Staged by the Bell

If you watched Saved by the Bell as a kid, you'll have a darn good time at this staged send-up

"...by the Bell is a sitcom already steeped in nostalgia. Running in the early Nineties, its main characters are..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Taking Woodstock

The director of Brokeback Mountain looks for peace and love in another decade and finds it at the legendary festival through the story of one key participant.

"...hold an iconic spot in our collective psyche and nostalgia pocketbooks. It’s something of a cultural Rorschach test; everyone..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Through the Past Brightly

San Antonio's Teen Canteen scene, revisited

"...It’s not just nostalgia for me … okay, there’s a LOT of nostalgia,..."

Aug. 17, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Such Stuff as Screams Are Made On

Austin punk gets the museum treatment, but does the scene come off as dead or alive?

"...a Woodshock flier may inspire the inevitable flutter of nostalgia – a sentiment so antithetical to punk and everything..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kabluey

Oddball tale of a directionless young man who moves in with his sister-in-law, whose husband is in Iraq with his National Guard unit, is quirky but unaffecting.

"...set-pieces, accompanied by a soundtrack of easy, yet ironic, nostalgia (in this case, the theme music from Pee-wee’s Big..."

July 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Younger Than Yesterday

Brothers and Sisters, tighter than yesterday, looser than today

"...broken from time and place. Their music steeps in nostalgia for idyllic, 1960s California pop rock, where the Beach..."

July 18, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Comic Books and Forward Motion

"...a kid I was a moron. And 2) because nostalgia is a waste of time...."

July 11, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Chris Boehk

"...him in, Boehk gets away with a lot. "My Nostalgia" cements his deadpan mumble in J Mascis' footprints, and..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Luv Doc Recommends: The Reivers Reunion Show

Parish, Sunday, February 10, 2008

"...and more insidious going on here in River City: nostalgia. Nostalgia because those condo buyers think they’re buying in..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

The 'Damaged' Cycle

The Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth discusses the remaking of a hardcore classic.

"...in your parents' house. Was there a feeling of nostalgia? DL: Not really. It had to do more with,..."

Sept. 13, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Notes on Kitsch

... or W.W.S.S.T. (What Would Susan Sontag Think) about Austin's love of camp?

"...Sisk elaborates, "We are selling nostalgia more than kickass records, for example." She remembers when..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

Tristram Shandy’s inspired, breakneck madness provides a good forum for Michael Winterbottom’s chief talent: the illumination of human nature, with all its messes and occasional marvels.

"...of a Summer Night makes for an inevitable, instant nostalgia.) But eventually, the threads begin to knot into thematic..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Runnin' With the Wolf

One man takes on the used-game business model

"...though, as Game Over is an experiment in unbridled nostalgia. If you don't say "I played that" at least..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Curling Up

Gift guide

"...416 pp. $19.99 (paper) Anyone possessing a twinge of nostalgia for the heady, innocently sex-positive cultural melange of the..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

The Dukes of Hazzard

A remake that's about as deep as Jessica Simpson's cleavage.

"...much going on in these 106 minutes of ain’t-it-cool quasi-nostalgia. The boys jump a bridge; the boys brawl in..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Fat Albert

Bill Cosby's animated kids get a live-action makeover.

"...older audience members may find themselves repulsed by their nostalgia. (Opens Saturday.)..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TCB

The politics of dancing, or at least politics and dancing

"...Nostalgia is, by definition, nothing new. But the Regression scene..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Nostalgia for World War II..."

May 21, 2004 Column

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...planet, the Second World War, and the lures of nostalgia...."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Two Men Went to War

A WWII comedy of errors begins when two British military dentists swap their drills for grenades.

"...British and French countryside is more redolent of rose-tinted nostalgia for a time when the Brits and Yanks knew..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

A guilty pleasure for thirtysomething stoners with ironic dispositions and large nacho platters.

"...for that reason alone better than its predecessor – nostalgia abounds, but the monster hijinks are so frenetic that..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

What a Girl Wants

"...thunk Hart's, um, dry wit would be cause for nostalgia?); but the girl's got charisma, and that's all Bynes..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The House on the Point

Tim Walker reviews Benjamin Hoff's Hardy Boys tribute, The House on the Point.

"...Boys, understand that you'll be doing it only for nostalgia...."

Jan. 24, 2003 Books Review by Tim Walker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Nostalgia has its attractions, but it has little to offer..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Column

Childhood's End

A certain boy whose permanent address is Neverland has been buzzing Austin quite a bit this spring, and here are some thoughts on why Peter Pan is so much in the air these days.

"...a virtue of rejecting parental values and pioneered the nostalgia for the toys one had as a kid: the..."

May 10, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Old Mouse

Facing accusations of market saturation, cultural homogenization, and unethical labor practices, Disney keeps manufacturing the magic … but for how long?

"...we grow older. For many people, it turns into nostalgia; for others, sour grapes. Either way, the company's image..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

Edmund Morris' 'Theodore Rex'

Edmund Morris was spanked by critics in 1999 for introducing a fictional contemporary of Ronald Reagan's in Dutch to help explain the trajectory of that president's life. Now the second volume of Morris' study of Theodore Roosevelt has been published, and it's apparent all over again why he is one of the nation's best biographers.

"...subjects, whenever he publishes. Roosevelt doesn't seem suited for nostalgia, even given the coincidence that Theodore Rex, which opens..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Dr Pepper, Texas

What makes the Dr Pepper in Dublin, Texas, so much better than that made anywhere else?

"...Except for one oasis of nostalgia, the Dublin Dr Pepper Plant. When other bottlers switched..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Features Feature by David Lynch

Trouble Men

The post-SRV trials and tribulations of Texas' most famous rhythm section

"...live performances have been tastefully repositioned away from SRV nostalgia. Considering Vaughan's posthumous impact on not just modern blues,..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Valentine

"...-- when viewed sans the crimson-tinted glasses of millennial nostalgia -- were essentially grade-Z misogynist fantasies for pubescent male..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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