Fall Faculty Salon Exhibition/Mike's World

Art teachers can do more than teach, as two companion exhibitions on the UT campus show

"...his way into the American dream via such entrepreneurial inventions as the board game Take Off Your Pants and..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Rock & Roll Books

Beat Box

"...is a sequence of colorful characters, their adventures and inventions. At its worst, the text starts to read like..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Food-o-File

Reports from Deep Eddy, Zilker Park, and ... Chicago

"...Chef Homaro Cantu holds several patents for innovative culinary inventions. Hargrove is doing her best to book Cantu at..."

April 27, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Meet the Robinsons

While Disney’s latest animated feature might not be a sign of the apocalypse, it’s at least a sign that Disney needs to find some decent writers.

"...by Hansen and Fry), a boy-genius orphan whose crazy inventions prevent him from getting adopted. When his latest invention..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...the Western form as one of our greatest national inventions, on the order of jazz and the blues. Yet..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.

"...start, in our form of government, our engineering and inventions, our arts, and the never-before-tried experiment of mingling ethnicities..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The sapping of America's economic and technological dominance is a boon for the world. Many are gaining from the decline of a few.

"...science. Finally: What may be the cream of our inventions, computers combined with the Internet, has enabled the whole..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Now and Tomorrow II

"...people from smoking and write explanations describing how their inventions would operate. The pieces they created are absolute wonders...."

July 1, 2005 Arts Review

dot the i

In his English-language debut, Gael García Bernal plays one of the sides of a twisted love triangle

"...dot the I: so in love with its own inventions and convolutions that it ignores all plausibility and audience..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Robots

There are no great animation advance in Robots, but neither is it a return to The Ice Age.

"...city and show Big Weld one of his own inventions. Turns out he’s a bit late: Big Weld has..."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In the Moment

Ann Hampton Callaway takes things 'Slow,' but she's more alive live than ever

"...of my greatest writing, some of my most surprising inventions have come from this way of singing and writing...."

Dec. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Games: Part 2

Gift guide

"...has you cobble it together into one of Violet's "inventions," with which you then must overcome some obstacle (i.e.,..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Big Books

Gift guide

"...present page after page of Ware's graphic and narrative inventions in full, blazing color on thick glossy stock. For..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Books

"...to enter and experience illustrations is a kick. These inventions aside, The Anybodies is like a ride on a..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

War is how civilizations make love, so we should be careful of the partners we choose

"...Islamic fundamentalists can only hurt us with our own inventions. We invented the jets that crashed into the twin..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The Insiders at Introgen

As Texas looks for a new economic boost, the decision-makers like to have a piece of the action

"...authority to grant royalty-free licenses for any of our inventions, as any invention by M.D. Anderson is technically owned..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Emperor of the Moon

The Bedlam Faction's sci-fi, action-movie, musical upgrade of Aphra Behn's 17th-century comedy The Emperor of the Moon is a good time that's edgy enough for the wilder bunch and tame enough for conventional crowds.

"...fact, there are a handful of designers displaying their inventions in this production, which at times is an overload..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Scott H. Biram

"...due to the singer's fondness for material that predates inventions like, for instance, the radio. To wit, "White House..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

The Cocktail's Hour

Wes Marshall explains how to enjoy the resurgence of one of humanity's great inventions.

June 27, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Best Bar Books

"...you will be rewarded with one of humanity's great inventions. Take pleasure in the joy of doing something carefully..."

June 27, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Final Destination 2

"...died in 1970, is best remembered today for his "Inventions" cartoons, which routinely featured ludicrously complex machines performing the..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music to the Mouth

Raymond Tatum -- the Raymond Tatum -- is the chef at a restaurant founded by former rock & roll road cooks Kent and Beth Hayner that has downtown prices in a Highway 71 space with Hill Country class. Oh, and it's fusion food without being fusion.

"...restaurant far above the standard steakhouse. Tatum's tantalizing food inventions, the nice location, excellent bar, genial hosts, and amusing..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The second year at the Hogwarts is better than the first, but still a bit sophomoric.

"...film adaptations is the visual realization of Rowling's many-splendored inventions: the owl-mail “howler,” the Whomping Willow tree, the airborne..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

Four meditations on three undefinable words: I love you.

"...technology, or made the most efficient use of others' inventions. Use is the ideal enshrined in modern English --..."

July 12, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Le Bernardin Cookbook: Four-Star Simplicity

"...methods for developing flavor. While still unmistakably French, these inventions are generally less finicky and more healthful than traditional..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Food Review by MM Pack

Kate & Leopold

"...duke is considered a mushy-headed romantic, preferring his wacky inventions (such as a prototypical elevator) to practical notions like..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Letters at 3AM

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offered a metaphor for the modern age, one in which the monster is the unacknowledged dark side of the inventor or creator.

"...of the West; and his monster, the emblem of inventions that would prove uncontrollable and would spread confusion and..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Technological progress is altering fundamental issues of identity.

"...to re-create you even after you're stone dead. These inventions will seem to inhabit the name of your name...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

"...education, they managed to get 25 patents for their inventions...."

March 2, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Cast Away

"...the recipients. His ingenuity turns their contents into makeshift inventions. More difficult to solve are his needs for companionship,..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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