"Katie Rose Pipkin: picking figs in the garden while my world eats Itself"

In an art exhibition and accompanying chapbook, Pipkin automates the un-automatable

"...the quixotic title picking figs in the garden while my world eats Itself [sic], published by Raw Paw Press...."

July 3, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Magnificent Obsession

Charting the unlikely ascension of Troll 2 from crappiest movie ever made to cult darling

"...because I was terrified that we would come across my movie. I just hated it."..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

I Found My Fill on BlackBerry Hill

At Sundance, a renewed "Focus on Film" amid celebrity worship and the frantic search for the next big thing

"...Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 1989 that keeps the myth of Sundance alive: the idea that there's a shard..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meet n' Greet!

Who? Your new blogger, Lil' Roo!

"...Oh hai, homos! Being that this is my first official entry on the illustrious Gay Place bloggity..."

Jan. 21, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Ricky Hill

Church of Misery’s Riff Worship

Japanese tsunami hits Red 7 on Monday

"...at Red 7 for Chaos in Tejas. Days later, my fiance and I flew to the Bay Area to..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Luxury Industry

Introducing a new head for business: Internal Affairs

"...exact moment I decided that the music business was my calling. I think it was somewhere between a local..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

Let Them Eat BBQ

Texans levitate the French

"...3am revelry prompted me to sleep past noon at my hotel in Angers, France...."

Sept. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Watch This: Branden Rex Flexes his Cat Fancy with “River”

“I don’t see myself with no one but you,” he sings to hairless feline

"...The Austin artist’s latest single meditates on the obsession of a relationship, with the movement of water symbolizing..."

June 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Le Divorce

The Merchant Ivory team say "I do" to romantic comedy.

"...flair here, including two stylish sequences detailing the French obsession with food and scarves, but they are but brief..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western

"...frame is filled with all manner of eccentric ephemera (my favorite being a “Hang in there!” kitten painting, where..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Cry of the Owl

Based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, this mood-heavy film contemplates what happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor.

"...happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor. Reeling from a rocky divorce, the..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Raining Stones

"...I could understand of it was sharp and funny; my American ears would have appreciated subtitles), but it also..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

M. Butterfly

"...Directed by: David Cronenberg. Starring: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa and Ian Richardson. The..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life Is Sweet

"...like bittersweet. It also refers to the film's overall obsession with food and all its emotional by-products. This British..."

March 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity

"...Jesse Peretz. Starring: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd, Jimmy O. Yang, Lily Newmark and Megan Dodds...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ingrid Goes West

Hashtag: #thisisyourlife

"...mother follows, and almost immediately, Ingrid finds a new obsession, Taylor Sloane (Olsen), a vacuous Californian who is popular..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Asylum

In this adaptation of Patrick McGrath's novel, Natasha Richardson and Ian McKellan wonder if the patients have taken over the asylum.

"...muffled groanings of soul-stifling sexual repression, erotic and professional obsession, and, ultimately, bloody, sweaty aggression. It might as well..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slackers

"...Sawa. Here's an image I'll never get out of my head: Michael C. Maronna (“Stuart” from those Ameritrade commercials)..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Highlander: Endgame

"...for further elaboration on this enjoyably boneheaded pecs-and-laser f/x mythology. Despite Endgame's efforts to be all things to all..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Deep Crimson

"...of the grainy, early-Seventies style of filmmaking that to my mind plagued the original and instead drenches itself in..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Hide the Schlock!

Depressing real stuff and trashy TV

"...Preparing to write my version of the Bedside Manner, I came to one..."

Feb. 20, 2011 Books Post by Jordan Smith

Prison Buff

Peeking Behind the Curtain of Incarceration

"...Hi, my name is Amanda, and I am obsessed with prisons...."

April 6, 2001 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages

New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection

"...that was what I wanted to do, that was my obsession."..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Phallocentrism

Austin is not a swirling cesspool of sexual deviance and obsession

"...I ever do is share the pic with all my friends so we can laugh about what an idiot..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

The Soul of the Scent

Perfume and pleasure in Alyssa Harad's 'Coming to My Senses'

"...paragraphs into Austin writer Alyssa Harad’s memoir Coming To My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely..."

July 11, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Buckman in the Aisles!

These are the people in your grocery store

"...the beverage aisles in what I think of as my HEB: The one at Hancock Center, the one nearest..."

May 22, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye

The line between titillating and tawdry is always moving, and women rarely get to decide when and how far it moves

"...hides that intrigues me. This year's cast includes televangelist Tammy Faye Messner, porn star Ron Jeremy, former CHiPs star..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Tyler Perry's Acrimony

Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.

"...Perry. Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent, Crystle Stewart, Jazmyn Simon, Ptosha Storey, Ajiona Alexus, Antonio Madison, Bresha Webb,..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

After a Fashion

When does Your Style Avatar not jones for Joan?

"...it a little easier these days, I've been feeding my obsession with old movies. I get a large beverage,..."

April 16, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Cute + Goth = ?

"...pregnant, I refused to find out the gender of my child so that, in the event it was female,..."

Oct. 24, 2007 Design Post by Liz Osting

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