Naked City

Breaking news briefs from Austin and elsewhere

"...as we are preoccupied with war." -- UT economist James K. Galbraith, March 24, Boston Globe..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postscripts

"...Random House, James Michener's longtime publisher, recently announced plans to establish the..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Record Reviews

"...the raucous, at times sounding as though an uninvited James Blood Ulmer joined the wedding party. Wall's and London's..."

June 13, 1997 Music Review

Articulations

Getting Online With Art

"...UT's Fine Arts Advisory Council novelist and art collector James Michener and educator Bryce Jordan. During the school's mid-year..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Column

Bonded for Life

Reflections on GoldenEye

"..."Bond... James Bond." The words are so familiar, the sound almost..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Screens Feature

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 78 min Director - Bernard Launois Mummies! Nazi mutants! Stupid goddamn ghost horses! And..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ethan Hawke Pens a Valentine to Theatre in A Bright Ray of Darkness

His new novel is also a prayer for the stage and a reminder of the healing power of performance

"...yes, but also in a professional production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at the McCarter Theatre. And the..."

April 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Some selections to help you cool down as summer heats up

"...Aloe Vera and aims to be “the next Rick James.” – Clara Wang Ludovico Einaudi..."

July 13, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

SXSW Music Keynote: Nile Rodgers

Don’t be afraid of the Top 40

"...and bumping into his musical brother and Chic bassist Bernard Edwards while touring as part of the Sesame Street..."

March 16, 2017 SXSW Post by Alejandra Ramirez

DVDanger: Let's Get Weird

Getting stranger with Kino Lorber, plus slime mold!

"...in the U.S.-based Lucha Underground, the tattooed man-mountain Giant Bernard is a glasses-wearing trainer in the WWE, and then..."

Feb. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Author Ed Ward Revisits Rock’s First Guitar Hero, Michael Bloomfield

“When you heard Mike Bloomfield play, you got the sense this was the real shit."

"...a Windy City kitchen supplies dynasty, Bloomfield Industries, Michael Bernard Bloomfield wasn't the first child of his era to..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Gourds Co-Leader Jimmy Smith Heads to Montana

Jimmy Smith heads for higher ground, Pete Mitchell reaches a higher plane, and Izzy Cox would like to remain upright on terra firma

"...Hard Pans, his hard-rockin', free-ballin' collaboration with keyman Claude Bernard and guitarist Mark Creaney, garnered a modest reception and..."

July 29, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fun Fun Fun Fest: Afrika Bambaataa

Minds were blown, booties shaken by day-one mixologist

"...minutes, a steady groove emerged from vintage beats by Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Clyde Stubblefield, and John "Jabo" Starks. Then..."

Nov. 9, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Playback

Neil Young premieres his director's cut of Human Highway at SXSW, while Graham Reynolds brings Marfa to the Festival

"...Co-written and directed by Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey, the film zeros in on the community of..."

March 20, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Archive of the Patriarch

Ransom Center acquires Gabriel García Márquez papers

"...Ransom Center already holds materials by Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ernest Hemingway,..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Jackie Robinson's Austin

The All-American, Major League star and human rights hero spent a few youthful months on the east side of our city's 'Mason-Dixon Line'

"...camp at the Wesley United Methodist Church on San Bernard Street, shutting down a few times because of operating..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Pluck of the Irish

AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking

"...is nothing but his imagination," quoth native son George Bernard Shaw – and yet for most of the 20th..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Still Weary

Weary Boys reunite, Red River vies for cultural district designation, and MusicMania to close

"...before the City Council considers it in coming months. James Taylor, co-owner of Seventh Street hideout Holy Mountain, hopes..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

An Arbitrary Nation: Part 7

Journalists and political commentators largely ignore the facts they know

"...illusions about the fragility of their republican experiment. Virginia's James Madison predicted that unless voters of "virtue and intelligence..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

A Minister's Wife

This musical version of G.B. Shaw’s ‘Candida’ is exactly the right size for Austin, cozy with room for plenty of nuance

"...A Minister's Wife, the new musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 1898 play Candida, more than exceeds these expectations...."

April 5, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

We Can't Go Home Again

Piecing through Nicholas Ray's archive at the HRC

"...of Rebel Without a Cause, the movie that turned James Dean into the abiding patron saint of troubled teens,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Out of Bounds: The Lineup

"...Opening night party with Bruce James Soultet, Wisebird Wednesday, Sept. 1..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Feature

Peter Rosenberg's Noisemakers With Bun B

SXSW showcase reviews

"...line between the club and Convention Center as the James Lipton of the rap game sat down with the..."

March 19, 2010 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

TV Eye

Jack Bauer's back, and, boy, is TV Eye glad

"...O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), former CTU Director Bill Buchanan (James Morrison), and the former CTU operative Tony Almeida (Carlos..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...Dap-Kings' R&B, only led by Aretha Franklin instead of James Brown, for whom High sang...."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...love through her own palpable ache and personal burden, Bernard Herrmann's epic score voicing character development virtually unmatched in..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...fellow Christian Peacemaker Team members, Canadians Harmeet Sooden and James Loney, were freed by multinational forces on March 23,..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Also, we loop certain sections. So even in playing James P. Johnson's "You've Got to Be Modernistic," there's a..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season

'Life sucks, and then you die. And then it still sucks.'

"...this BBC tech thriller's second season moves quicker than Bernard Kerik's withdrawal...."

Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Wimbledon

A terribly tender, good-hearted romantic comedy from across the pond.

"...Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, James McAvoy, Eleanor Bron and Bernard Hill. If it ain’t..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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