Sailor Scout and the Chaperone

A father prepares for Ushicon 3, the Austin animé convention

"...and/or fierce characters as they battle against or with robots, alien invaders, magical beings, and so on. It's one..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Top 10s

Chronicle critics list their Top 10 Texas albums for 2003

"...7) Robots, Please!, The Acropolis..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Animation Revelation

Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment

"...animated shorts and series (this is where the kung-fu robots and Kabuki snowmen come in) to more serious (but..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Everybody Has Gotten Stoned ... Everywhere

"...the Bush twins? Could it be they are actually robots programmed to go out into the world, party at..."

Aug. 14, 2003 Postmarks

Touch

Ballet Austin's Touch, choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills, was one of these rare productions that have both stunning choreography and dancing, but also seem to open a level of emotional connection with the audience that's more direct than even language-based works of art.

"...punctuated by dancers' bodies suddenly ceasing in midmotion, like robots switched off abruptly. At these moments, other dancers would..."

April 18, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Live on Paper

When he's not covering canvas with acrylic-based images of Japanese toys and Italian scooters and good old American action-figures, Tim Doyle dabbles in the art of the comic book, distilling his day-by-day existence into three black-and-white segments each in monthly issues of Amazing Adult Fantasy.

"...titular teenager and her pal as they fight anti-fun robots and carouse through a world like our own but..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Smell of Success

Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.

"...his Belle & Sebastian at the Backyard poster featuring robots run amok. Noel Waggener's Epistrophy Arts and Waxploitation posters..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Beck & The Flaming Lips

Live Shots

"...for the Prize," the new "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," and their MTV moment in the sun, "She Don't..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Loose Lip

"...current release, the concept album Yoshimi vs. the Pink Robots, continues to expand their fan base, Drozd saying he's..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Short Cuts

"Short Cuts" as personal party planner.

"...Terra Cognita is hosting a reception for Portraits of Robots author Tom Zummer at Studio 107 (906 E. 5th),..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The Flaming Lips

Record Review

"...THE Flaming LipsYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Music Review by Ken Lieck

'Flesh' Parade

The Dobie screens the X-rated director's cut of Seventies Flash Gordon parody Flesh Gordon at midnight.

"...call to mind a severely poverty-stricken Ray Harryhausen), lusty robots, a tribe of lesbians, and a monster called a..."

June 28, 2002 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

New on DVD

Rhino Video, packager of subcultural phenomena, a few months ago released Battle of the Planets / Gatchaman DVDs that include episodes of Asian anime series Gatchaman and corresponding episodes of its surreal American knockoff, Battle of the Planets.

"...at it, watch a lot of really spiffy giant robots. Battle of the Planets was -- and, thanks to..."

May 24, 2002 Screens Feature by Jason Henderson

Really Rad Rachel

Media darling Rachel Muir and her nonprofit Girlstart earn the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award.

"...And today, they program robots...."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Big in Austin, Big in Japan

If a holiday gift trend is big here this year, chances are, it was already big over there

"...any other item of personal adornment. From the mechanical robots of Gundam Wing, to the beloved heroes of Robotech,..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Girl Robots include Michelle Waterman on bass..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column

Wasn't It FABulous?

Economic and environmental consequences of high tech plant closings are potentially grim.

"...at the way the automakers built new plants, with robots -- but they usually did not build them in..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...feature about a futuristic world in which humans and robots coexist, and not altogether comfortably. Based on the Forties..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Coach's Corner

Do we need weather reports to tell us it's hot in Texas in August? How about to tell us it's wrong to have China host the Olympics?

"...insist their massive population be nothing more than walking robots … or else. There's no freedom of anything in..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Transformers: The Movie

Hitchcock's classic has acquired a certain campiness over the years, but it still has the power to disturb.

"...Transformers, everyday machines that turned into walking, talking, fighting robots, popularized by their catchy, self-esteem-building theme song: "More than..."

May 11, 2001 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...Girls rule! Especially when they are encouraged to explore robots, microscopes, environmental science, math, engineering, and technology. Through the..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Pushing the Envelope

For years, mail art has been enlivening the world's postal systems and creating a "meeting of minds" among creative types across the world. Three Austin artists are profiled in a look at the history and continuing appeal of mail art.

March 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Day Trips

"...On display in the exhibit, of course, are the robots C-3PO and R2-D2. Without the magic of film, hairy..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Slow Biz of Show Biz

A conversation between filmmakers Richard Linklater and Rachel Tsangari

"...dark comedy, science-fiction film with grumpy astronauts, precocious kids, mini-robots, and bionic bunnies, and we plan to shoot in..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature

Kiddie Spree

Uncle Stephen & the Children Go Holiday Shopping

"...future, and a time that has already passed. Tin Robots ($6-$30) and the Robotics kit ($110) at Terra Toys...."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature

Word of Mouth Tour, Stubb's, October 25

"...Saafer took turns rocking the microphone like code-spewing funky robots, the crowd eagerly waving the five-fingered salute. Their album..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...George W. Bush and Al Gore impersonate Disney World robots, or the Yankees finally pummel the hapless Mariners into..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...which Minnesotean comic Joel Hodgson and a group of "robots" were jettisoned into outer space and forced to watch..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Super the Phat, Virginia Robot Manufacturing Co., TV People: Room 710, August 22

"...did explain at one point, "This [song] is called 'Robots are Coming, Man, Fuckin' Watch Out,'" to which guitarist..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

Ken Lieck goes to Florida and leaves readers high and dry with a best of column.

"...6.) "Thrill to the Out-of-Control Antics of the S.R.L. Robots -- Management Not Responsible for Death of Patrons."..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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