DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...Every Northern European culture knows that Robert Frost was wrong. The woods may be dark and..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

First Aid Kit

"...Silver Lining," while the title track expands on the Robert Frost poem for a beautiful, if weary, meditation. Searching..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

A Poet's Paper Trail

Billy Collins' archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance

"...often referred to as the people’s poet, a modern-day Robert Frost. He’s as much at home on the Colbert..."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Amy Smith

The Nutcracker

The new set and costume designs for Ballet Austin's annual production add warmth and candy-colored magic

"...wooden trees begat a forest of white worthy of Robert Frost's snowy woods: deep, dizzying, enthralling. Against it, the..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Hey, Adults! Comics! Comics that are Funny, Weird, and Profound!

Reviewed: New School, Superzelda, My Dirty Dumb Eyes

"...according to whatever manner the aesthetics of what-he's-creating-at-the-time insist. Robert Frost, the poet, humblebragged in verse about choosing the..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Summer Fun: It's a Pagan Thing, We Might Just Understand

Celebrating the solstice with some of that old-time religion

"...Take note, curmudgeonly old (but also dearly departed) Robert Frost: Maybe especially in the summer, it's not just..."

May 15, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Poem in Your Pocket Day: April 18

Carry your favorite words with you

"...by theme and including such favorites as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, William Carlos Williams, and more...."

April 17, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The Book of Grace

Tension runs through this lean domestic drama like a taut steel cord

"...there may yet be a truth for us in Robert Frost's old poem: "Something there is that doesn't love..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Art Galleries

A pair of new visual-arts showplaces gives the art of the camera its due

"...his time: George Balanchine, Jorge Luis Borges, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Frost, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Arthur Miller, and..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

We did not fall from the Garden; we journeyed away

"...stopped the car. The woods all around were, as Robert Frost wrote, "dark and deep." The stars overhead were..."

July 31, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Balancing Act

Several tiny steps in search of a dance to winter – and a dance toward launching into reverie

"...1) Robert Frost said that "poet" is a gift word. You..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The End of the World as He Knows It

Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in Southland Tales

"...AC: Right, and T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, the Book of Revelation, and Perry Farrell get..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Luv Doc Recommends: 2007 National Poetry Slam Individual Finals

Paramount Theatre, Friday, August 10, 2007

"...on PCP doesn’t make you any cooler than say, Robert Frost reading “Birches” in his deadpan New England drone...."

Aug. 10, 2007 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...Robert Frost once said that "poet" is a gift word...."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Our Shostakovich Year

On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party

"...did they react to it? Can you imagine if Robert Frost was suddenly told by the U.S. government that..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Road Again

Ballet East's Paths traces some of the many passages through life.

"...Robert Frost wrote about "the road less traveled." Joseph Campbell..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...I poet Alan Seeger; Shakespeare's Henry V; poems by Robert Frost and Langston Hughes; letters from Peace Corps volunteers..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

If the City Council approves a proposed noise ordinance, Austin will have to stay weird quietly, and possibly without many nightclubs.

"...Robert Frost once said that "Poet" was a gift title:..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Still Life

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

"...childhood "was like the rural New England described by Robert Frost," she says. "There was a strong humanistic tradition,..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...like, like the 'Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,' some Robert Frost -- poems that were accessible to a child..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student

Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.

"...was able to attract students because you could pay Robert Frost to go there and things like that. After..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary scene.

"...play The Bridge (1945), The Seamless Web (1981), and Robert Frost Himself (1986). An award-winning scholar and critic, Dickstein..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Why We Listen to What They Say

"...animal part would just get burned off and die. Robert Frost said, when they asked him "What's the meaning..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Getting Nature Write

"...of expression can be found in the poetry of Robert Frost, who Dunn counts among his early influences, along..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Books Feature

Page Two

"...(Note: Robert Frost once said that "poet" was a gift word,..."

April 11, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Dr. Marvin Kimbrough and Floyd Freeman That Essence Rare

"...make a poem," she says, naming such authors as Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, and local author Jamieson..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

Road Rage

The Barton Springs Road project has encountered more than few speed bumps

"...The Barton Springs Road "improvements" -- from Lamar to Robert E. Lee at Barton Creek -- have been a..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...nearly all the noisemaking tools on debut Salamander (Pink Frost), layering lovely guitars and vocal melodies like a rust-belt..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

It's a Mystery to Me

"...Robert B. Parker, who created Spenser, the hero of mystery..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...Max Frost 9pm, Stubb's Austin native Max Frost – real name..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

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