Packs a Punch

Chances are you've seen Powerhouse Animation's work, whether you know it or not -- its portfolio includes Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, Disney TV's The Proud Family, and plenty of local TV spots, ad campaigns, and one-off Flash animation projects.

"...Slipcased hardback copies of the initial comic book-sized Mad Magazine are on display, as are prototype Bluntman and Chronic..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Jackie Brown

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a fairly straight-ahead, Seventies-styled caper film.

"...Baby). And Denise Crosby (Star Trek The Next Generation/Playboy magazine). Nice work if you can get it. Based on..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love & a .45

Early Renée in a heap of bloody Texas trouble.

"...it might have delivered more of the gut-level visceral punch for which it obviously tries so hard. To be..."

Nov. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Jan Reid

Remembering the legendary author and Texas Monthly writer

"...loved – he was a writer with a one-two punch. From the left came nonfiction – much of it..."

Sept. 21, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Learn to Make a White Tuxedo With a Livestreamed Happy Hour

Roosevelt Room's spirits wizard Matthew Korzelius shows you how

"...Punch is the James Beard Award-winning online magazine of narrative..."

April 20, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Making Tragedy Funny Again at Moontower Comedy

Stand-ups pull punch lines out of personal traumas

"...around the country. In March, she told New York magazine, "I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing...."

April 21, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft

"...Review, a few well-worn issues of Austin Monthly, Stuff Magazine, and some decomposing installments of The Sporting News. When..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

John Dies at the End

Together, Bubba Ho-Tep director Don Coscarelli and Cracked.com editor David Wong created this horror-comedy jumble that's customed-tooled for the midnight hour.

"...site (and the 21st-century iteration of the defunct print magazine long-regarded as the poor man’s Mad). The Cracked community..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...senior executive editor and lead political reporter for the magazine. "But Evan Smith, though ... that's an interesting story."..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Smith Takes 'TM' Helm

Monthly presses on in wake of layoffs, shrinking budget

"...At a time when any magazine not running pictures of Brangelina's spawn is struggling, longtime..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...By magazine publishing standards, Texas Monthly is positively long in the..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...over half a century ago, the cover of Time magazine famously asked: “Is God Dead?” The question was a..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bad News Bears

This genial remake is Billy Bob Thornton’s game all the way.

"...debut issue of John Holstrom and Legs McNeil’s Punk Magazine for Most Offensively Entertaining Cultural Landmine of the Year)...."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paparazzi

A vicious revenge fantasy produced by Mel Gibson, the Passionate filmmaker who last partnered with that turn-the-other-cheek fellow.

"...print. "Why is Daddy on the cover of that magazine with a black thing covering his pee-pee?" asks young..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...the eccentrics with whom he must deal, like Allure magazine creative director Polly Mellen. Yet the film's compilation of..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...the eccentrics with whom he must deal, like Allure magazine creative director Polly Mellen. Yet the film's compilation of..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...considering the eccentrics he must deal with, like Allure magazine creative director Polly Mellen. Yet the film's compilation of..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...marketing guide, which said that there was a new magazine, I forget the name. I thought, well, a new..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...zest and pink Himalayan sea salt, a gose-style flyweight puncher that is optimal for Austin’s 425%-humidity days...."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...Eighties with the CMJ New Music Report, a trade magazine, and including the creation of an Americana chart in..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Viva Belize!

You may have to fly to Belize to see Jerry Jeff Walker perform these days; just don't call out any requests

"...Despite years of notoriously bad behavior – People magazine called him "one of the all-time hard-boozing, dope-dabbling bad..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Kevin Brass

Throwing Down Love

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

"...market too -- next to the Bible, his HM magazine is Christian rock's longest-running must-read. And then there's the..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

All Done Up

"...fault. We've been given too much freedom, and like punch-drunk fighters, we careen from one fashion look to another...."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

10 Minutes with Barrence Whitfield

Screamer/collector acknowledges Bowie but what of Otis Clay?

"...BW: Well, we put a little punch into it. You know when you see us live..."

Jan. 20, 2016 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Eco: The Culture War to Save the World

Punk, hip-hop and literature sign up for the eco fight

"...intended, there's something visceral about the images, a gut punch. As he put it, "things that connect with people..."

Oct. 9, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Temples and Playgrounds

Previewing the 2007 Texas Book Festival, Nov. 3-4

"...a word. The decorative language he does use gives punch to the punch lines and keeps the slower passages..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature by James Renovitch

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...Ethan says "I've seen profiles of you in this magazine, that magazine, that's the first thing that it felt..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Thursday Showcases

International hip-hop, or domestic, Modern Outsider sounds?

"...year's K-Pop Night Out doesn't pack quite the same punch as last year's whirlwind that brought Hyuna to American..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

News/Print

Headlines and updates from the written world

"...with a conversational tone that makes the ultimate realizations punch the reader in the gut that much harder. Don't..."

May 3, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Iron Man longs for the days of Heavy Metal magazine; Wooden Shjips offshoot Moon Duo channels Suicide on its..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

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