Diplomatic Pouch & Love Berry

"...first film is this 30-minute farce in which the "love berry" is an illegitimate child. His first feature is..."

Sept. 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Why Do Fools Fall in Love

"...Directed by: Gregory Nava. Starring: Larenz Tate, Halle Berry, Lela Rochon, Vivica Fox, Paul Mazursky and Little Richard...."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Six Degrees of Ron Berry

With another acting job in a new play, his own new theatre about to open, his own stage company that champions theatre as something fun as well as substantive, and a lot of friends to help him make "good stuff" onstage, is Ron Berry the Happiest Man in Austin?

"...Fatigue, I noted a pair of tuxedo-bedecked actors, Ron Berry and Carlos Trevino, standing shoulder-to-shoulder at the front of..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Love Bath

SXSW 2010 keynote speaker Smokey Robinson originally wanted to be a cowboy, but they didn't have any horses in his hood

"..."Don't Know Why" as its first single, but it's "Love Bath" sliding you slowly into the sudsy soak of..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

You Made Me Love You

What is this thing called crush? Specifically, what makes us swoon over people we've never met? The creative minds at the Blue Theater have gathered over two dozen actors, musicians, artists, writers, and puppeteers to create art, wall-writing, and short performance pieces to address that very question in Celebrity Crush.

"...reflect bitterly on the complete crock that is romantic love in this over-hyped, over-marketed goddamn day and age. Perhaps..."

March 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Unrequited Love

Considering the high prices and small portions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood admits that to pursue her tryst with Emilia's would make her a fool for love.

"...this will have to be a tale of unrequited love. We've all felt it at one time or another...."

May 4, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Playback: Mac's Love Letters

Ian McLagan got that mojo working

"...Dylan and the Rolling Stones, and recording with Chuck Berry, just released his eighth studio album, United States, on..."

June 20, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Backward 'Spin'

Catherine Berry explains how to reverse engineer your very own musical

"...No matter how much you may love musicals – love hearing them, love singing them, love..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beautiful Thing

This is a sweet yet unsentimental coming-of-age film about two teenage boys in a working-class London suburb who fall in love.

"...Directed by: Hettie MacDonald. Starring: Glen Berry, Linda Henry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson, Ben Daniels and..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

You Can't Bury Me

Octavis Berry died, but he left behind the League of Extraordinary G'z

"...His name was Octavis Berry, and he rapped as Esbe da 6th Street Bully...."

June 8, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Things We Lost in the Fire

This film starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro is an impeccably constructed and perfectly paced drama of domestic and internal volatility.

"...Directed by: Susanne Bier. Starring: Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Alexis Llewellyn, Micah Berry,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cadillac Records

The story of the birth of Chicago blues is well-told through this ensemble portrait of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Etta James, Little Walter, and their label, Chess Records.

"...such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Chuck Berry, and Etta James, and the Chess Records label, which..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fusebox Festival Director Chooses His Top Five Stops for EAST 2019

Ron Berry on what's hot on this year's East Austin Studio Tour

"...Think of Ron Berry, and you think April. After all, that's the month..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Ron Berry

An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn

This year's weirdest, most delightful rom-com

"...Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson, Matt Berry, Maria Bamford, Michael D. Cohen, Zach Cherry and Sam..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

"...of creating music in the tiny basement studio of Berry Gordy's Detroit “Home of the Hits” (until Gordy moved..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Father Hood

"...Directed by: Darrell James Roodt. Starring: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Sabrina Lloyd, Brian Bonsall and Diane Ladd. Although Patrick..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric Brings His New Wine to Austin

Las Jaras wines – “Sweet Berry Wine” – comes to town this spring

"...fans who know they produce the highly sought-after “Sweet Berry Wine.”..."

March 29, 2019 Food Post by Tom Thornton

New Year's Eve

Did you see Garry Marshall's last all-star movie Valentine's Day? This is the same silly claptrap, just a different holiday.

"...Directed by: Garry Marshall. Starring: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris "Ludacris"..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

X-Men: The Last Stand

This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors – racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.

"...Directed by: Brett Ratner. Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

World Without End

The Austin Film Society will be screening all-new 35mm prints in an eight-film retrospective of the work of Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko.

"...Also screening are his early comedies, Diplomatic Pouch and Love Berry; Ivan, the story of a peasant who moves..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

X-Men

"...Tyler Mane, Bruce Davison, James Marsden, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Ian Mckellen, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart. It's inspired..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Conspirare's Hope of Loving

This concert of works by Jake Runestad conveyed a sense of love as a force that soothes, enlightens, and heals

"...To say love was everywhere in Conspirare's first concert of 2019, that..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Luzhin Defence

"...an Italian lakeside resort, The Luzhin Defence is a lovely-to-look-at period romance that, other than the beautifully played eccentrics..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Burn Up That Quarter Mile

Jan & Dean mark the endless summer with a new compilation

"...out middling chart-sitters such as “A Sunday Kind of Love” and “When I Learned to Cry.” The distinctive choirboy..."

Sept. 2, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Summit on Race in America: Motown at 60

Detroit pop icons continue in the name of love

"...of the Motown Records cathedral spread the equality of love during a panel at the presidential complex on Wednesday..."

April 11, 2019 Music Post by Derek Udensi

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

I will always love you

"...hard-boiled killers, however, is that they’re both fools for love. Bryce’s ex-girlfriend Amelia Roussel (Yung) is the Interpol agent..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dark Knight Rises

An uncannily accurate mirror of the contemporary cultural zeitgeist, this epic finale to the Batman trilogy is just that: epic.

"...(aka Two-Face, aka Aaron Eckhart) and the murder of A.D.A./love interest Rachel Dawes. In the interim, Wayne has abandoned..."

July 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Run Rudolph Run

Revisiting Keith Richards' “Run Rudolph Run”

"...Though generally credited to Chuck Berry, “Run Rudolph Run” wasn’t penned by Richards' maker. Chuck..."

Dec. 22, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Weekend Wine

June 9 - Celebrate National Rosé Day

"...rely on their vineyards to produce a dark red berry-looking wine. So they are left with a few options...."

June 9, 2018 Food Post by Wes Marshall

What's Happening?

Ruta Maya toasts the Summer of Love

"...followed. The summer of 1967, aka the "Summer of Love," and all its gauzy images of mind-expanding freak-outs and..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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