Bend It Like Beckham

"...Ameet Chana. Soccer's a tough sell in the States. Unlike the rest of the world (where "football" is a..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alton Brown Is Coming to Town

"...the perfect merging of Bart Simpson and Stephen Hawking. His show, Good Eats, provides a shrewd mix of slapstick,..."

March 28, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Life Is.....

"...I title this Life is because the so many things that get..."

Oct. 30, 2007 Promotions Post

The Fault in Our Stars

The film does justice to the popular novel in this judicious teen tearjerker.

"...the burden of that worry as heavily as the oxygen tank she must lug with her everywhere. She attends..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stumblin' In

At the crossroads of the Quatro brand and Spotify

"...Between Margaret Moser’s local discovery of Patti Quatro and Jim Caligiuri singing Spotify's praises,..."

Aug. 16, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place

Gay Place loves you

"...FUNNY VALENTINE What is love love is the drug is this love all..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Sweet

"...with hard rock riffs, and the early singles on this 2-CD set only hint at what's to come. In..."

April 24, 2009 Music Review by Greg Beets

You Got Me Singing

Another Spotify convert

"...I are about the same age, so it’s no surprise we’ve had similar experiences when it come to how..."

Aug. 10, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

TV Eye

Looking for love in all the wrong places: namely, on television.

"...If contemporary television is any indication, looking for love is not a..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Pianist

"...redone in Holocaust blacks and crimsons: Art -- what is it good for? Can it save the world, effect..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Getting Googled

On the road to high speed paradise, hurry up ... and wait

"...Sreet Tuesday was a combination toddler's birthday party, media love fest, and Christ­mas morning – if what you found..."

April 12, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...Road (Chronicle review, Jan. 22), but Catmull doesn't seem like a person inclined to sit still and accept praise...."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Heavy Metal

Even in blazing summer, Austin's welders and forgers fire it up and make like rock & rollers

"...group of people forging metal with sledgehammers and tongs is like watching a band make rock & roll. Not..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Playing With Fire

There's no spark in this joke-free firefighters-versus-kids flop

"...Key, John Leguizamo, Judy Greer, Tyler Mane, Brianna Hildebrand, Christian Convery, Dennis Haysbert and Finley Rose Slater...."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jurassic World

Bigger isn’t necessarily better

"...Directed by: Colin Trevorrow. Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Godzilla

This is the original and uncut version of the 1954 Japanese monster picture.

"...Directed by: Ishirô Honda. Starring: Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi, Akira Takarada and..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

"...mothers and daughters onscreen took a prickly turn. The masochistic suffering that made Barbara Stanwyck such a good mother..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Everest

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

"...peak by two expedition groups, during which several persons perished (the same disastrous climb that Outside magazine journalist and..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ghosts of the Abyss

"...Bill Paxton. Say what you will of the hokey love story, the "aw-shucks" dialogue, that irritating kook with the..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Be Filled With Dredd For Other Worlds

Judge Dredd retrospective plus new hits for SF fest

"...The law is coming to Other Worlds Film Festival: yes, the local..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Low Libido

When the oxygen mask drops, you use it on yourself first

"...slowed way down. Part of the reason for that is because her kids are home a lot more, but..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

News AggreGAYte for the Week of Fri., April 8

Wherein the GP resurrects the News AggreGAYte

"...and several other queer blogs as an aspiring queer journalist and writer. The "hip-spanic" lives in Dallas where he..."

April 8, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

Playback – Now Hiring: Austin Music Office

Austin’s top governmental job in music is up for grabs

"...The City's Economic Development Department (EDD) this week posted an online application for manager of their..."

April 28, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...This weekend, red wristbands will upstage Lance Armstrong's yellow, because..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Barefoot in the Park: In the Pleasure of Their Company

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre revival of Barefoot in the Park, Neil Simon's early comedy about newlyweds in a nosebleed-high love nest, can't disguise the shortcomings of Simon's script, but with the vitality that Director Melba Martinez and an expressive, animated cast bring to the production it's always pleasant just being in the characters' company.

"...The course of true love never did run smooth ... especially up six flights..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Film

Film Reviews

"...Mary Carver, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor Stewart. Carol's life is killing her, or so it seems. But, maybe it's..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

In Memoriam: Frank Benge

Remembering the artist, critic, and man of the theatre

"...he seemed to need it to breathe. Theatre was oxygen to Frank Benge up to his last breath, which..."

March 18, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Hopelessly Devoted to 'Grease'

"I was born to Hand Jive, baby, and that's not even a euphemism," says Sarah Hepola, explaining the continuing appeal of camp classic, Grease. Project Transitions and the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will host a sing-along performance of Grease this weekend at the Paramount.

"...This Saturday, for the second year in a row, Project..."

July 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

After UFO Whistleblower Testimony, UT Prof Says: Let’s See Some Evidence

He’d be “the happiest astronomer on Earth if [this were] real”

"...Congress held a hearing on the possibility the U.S. is concealing evidence of UFOs – or their official nickname,..."

July 27, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

You Don't Wanna Mess With Shady Stockman

Establishment GOP determined to hunt down Cornyn challenger

"...a miracle reversal of fortunes, Republican Sen. John Cornyn is pretty clearly going to be the GOP nominee for..."

Jan. 7, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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