The Monkey's Mask

"...public reading. Her wannabe Plath poetry is redolent with purple prose, but so too is the language of the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Crimson Rivers

"...of the picture. These crimson rivers may flow rather purple, but their strong current has an inexorable and undeniable..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jurassic Park III

"...and minding a toddler who's only interested in a purple dinosaur named Barney. The best moments in the movie..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...it to the first page, where Frank, in his purple bathrobe and mouse slippers, sits in his electric chair..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA)

"...years -- some 1,500 uncatalogued tapes -- the 4-CD, purple-velvet-wrapped Jimi Hendrix Experience box set is just the tip..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Young, Loud, and Cheap

The Skunks were a band. A loud one.

"...Records, and issued an album commonly known as "The Purple Album" (the Skunks had a way with naming their..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Public Notice

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, among other things, and "Public Notice" wants you to feel the love.

"...G. Komen Foundation. www.concert4thecure.org or 929-9130 and www.austinraceforthecure.org or 427-4833.Purple & Pink Go Nice Together October is almost as..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Turn it Up

"...the difference between sizzle and steak. Sort of a Purple Rain with lots more machine guns, cussing, and bloody..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

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

"...convertible covered with rust spots, Gary Floyd felt his purple/pink mohawk bristle in the wind. Driven by their friend..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Supernova

"...fails that litmus test, offering instead a barrage of purple-hued light shows and swirly color schemes that had me..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Talented Mr. Ripley

"...bears only slight resemblance to Rene Clement's equally terrific Purple Noon (1960). Blessedly, though, Minghella has matched Clement's gutsy..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Three Kings

This modern classic is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.

"...pumping with the assistance of mechanical tubing) instead of Purple Hearts. George Bush is the enemy and we are..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

"...Kiss in the Night, in which a conglomerate of purple bloated shapes droops in the foreground of an anonymous..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Arts Review

Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie

"...the character as something of a modern antichrist. The Purple One is just a big flannel dinosaur with a..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wedding Singer

"...but really, there's only so much pastel pink and purple set design a guy can stand. Sandler is actually..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deconstructing Harry

"...also calls to mind such Allen films as The Purple Rose of Cairo and Stardust Memories but perhaps more..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postscripts

"...is now thankfully at home getting well. Passion for Purple Sage..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postmarks

"...I feel that I must clarify the pink taco/purple hot dog issue for Mr. Miller-Carrasco. The stickers are..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Column

Dancing About Architecture

The Quiet Game

"...or merely the 11 named in the suit. The Purple People Eater..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Column

Dancing About Architecture

Never Everland

"...have the slightest idea. As you may know, the Purple One generally announces the location at the end of..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Alive & Kicking

"...nobles who inspired Romantic poets to churn out endless, purple odes, is a commanding presence as Tonio. Though essentially..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Live Shots

"...perfectly concise arrangements, like his verse-chorus-long solo version of "Purple Rain" and a similarly skeletal "Little Red Corvette." Although..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Music Feature

Postscripts

Mixed Notes

"...full of old mansions whose owners take to Cisneros' purple (Sherwin Williams' Corsican Purple) none too kindly. Next for..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Record Reviews

"...from the likes of KISS, Robin Trower, and Deep Purple circa Burn are peppered throughout the album. Although there..."

March 7, 1997 Music Review

Austin Music Network

"...10:30 New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Dillo Homecoming..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature

My Fellow Americans

"...of those When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple books weren't enough -- that the ideal of “dignified..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Page Two

"...our cover artist, decided to put a touch of purple in each eyeball to emphasize O'Brien's madness. The printer..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Column by Louis Black

Carpool

"...why does Franklin (Arnold) paint the getaway van with purple hair dye (how surreptitious), or where the mom who..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Record reviews Reissues

"...artists in favor of perennial faves like America, Deep Purple, 10CC, Canned Heat, Kingfish, Rick Wakeman, Greg Lake, Steve..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Music Review

Mercedes Wanguemert-Peña's Grand Obsession Stuck Inside Cuba

"...a host of needy friends, in hot pink and purple and yellow-gold. She lived in a purple house with..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

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