FF2011: James Quinn McDonagh Shows His 'Knuckle'

Bare knuckle bruiser talks fair fighting and boxing Tim League

"...since Fantastic Fest announced that Tim League would facing James Quinn McDonagh in the boxing ring, there was a..."

Sept. 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bloomsday Confidential

Under the covers with James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

"...With Ulysses is a quirky, 80-minute hosanna to the James Joyce novel (yes, that Ulysses), widely hailed as a..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Cell

"...apparently, have less use for narrative story structure than James Joyce. If this is the American New Wave, consider..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Holiday Viewing: The Dead

The shadow of Christmas past hangs long over Huston's classic

"...unexpected literary adaptation: The Dead, John Huston's version of James Joyce's snow-smothered novella...."

Dec. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More Than a Game

Before joining the NBA, LeBron James was a high school star who climbed the heights with a core of teammates, all of whom are documented here.

"...Directed by: Kristopher Belman. Basketball superstar LeBron James, who advanced straight from high school to the NBA,..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mortal Thoughts

"...the basic plot elements of two Bayonne, NJ girlfriends, Joyce (Headley) and Cynthia (Moore), whose lives focus on their..."

April 26, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...of the futurists? Is it the overdetermined richness of Joyce's Ulysses or the determinedly meaningless poems of the Dadaists?..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Austin Playhouse’s Bloomsday

Steven Dietz’s rumination on a great love lost lacks some of the vivid passion it needs in this staging

"...walking tour of Dublin that visits key sites in James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses. Robbie (Aaron Johnson) and the tour..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Writes of Spring

"...from a lawyer. He says about as much about James Joyce as any artist, and his remarks are pretty..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

Knuckle

Fight Club meets the Hatfields and McCoys in this documentary about the bare-knuckle bruisers of Ireland.

"...– the Quinn McDonaghs, led by ace bare-knuckle bruiser James, the film's resident protagonist, and the opposing Joyce clan..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...-- the accumulation of 20th-century art amassed by author James Michener and his wife Mari -- which was given..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postscripts

How to celebrate Bloomsday and other upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...worldwide celebration of Leopold Bloom's day as described in James Joyce's Ulysses, is being feted by the Ransom Center..."

June 15, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

To Preserve and Project

Moving image archivists in action

"...Aug. 5). At 10:45am, Mary Ellen Bute's Passages From James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1966) screens (Roger Ebert called it..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Travesties

Tom Stoppard's Travesties mixes early 20th-century history, European politics, and Oscar Wilde into a typically brilliant work, and the cast of Austin Playhouse's production rises to the intellectual challenges of the script and appears to be having a fine time playing with it.

"...For Tristan Tzara, it was to father Dadaism. For James Joyce, it was to put the finishing touches on..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Rants on the Writing of Novels

Letters at 3AM

"...is the one quality you may be certain that James Joyce and Danielle Steele have in common, for without..."

April 11, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin Classical Guitar Narratives Series

"...with poetry and fiction from prominent writers such as James Agee, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and James Joyce...."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature

A Way They'll Never Be

"...in the short stories of Stephen Crane, Anton Chekov, James Joyce, Ring Lardner, and Sherwood Anderson; combined them with..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...He went so far as to call "much of" James Joyce's Ulysses, which I'd praised, "tedious, self-indulgent crap" and..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Hitting Below the Mason-Dixon Line

America's Favorite Curmudgeon Takes On Thomas Pynchon

"...are middlebrows with delusions of grandeur. Think I'm kidding? James Joyce didn't get a Nobel Prize, but Pearl Buck..."

June 13, 1997 Books Feature

The Room Next Door

Old friends reconnect amidst a cancer diagnosis

"...the script dares to quote the final lines of James Joyce’s “The Dead” in a desperate attempt to add..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Taste of Things

Charming touching tale of love between two middle-aged chefs in 19th-century France

"...given a significance in description only matched by novelist James Joyce’s setting of the Christmas feast in “The Dead.”..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Winner by Karl Stevens

Here's the latest from that Boston badass of sequential art and reverie

"...if Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck can be effectively compared to James Joyce’s Ulysses – and it can – then it..."

July 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Yes We Said Yes We Will Yes

The Chronicle in bloom

"...Bloom's soliloquy in "Penelope," the last chapter of Ulysses, James Joyce..."

June 25, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Love Is a Battlefield

In 'The Holy Land,' indie auteur Eitan Gorlin Feels at home as an interloper in a world of religion, romance, and war.

"...Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, which was very much the same story as..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Time Regained

"...same sense as brain-busting literary boot-camp experiences such as James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. In fact, for those who are..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Paris Was a Woman

"...of the late 19th-century feminist movement. Like Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and other male expats who gravitated to Paris..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 18-24

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1922, Aquarian author James Joyce published Ulysses, a novel recognized as one of..."

April 18, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Absolutely Confabulous

Austin Public Library's New Fiction Confab focuses on buzz over brawn

"...His father is Thomas Staley, a UT professor and James Joyce scholar who in his 25-year tenure as director..."

April 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Is the Third 'Graphic Canon' a Decent End to the Ambitious Project?

Does this collection of illustrated literary classics succeed?

"...get proper sequential treatment? There are two homages to James Joyce's Ulysses, with fifteen pages from Robert Berry &..."

April 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interviews: Saturday

Metaphysical Graffiti and anti-intellectualism in pet names

"...through the streets of Philadelphia. "It's turning into this Joycean trip through town," he observes. "And by Joycean, I..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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