire

"...a magnet between the ones that were creative and intelligent and wanted to talk. So I tended to gravitate..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Private Life

The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde tells it like it is

"...hand, I have to acknowledge that most of my life I've spent as an audience. I've been more of..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Big Circus of Life

Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.

"...of today's performance poets are more akin to highly intelligent stand-up comics. They have the ghost of Lenny Bruce..."

April 19, 2002 Books Feature by Ric Williams

My Life on Apps

The convenience and economics of living through your phone

"...using Uber and Lyft unless I absolutely had to. Intelligent people who study trends on transit pricing professionally believe..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Across the Universe

Gearing up for a new national tour of her hit show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Lily Tomlin took a few minutes to talk about connectedness -- her connectedness with The Search, with audiences, and with Austin.

"...more apparent than in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the play by Jane Wagner..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

"...film biography offers 32 brief glimpses of the short life of the ever-eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Each section..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

Earth can't possibly hold the only intelligent life in the entirety of it all, right? Christopher Chybacan poke holes in that argument.

"...throughout the universe, Earth can't possibly hold the only intelligent life in the entirety of it all, right? Well,..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is truly a spiritual leader for the 21st century.

"...Ray tells us the Dalai Lama believes there is intelligent life on other planets. He has an e-mail address,..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Grandma

Lily Tomlin leads a dynamic cast down roads less traveled

"...which I personally take as a hopeful sign of intelligent life in the universe. Forgive me, I’m a partisan..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...on the Sept. 10 public hearing ["In Search of Intelligent Life at the SBOE," Sept. 19] contains more errors..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Column

Angels and Insects

"...not be everything she seems and that the pampered life he thought he longed for may not be his..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Cronos

"...impressive, disturbing rumination on the ancient theme of eternal life, and the lengths men will go to in pursuing..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wittgenstein

In his highly stylized fashion, Derek Jarman explores the mind of the 20th century Viennese philosopher.

"...worked as a set decorator). The history of Wittgenstein's life is told through Brechtian tableaux set against a black..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Leaves of Grass

Edward Norton plays dual roles as twin brothers from Oklahoma in this off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama that co-stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.

"...brother very much alive. The perpetually stoned (but radically intelligent) Brady, who has a wife and a child on..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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Is there extraterrestrial life out there?

"...throughout the universe, Earth can't possibly hold the only intelligent life in the entirety of it all, right? Well,..."

Feb. 29, 2008 News Feature by Matt Martinez

Restaurant

"...Jamal Warner, Elise Neal and Adrien Brody. In this intelligent indie drama made in 1998, a trendy restaurant in..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Déjà Vu

"...Foyt, the film's star and Jaglom's wife in real life, this movie has merely swapped the director's resolutely improvisational..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ma Saison Préférée

"...It's rare to see the complexities of adult family life portrayed on the screen, much less with the degree..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Malcolm X

"...so many skirmishes that the whole project grew into larger-than-life proportions (a particular danger when your aim is biography..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fresh

"...Fresh is already inured to the harsh realities of life on the streets. Between trying to make it to..."

Sept. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monsieur Lazhar

In a Montreal classroom, adolescent students and their Algerian substitute teacher help one another cope with grief. The film was an Oscar nominee.

"...Philippe Falardeau had pushed even further. For all its intelligent observation of the ways children and adults process grief,..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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