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"...prominently in Smiley's transplantation of Shakespeare's tragedy to the Iowa cornfields. Lear is reincarnated here as Larry Cook (Robards),..."
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Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Natural Center of Gravity
Utter Reading Series at the Austin History Center
"...Osborn earned his M.F.A. from the top-ranked University of Iowa Writers' Workshop program, and Lozano started his graduate work..."
May 9, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West
Michael
Travolta plays an unkempt, beer-swilling, Beatles-quoting angel who – yes – also dances.
"...Huey Driscoll, who land an assignment to go to Iowa and follow-up on a report of an angel. Sent..."
Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ring in the HollyDaze
Holiday Movie Previews
"...slob (John Travolta) shacked up in a motel in Iowa is really the angel he says he is; Michael..."
Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Omaha (The Movie)
"...as well as FBI agents and roving gangs of Iowa kickboxers. Walkinshaw's and Anderson's performances are inspired, as is..."
April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor
Theatre's Great Historian
The Essential Oscar
"...committed to design. I went to the University of Iowa and taught playwriting. I wrote the Introduction to Theatre..."
Dec. 8, 1995 Arts Feature
Walkabouts, Rallies, and Carnaval in This Weekend’s Recommended Events
The chilly weekend is heating up
"...grandfather tell tales in the fields from Texas to Iowa. After encountering “the Library Lady” during a visit to..."
Feb. 21, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott
“Here Comes the Pain”: Slipknot Invokes Catharsis En Masse
Iowa nü metal legends celebrate 25 years in ATX
"...you might’ve caught a show from a group of Iowa-bred metal upstarts called Slipknot. This was where the now-behemoth..."
Sept. 21, 2024 Music Post by David Brendan Hall
Russian-Born Austinites Supporting Ukraine by Bringing Medical Supplies
Inna Adamovich is making sacrifices for Ukraine
"...cash. He said a high school in Mason City, Iowa, gave him $250. “I showed them the stack of..."
June 21, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham
Ethan Hawke and the Inner Life of Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat
Finding the drama of an author who laughed at her own biography
"...notebook penned during her time at the University of Iowa, it contained her ruminations on her life, art, and..."
May 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Hardcore for a Cause, Gary Clark Jr., and More Crucial Concerts
Recommended shows for the coming week
"...of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” on “Heaven, Iowa.” Jimmy Eat World (“The Middle”) is among the undercard..."
March 8, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson
Terry Allen, ericdoa, and More Crucial Concerts
Essential Austin gigs in the coming week
"...pays homage to her indie "prairie-pop" beginnings in the Iowa DIY scene. Tuesday's lineup brings both ends of that..."
Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe
South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere
3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival
"...Producer: Tyler Hill Having built a colorful life in Iowa, a costume designer returns to their island hometown, Guam,..."
Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
Texas Football Should Be Good This Year
We mean it this time!
"...Kansas State Nov. 11 at TCU Nov. 18 at Iowa State Nov. 24 vs. Texas Tech..."
Aug. 18, 2023 Sports Feature by Eric Goodman
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
"...Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., and Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, have in common? They were all legally blind and..."
July 21, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
Amid a Childhood Obesity Epidemic, AISD’s P.E. Requirements Aren’t Likely to Help
UT study finds laws increasing P.E. time haven't curbed childhood obesity crisis
"...by UT-Austin's Paul von Hippel and the University of Iowa's David Frisvold found that many schools failed to comply..."
May 12, 2023 News Feature by Madi Donham
SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday
Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more
"...bloomed earnest ballads and the small town escape of “Iowa” swooned achingly, if brutally, beautiful. “It’s not gay country..."
March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers
TribFest: Oil Terminal Protest Interrupts Buttigieg’s Q&A (But He Doesn’t Mind)
Transport secretary: "I hear you" about Gulf Coast project
"...Biden doing? Remember when you trounced him in the Iowa caucus? That was wild! And so on. (The questions..."
Sept. 23, 2022 News Post by Lina Fisher
Grassroots Bakers Effect Change, One Cupcake at a Time
From suffrage to City Council races, flour power abounds
"...added fundraising hubs in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Seattle, and Iowa, with an eye toward generating monies for progressive groups..."
Sept. 2, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Kate Bush Bash, Urban Heat, Knife in the Water, Night Cap, Adrian Ruiz, and Shimmer Island
"...and Austin's St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Ruiz moves to Iowa in mid-August to become director of jazz studies and..."
July 29, 2022 Music Column by Tim Stegall
Austin at Large: SXSW, in Four Dimensions
Reporter, presenter, attendee, local: An after-action report on confab’s comeback
"...mayor of South Bend, co-winner of the snakebit 2020 Iowa caucus, and close personal friend of our own mayor...."
March 25, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, February 18-24
"...Author Madeleine Thien has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, and Iowa City, and has taught at schools in Hong Kong..."
Feb. 18, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny
The Luv Doc: He Doesn’t Dance
Otherwise known as reactive immobility
"...with. Maybe he grew up Lutheran in someplace like Iowa, where a backbeat is the work of the devil..."
Oct. 8, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc
Faster Than Sound: Captain Quackenbush’s and Outer Heaven Disco Club Make COVID-Delayed Debuts
New musical hubs launch in former Strange Brew and Dozen Street spaces
"...industry. Baller status. Punk rock gods." Following the news, Iowa's Bloated Kat Records posted on Bandcamp a 19-song collection..."
July 2, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe
The Ugly End to Jason Dusterhoft's Police Career Was Only the Beginning for APD
Three chiefs gone in Austin
"...the Austin Police Department's executive team. For Dusterhoft, an Iowa farm boy who was the first in his family..."
May 7, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Soccer Watch
"...The Horns are coming off a 1-0 win at Iowa State, with senior Haley Berg getting the winner on..."
Oct. 23, 2020 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro
This Is Who We Are #6: Miró Quartet's Faces of America: The Light
A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive
"...composer spent the summer in a Czech village in Iowa. The music evoked a Midwestern river valley of rolling..."
May 12, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Now Streaming in Austin: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Standing in Johnny Depp's footprints ... literally!
"...all filled in for the fictional town of Endora, Iowa...."
April 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Headlines
"...have an idea who "won" the chaotic (and irrational) Iowa Democratic presidential primary caucuses. ... The real winners? Voters..."
Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature
School Dress Code Obsolete
