Mansfield Park

Jane Austen's third novel is infused with liberal doses of modern attitudes and autobiographical tidbits from the author's life.

"...Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Jonny Lee Miller and Harold Pinter. Jane Austen's third novel is given an odd treatment as..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jane

The life of famed anthropologist Jane Goodall

"...In 1960, the paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey sent his then-secretary, Jane Goodall, to the wilds of the Gombe Stream National..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Island Girl: Madi Jane West

Killer whale pop from the Pacific Northwest

"...Madi Jane West could be a map of my life so..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Hyde Park Theatre's A Doll's House, Part 2

Like its source material, this sequel from another mother entertains and inspires on its own terms

"...fiction working under a man's pseudonym à la Emily Jane Brontë's Ellis Bell. She has come home to get..."

March 8, 2019 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

Art in the Park: 'American Dream'

It's the day for you to deliver MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

"...on the newly repainted gazebo of the recently refurbished park with Kurt Mueller’s American Dream, an interactive artwork that..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Trailer Park Goes Big

'Ender's Game,' 'The World's End,' and 'The Butler'

"...so catch a little glimpse now in the Trailer Park...."

May 9, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Trailer Park Is All Over the Map

Superheroes, punks, and animated monsters

"...come take a wild roadtrip with … the Trailer Park...."

April 26, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Un-Limited Fun In the Park

"...the big Austin City Limits music festival in Zilker Park on September 28-29, announced at last! Acts in no..."

July 19, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

'Desperate Housewives of Roland Park'

An abbreviated version of the opening essay from Marion Winik's 'Highs in the Low Fifties'

"...brought me a foil package of homemade tortillas. When Jane got home from school, I rolled one up for..."

June 21, 2013 Arts Feature by Marion Winik

Austenland

Keri Russell plays a woman who vacations in a Jane Austen fantasy camp, but the film is lacking in sense and sensibility.

"...Starring: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Seymour, Georgia King, James Callis and Ricky Whittle...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Ruby Jane's no longer the innocent

"...artist who has not yet even turned 21, Ruby Jane Smith is a 17-year-old fiddle prodigy whose next trick..."

June 29, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Up Close and Personal

"...Personal, I felt that I ought to be seeing Jane Fonda's face where, instead, I was seeing Michelle Pfeiffer's?..."

March 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tarzan

"...appearance, which creates vine-swinging sequences that play like amusement park rides...."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love & Friendship

What took Whit Stillman and Jane Austen so long to find each other?

"...World. His newest film, an adaptation of an early Jane Austen novel (unpublished until after her death), is as..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

It seems rather churlish to complain about entertainment aimed at little girls, who almost never get big-budget movies made just for them, nevertheless … this movie substitutes pluck and spunk for drama and sparkle.

"...Patricia Rozema. Starring: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Max Thieriot, Willow Smith, Zach Mills,..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grace Sorensen, and More Highlights From Sunday at ACL Fest

From The Breeders’ sustaining cool to GloRilla’s unfazed flow

"...Stacking Katy Kirby, Jane Leo, and Grace Sorensen back to back, Sunday of..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Post Marks

Park and Ride

"...The Austin Parks Foundation endorses and supports Proposition 2 and Proposition 4..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Column

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...and a handful of Texans made the cut, including Park City regulars the Zellner Bros...."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Brave One

Jodie Foster might be good at playing a master of vengeance, but The Brave One turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even.

"...Terrence Howard, Mary Steenburgen, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews and Jane Adams. The Brave One is a confounding movie on..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Honoring Dr. George Tiller

Women's health providers and advocates plan a vigil for Tiller

"...HONOR DR. GEORGE TILLER Thursday, June 4th 8pm Butler Park 903 W Riverside Dr Near Palmer Events Center..."

June 2, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

ACL Fest Live Shots

Sunday, Sept. 17, Zilker Park

"...twanged alongside Mike Campbell's lead guitar as follow-up "Mary Jane's Last Dance" fired up. Campbell looked more Rasta than..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

SXSW Interactive Names 10 Featured Speakers

Casey Gerald, Anthony Bourdain added to lineup

"...Jane Park: Founder and CEO of Julep Beauty..."

Sept. 8, 2015 Screens Post by James Renovitch

A Long Activist Legacy Survives on the Eastside

Holding on to El Barrio

"...in the shade of a pecan tree in Chicano Park. The interviewees arrive single or in small groups, and..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

It's a great time to get out and explore

"...through June are already booked. Non-swimmers can use the park outside of Wimberley for free. May 1-Sept. 30, Jacob’s..."

May 5, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...the Jewish Baltimore of his youth in Liberty Heights; Jane Campion (The Piano) re-teams with Harvey Keitel in Holy..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emily

Speculative biopic of the middle Brontë sister, author of Wuthering Heights

"...In literature, Fanny Price is admittedly one of Jane Austen’s rare dullish heroines, but onscreen, in 1999, Frances..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Get Your Shovels Out

How a local crew of diggers built the baddest Downtown dirt jumps in the country at the Ninth Street BMX Trails

"...he'd learned to dig growing up around the dirt-tracked parks of Houston. He did a stint in the Army,..."

June 6, 2014 Sports Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Letters at 3AM

A visit to Deadwood: The legends show you where to go. Once you get there, you do your best to find out why you came.

"...Calamity Jane, at least as wild as Bill, gives a clue..."

June 24, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

The Sweetest Thing

"...Directed by: Roger Kumble. Starring: Parker Posey, Jason Bateman, Thomas Jane, Selma Blair, Christina Applegate..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Doomed. Bourgeois. In Austin: The Films of Whit Stillman

Indie legend on Austin, Austen, and his landmark trilogy

"...the credit for the revival of cinematic interest in Jane Austen, for at least nudging her back onto Hollywood..."

Oct. 11, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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