Bizarre Bazaar: The Artists of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo
Ethical sourcing and upcycling become the beautifully strange
"...The Oddities and Curiosities Expo lived up to its name. It..."
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June 21, 2022 Arts Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood
Austin's Oddities
Science Channel delves into Richard Garriott's cupboards
"...Science channel will be showing off some of its Oddities, including the amazing collection of the bizarre and baroque..."
June 9, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Oddities and Curiosities Expo Is Coming to Austin
The perfect place to stock your cabinet of curiosities
"...a cartoon print of your favorite horror character, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo is the place to go...."
June 17, 2022 Arts Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood
Snapshot: Austin Oddities and Curiosities Expo
Weird is the new normal at this bazaar of the bizarre
"...Nearly 100 vendors at Saturday's inaugural Austin Oddities and Curiosities Expo (Nov. 24 at Palmer Events Center)..."
Nov. 30, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall
Austin Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2018
"...The touring Oddities & Curiosities Expo – “for lovers of the strange..."
Nov. 29, 2018 Photo Gallery
Pitch Perfect
Despite the cookie-cutter dysfunction seen in this college girls' a cappella group, this film film can be a lot of fun.
"...wishes the filmmakers had found room for more rough-edged oddities as this and spent less time borrowing goodwill from..."
Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Men in Black 3
Josh Brolin's spooky good impersonation of the younger Tommy Lee Jones is the only fresh thing happening in this sequel.
"...Men in Black with an eye-popping menagerie of out-of-this-world oddities and outré, interstellar grotesques – not the least of..."
May 25, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Triplets of Belleville
Move over Disney and Pixar: Sylvain Chomet’s Oscar-nominated animated feature is the kind of work that could only be authored by a singular individual.
"...and occasionally tests the audience’s capacity for ceaselessly imaginative oddities that don’t stack up in the usual way. But..."
Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Funny Bones
"...these are only a few of the film's highlights; oddities are the stuff of this universe. The most significant..."
May 26, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Next Karate Kid
"...another in a long series of Next Karate Kid oddities). They dance, they mug, and, in a scene strikingly..."
Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Where the Rivers Flow North
"...simultaneous study in coarseness and grace, peppered with enough oddities and quirks to make Bangor a singular character. Cardinal..."
July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Endless Summer II
"...Wingnut and Pat interact with their hosts and the oddities of foreign customs. The pair's great surfboarding talents are..."
June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Inside Monkey Zetterland
"...invited Grandma?” It keeps going on like this with oddities and non sequiturs piling up until it digresses into..."
Nov. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
City Zero
"...nowhere, home to a regional museum which houses incongruous oddities like relics from the ancient Roman invasion of the..."
Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Day Trips: Good Ole Days, Brady
Antique emporium is a treasure mine of relics and oddities
"...be a gross understatement. This is an emporium of oddities, memorabilia, antiques, and other wonders where one man's junk..."
June 1, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Alamo Drafthouse Latest Austinites to Get Dose of Reality
Cinema chain featured on A&E's 'Shipping Wars' tonight
"...• Not to be outdone, Discovery's Oddities went hunting for something special for gaming guru Richard..."
Jan. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Freak Show
Freaks, maybe with beaks, at Antone's tomorrow!
"...40 years, at least with more than three “human oddities” performing. Among the crew are the Lobster Girl, the..."
June 26, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman
Dog Toys and Puppy Sports Lead Our Recommended Community Events
Bucking broncos, drag vampires, and more highlights
"...into your narrative hands. – Wayne Alan Brenner Austin Oddities Market..."
Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Metacomedy makes Nic Cage the last true movie star
"...Leaving Las Vegas, Pig or Joe, or even intriguing oddities such as Lord of War? Because those are as..."
April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Austin’s Vampire Store Cracks Open the Crypt
Opening the Glass Coffin, just in time for Halloween
"...on Halloween with the first Bat City Antiques & Oddities Market: Vendors, music, drinks, and even a special appearance..."
Oct. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by James Scott
Replicas
What hath science wrought? A dull cloning thriller, that's what.
"...liminal existence, poised somewhere between cult successes and VOD oddities. What divides them is how they inhabit the screen...."
Jan. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Pom Poko
"Lost" Studio Ghibli tale of raccoons in peril gets long-delayed release
"...Pom Poko is so delightfully weird, and jam-packed with oddities, that it's never dull, even if it is sometimes..."
June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Greatest Showman
Don't be fooled by this whitewashed version of the great huckster
"...on a duped public and his exploitation of human oddities like the pint-sized General Tom Thumb for profit. Framing..."
Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Hidden Room Theatre Resurrects King Lear
The once-popular but now obscure revision of Shakespeare's play by Nahum Tate is revived, complete with happy ending
"...technologies, intriguing new works, digital performance, and rarely done oddities," recalls the Hidden Room matriarch. "Our hope was to..."
Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Stephanie Carll
Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro goes Gothic, but falls short
"...it is with his fetishistic body bag of entomological oddities (in this case, hundreds of wide-winged black moths), whirring..."
Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Balls Out
College intramural football comedy features several SNL players
"...no actor plays second-string in this parade of comic oddities...."
June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Big Eyes
Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.
"...has always had an eye for stylistically exaggerated period oddities (Ed Wood deserves every bit of the cult-classic status..."
Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Own a Piece of Richard Garriott's World
Space and gaming pioneer is auctioning off 500-plus items
"...epic haunted house owner – and he's got the oddities to prove it...."
Sept. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese
Melancholia
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier brings his vision of human annihilation to the screen in this visually stunning and thematically rich film.
"...to be a delight, even in their obstinacy and oddities. If von Trier seemed as though he was at..."
Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Imagine, Nation
Using play to map the emotional terrain of 9 / 11
"...Festival, Sale helped create The Fictional Life of Historical Oddities, an original piece based on the lives of the..."
