Page Two: Running in Place

Movie-serial style coverage plagues the most thrilling, genuine, and troubling Democratic contest in decades

"...and the people are sad."..."

May 30, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Duck Amuck

Cultural touchstones for the gray spaces

"...Ambushed again, despite my best intentions and earnest determination, I am right where I wish I..."

May 23, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel's unorthodox but true story about a protagonist who is stripped of all self-movement and expression is equal parts reverie, despair, and social experiment.

"...Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup and Olatz López Garmendia. In his brilliant new film, The..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Anything Goes

That free-for-all spirit is part of the kick of FronteraFest

"...The hidden lives of flight attendants. And artists. And actors who do children's theatre...."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Indefinable Magic

Ernie Durawa's Monstas keep another grim demon at bay

"...crowd balancing two platters of softshell-crab po'boys in one hand and an Abita beer in the other. A middle-aged..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Entranced

Remembering one who fascinated us all: Karen Kuykendall, 1937-2007

"...the two had never met, drawling "Karen Kir-ken-doll" slowly and with exaggerated enunciation, as if the party to whom..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Inhuman Resources

City HR employees rebel over director's actions, city response

"...Resources Department – charged with managing the city's hiring and firing and monitoring its treatment of employees, among other..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Letters @ 3AM

An economy of speculation is an economy of debt

"...Subject: The decline and fall of the former United States of America (F-USA)..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Cap Met Axes Labor Relations Manager Position

Transit authority's union concerned about unexpected move's impact on upcoming negotiations

"...to contract with its union workforce. With McCulloch's labor and leadership positions disappearing as part of a broader restructuring,..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Hold Those Tolls!

Road conditions: funding hazy, future unclear

"...It was Dec. 16, 2004, and Rep. Mike Krusee, R-Round Rock, was sitting pretty. He..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Larry Schooler

Venus: Shocking Blue & Cabanel

The Shocking Blue scores Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus

"...burning like a silver flame. The summit of beauty and love, And Venus was her name. Looks like a..."

July 20, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Miller's Tale

Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'

"...Ernie Mae Miller holds in one small hand a framed photograph from the Forties. It's a band..."

July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Holywood Squares?

A local church rents out the Alamo Drafthouse South for a conference on Christians and film

"...would you get if your friend called you up and said, "Hey, let's go see that Christian film tonight!..."

April 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

A Guide to the Works

"...seven days with performances beginning at 10:30am each day and ending around midnight. Works are being performed in a..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

"...be alone. But to be alone with other people, and not to forget yourself within yourself. And when there's..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Page Two: Let's Get Lost

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest

"...South by Southwest begins tonight (Friday, March 9) and runs for nine days. This issue is devoted to..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

ProArts/ACC: Keeping Boyd's dream alive

To honor a man whose name was synonymous with community, ProArts Collective and Austin Community College have jointly established the Boyd Vance Scholarship Fund

"...the age of 47, became popular as a musical and comedy performer, his legacy rests in nurturing the Austin..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Epic Movie

The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.

"...Directed by: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge,..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: In This World

The all-consuming genius of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth

"...that he was overrated – that his voice sucked and his brilliance hit a cement wall after the first..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Slippery Slopes

Insights on the way to a point, a peek at future topics, and an argument against reductionism

"...I move forward, completely surrounding an idea with details and clarifications rather than confronting it head-on. Some portion of..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: A Little Light-Rain Music

A holiday meditation

"...calmness rolls over me like a fragrance, surrounds me, and scents me. It's one of those rare interludes where..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Take Me to Bed or Lose Me Forever

Volitant Gallery's exhibition "Take Me to Bed or Lose Me Forever," which both employs and questions many of love's clichés to reflect on our experience of the emotion, is a smile and a good laugh

"...he follows with "Show me the way home, honey." And if you don't remember what comes next, Volitant's current..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Kitsch Kringle

What we really want when we want Santa

"...days of bliss this timeless song predicts for parents and children in the weeks before Christmas! The lyric writer..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Spring Is the Cruelest Season

"...with some more contemplative words on the condominium Waste Land...."

Dec. 6, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

TCB

Halloween tricks and treats from the Rolling Stones, Pet Shop Boys, White Ghost Shivers, and Palm School Choir, while yet another Austin outdoor festival is born

"...Before the lights went out, the fireworks went off, and the cosmos on the 2,500-square-foot video screen coalesced into..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Trying Somehow to Catch Up

Take two for What Made Milwaukee Famous' debut, Trying Never to Catch Up

"...performance at Waterloo Records – the day after the band's return from a month on the road – the..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Page Two: Songs of Ourselves

As friends and legends pass, art and memory burst from the present and warn the future

"...The Light and the Darkness..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Supports Abolition of Electroshock

"...City,” News, March 31]. As a local psychologist, I understand TCHD's desire to help address the inadequacy of emergency..."

April 5, 2006 Postmarks

Heaven up Here

27 reason to further investigate the UK roster of bands at SXSW 2006

"...to the contrary, the United Kingdom remains a monarchy, and nowhere is this more apparent than in its musical..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Stephen lovingly remembers his time designing couture for Zach Scott Theatre

"...… but one in particular sent me spinning down memory lane: Anne Page Dubois. Zach Scott Theatre was only..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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