Terry Allen Reels in Moby Dick for His New Album

The multimedia conceptualist's first new studio album since 2013 sets sail

"...Panhandle Mystery Band through the entirety of Just Like Moby Dick. Like most of his work since 1975's astounding..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Luv Doc: Moby Dick McConaughey

People have been spinning tall tales about celebrities in Austin for years

"...the people-watching she gets to do while waiting for Moby Dick McConaughey. Why? Because unlike celebrities, people are fucking..."

May 17, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

Moby's Play

Playwright Kirk Smith talks about trying to squeeze a great white whale into a tiny theatre with his adaptation of Moby Dick for Vortex Repertory Company's Summer Youth Theatre.

"...You wouldn't want just anyone trying to get Moby Dick inside a theatre. After all, it takes a..."

July 19, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band Album Review

Just Like Moby Dick (Paradise of Bachelors)

"...the difference between imagination and experience. On Just Like Moby Dick, he hot-shots another off-the-radio-dial studio LP clean across..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Rick Weaver

In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story

"...captain, and crew partly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick; or, the Whale in 1851. Howard, working with screenwriter..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seen / Soon: Feb. 2

Hearing a stately Passion from Arvo Pärt sung by Ensemble VIII and reading a Texas take on Moby Dick from Austin author Elizabeth Crook

"...did but also having her Texas Huck recount a Moby Dick-like pursuit across Texas in which the White Whale..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Arts Column

Moby Dick

In Kirk Smith's stage adaptation of Moby Dick, language comes forth in great waves, in storms of words, soaking our brains with images of the sea, of a white whale, and of a mad captain's pursuit of it, and while the Vortex Repertory Company Summer Youth Theatre production may not always convey every nuance of every line, it does communicate the feel of a life at sea, danger and dread, and the roles played by Destiny and Death.

"...Moby Dick: Study of Mortality in Blue and White..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Whale of a Tale Goes 21st Century

The Fuse Box Festival hosts a Herman Melville Hoot Nite

"...event titled The Living Whale: A Marathon Misreading of Moby Dick. The trio, who met at the now-defunct Cinematexas,..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...Farris (voice) and Laura Ray and Katy Taylor (Ahab), Moby Dick Suzanne Balling, Joey Banks, Matt Connely, Jess Hughes,..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...us are first exposed to in our youth -- Moby Dick...."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...Moby Grape Personnel..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Elizabeth Crook’s The Which Way Tree

Chasing revenge on the Texas frontier in this remarkable new novel from the author of Monday, Monday

"...Texas setting – may not have the size of Moby-Dick, but it casts as long a shadow as the..."

March 9, 2018 Books Review by Robert Faires

Mastodon

Record review

"...of the great whale himself," wrote Herman Melville in Moby Dick 155 years ago. "Such a portentous and mysterious..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Articulations

The winners are in for the 28th annual B. Iden Payne Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in Austin theatre from August 2001 through July 2002.

"...Youth: (tie) Kevin Archambault, Bye Bye Birdie; Bonnie Cullum, Moby Dick..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle

With this novel about Timothy Leary and LSD in the early Sixties, T.C. Boyle has written a mighty book – and a gift

"...At one point in Moby-Dick, Ishmael states, "To produce a mighty book, you must..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Review by David Gaines

The Whale

Brendan Fraser anchors Aronofsky's meditation on faith and fatness

"...piece of paper with an essay on the novel Moby Dick that he urgently needs to hear read if..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Book Review: Barn 8

Deb Olin Unferth reveals humor and humanity inside a hen heist

"...Imagine Moby Dick as a chicken. Well, that's not quite right...."

March 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Cold Skin

Imperialism and isolation pervade this monster movie

"...is the first of many clear thematic nods to Moby Dick (and, increasingly, Heart of Darkness) as he finds..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

At the Statue of Venus/Three Decembers

The Butler Opera Center's pairing of these Jake Heggie chamber operas opened up small concerns to an enduring sense of love

"...protagonists of Jake Heggie's operas Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick, for that matter – but that doesn't mean they..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Boy and the Beast

Japanese anime film is a fully immersive experience

"...world, there’s a subplot about Kyuta’s fascination with Melville’s Moby-Dick that only makes sense toward the end – no..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Whale

The craft behind A Chick & a Dude's tightly realized production is what makes it so impressive

"...Moby Dick is no stranger to the stage. The Melville..."

March 14, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Led Zeppelin DVD / Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won

DVD/Record Review

"...shoot. The band bloats up for "Dazed and Confused," "Moby Dick," and "How Many More Times," all double-digit in..."

June 13, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Ann Marie Gordon, Moby Dick/The Music of Erica Zann/The Scarlet Letter..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Scarlet Letter

The Vortex Repertory Company's retelling of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter feels like it's coming from a fitful, troubled sleep, a hazy dreamscape in which director Michelle Fowler and her cast create a society of suffocating morality and the cruel reprisals that await any who violate its rigid rules of conduct.

"...The Music of Erica Zann and the Melville sea-tale Moby Dick -- we are immersed in it, the atmosphere..."

March 21, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Payne the Town Red

What might be considered the theatrical fringe in other cities is more and more the theatrical mainstream in Austin, an idea that was reinforced with the announcement of the nominations for the 2001-02 B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards.

"...original and experimental work: Vortex Repertory Company's adaptation of Moby Dick (seven nominations), Refractions Arts' References to Salvador Dali..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...quest to discover whether the Globe inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Gregory Gibson reveals in grim detail the brutal,..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Pola X

Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.

"...wrote following the poor reception of his previous novel, Moby-Dick). There is no character named Pola in Carax's film,..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wise Blood

One of the last films in John Huston’s long career is this exceptional interpretation of Flannery O’Connor’s eccentric Southern tale of fringe fanatics.

"...(The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, Moby Dick, Fat City, Prizzi’s Honor) is this exceptional interpretation..."

Aug. 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Willy 3: The Rescue

"...Kilpatrick and August Schellenberg. Among the fictional cetacean set, Moby Dick still commands all the highbrow respect, but with..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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