Rough Night

Girls gone murderously wild

"...The bachelorette-party-gone-wrong comedy Rough Night is a good example. Taking its cues from..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The House Bunny

A Playboy bunny who's been ejected from the mansion becomes a sorority house mother.

"...empty-headed comedy about a Playmate who finds herself a house mother to a group of misfit sorority sisters is..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Decade of Aggression at the House of Torment

Austin's top-rated Halloween haunt looks back on 10 years of scares

"..."Fresh meat!" Wham. The ingress slams shut at the House of Torment, and you're on your own...."

Oct. 31, 2012 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Amid Controversy, Road House Remake Tapped to Open SXSW Film

Doug Liman to skip premiere in protest of Amazon MGM

"...festival has just announced that the remake of Road House, with Jake Gyllenhaal as the world’s scariest bouncer, will..."

Jan. 25, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Her First House

"...Manager Toby Futrell has to remember is her first house. And all the people – parts of people, really..."

Nov. 20, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Diamond in the Rough

Shawn Colvin's memoir in song

"...her place at the head of the packed early house with gracious charm. Her voice rings sure and clear,..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

The GOP's New Crowded House

They carry more weight, but is it muscle or fat?

"...means that the already huge Republican majority in the House – which stood at 99 before Ritter's announcement –..."

Dec. 17, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fun House

The Stooges break on through

"...Bay interrogation technique. Rhino Handmade's 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions offers 26 consecutive takes of "Loose" in the..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Dance Review: Ventana Ballet’s UNDEAD: Haunted House of Dances

Ventana makes ballet accessible with an exhilarating Halloween production

"...for the viewer. Before their latest show, UNDEAD: Haunted House of Dances, which concludes a weeklong run on Halloween,..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Master Pancake Flattens 'Road House'

For love (of Swayze) and money (for cancer research)

"...an appropriate movie for their Ritz debut, Swayze came through with his rough-and-tumble classic Road House, dropping truth bombs..."

May 16, 2008 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

The Mob House Rules

Trail of Dead introduces their new epic release to the world

"...and rusted patio furniture of campus-area coffee den Spider House. The clicking laptops and hum of hipster conversation are..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

House Backs Strip-Club Tax

You may be adding 10% to your strip-club budget soon

"...emerges. While the $3-per-head surcharge in Rep. Ellen Cohen's House Bill 2070 got a rough ride in House Ways..."

April 10, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

HD 47: Playing Rough in GOP Primary

Workman goes negative on Turner

"...House District 47 Republican hopeful Paul Workman has gone negative..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Diamond in the Rough

Dawson's Can-Do Spirit Emerges in Pilot Project

"...twice a month, walked the entire neighborhood, visited every house, surveyed every resident and businessperson (the latter twice) with..."

June 5, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Sexy Food and Tasty Beer When Laos Is in the House

Chef Somsith and 4th Tap brew up a compelling culinary series

"...Tap Brewing Co-op? You know: In an enormous, soaring-ceilinged warehouse space, sparsely peopled, properly distanced – the sort of..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

AISD Girds for a Rough Ride Next Year

Sustainable funding, limits on charters highlight legislative proposals

"...school districts were riding the $6.5 billion high of House Bill 3's new funding. Now, however, COVID-19's economic fallout..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

My Father’s House: A Moment With Bruce Springsteen

“His lyrics tethered me to my family, the way they grew up”

"...results in him holding my hand – his was rough and calloused, like a real working man – while..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Arts Post by Libby Webster

Grandma's House of Horrors

"...on such a venture! If we did, here’s a rough cut of what we’d find in... (cue pipe organ)..."

Oct. 30, 2006 News Post by Amy Smith

Specialties of the House

Recent Publications From Our Contributors

"...knife and in two clean strokes split open a rough oyster and cut the bivalve's tough muscle from the..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Food Feature

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...comics, isn't it? Because Raw Paw also produces the Rough House anthology of sequential art, and each issue has..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Trust

"...go? Well, Maria's mom kicks her out of the house, the high school football jock/father of the baby rejects..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Woods

Tessa Thompson takes all the tough choices in a grimy tale of downtrodden life

"...keep the bank from foreclosing on her late mother’s house. Neither she nor her sister Deb (James), a waitress..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...is effete, pampered, and exceedingly well-dressed. But when a rough-and-tumble cockney sewer rat named Sid (Richie) comes crashing into..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Labyrinth of Cinema

House director’s love letter to movies, peace, and history

"...Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s name because of his cult Japanese hit House, but Ôbayashi’s legacy of experimental cinema expands beyond that,..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

TxDOT Puts Lipstick on the Pig

Commissioners approve spending stimulus money, insult the public

"...It ended a rough week for TxDOT, but may have been only the..."

March 6, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Cold in July

A dream lineup is one of many treats in this East Texas neo-noir based on a Joe Lansdale book.

"...sleep by the sound of an intruder in their house. With shaking hands, Richard loads bullets into his revolver..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sentinel

This serviceable action thriller disintegrates into an implausible mess that's barely salvaged by the presence of old pros like Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger

"...what if there is a mole in the White House? – but it fails to fully deliver the goods,..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the Mix

Consider this brick No. 1 in the fall of the house of Usher.

"...vehicle for hip-hop star Usher is no blinged-out Beamer rough-riding it over to Jay-Z’s joint to wallop some cheeba..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Boys

"...need of a shower and a hug. It's that rough. “The Boys” in question are a trio of Sydney..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hyde Park Theatre's The Quarry

Greg Pierce's play is rough and has sharp edges, but in the end there is heart that is worth discovering

"...Hyde Park Theatre, Jean lives by herself in a house teetering on the edge of a marble quarry. She..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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