Letters to God

A young boy with cancer writes letters to God, an action that affects the lives of others around him.

"...Doughtie. Starring: Robyn Lively, Jeffrey Johnson, Tanner Maguire, Michael Christopher Bolten, Maree Cheatham, Bailee Madison and Ralph Waite. I’ve..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Our Lips to God's Ear

What the new Statesman might do

"...of the Austin American-Statesman, whomever that might turn out to be, will face a daunting task trying to create..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Dear God

"...Maria Pitillo, Tim Conway, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jon Seda, Hector Elizondo, Jack Klugman and Coolio. It's like getting the..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Letters

Mother Teresa biopic delivers no miracles

"...fille who witnessed a beautiful lady in a Lourdes grotto (The Song of Bernadette) or the virginal (again) peasant..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dear God, What Hath Monofonus Wrought Now?

The Austin indie media company gets all epistolary with Thor Harris

"...– wildly talented painter, celebrated drummer for SWANS, helmet-wearing Viking-about-town – went through a period of extreme depression years..."

May 25, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The More You Learn About God, the Further Away from Him You Move

mewithoutYou frontman Aaron Weiss likes a good question, but finds some answers easier than others

"...Aaron Weiss is a man of God. Not because the mewithoutYou frontman sings about Judeo-Christian matters..."

June 15, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 20 Years

Some "Postmarks" writers just don't know when to quit … god bless 'em.

"...There aren't too many of my co-workers who will admit it, but..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Lee Nichols

Willie Nelson Delivers Down to Earth Keynote SXSW Online Needed

“I smoke a lot of pot, keeps from killing people or getting killed”

"...Nelson when asked if he missed being on his tour bus this last year. “And every now and then..."

March 17, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 20 Years

Some 'Postmarks' Writers Just Don't Know When to Quit … God Bless 'Em

"...on The Austin Chronicle's most prolific letter writer tend to be quite polarized, but one thing is for sure:..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM

Having a personal relationship with an impersonal God

"...brother Aldo returned again and again in our conversations to one question. He posed it always as though for..."

May 8, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

Family life in the Bible mirrors the worst in anyone's family

"...two creation myths in Genesis, but the first is too good to be ours...."

April 13, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The Devil gives you five seconds, and God gives you none at all

"...Death of Frank Sinatra (written and published), One Marilyn Too Many (written and rejected), and Las Vegas Knows My..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?

The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding

"...He wrote that Chico was "the only Marx brother to graduate from public school." As for Harpo: "At the..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Tribeca Film Festival Review: No Man of God

Latest Bundy biopic is a portrait of the investigator

"...There's a famous photo. Two guys in a corner table in some rustbelt..."

June 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Articles of Faith

"That all things are possible is God"

"...I was 18, about to be 19, and learning the meaning of necessity. My..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up

"...moment's consciousness in motion, the concept of individuality distilled into one shot – a strictly Western creation, probably because..."

April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

We are a community, we and the creatures. There are only a few tenths of a percent of difference between the chimpanzees' DNA and ours, yours, mine.

"...and careening, running helter-skelter this way and that, bumping into each other, yowling in each other's faces, hopping up..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The total absence of popular backlash to the paganism of The Mists of Avalon shows that the American fundamentalist influeunce has begun to ebb.

"...Consider the following address, to none other than God, delivered in a cathedral while..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Free to Be You and Me

'Chronicle' letter-writers and the editors who love them: a field guide

"..."Would you like to know a secret, just between you and me..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

When we say, "This is Nature, and this is not," we're just picking and choosing according to our ideologies, desires, and needs – in other words, a power play to make life behave as we wish. That it never does is life's answer to our machinations.

"...Aurelius (died AD 180). "In time," he continued, "Earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will..."

March 3, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 20 Years

Some 'Postmarks' Writers Just Don't Know When to Quit … God Bless 'Em

"...say about Paul Aviña: One, he always has something to say, as "Postmarks" readers very well know. Two, he's..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM: Hitting the Street

Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most

"...was a street kid. (No. There is no "was" to the street. Still a street kid, down deep.)..."

May 30, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December

Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve

"...thing about Christmas is that you know what's going to happen to the kid. No matter how sweet the..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 20 Years

Some 'Postmarks' Writers Just Don't Know When to Quit … God Bless 'Em

"...Stop the presses! Kurt Standiford, the fire-and-brimstone writer of countless..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Amy Smith

Five Things to Stuff Your Literary Stocking

Supercharge your personal, locally sourced library

"...Not Jeanne Thornton's first novel, but her first for literary powerhouse Soho..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 20 Years

Some 'Postmarks' Writers Just Don't Know When to Quit … God Bless 'Em

"...did see nobody have a cancer of the big toe neither, you know what I mean? ... I don't..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Letters @ 3AM

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

"...As I write on May 29, the toilet is out of order on the space station. It's..."

June 6, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

'My love is an imperfect thing but it sings.' Those are the words to be carved on the tombstone of Michael Ventura's brother Aldo, an unstable soul who died last week.

"...cancer – or, more accurately, of a hellish reaction to the chemo. Many of Aldo's lines exist only in..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Technological progress is altering fundamental issues of identity.

"...the arts. Zeus disapproved, punishing Prometheus by chaining him to a mountaintop where a vulture devoured the immortal's liver..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...When a friend writes an exceptional book it's your victory too -- everyone's victory, really, and against all odds,..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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