Final Flowering

With Cold Sassy Tree, distinguished composer Carlisle Floyd crafts an opera to crown his lengthy career.

"...children." And the situation wasn't helped by being "the preacher's kid." "It's not the best indoctrination for developing your..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Little Nicky

"...respect), Quentin Tarantino (doing an amusing riff on the preacher in Wise Blood), and Reese Witherspoon (as a delightfully..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Triumph in River City

With The Music Man, Austin Musical Theatre creates a River City that's bigger than some by-god real Texas towns. But it's a show whose heart may be the biggest thing of all.

"...powers of persuasion have been cribbed from the country preacher. Faced with the line "Now I know all you..."

May 19, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...A domestic best-of culled from those LPs, Back Door Preacher Man, came out on S.F. micro-indie Innerstate, which also..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...5. Preacher..."

April 14, 2000 Books Column

One Man Talking

In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.

"...award-winning lecturer of finance at UT, also a lay preacher who delivers guest sermons in churches around Austin, was..."

March 31, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Benevolent Agitator

Jim Hightower's undiluted populism is wittty, rousing, and engaging, Clay Smith asserts in a review of Hightower's new book If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Candidates

"...the head table of a bipartisan meet-the-candidates breakfast. A preacher is there, in the middle of them all. "He..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...8. Preacher..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Column

Postmarks

HPBC is on the minds of many this week; Gotham lingers in the shadows.

"...entire chapter that any verse appears in that their preacher will use to gain contributions for the expansion, in..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

"...performances, and David Warner is memorable as a sinning preacher man. Peckinpah, himself, has called Cable Hogue possibly his..."

Oct. 28, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twin Falls Idaho

"...Live alum Garrett Morris turns up as a neighboring preacher, and Patrick Bauchau plays a sage physician/john: Both characters..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Night of the Hunter

"...two end up on the run, with the phony preacher in pursuit...."

Aug. 20, 1999 Screens Feature

Under-Stated

"...their time punching the clock and sleeping through the preacher's sermon, having burgers at the drive-in and Pearls at..."

July 2, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...of Memphis' 11 original songs was "Son of a Preacher Man," the hit that took Springfield from her sugary..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Another Day in Paradise

"...bizarre and effortlessly disturbing Reverend (Otis), an outré bottom-feeding preacher man and part-time gun dealer who eyes Bobbie with..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Far from Hollywood

"...characters know right from wrong, not simply because a preacher told them or because they fear the fires of..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Nafus

Oscar and Lucinda

"...(Fiennes) is the shy, awkward son of a severe preacher father. At a young age he asks God for..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Apostle

"...and Miranda Richardson. The movies haven't portrayed the evangelical preacher in a very flattering light, suffice to say. Invariably,..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

"...an interview with Reverend Doctor Lynn Lemon, a fundamentalist preacher who fondly recalls how Wood and his cast and..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Femmes Fatales: Rounding up Austin's Women of Mystery

"...The prime suspect in the Deacon's demise is a preacher known as Elder Lee Littlejohn, who investigates the case..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature by Anna Hanks

Reflections

SXSW Film Festival and Conference

"...threat of emotional upheaval. Arnet plays Ezra, the town preacher, who opens his church doors one day to find..."

March 14, 1997 Screens Feature

Cold Comfort Farm

"...about her mothering; her husband Amos (McKellen), a self-ordained preacher convinced that the entire world will burn in hell;..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

From Dusk Till Dawn

Vampires, whiskey, sex, and Hayek's famous snake dancing color this film.

"...in the purest sense. Keitel is terrific as the preacher with the slipshod faith, Clooney is nicely menacing, and..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Fang Two: Myth of the White Wolf

"...are separated in a river; the plot of a preacher to move the Haida off their land; the hunt..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Once Upon a Forest

"...Ben Vereen in the role of Phineas the feathered preacher, provides the only true energy and amusement of the..."

June 18, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Complex World

"...terrorists, a red-baiting presidential aspirant, political conspiracy, a sidewalk preacher and 100 pounds of plastic explosive into the picture,..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Presidential Candidate Cornel West Hosts Music Industry Roundtable at Carver Museum

Sentimental talk invites Bill Callahan and Alphabet Workers Union

"...In his opening remarks, he spoke more like a preacher than a political candidate, waxing poetic about the “indescribable..."

April 17, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

The Perils of Immortal Passion in Timestalker

Alice Lowe finds the fool in her comedic take on time-crossed lovers

"...It’s a mask made for dissident 17th century Scottish preacher Alexander Peden to hide from authorities. Constructed of leather,..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sentimental Family Band, Leti Garza, Dorian Electra, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in music

"...you hear "I don’t take no cap from the preacher." Recent release Pray for Atlanta is a collaborative project..."

March 1, 2024 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Rolling Stone and Maker of Poo~Pourri Partner for Shits and Giggles at SXSW

Activation includes 30-foot-tall giant poo in Downtown Austin

"...There, ~Pourri CEO and Founder Suzy Batiz and artist PREACHER will be co-hosting live sessions of the Holy Sh!t..."

Feb. 14, 2024 SXSW Post by Miranda Garza

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