Paradise Now

Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.

"...Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now as two young men from the West Bank..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reel Paradise

This documentary shows what happens when famed producer’s rep/author/gadabout John Pierson convinces his family to move with him to Fiji, where, if all goes according to plan, he can leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a completely foreign culture, and, best of all, screen all sorts of movies for the natives.

"...13-year-old son Wyatt, and 16-year-old daughter Georgia – to Nowheresville, aka the Fijian island of Taveuni, where he could,..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

She Paradise

Coming-of-age story in Trinidad’s soca scene

"...She Paradise is not what one would think of as a..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

Return to Paradise

"...Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow and Ming Lee. Return to Paradise is sort of Midnight Express retooled for Gen-X sensibilities...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell'

John Kelly brings back his Joni Mitchell tribute before retiring it for good

"...of the Austin Critics Table that they honored Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell with this year's..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"..."We've been playing together 17 years ... and I know he's enjoyed every minute of it."..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Paradise Lost Two: Revelations

"...Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. In 1996, this pair filmed Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a..."

April 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...The moment “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” followed “Two Out of Three..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

“Julie Libersat: Paved Paradise” at W&TW

This interactive solo exhibition may have you looking at malls in a very different way

"...to hang, for seniors to walk their daily mile. Now, it's just a place. We recognize that as the..."

March 23, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Wasota Vegan Paradise Is Simple, Savory, Life-Sustaining

Two local vegans, Lawrence Eguakun and Graham Reynolds, talk meatless meals and The Movement

"...Thus, this interview with Lawrence Eguakun of Wasota Vegan Paradise was conducted by Graham Reynolds – the composer and..."

July 31, 2020 Food Feature by Graham Reynolds

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...that you don't need history or anything else to know it and find it appealing on many levels," smiles..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Trouble in Puppy Paradise

No money budgeted for pet food, vaccinations, and other basic items at new Williamson County animal shelter

"...this month over a variety of troubles in puppy paradise, including a zero budget for the most basic of..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Trouble in Paradise

Rebecca Chastenet de Gery explains why her visits to Pacifica Fine Dining have varied in quality.

"...four sauces: papaya lime vinaigrette, lemon aioli, pico de paradise, or garlic lemon grass. The dinner that left me..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Paradise is an Outlandish Tropical Western Band: Spliff Kazoo & His Fronds

Tiki quintet bring their “slow conga line” and excessive fog to Kinda Tropical on Thursdays

"...you've escaped on floats to a seemingly uninhabited island. Now safe on land, there's nothing to eat except the..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...tucked away in the Catskill Mountains, 1,400 acres of paradise lost. National Lampoon's indie rock vacation...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

On Leaving Paradise for an Oasis

An Austin foodie falls in love with Marathon and West Texas' other boutique towns

"...it seemed we had reached the official "middle of nowhere," we arrived in Marathon and pulled in at the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Two Tickets to Paradise

Who tickets what in Austin

"..."They've been fans [of Boston] for 20 years, and now they have good jobs, but they wait until the..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

Zilker Park: Paved Paradise, or Vice Versa

When is a parking lot not a parking lot? When it’s next to the beloved park.

"...use; in fact, its patchwork surface covers over what's now a clay-capped landfill, and PARD, which has tried but..."

June 1, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Groover's Paradise

The Hole in the Wall has seen it all

"...Barflies know a hole in the wall mostly as a dingy,..."

June 20, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Prine: Then and Now

John Prine's something old, something new

"...boyhood home in Maywood, Ill., including a version of "Paradise" that's the definition of "getting back to one's roots."..."

March 1, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Paving Paradise, 2004

"...other. Today everything is changed. Once wild areas are now filled with a phantasmagorical collection of French chateaus, California..."

Aug. 3, 2004 Postmarks

Queer Paradise

The 16th annual Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: a preview

"...past that includes offenses against his young son Baudoin, now Bo -- and corrupt Belgian cops are asking her..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Idol

The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol

"...one of Palestine’s foremost filmmakers, the award-winning Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar)...."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beach

"...once and for all, on the ought-to-be-obvious notion that paradise is within and not without? Please? Work with me..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sixth Street Survivors

The cafes Paradise and Pecan Street: still plating after all these years

"...Paradise Cafe401 E. Sixth, 476-5667..."

June 4, 2004 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

No Family Is an Island

The Piersons on 'Reel Paradise'

"...It's a dream entertained by just about everyone I know who takes movies too seriously. We compose special lists..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Barge to Hell, Part 3

A final metal injection from HeadCrusher

"...could, I’d book passage to the 2013 edition right now...."

Jan. 11, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Thunderbirds

A TV show from the Sixties that starred marionettes gets the live-action treatment … or does it?

"...things: Flesh and blood the intrepid Tracy clan may now be, but captivating they are only sporadically. Part of..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pop Rocks

Making music in mecca for parents and children alike

"...but it's nice to hear some music of substance now and then, especially for parents."..."

June 18, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Olivier, Olivier

"...the latter half of the movie is about. Can paradise be regained, especially if it was never really there..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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