The Good Eye: Misadventure Book Launch Photo Gallery

Feb. 21, 2014 Column

The Good Eye: Misadventure Book Launch

February 20, 2014. 21 photos.

"...Good Eye covers A Strange Object's sneak-peek launch of Misadventure by Nicolas Grider at Big Medium Gallery.Back to column...."

Feb. 20, 2014 Photo Gallery

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

The cult following that surrounds the audio tapes of a couple of slurry drunks that were surreptitiously recorded in the late Eighties is given the documentary treatment.

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Strange Magic

Woodland goblins, elves, and fairies go to war in this animated movie from LucasFilm Animation.

"...batty Chenoweth). There’s an occasionally clever moment during this misadventure – Venus flytraps providing a walkway as they close..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Witless Protection

Larry the Cable Guy embarks on a new comic misadventure.

"...were held for this new Larry the Cable Guy "misadventure," in which he plays a small-town sheriff's deputy who..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Desert Blue

"...the death of the rig's driver. Death by soda-pop misadventure is one of the least likely ways to die..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

It's 2022, and someone thought we need a pro-Vietnam War comedy

"...Greatest Beer Run Ever, this promised to be a misadventure by some frat boy trying to score some beer..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

The Good Eye

Ah, le printemps

"...press A Strange Object's second release, the short-story collection Misadventure by Nicholas Grider. Fanned attractively on the table, Grider's..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Millions of Americans Are Strange

And dozens of them will prove this for A Strange Object on Tuesday night

"...now they're debuting Nicholas Grider's collection of stories called Misadventure, in which "Millions of Americans Are Strange" is the..."

Feb. 10, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Venom: The Last Dance

One last pas de deux between Tom Hardy's reporter and the hellraising symbiote he plays bodily host to

"...it goes with Venom: The Last Dance, the latest misadventure of ex-journalist Eddie Brock and Venom, the alien symbiote..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

Meta ain't betta in this unlovable, self-referential sequel

"...off-putting for anyone deluded enough to believe this updated misadventure might still offer a soupçon of Potteresque charm...."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the Valley of Elah

Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.

"...exposes the ugly truth behind our country’s recent Mesopotamian misadventure. Then there’s movie No. 2, the one about the..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters @ 3AM

Europe, Russia, and China can help install a new administration in the White House in 2008 by refusing to bail out Bush on his Iraq misadventure now.

"...You also know why this White House undertook this misadventure. First, of course, is to dominate Mideast oil. Most..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Great American Drug Book

How Robert Sabbag set out to write the Great American Novel but ended up becoming the nation's best chronicler of the drug trade.

"...Sabbag writing a book about Long's experiences. Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail (Little, Brown, $24.95) opens with..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Dumb and Dumber

"...guys in the universe on a road trip to misadventure is a hoot. And if a movie is to..."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Book Festival Unveils Full Author Lineup for 2024

Matthew McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell headline

"...in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon..."

Sept. 19, 2024 Books Post by Amaya Austin

Fantastic Fest Review: Final Cut

French remake of beloved Japanese movie-making comedy adds a little

"...but hapless indie filmmaking family who somehow, through complete misadventure, manage to pull off the seemingly impossible...."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Meet UT Math Professor and Spellbinding Songwriter Sean Keel

The seldom-performing educator's fragile voice breathes bittersweet nostalgia

"...and sentimental: "Soup Line," the story of a youthful misadventure that started after his father had passed out...."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Feature by Jack Corcoran

Comedy Wham's Five Austin Comics Not to Miss at Moontower Just For Laughs

The Austin comedy podcast's Five for Laughs: Locals Edition

"...comedy. Dowdy shares his unique tales of woe and misadventure in ways that are hilariously relatable. He also produces..."

April 8, 2022 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...that’s just the beginning of this insane, violent, hilarious misadventure from Kazakhstan. THE TAKING..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Returns to Celebrate Itself

Global genre gathering announces streaming lineup

"...guide him via his ghost gear technology through this misadventure so he can escape and find a way return..."

Sept. 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

First Trailer for Austin Conspiracy Comedy Duncan

Local filmmaker John Valley gets all Infowars nuttiness

"...uncover endangered children at an Austin pizza parlor. Their misadventure, and a subsequent manhunt, call up questions about tribalism,..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd

Black comedy Duncan needs your crowdfunding help

"...uncover endangered children at an Austin pizza parlor. Their misadventure, and a subsequent manhunt, call up questions about tribalism,..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Screens Column by Kevin Curtin

"A Celebration of Writing, and Reading"

Louis Black's notes on the first Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...36, 37. Every mistake I ever made, every fictional misadventure I ever attempted, I encountered again reading these stories...."

June 14, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent's Notebook

A UT professor recounts his three decades of reporting in Asia

"...troops were withdrawn following the worst U.S. foreign policy misadventure until we invaded Iraq in 2003. Ripe with anecdotes..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Thirteen Things To Do in Austin on Halloween

Halloween 2014: All the events here, there, and in-between

"...13) Murder, Mayhem & Misadventure Walking Tour..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Events Post by Derek Van Wagner

Home Slice Makes Annual Pizza Pilgrimage

Sharing hundreds of slices was writer's plum assignment

"...of the latter are hilarious accounts of New York misadventure; a couple of people mention comically peculiar encounters with..."

Sept. 19, 2013 Food Post by Phillip Pantuso

Hickoids

A magnificent seven Texas Platters

"...maturity have only enhanced their vulgar vitality. Border town misadventure brands "TJ" as it travels from Tijuana to Matamoros..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Music Feature by Greg Beets

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...lake home. A series of hilarious mishaps and costly misadventures follow as they attempt to restore the house and..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

deEP end

deEP end

"...& Your Sister," with Carrie Clark. Sedated instrumental "Foxy Misadventure" and effects-laden original "You Know Right Now" show promise...."

Aug. 5, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

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