Beyond Black-Eyed Peas

Eating lucky for New Year's

"...pork, greens, and cornbread. "Peas for pennies, greens for dollars, and cornbread for gold," said the old expression. "Eat..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Farewell to the Madness

Remembering Doug, the Dicks, Devo, and more

"...of Fame award, then gave Best Punk Band to One-Eyed Doll...."

March 23, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

Stephen saunters, sashays, and gets sassy at SXSW

"...to present Best Punk Band to Kimberly Freeman of One-Eyed Doll. All I can say is that Ms. Freeman..."

March 27, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Venturing into Anime

Ikkicon returns for fifth New Year with Adult Swim star

"...rockers the Browncoats and two-time Austin Music Award winners One-Eyed Doll, as well as Austin's self-proclaimed premier video game..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: KINGs and Queens

Kids in a New Groove, Bull McCabe’s bows out, and underground heroes of Austin music

"...electro-punk act Obsolete Machines and a touring tech for One-Eyed Doll. Even so, he says his most inspiring collaborator..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

It's All Up To Those Who Vote

"...degree, and/or skewed results? I am curious because apparently One-Eyed Doll is industrial/goth, punk, rock, indie, metal, and experimental...."

March 24, 2011 Postmarks

Thank You and Good Night

"...there. Hell, even one of the Music Poll winners, One-Eyed Doll, performed (they were awesome, by the way). There..."

March 25, 2010 Postmarks

The Geek Shall Inherit the Fests

Austin becomes ground zero for the new cool

"...is the guests, but two-time Austin Music Award winners One-Eyed Doll and Eyeshine, featuring Power Rangers star Johhny Bosch,..."

July 4, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sucker Punch

In this visually compelling but narratively bankrupt action fantasy, an institutionalized young girl finds escape through her vivid imagination.

"...in a Sixties-era bordello. Here, she's known as Baby Doll, and indeed, Browning seems to have been cast not..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Killer Joe

Matthew McConaughey's Killer Joe is sociopathy incarnate; William Friedkin adds visual punch to the venality within Tracy Letts' screenplay.

"...Thompson's The Killer Inside Me to Elia Kazan's Baby Doll to Little Miss Marker, and trust me, you're going..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chicago

This film adaptation doesn't so much recall the glory days of movie musicals as give it a new, era-specific reason to wake up and shake its tail feather.

"...Gun,” in which Billy operates Roxie like a ventriloquist's doll). Still, if Gere plays a little blandly, the two..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: 'American Mary'/'Ninja III: The Domination'

The changing POV of the female revenge flick

"...Shop of Horrors squeak to create walking, walking Kewpie Doll Beatress Johnson, while seasoned anime voice-over actress Paul Lindberg..."

June 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Charming Man

Morrissey enraptured the Bass Concert Hall Sunday night

"...her Mona Lisa smile, the singer a painted porcelain doll perhaps mistaken for Grace Slick. Leading 1960s Dutch quartet..."

April 14, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Tales From the Hood

In the wake of Get Out, a classic anthology revisited

"...pertinent. "KKK Comeuppance" lures the audience in with possessed dolls, but the real story is about Metger's attempts to..."

April 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

"ART for All + ALL for Art" at Art for the People Gallery

Truth is one of the rewards of this showing of work by artists who have lived on the streets

"...simple ode. An anonymous artist's weird scene of two doll-like dancers under a massive smiling sun is a tilted..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Good Eye: Girl, Illustrated

The fine lines between the lines

"...tints and precise lines, Polk's prints evoke, alternately, paper dolls and tattoo-parlor flash sheets. The pink dress appears again..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Anna Bella Eema

In Anna Bella Eema three women sitting behind TV trays spin an incredible tale of a girl who builds a girl out of mud and what happens when she comes to life. And as written by Lisa D'Amour and directed by Katie Pearl, it is glorious, with a beauty and depth almost beyond language.

"...they say, in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king, and if that also holds true..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Websites from Hell

It's 4am -- Do You Know Where Your Monitor Is?

"...This next site is just plain bizarre. The Real Doll Company (http://www.realdoll.com/) is an online service eager to solve..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Good Eye: Passion Play

Don't call them action figures

"...I went through a doll phase from age 10 to 14. It started when..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Letters at 3AM: Who's That Girl?

Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is an inimitable genius

"...pronounces "baby" like a small child speaking to a doll, albeit a doll imbued with life, as girls' dolls..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Film

Film Reviews

"...DALLAS DOLLD: Ann Turner; with Sandra Bernhard, Victoria Longley, Frank Gallacher,..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Kokomo City

Gorgeous documentary about Black trans sex workers in Black communities

"...Queens, and Georgia peaches Liyah Mitchell and Koka Da Doll – and lets them tell their own stories. They..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

River's Edge

Disturbing condensation of starkly youth anomie in the wake of a girl's murder, a conspiracy of boys, and the counsel of Dennis Hopper, who dances with a blow-up sex doll in the woods.

"...counsel when he's not dancing with his inflatable sex doll. Beautifully photographed by Frederick Elmes, the visuals are often..."

Jan. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...found new life when reissued on This Dark Reign/Devil Doll last year. (Red Eyed Fly, 9pm) -- Greg Beets..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...DNA DOLL: Yeah, what the hell ever happened to that promised..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...Austin's Wookie and the Smashing Pumpkins is thousands of dollars worth of equipment. They need stacks and stacks of..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Cutthroat Island barely skirts the harbor. For all its high-dollar set construction and location work, Cutthroat Island looks no..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...neither does it come up with a fistful of dollars. (11/22/95)3.0 stars (M.B.) Great Hills, Lake Creek, Lincoln, Movies..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

The Gospel According to Hollywood

Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.

"...a little girl comes to him with a broken doll. He's healed people miraculously, so she wants him to..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

Persistence of memory

"...York City, should not be conceived of as Teenage Doll or Switchblade Sisters. Still, Sharon's previous boyfriend had been..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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