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

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

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

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

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

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

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Outlays Another $3.5 Million

City program supports 28 venues with ongoing grants as national Save Our Stages funds stall

"...Alongside Garza, venues now work primarily with consultant Joyce James on the "Equity Strategic Plan" requirement of the..."

April 23, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Pays 73 Venues

Ongoing funding under Phase 2 to begin in March.

"...Equity training begins this month with consultant Joyce James. Completed plans aren't required of venues in order..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Audits Highlight Problems at Police Academy

“It comes down to the culture”

"...The second report, from Joyce James Consulting, is essentially a compilation of prior reports..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Faster Than Sound: KindKeith Has What You Need

A dreamy alternative R&B debut and a few major venue reopenings, too

"...studio, moved here for a job offer from owner/bandleader James Petralli, connected through the singer's mother being best friends..."

May 14, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Civics 101

"...and the impact of institutionalized racism in our state. Joyce James moderates. 9-11:30am. St. James' Episcopal Church, 1941 Webberville..."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Column

In Live Music Preservation Fund’s First Week, 79 Austin Venues Applied for Relief

The slow road to dedicated venue funding now moving fast

"...that: “music venues must work with racial equity consultant Joyce James on long-term plans for diverse booking, hiring, and..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

African American Book Festival

Ninth edition of the Austin fest insists "Black Lives Matter"

"...Survive the Criminal Justice System with Prof. Timothy Walker, Joyce James, and Kizzy Fowler (sister of the late Larry..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Post by Alexa Harrington

The Texas Book Festival: Who's Out, Who's In?

The lineup changes slightly as big event draws nigh; schedule now live

"...Well, of course James Ellroy is still going to be there...."

Oct. 1, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

American Splendor

At the center of its uniquely beating heart, American Splendor is a heartfelt valentine to Everymen (and Women) everywhere

"...Robert Pulcini. Starring: Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Hope Davis, Joyce Brabner, Madylin Sweeten, Danielle Batone, James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Part of Our Day

When discussing the Golden Age of Television, we usually speak in terms of the national networks, but there's another chapter to the tale. Belinda Acosta looks at some of the pioneers of Austin television.

"...Wayne, Clayton Moore (aka The Lone Ranger), Chill Wills, James Arness, and Amanda Blake (of Gunsmoke) were among Hodgson's..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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

Writing About Humans

"...the best offerings from Brenda Maddox, biographer of Nora Joyce (wife of James), were rather keen bits of advice..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Arts Feature by Cari Marshall

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

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

2002 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...Chamber Neverending Stories: Writing Series for Children Paula Danziger, James Howe, Francisco Jiménez, Mary Pope Osborne, Moderator: Trevor Romain..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature

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

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...school project, Domino featured such acts as the Slades, Joyce Webb, Barney Tall, and Joyce Harris, a white singer..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Blonde

Treatise on fame turns Marilyn Monroe's life into a horror story

"...The second adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 2000 novel, Blonde is in a way..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Miller's Tale

Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'

"...L.C. Anderson High School, under the direction of B.L. Joyce. Joyce taught several generations of Austin's black musicians because..."

July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

Private Dancers

Watching (bad) movies with Mr. Sinus

"...Mr. Pollet, on the other hand, was compelled by James Smith (Glenn Plummer), an ersatz dancer/bouncer who befriends the..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

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