The State of Texas vs. Melissa

New documentary spotlight's the Lone Star State's death penalty fetish

"...2-year-old daughter, speaks to the camera from a prison visiting area. She looks tired as she confesses: “I don’t..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Movie Review by Sarah Marloff

Vitalina Varela

Portuguese master of social observation visits migrant workers in old age

"...be highly stylized, but the depiction of destitution is just one indignity after another – like the piece of..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Color Out of Space

Lovecraft adaptation finally captures eldritch horror

"..."A dream you dream alone is just a dream. A dream you dream together is reality,"..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2019:
Embracing the Journey

Anika Fajardo and Tembi Locke travel far to find what’s near

"...Scratch, Locke recounts losing her husband to cancer and visiting his family in Sicily just a few months after..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Barbara Purcell

Best of SXSW: Best Stage Banter, Best Show, Best Repeats

… and other observations from Kevin Curtin’s notebook

"...“When is your showcase? Everyone just yell it at the same time, because that’s how..."

March 19, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Kin

Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal

"...parents sometime in the past. We first see him visiting his adopted mother’s grave before hopping on his bicycle..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Rider

Powerful docudrama of life on the range.

"...as either a peripheral or central family member. She’s just Lilly; she is who she is. A sequence that..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...by his inexplicable symptoms. As it happened, a relative visiting at the time was a doctor of physical therapy,..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Turn Your Yard Into a Wildlife Habitat

Preserving the environment by letting your lawn go wild

"...make it like a botanical garden/food forest/native plant exhibition. Just about everything that grows in Texas that produces food..."

April 21, 2017 Features Feature by Jessi Cape

Mug Life

Austin isn't a world-class beer destination, but it's close

"...has proven to be its biggest challenge and greatest injustice. While better-established breweries around the country have begun to..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Jackie Robinson's Austin

The All-American, Major League star and human rights hero spent a few youthful months on the east side of our city's 'Mason-Dixon Line'

"...Robinson was in town visiting Downs that afternoon, but he'd stepped into the drugstore..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

On Writers and Con Men

James Magnuson's roman à clef about a creative writing program in Texas is in many ways a loving tribute to James Michener

"...in the country, he has worked alongside such distinguished visiting writers as Denis Johnson, W.S. Merwin, and J.M. Coetzee..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Farmer's Daughter, Global Scholar

Food historian Rachel Laudan takes the long view

"...hind leg of a pig. Laudan defines "cooking" not just as applying heat, but also as many ways of..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Paperboy

This lurid Southern tale by the director of Precious shows that he still knows how to push people's buttons – and gather an all-star cast to sell the goods.

"...with racial divisions. Ward’s 20-year-old brother Jack (Efron), who’s just been kicked out of college, is enlisted as the..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection

No luck: Madea doesn't assume a new identity and disappear. Instead the old gal takes in Eugene Levy, playing an investor implicated in a Ponzi scheme.

"...the producer, writer, and director of this film – just as with most of his other movies – but..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: The Return of Our Angel

Marilyn Monroe has returned to us recently in various guises

"...in various guises recently, and, since she's back, a visiting angel, she invites contemplation – as she always did...."

March 9, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

After a Fashion

A chicken, a dog, and a homecoming: Just another week in the life of Your Style Avatar

"...ACT OF DOG My 17-year-old niece Annie Moser was visiting from Seattle a few months ago when a man..."

July 1, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The American

George Clooney stars in this thoughtful thriller from the director of Control, the biopic about Joy Division's Ian Curtis.

"...on his solitary way of life. Or maybe I’m just reading into what Jack/Edward feels; The American exposes very..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Family Matters

Downtown dining with young ones doesn't have to be daunting

"...for a mother-son Downtown date (or an outing with visiting grandparents). The food had to be healthy so that..."

June 11, 2010 Food Feature by Katherine Gregor

Genius and Jive

My roller-coaster relationship with Daniel Johnston

"...become famous. He also didn't think that, but we're just getting there...."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Food-o-File

At the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

"...assess what its objectives are and then to evaluate just how well it lives up to it. As the..."

April 14, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Broken Flowers

Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.

"...Wives, Winston sends Don off with an itinerary for visiting the five old girlfriends. One by one, he appears..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What We Learned

What is the state of the arts in America and where does Austin fit in the mix?

"...this deliberation? A few conferees – some local, some visiting – offer their thoughts.Brian QuirtFounder and artistic director, Nightswimming,..."

June 24, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...their children to Gullett or Bryker Woods without even visiting Brentwood. This phenomenon is perplexing to me because of..."

May 27, 2005 Column

Zhou Yu's Train

Chinese romance stars beautiful Gong Li as a modern woman with two male lovers.

"...Lane riding the train on her way home from visiting with her book-loving lover in Unfaithful. Perhaps that’s putting..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

In Corsicana, "excellent fruitcake" is not an oxymoron.

"...ingredients. "Only 20 percent is the cake," Crawford says, "just enough to hold it all together."..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

TCB

All the hip-hop that fits in ATX.

"...Screw and Swisha House." Duran tries to bring in visiting artists to Non Stop for an autograph session at..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Kids Are All Right

Not your parent's summer camp, rock & roll camp!

"...also very astute; when I mentioned that we'd be visiting Antone's midweek to see Jimmie Vaughan, they were ecstatic...."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Prescriptions for Survival

When it comes to going back to school, what will be, will be…

"...high school English class in Shanghai, China. I was visiting the country for a few months and wasn't too..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

The Name of the Game

Raising deer, oryx, antelope, and more on central texas ranches

"...Driving just about anywhere in the Hill Country these days, you..."

June 7, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

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