Moontower 5: First Wave of Comics Announced

Martin Short and Kevin Smith lead the laugh makers for 2016

"...of NBC’s Undateable Live; Andy Kindler; Beth Stelling; and James Adomian...."

Nov. 17, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Good Word

This Knish combines literature and pastries

"...for his company came from an unlikely source – James Joyce's Ulysses. Weinbrot was reading the novel at Zilker..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Food Feature by Serena Yeh

The Archive of the Patriarch

Ransom Center acquires Gabriel García Márquez papers

"...of the second half of the 20th century as James Joyce had on the first half." No dates were..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

The Poughkeepsie Kid

Shadowing Austin City Limits Executive Producer Terry Lickona

"...that includes Peterson, associate producers Leslie Nichols and Emily Joyce, and general manager Tom Gimbel...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Beware 'The Visitor'

Drafthouse Films brings space oddity to screens tonight

"...bull who shot Prizzi's Honor and the intolerably haunting James Joyce adaptation, The Dead...."

Nov. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Darkness in the Heart of Town

Will Sheff, one step forward, two steps back

"...should read Ulysses.' I had a hard time with James Joyce as a 16-year-old, but I would read everything..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Who Killed John F. Kennedy?

Despair, Inc.'s 'Lose Your Own Adventure' series gets conspiratorial

"...to check this shit out, citizen. If history, as James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus put it in Ulysses, is a..."

July 29, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The AggreGAYtor: October 1

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• New documentary claims that James Bond producers sent in a femme fatale to suss..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Five Graphic Novel Recommendations

No powers: Just ordinary people as fucked up as most of us – more or less.

"...here's a very literary work about, in part, author James Joyce's daughter Lucia. "In part," because it's also about..."

June 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kickstart My Heart

Austin is one of 10 cities featured prominently on online fundraising platform Kickstarter

"...as the arts themselves, from Harriet Shaw Weaver gifting James Joyce parts of her inheritance to public television gifting..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Austin and the Academy

'Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations

"...
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson "Incident in New Baghdad" 
James Spione "Saving Face" 
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy "The..."

Jan. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Magda Boreysza's Got Some Toastycats

And creates comics like Edward Gorey's more demented twin sister

"...Jews and a cameo by the disembodied head of James Joyce.) So go to Austin Books or to Domy,..."

Sept. 15, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Close Caption, James Sham, Arthouse..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Out of Ink: Forgetting Finnegan

The charm of ScriptWorks' annual showcase of 10-minute plays is in its potluck nature

"...include passages from both the end and beginning of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, and "time is running out."..."

April 15, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Off the Record

Sifting through the Austin sound ordinance, paying final respects to Pinetop Perkins, and catching up with Explosions in the Sky

"...Local booker Joyce DiBona describes Jovita's issues with the city during South..."

April 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Daring Pairings: A Master Sommelier Matches Distinctive Wines With Recipes From His Favorite Chefs

Beer & Wine

"...wine that is unassailable. But you don't receive four James Beard nominations without being pretty savvy about food as..."

May 28, 2010 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Pachanga!

Cinco de Mayo month Part III – the hombres: from Jovita's Mayo Pardo to Ruben Ramos' Mexican Revolution, Del Castillo, Joel Guzman, y más

"...Mesoamerican lore is brightly and iconically illustrated by Austinite Joyce DiBona's murals. Jovita's revolutionary consciousness is almost a world..."

May 29, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag

An exhaustive and often overwrought tome with an obsessive pen craft as unnerving as Schrag's storm of baby-dyke dilemmas and crises

"...thoughts (expressed in relentless stream-of-consciousness, the galvanizing influence of James Joyce's Ulysses), her incessant self-doubts, her habitual masturbation, her..."

May 8, 2009 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Cabinet of Drawings

The Ransom Center reminds us of the power of seeing originals over reproductions

"...Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum," a James Bingham illustration for one of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM

According to a 'USA Today' survey, 30% of all American youth hope to have careers in the arts. Who's been lying to these children?

"...have had to supplement their incomes with other jobs. James Joyce lived off-the-cuff until given a stipend from some..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

La Bête Humaine

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

"...reveal the subtleties of blending colors or listening to James Joyce pontificate on the virtues of this verb versus..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Joyce Tianello Snodgrass..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column

Page Two

Kill Contemporary Film Criticism: Vol. 1.

"...for instance, would criticize Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, or James Joyce for the richness of literary references in their..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Down From the Mountain

There was no snow at Sundance this year, but a strong slate nonetheless.

"...as well as documentary footage of Pekar and wife Joyce Brabner with their movie-world counterparts, Paul Giamatti and Hope..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who's That Girl?

The Bookslut -- aka Jessa Crispin -- is getting people excited.

"...arms filled with the likes of Alasdair Gray, Graham Joyce, Octavia Butler, Shirley Jackson, and James Kelman (she's in..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...James M. Grace..."

July 26, 2002 Column

Making Porn

Ronnie Larsen's play Making Porn dramatizes the making of Cops, a gay porn movie, from casting calls to the spin-off calendar, and in Naughty Austin's production, director Blake Yelavich realizes the comic potential of the script and the world of porn. But a tragic subplot undermines the show's success as a satire on the adult movie industry.

"...as pornography during Ireland's censorship era of the 1920s-50s: James Joyce's Ulysses, Federico Fellini's films, The Threepenny Opera. If..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...Man, The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...gonna be David Foster Wallace, I'm not gonna be James Joyce or Jeanette Winterson, I'm gonna be Brenner --..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...as inspiration for her fiction. Her writing influences include James Joyce, William Trevor, and John O'Hara...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

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