Way, Way Outer Space

Dusting off Starcrash, an interstellar swashbuckler

"...Wachsberger fantasized about cashing in on the Star Wars rip-off box-office cash factory...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Have Pen, Will Travel

A tale of two cities, Italian-style

"...where hundreds of very attractive people and a few old wine lovers drink too much local wine and dance..."

July 30, 2010 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...Romano has followed up that epic project with a triple-disc, seven-hours-plus-long companion set that includes not only two crammed-to-bursting..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDnds

"...Sullivan's Rock & Roll Classics box in 2002, gets old faster than shark-stuffed groupies...."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Where the Wild Things Roamed: Visiting "The Misfits" Shooting Set

Savlov visits the set of John Huston's "The Misfits"

"...from a mile away, is like staring through a rip in time: there are so many of them, and..."

June 28, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

When the Sun Rises

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, a group of teenage filmmakers galvanize the tales of their island

"...attending a big, new school were suddenly put on hold. "We packed food, clothes, boarded up the windows, and..."

June 5, 2009 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Cine las Americas Previews

"...largely stationary midshots, her formalism providing depth but little peripheral vision – much like what Veró's partial comprehension must..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Feature

The Bicycle Thief

Police say James Clayton befriended – then ripped off – many Austin bicyclists

"...recently. Indeed. A few weeks later, in early February, 42-year-old Clayton would be arrested in possession of more than..."

April 10, 2009 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...time or revisited in the past year that new, old, and re-released CDs are not included on this list...."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Dead Executives; and Lawmakers Cash in as Lobbyists

"...Corporate CEOs are the golden ones of our economy. They are paid gold mines..."

July 11, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Vacation on Warming Island; and A Chocolate Mess

"...to injury, Hershey even blames us for its proposed rip-off, claiming that the deceptive label is needed to keep..."

May 25, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

It's Time to Leave Iraq

"...birthday Iraq war! If the Iraq war were a 4-year-old child, it would now be entering preschool. In preschool..."

March 21, 2007 Postmarks

Marie Antoinette

Don’t fear the film’s early reviews from Cannes, which too often slighted it for being fluffy (it isn’t, though its heroine is) or ahistorical (it isn’t, though it is contemporary).

"...Directed by: Sofia Coppola. Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Judy Davis, Asia Argento, Marianne Faithfull, Danny Huston,..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Tacks, the Boy Disaster

Live shot

"...lot of people onstage. Alex Dupree, a tall, wiry 21-year-old with a shock of curly hair, opened the Saturday..."

July 7, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Let It Bleed

Riverboat Gamblers: The most thrilling (and battle scarred) punk band this side of the Mason-Dixon Line

"...dank, dilapidated Parisian hostel, no doubt hundreds of years old, walls in disrepair, pipes exposed, naked light bulbs dangling..."

April 21, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...get a job and go to school and still rip the place." Along with his clan of Living Legends,..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

See What They Do to You

How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits

"...Demme were bouncing sentences off each other like an old, familiar couple. They had been conducting interviews all day..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Dream Pursued

The Young Eight is showing the world of classical music what it means to be young, gifted, and black

"...back in the day – it's now way too old-school to be old-school, if you catch my drift –..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thursday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...ORCHESTRA8pm, Hideout Debuting at the Alamo Drafthouse after heartwarming cold war music doc Theremin, these half-dozen local practitioners of..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Dripping Springs..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...hundreds of cities worldwide are doing. Why are they holding an annual car-free day? Would there be any benefit..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Column

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The boys from the chamber look for an opportunity to muddy the waters once again.

"...and people with money -- not just the same old hippies -- started moving here who actually valued things..."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I supervised coverage and commentary that won Pulitzer Prize gold medals for meritorious public service in 1981 and 1988...."

Oct. 18, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...RIP..."

July 12, 2002 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Last year's indie release, A Place to Stand, blends old-timey Celtic fiddle with all-American electric guitar. This is the..."

March 8, 2002 Music Feature

They're History

The Blue Genie boys -- those whimsical artists responsible for the armadillo-festooned entrance to Threadgill's World Headquarters, the guitar gal atop Fran's Hamburgers, and other mini-landmarks around Austin -- have been fun for the people who see them and fun for the people who made them. Making giant panels for the new Texas State History Museum, though, was a bit more than just that.

"...of Dallas. But the original full-sized sculptures and the molds derived from them were produced by Austin's Blue Genie..."

April 27, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dr. Demento

The world's foremost authority on goofy music hosts an appropriately bent SXSW showcase.

"...Dr. Laura Schlessinger, people have been taking his weekly prescription for laughter for more than 30 years, and continue..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Postscripts

Book news, signings, and author appearances this week.

"...state but Vanderpool apparently wants to catalog a few old ones. His "Texas" is quite literal; he traveled to..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Coach's Corner

Coach takes on sports talk radio.

"...the sports radio format took so long to take hold. WFAN in New York made its debut in 1987..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

B.B. King Making Love Is Good for You (MCA)
B.B. King & Eric Clapton Riding With the King (Reprise)
Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes Live at the Greek (TVT)

National Records

"...in a four-decades-long relationship with MCA, Making Love finds 74-year-old King of the Blues B.B. King in growling, vigorous..."

July 14, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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