Bad News Horns

"...Did the Texas Longhorns play their best, most-complete game against Texas..."

Nov. 13, 2007 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Feast of Love

Robert Benton directs this Oregon-set meditation on the permutations of love among a constellation of characters.

"...each character's frown to turn upside down or find the silver lining in the sadness or latch on to..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat

Bad cat makes stink in theatre.

"...this book had a hook, a miraculous hook of the kind kids most dig – this book was quite..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An Angel for AMT

The recent fiscal crisis for Austin Musical Theatre threatened to keep the company from mounting any future productions, but producer Charles Duggan has come to AMT's rescue, offering to produce a week-long retrospective of musical numbers from the company's first 15 productions.

"...They don't call 'em angels for nothing. When theatre backers..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Black Knight

"...Regan, Marsha Thomason, Kevin Conway and Erik Jensen. After the inexplicable popular success of Big Momma's House, no doubt..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Others

"...Alakina Mann and James Bentley. I'm tempted to call The Others the best haunted house film since Robert Wise's..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

X-Men

"...indeed to plug Shakespearean greats Stewart and McKellen into the (literally) comic-book roles of professor Charles Francis Xavier (aka..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Freaks

"...Wallace Ford, Olgas Baclanova, Leila Hyams and Roscoe Ates. The Austin Film Society's current series examines the horror films..."

Sept. 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mighty

"...movies, Hear My Song and Funny Bones, two of the best and most offbeat films of the Nineties. With..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Space Jam

Dexterously mixing live action and animation, Space Jam tosses NBA champ Michael Jordan onto the 2-D court with the entire Looney Tunes gang and the opposing Monstar team of cartoon characters from another planet.

"...Directed by: Joe Pytka. Starring: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Bill Murray and Danny DeVito. Space Jam lies..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Restoration

"...Robert Downey, Sam O'Neill, Meg Ryan, Ian Mckellan, David Thewlis, Polly Walker and Hugh Grant. The redemption of the..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Emo’s Sold

C3 Presents adds another jewel to its concert promotions crown

"...After 10 weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations, Emo’s owner Frank Hendrix called to confirm that..."

Feb. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The AggreGAYtor: December 28

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Trey Songz denies making love after midnight, Charles Bass swims against the flow, and Ryan Murphy passes..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens' picaresque teems with wonderful performances and bright direction by McGrath (who also did the same for Jane Austen in Emma).

"...Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall, Romola Garai and Hugh Mitchell. Charles Dickens' 1939 novel is here adapted into a charming..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Austin Playhouse’s The (One-Act) Play That Goes Wrong

An evening of side-splitting schadenfreude

"...Sayer have made a career out of calling out the little mishaps, miscues, and occasional missed lines that take..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Precious Lloyd

Butler School concert honors African American composer

"...as an essential part of African American music, but little attention has gone to the composers who have preserved..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

How to Paper a Powder Room

New books for when you've got a little time on your hands

"...you've fretted over flatware, stewed over how to strew the tinsel most artfully, and scrutinized what your coffeetable books..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Ball of Illusion

At the Krewe of Illusions Mardi Gras Ball in Lake Charles, just try to figure out where the queens end and the back-pieces begin...

"...The annual ball thrown by Lake Charles' Krewe of Illusions..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

TV Eye

POV's 'Al Otro Lado'

"...Illegals, wetbacks, mojados ... whichever label is deployed, the meaning is the same: someone who doesn't belong...."

July 28, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...Fall just got a little closer, readers, not in a meteorological sense but a..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dracula Untold

Prince Vlad fights off the Turks with with a little old-school vampirism.

"...Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Art Parkinson, Charles Dance, Diarmaid Murtagh, Paul Kaye and Zach McGowan...."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

In the world of Charlie Chaplin chaos reigns … and is celebrated: The Little Tramp turns 90

"...Ninety years ago – Feb. 2, 1914, to be exact – Mack Sennett..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Heart and Souls

"...Directed by: Ron Underwood. Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick, Elisabeth Shue, Tom Sizemore, David Paymer..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happy Death Day

Living your death over and over again

"...Directed by: Christopher Landon. Starring: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken and..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal

Josh Hancock, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dead at 29

"...I didn't have much of a connection to the late Josh Hancock, other than that he played for..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

The War Within

This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.

"...Starring: Ayad Akhtar, Firdous Bamji, Nandana Sen, Sarita Choudhury, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ajay Naidu, John Ventimiglia and Varun Sriram...."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Do the Tighten Up

'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel

"...something good in your own back yard. Such is the case with Texas Funk, released last fall on London-based..."

May 16, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Castle

"...Directed by: Rob Sitch. Starring: Wayne Hope, Tiriel Mora, Charles Tingwell, Anthony Simcoe, Sophie Lee, Stephen Curry, Anne Tenney..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Original Gangstas

"...Sanford, Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Dru Down, Shyheim, Luniz, Charles Napier, Wings Hauser, Scarface and Bushwick Bill. Where the..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Philadelphia

"...Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter and Charles Napier. With so many hopes, expectations and pressures riding..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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