Rocky Balboa

This final chapter in the Rocky saga is terrific – maybe not great, like that first kiss of fist in ’76, but good, solid, exhilarating entertainment of the stand-up-and-cheer variety.

"...lingers like an ill-stanched nick above a boxer's bony orbit. Kids love Rocky, and why not? The perpetual underdog..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Are you a ho on the go? Well, you could use the information in this week's column. Ho-bag.

"...so thick they looked like matchbooks. Pink, Sage, and Orbit salons had outdone themselves and made my Jacqueline Susann/Valley..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Widespread Panic

Live shot

"...which sent the first set into a much higher orbit, to the raucous second-set opener "Ain't Life Grand" to..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...five incarnations, I think), leaving instead a deftly drawn orbit of women to take the stage – a boozy..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar defines "tarantism," to which we might add, "obsequious"

"...to Proposition 4… Tonight! Thu., Sept. 21, 7-10pm, at Orbit Salon, drinks, music, and haircuts make a smashing combination..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

ACL Music Fest Interviews

"...acknowledges that the Cars were initially outside her listening orbit, but she found common ground with Ocasek, the band's..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Left Behind

The Omnibeast – and a sect of video-art zealots at UT – is hungry

"...his head will be rendered with Omnichum, launched into orbit as bait for the Beast...."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Salvage Vanguard Theater: Countdown to blastoff for 'Intergalactic' tour

Salvage Vanguard Theater launches 'The Intergalactic Nemesis,' its homegrown spoof of sci-fi serials, on a mission to seek out new life and new civilizations – or at least new fans – in seven cities across the country

"...a great time to let it put you in orbit. The Intergalactic Nemesis will be performed Friday, Sept. 8,..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From Stuff, Art

The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects

"...time it takes for imaging satellites to make their orbit of the Earth. Ward is a recent UT-Austin undergrad..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Point Austin: Three Dimensions

When you're looking for heroes, avoid the usual suspects

"...Clark laughed that he himself abandoned rocketry before achieving orbit; yet with that youthful energy in mind, he looked..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Rebel Radio

Four guys, six 'Star Wars' films, and endless possibilities

"...An entire fleet of star destroyers is hovering in orbit and you don't send anything down? There's a shield,..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW International Bands

From Yugoslavia to Plutonia, here come SXSW's International bands armada.

"...2006 brings the orb close enough in its 249-year orbit to drop the timeless glitter-glam space rock band Zolar..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

After a Fashion

Well Riverside and Congress is finally all clear. So now Stephen can go out and be fabulous at all these incredible Valentine's and early springtime happenin's!

"...REMINDERS Thu., Feb. 16, beginning at 7pm, Orbit Salon (500 W. 18th), and Almost Impatient are working..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Madonna

Record review

"..."Push." These are significantly different mixes from what William Orbit might have done, but that's our Madonna, unpredictable all..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Dancing in Twilight

This intercultural Houston-made film is an off-the-beaten-path ensemble drama that shows a healthy disregard for Hollywood rules.

"...marvelous: stiffly patrician and visibly lodged in his own orbit, just out of reach from his son, but watchably..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Luv Doc Recommends: Extravagasm Fantasy Ball

Buffalo Billiards, Saturday, October 22, 2005

"...will be out in full force at Buffalo Billards’ Orbit Lounge this Saturday for Extravagasm 2005, a cleverly titled..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Flip's Satellite Cafe

A textbook definition of 'tucked into a corner' is the only apt description of the location of Flip's Satellite Cafe, a southwest Austin offshoot of the Barton Springs mainstay

"...Satellites typically orbit celestial bodies, making their path away from the main..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Food Review by Barbara Chisholm

Making Biscuit

Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7

"...and wide since its Eighties heyday, drawing into its orbit punk peers and progeny such as X's Exene Cervenka,..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Monkey Time

How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project

"...was particularly interested in the "space chimps" shot into orbit during the space race of the early 1960s. An..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Arts Feature by Cindy Widner

Chimp-Suit Maker

Norman Tempia of Animated FX Inc., along with his partner Dave Nelson, made a nearly believable chimp suit for the 1995 movie 'Ed.' So, we called to see what's up his tree.

"...she was small-boned, and had a really shallow eye orbit. And, because she's female, she had small hands and..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Screens Feature by Taylor Holland

Stealth

Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.

"...created by the Navy and Richard Roxburgh’s Dr. Keith Orbit in the hopes of someday replacing flyboys (and -girls)..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back

"...Club and Rajiworld Agency, Brenda Hutchison of Van Go Touring/Orbit Salon, Roggie Baer Elm of Rajiworld Booking Agency, Jo..."

July 8, 2005 Column

Thanks!

"...Club and Rajiworld Agency, Brenda Hutchison of Van Go Touring/Orbit Salon, Roggie Baer Elm of Rajiworld Booking Agency, Jo..."

July 5, 2005 Postmarks

War of the Worlds

Spielberg and the gang at Industrial Light & Magic have knocked the ball not only out of the park but out of Earth orbit as well.

"...only out of the park but out of Earth's orbit as well. The first appearance of the alien tripods..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Benevento/Russo Duo

"...by tone and texture, sending it back out into orbit with a cut-beat/rock spine distorting another galaxy's worth of..."

May 6, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Education of Arnold Hitler

Wouldn't it be funny if your name was Arnold Hitler?' Marc Estrin writes in the follow-up to the acclaimed Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa,' and immediately the warning sirens start to wail

"...around them few: Every scene and every conversation will orbit inevitably around that idea, and no matter how good..."

April 15, 2005 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...hiatus from local gigging and a recent re-entry into orbit opening for Luna, local foursome Dead Whale Tide is..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Waiting around for pots to boil, Spock's home world, and a fecund brain in a petri dish

"...Cochran has discovered a Jupiter-sized planet in the same orbit that Star Trek lore says one would find Vulcan,..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Austin @ Large: To Preserve and Thrive

Alvarez and Thomas' Eastside plan needs fine-tuning, but it's about time

"...own neighborhood, close to I-35 and already within the orbit of the East 11th and 12th Street renewal plan,..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: Triangle, Full Circle

Seven glorious years later, and did we learn anything?

"...cases within planned neighborhoods and those outside the planning orbit. But would an adopted plan have really prevented nearly..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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