Sxsw

"...is more pronounced -- a twang and spirit that brought me back often to her Mercury debut from '95...."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Music Amidst Used Furniture

The History of the Red River Strip

"...reportedly to be run by the same people who brought you the dance club, Proteus. In reality, however, you..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...to say that starting with Wednesday night and continuing through Sunday's showcases, there will be some form of music..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Argentine Favorites From Buenos Aires Café

Gnocchi, empanadas, and Patagonia style lamb

"...Texas when I was 15 and it was a rough transition for me. I deeply missed Argentina and I..."

Nov. 24, 2020 Food Post

Reissues

"...Ellison's "Stay With Me" to Joe Hinton's 1964 run through Willie Nelson's "Funny." Meanwhile, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, and..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

A thrilling and touching version of the children's classic from the master fabulist

"...Terrible Dogfish, to mention a few examples. With its mix of fairy tale and monsters, both human and otherwise,..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Maneater

Trace Adkins versus sharks is a soggy mess

"...friends die, and a few tenets of oceanography are thoroughly bent in pursuit of a final showdown between Jessie,..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Martin Eden

Bafflingly relocated Italian adaptation of Jack London's novel skates by on charm and cheekbones

"...name, he’s an uneducated working-class stiff, a handsome but rough-edged Neapolitan merchant marine with dirt under his fingernails and..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Mountain Between Us

This is what a boring plane crash movie looks like

"...almost certain to die? – and generally having a rough time of it. Yet, given the setup, director Hany..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Superior in nearly all ways to its predecessor, this second film in the prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a welcome surprise.

"...the Woodland Elves – and, in particular, the enchantingly rough-and-tumble Tauriel (Lilly) – and, oh yes, the giant spiders...."

Dec. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...All-Stars, Grupo Fantasma fills dance floors with a searing mix of hard salsa, cumbia, and merengue. Locals have been..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Face Off Recap: Bad For Your Gums

Candy-coated nightmares as the contestants suffer sweet dreams

"...challenges were grim and ghoulish, so this provides a pik'n'mix of opportunities. Will the contestants go tooth-rotting grotesque or..."

Feb. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Les Misérables

This extravagant adaptation of the monster-hit musical is a little pitchy, but it's still a potent piece of cinema.

"...held-breath gambits Hooper (The King’s Speech) endeavors is his mix-and-match cast of stage veterans, movie stars, and intriguing in-betweens,..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Big Miracle

Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this fact-based story that shows us that whales are mammals too.

"...Predictably, Big Miracle’s creative team has sanded down the rough edges and brought to the fore the most universally..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: Shindig on Effie Street

The silent film comedians at Keystone Films lived their art

"...that stage Sennett's troupe built its interior sets. This rough place is what Charles Chaplin found when he came..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

The One

"...the chorus of singing alley cats in a Meow Mix commercial tends to create a rough equivalency in my..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Proposition

"...Loggia, Blythe Danner and Josef Sommer. It must be rough being Kenneth Branagh. Eventually, the poor guy's going to..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews

"...Pere Ubu and Miracle Legion to get conjecture rolling. Throughout their career, Radiohead have proven quite adroit at living..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Review

Anarchy in Paris

French electro anarchist Éric Débris resides in South Austin

"...such guitar players, brothers Hermann Schwartz and Pat Lüger, mix the Velvet Underground with Sixties garage rock in a..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...I do know that Banyan Productions is trying to mix that up as much as possible. I think that..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...Death Cab for Cutie with a tart power pop mix found on last year's Dueling Devotions that resonates with..."

March 12, 2004 Music 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

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...8pm, Emo's Jr. These local garage wunderkinder have shuffled through a few lineup changes of late, including the addition..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...disco becomes an epoch that nobody else really lived through. Were this truly the "illumination" of DJ culture that..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...an evil villain from capturing the sword Excalibur and, through it, the Kingdom of Camelot. (May 15)..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Reissues

"...interest in jazz is familiar with the music produced through the collaboration of Miles Davis and Gil Evans in..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...along I-35 on a Friday afternoon, after swifter passage through the barely urban hubs of Hutto and Thorndale and..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...With this track, Piña and producer Toy Hernández, the mix-master wizard for Monterrey's Control Machete, created a whole new..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

No Law & Order

"...debut Plays One Sound and Others conjures cinematic visions wrought in lyrics you can actually hear, backed by spooky..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

¿Quieres Chanclar?

East Riverside's "Latin Strip"

"...-- though local working-class Chicanos are part of the mix. As amazing as this may seem, it's a crowd..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Music Feature by James E. Garcia

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