Creature Construction

How Trouble Puppet creates those ingenious, inhuman figures that populate its plays

"...and I were watching that [online] trailer for The Jungle, and we teared up watching that: 'Oh no, he..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Studio Visits: Manik Nakra

On a tarp-covered wall in a studio on Burnet Road, there lurk tigers ...

"...outside of his pier-and-beam, north Burnet Road house: "Badass Jungle Show" was scrawled in thick Sharpie enlivening the design-y..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

The Cruel Circus

Though often entertaining and quite humorous, this Trouble Puppet show seems to be missing something

"...Theater when I saw its 2011 production of The Jungle. To my surprise, it was one of the most..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

From Source to Sea

Three Austinites kayak South America

"...need their rest, because after the rapids, came the jungle...."

Jan. 4, 2013 Sports Post by Carly Yansak

The Jungle

Trouble Puppet's expanded take on Sinclair's novel is as grisly and graceful as ever

"...The Jungle..."

March 25, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

2010 B. Iden Payne Awards

Four shows took home nearly half the honors at this year's ceremony

"...had eyes for four. Collectively, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Jungle, Murder Ballad Murder Mystery, and The Taming of the..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2010 Texas Book Festival

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

"...End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle'..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Frankenstein

A puppet-driven hodgepodge romp through Mary Shelley's most famous work

"...you saw Trouble Puppet's staging of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. That earlier show was simpler and relentlessly dark and..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Jungle

Puppets add humanity to Upton Sinclair's story, retold here with a lean, mythic power

"...The Jungle..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Conquest of the Useless: Reflections From the Making of 'Fitzcarraldo'

The filming of Werner Herzog's 1982 epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazonian depths of Peru seemed mythically doomed from its inception

"...rather "inner landscapes, born of the delirium of the jungle." Throughout Conquest, Herzog is repeatedly disgusted by the jungle's..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Screens Review by Audra Schroeder

TV Eye

The floodgates are opening with a whole host of premieres and returning shows

"...Lipstick Jungle (NBC), Thursday, Feb. 7, at 9pm. Based on the..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

King of Bongo

Tracking Spain/France's illusive King of Latin punk rock, Manu Chao

"...Deep down in a jungle..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'A Traves de mis manos/Through My Hands'

In 'A Traves de mis manos / Through My Hands,' painter Esteban Machado Diaz offers us a gallery of playfully impossible landscapes reminiscent of Escher

"...center of which is a photorealistic representation of a jungle setting: dense, verdant foliage rising up on either side..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...JUNGLE BROTHERS: As charter members of the late-Eighties Native Tongues..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach

Jazz Sides

"...Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max RoachMoney Jungle (Blue Note) It has been hailed by some as..."

July 19, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Peter Anthony/ DJ Muppetfucker, DJ Firewheel, Texture/Empire, Thursday, March 15

Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001

"...badgey chaos outside. Back at Empire, former Rollers Redefined jungle sista (and www.blastro.com mainstay) DJ Firewheel was having a..."

March 23, 2001 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Blessed Deliverance

The Borderland, Bud Shrake's Latest Tall Tale

"...The name has a romantic sound, like an exotic jungle outpost. Is Texas a jungle? One hears conflicting reports:..."

March 31, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Summer Movie Events

"...Women: 7:00 Dinner at Eight: 9:40 7/2 The Blackboard Jungle: 7:00 In Cold Blood: 9:15 7/3 In Cold Blood:..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Summer Film Events

"...Women: 7:00 Dinner at Eight: 9:40 7/2 The Blackboard Jungle: 7:00 In Cold Blood: 9:15 7/3 In Cold Blood:..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

The State of Austin's Hip-Hop Scene

"...the Roots, De La Soul, Camp Lo, Spearhead, the Jungle Brothers, and the Boot Camp Clik...."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Music Recommended

"...Ready for a little "Jungle Love"? Besides issuing one of the Eighties' great calls..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...Shades..., will be available domestically from Island January 14) jungle's frenetic breakbeat samples are merely one element in a..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Music Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 2-8

"...20): Gemini painter Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) never saw a jungle in person. In fact, he never left his native..."

May 2, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Queer

Gorgeous but superficial adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel

"...chapter, in which Lee and Allerton head into the jungle to get the author straight (as in, off heroin)...."

Dec. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

A young ape dares to question if maybe humans aren't the enemy after all

"...of another self-proclaimed king, Louie from Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book, unhinged by his quest for Man’s Red Flower...."

May 10, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Arthur the King

Inspirational story about a pro adventure racer and the street dog he meets along the way

"...the nonfiction book Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home...."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review

Land of Bad

Russell Crowe stars as a veteran drone pilot attempting to rescue a special ops team stranded in the jungle

"...to rescue a special ops team stranded in the jungle...."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review

Review: Nômadé Is a Tropical Dining Destination

Experience a melting pot of flavors at this Yucatán-inspired oasis

"...so far only made the acquaintance of one real jungle – the tropics of Dominical, Costa Rica. My big..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Plane

Gerard Butler ages surprisingly well into elder action hero status

"...than a dad-bod Rambo traipsing through the Southeast Asian jungle with rifle in hand as he selflessly clashes with..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Avatar: The Way of Water

James Cameron goes deep, emotionally and aquatically, in his sci-fi epic

"...all-important change of location from the verdant if deadly jungle to the crystal-clear, unpolluted, still fairly deadly waters of..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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