Bellowing of the Ancient Beast

"...With busted pension plans and no homes to go back to, they can only watch as the old beast..."

Oct. 28, 2008 Postmarks

Glengarry Glen Ross

Watching Mamet's salesmen self-destruct may help you understand what happened to your IRA

"...salesmen speaking to a male customer, it's like a lover wooing his partner to come back to him, to..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Delicious Collisions

What a difference a year makes with Ann Ciccolella at Austin Shakespeare's helm

"...Internet to old friends, to help get Austin Shakespeare back on solid ground...."

Sept. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

No Lonesome Tune

Retiring the dean of Texas songwriters? Fat chance.

"...the matter more consistently than anyone else. A lifelong lover of poetry, Clark's songs are painstakingly built until there's..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

My Clone Sleeps Alone

"...of John “Cougar” Mellencamp’s pleading indiscretions, “I Need a Lover,” followed on both LP and FM radio, melting further..."

July 25, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Comic Books and Forward Motion

"...(A bit off-topic, but, to overcome a moment of writer’s block, I just looked through..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Who Doesn't Like Make-Believe?

"...in all our jousting, I’d hate for us to come off as seeming flip about comic books, because there’s..."

July 10, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...in Austin in the early 1980s. It's not a throwback to other bands he's played with or led, Rank..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer

Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler

"...which are the only circles that matter when it comes to this kind of debate...."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Secret Lives of Girls

AFS Documentary Tour presents the six-part Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

"...–and simultaneously juggled relationships with a married South African lover (with whom she was crazy in love) and a..."

April 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Van Morrison

"...It Simple, a simple declaration that the Man is back in the saddle. Morrison's first collection of originals in..."

March 28, 2008 Music Review by Dan Oko

A Disaster Brewing

Hops shortage squeezes local-beer makers and drinkers

"...that great. If not, then you're probably not a lover of craft beer. But for those of us who..."

March 21, 2008 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Rockeras

Mexico and Spain 'hablan' behind your back

"...Those people speaking Spanish behind your back are talking about you, aren't they? Get over yourself!..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Strange but True

Jad Fair making art out in Manor with monsters, aliens, and dead dogs

"...monsters, spewed from a soft spot for the Modern Lovers and the Velvet Underground. The group launched Fair's career..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

The Walker

Woody Harrelson stars as a professional escort for political wives in this Paul Schrader movie about sex, murder, scandal, and adultery in Washington, D.C.

"...a local financier – who was also the illicit lover of his friend and senator's wife Lynn Lockner (Thomas)..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

I Am 'Beowulf'!

Another bare-chested epic of mildly homoerotic proportions.

"...the entire movie. Lines like, "Many a man have come to drink my lord's mead," along with extended periods..."

Nov. 26, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Man With the Light Touch

Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire

"...the Young People's Concerts that CBS used to broadcast back when network television still thought cultural programs were worth..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sleuth

Surprisingly, this powerhouse combination of writer Harold Pinter, director Kenneth Branagh, and co-stars Michael Caine and Jude Law adds up to a load of nonsense.

"...the reigning No. 1 British screen heartthrob and still come up with nonsense. But somehow the producers of Sleuth..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Control

Control, Anton Corbijn's narrative portrait of Joy Division's suicidal singer, Ian Curtis, is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart.

"...who had the good fortune to photograph Joy Division back in the day, wisely never makes the mistake of..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Re-Re-Re-Re-Reopening Night

The Ritz: Talkie theatre, cowboy hangout, playhouse, comedy and punk club, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

"...of an infinite number of Shiner Bock wipeouts to come, there's still only one screen – the little one..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema

Sept. 4-Oct. 9

"...parlor rooms and gilded studies. Then John Osborne's Look Back in Anger appeared with its story of a disaffected..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Brain Wash

Coming to terms with conspiracy theorists, with some help from Loudon Wainwright III

"...hand, many respondents are absolutely abstract impressionists when it comes to logic. One of their theories holds that Iran-Contra..."

June 29, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Chet Baker in Black and White, but Still Blurry

Bruce Weber reminisces on Let's Get Lost

"...Abercrombie, and Lauren. (His work entered our visual consciousness back in the Eighties with his black-and-white Calvin Klein ads..."

April 27, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Mambo Italiano

Naughty Austin looks to be "coming out" for a more serious production with the gay "straight" play Mambo Italiano

"...never really talk about getting married, but both partners come from similar ethnic households in fair Quebec, where this..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...End of History, highlight minimalist candor. Denton, Texas, has become Bella Union's vacation home with Lift to Experience and..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

The Lives of Others

This recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is the story of the small redemption of one man, who happens to be a hated East German Stasi officer.

"...synonymous with criminality. Not even George Orwell could have come up with a place as horrible as communist Berlin...."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Pretty Ricky Knows Where to Lick, Stick Ya

"...lick ya, then I wanna sti-sti-sti-sti-stick ya." ("So Confused") "Come over here, let me lift your dress up. Call..."

Feb. 8, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

Gay Place's Top 10 Queer Doin's 2006

Queers look back at 'Brokeback' fever and forward to Mary Cheney's baby

"...bang … and a coupla wild bucks in a Brokeback bedroll. Water coolers across the country gurgled with countless..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Column by Kate Getty

La Onda Chicano

Tejano music, as a genre, might be on the ropes, but Sunny Ozuna – one of the genre's architects – is anything but

"...35th anniversary of the university's Center for Mexican-American Studies. Backed by an orquesta drawn from Hernández's La Familia and..."

July 21, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Raoul Hernandez responds: Yes, dear readers, the unidentified person's back in the picture in question looks an awful lot..."

July 21, 2006 Column

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