Austin Video Game Developer Certain Affinity Announces Original Title, Last Expedition

Independent game studio also plans expansion to offices in Toronto

"...designers, engineers, and managers. It added 55 full-time employees last year bringing the current total to more than 170...."

Jan. 30, 2019 Screens Post by James Renovitch

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

"...Sergio Castellitto and Jeanne Balibar. Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 expedition to Antarctica would be a fascinating story in itself,..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everest

Ace ensemble cast enacts the real-life story of a doomed climbing expedition

"...any doubt here: The mountain will always have the last word. Based on the ill-fated 1996 ascent of the..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Interstellar

Majesty and mawkishness combine in Christopher Nolan's film about humans' last-ditch attempt to find a habitable planet in another galaxy.

"...But hey, time’s relative, amirite? Interstellar is about humanity’s last-ditch effort to find a habitable planet in another galaxy..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Eight Below

We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a wonderful man-and-dog movie.

"...but Eight Below is a different animal entirely from last year's blockbuster documentary March of the Penguins. Again, however,..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Harvest

"...to the plummeting world-wide prices of coffee within the last several years, the Highlanders have borne the economic brunt..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Angry Birds Movie 2

The birds are back, with an added subversive twist

"...So far, so formulaic. But this second animated expedition to projectile bliss has a magical ingredient, and his..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Argo

Ben Affleck directs this entertaining thriller about an unbelievable-but-true mission to extricate American hostages from Iran in 1980.

"...acting reputation, has managed to reinvent himself over the last five years as one of Hollywood’s top-notch directors. Following..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wind Will Carry Us

"...only heard as disembodied, offscreen voices) find on their expedition to Kurdistan. They tell no one of their trip's..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Fenves to Be Next UT Austin President

Provost replaces Powers as regent wars still rage

"...It was unofficial last month, but now the final vote has been taken:..."

April 20, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...in its ambitious Texas Bookshelf series – spans the last five centuries and takes pains to include in its..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

APD Consent Searches Decrease

Consent searches often linked to racial profiling

"...from about 1,100 in 2010 to less than 700 last year...."

March 28, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Walk Across Texas

Remembering Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the first white Texan.

"...of 2,500 Native Americans who'd come bringing his (earlier) expedition food. That Cabeza de Vaca accepted a commission with..."

March 30, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Public Notice

Whoa! More nun action from your friends at Public Notice, plus,more opportunities for you to support good causes.

"...So we went off on that whole nun thing last week, and in retrospect, feel a need to clarify:..."

July 14, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

New Documentary Shows the Beauty of the Border, and the Perils of a Barrier

The River and the Wall captures a wilderness without divisions

"...about what the U.S.-Mexico border is: one of the last great natural wonders of the Southern state, a wild..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters @ 3AM

We have become a space-faring species and are discovering that the universe is stunningly gorgeous and implacably dangerous – like us

"...shuttle launches or returns – and as I did last Sunday, May 25, when that audacious craft, NASA's Phoenix..."

June 6, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Ten Canoes

Ten Canoes is as much a work of anthropology as it is a narrative, and its true strength lies in its exploration of ancient aboriginal hunting practices, death rituals, and legal traditions.

"...danger, Minygululu takes Yeeralparil aside during a group fishing expedition to recount to him the ancient myth of Dayindi..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Egyptologist

This novel is not so densely felt or immediate as Arthur Phillips' first, the excellent Prague, but the reader is urged to persevere

"...his father-in-law-to-be and his seedy associates to back an expedition to discover the tomb of semiapocryphal pharaoh Atum-hadu...."

Sept. 10, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Almost Heroes

"...his lot?) in his role as the starchy, foppish expedition leader. Not surprising since all he has to muster..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Day Trips & Beyond: Natural Bridge Caverns

Underground expedition explores hidden passage

"...The May expedition was the first major exploration of the cave since..."

May 21, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Celling of Sundance

Sundance Film Festival Report

"...What might once have been a scouting expedition for distribution and acquisition executives in search of diamonds..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...songcraft, but then she was always a Stones freak. Last year's outstanding Ideé Fixé followed up the hard-to-follow-up Knocked..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...was it you needed again?" followed by the frantic, last-minute shoving of said object, elegantly unwrapped, into your sad..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from around the world

"...Wilson, D-Houston, blaming "white liberals" for his primary defeat last week...."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Yet when compared with last summer's overabundant thrill ride, when each new weekend piled..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Butthole Surfer Watch!

"...my eye on the Butthole Surfers. Hey, when's the last time an Austin act had the number one Modern..."

July 12, 1996 Music Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...was Òsuggested byÓ Anton ChekhovÕs Uncle Vanya, a work last brought to the screen in Vanya on 42nd Street...."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

City Hall Gets Better at the Basic Business of Budgeting

Early indicators are good, but difficult fiscal conversations linger

"...the moment – housing and homelessness. As we reported last week, these include big cash transfusions into the city's..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Off the Record

UT and KUT's communications about the Cactus Cafe remain off-grid, while David Kimbrough Jr. reinstates his late father's legacy at TC's, and Alejandro Escovedo goes viral from the Stone Pony in Asbury Park

"...in the world. I'm going to play there one last time, pack my guitar, put it in its case,..."

July 30, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...– Mayor Will Wynn, who sees dead people, at last week's press conference in the wake of the Statesman..."

Feb. 6, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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