How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...what's this? Something's amiss with the guardian of Sherwood Forest. He has no sound to accompany his thrilling exploits,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...WAITING TO EXHALED: Forest Whitaker; with Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Gardeners and Librarians Join Forces to Catalog Seeds

Seed banking on the future

"...part of the Millennium Seed Bank funded through the Royal Botanic Gardens in the UK, focused on large amounts..."

April 22, 2022 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Day Trips & Beyond: Pandemic's Effect on Travel

Out of town closings due to the threat of COVID-19

"...The Sherwood Forest Faire in McDade is suspending operations during the fourth..."

March 17, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

"Tia J. Boyd: Future Inhabitants" at the Carver

Tia J. Boyd's photographic portraits of warrior women reveal the subjects' power and beauty in a post-postapocalyptic world

"...body are set against clouds and a sky of royal blue. But though she's low in the frame, she..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Rosalind Faires' Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019

Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end

"...2) RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (Griffin) Casey McQuiston's rom-com about the president's son..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra's Variation Voyage

ASO’s first concert of 2019 had us hearing all sorts of feels, but Leon Fleisher’s piano also got us thinking

"...thee," gussying it up with orchestral frills like a royal dandy or having it tooted out by lonely, muted..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin’s The Nutcracker

The company’s 56th run at this holiday classic retains its magic – enough beauty and wonder to transport you to enchanting realms

"...with her shoe and made her even worthier of royal treatment in the Lands of Snow and Sweets...."

Dec. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Living Off the Land With Local Leaf

Eric Knight and Stacy Coplin turn Central Texas foliage into yaupon tea

"...edible plant walk in Bastrop, gesturing out into the forest. "It's the dominant shrub, especially east of town; there's..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Day Trips & Beyond: Gulf Shores Peninsula, Alabama

Gulf Coast vacation destination only feels like an island

"...was once entirely a natural barrier of dunes and forest...."

April 27, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Music: Mega Third List

L7, the Cult, Loretta Lynn and 556 more added to the Fest

"...Will Joseph Cook (Royal Tunbridge Wells, England)..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

2015 Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup

Foo Fighters, Drake, the Weeknd, and Deadmau5 top fall fest

"...Big Don (weekend one only) The Blessed Boots Boom Forest (weekend one only) Børns Leon Bridges Brand New Wesley..."

May 5, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Good Eye: Tales From the Quirky Box

More side-eye examination of "quirky" female film roles

"...at 27, she played a student reporter interviewing Darrell Royal in My All American. "For me, it's been 'college-age..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

SXSW Music: First List

Conference releases initial list of 171 showcasers

"...is more than double the Nashville contingent – Blacklist Royals and Hotel Vegas regulars Natural Child...."

Oct. 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Ann Conner: Symphony Suite

These colorful prints of graphic shapes over wood grains are playful and celebratory of hue and texture

"...the paper, all in exuberant hues – daffodil yellow, royal purple, powder blue, spring green, blood orange, aqua –..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Announces First Band Cull

Some 10% of total acts showcasing March 11-16

"...East Forest (Portland, OR.)..."

Oct. 16, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"..."Go Outside," released by Gorilla vs. Bear's recently minted Forest Family Records. Led by NYC-based couple Madeline Follin and..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday SXSW can't escape the blurbs!

"...Fly with last year's Heretofore (Hometapes). – Doug Freeman Royal Thunder..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

La Sylphide

Ballet Austin's first brush with Bournonville showed his style suiting the dancers

"...will cease following the sylph – an intoxicating, mischievous forest sprite somewhere between a fairy and an insect –..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar: May 13-19

"...FILMS FOR THE FOREST PREMIERE Join Rich­ard Linklater, Evan Smith, and others to..."

May 14, 2010 News Column

The Hightower Report

Words for Wall Street Greed; and Corporatist Court Favors Mountaintop Destruction

"...astonishing arrogance presently being flashed at us by the royal princes of high finance, so I sought your creativity..."

March 13, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

A Cacophony of Passions

Why the City Council changed the boards and commissions system – and what still needs to be done

"...been completed, making it possible to finally see the forest for the trees. The question for 2009: Will elected..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Dragonfly Princess

Despite its fairy-tale trappings, ethos' opera The Dragonfly Princess takes us down a dark path of intrigues, heresy, power struggles, and death

"...Qlye, the queen of the treetop-dwelling fairies in the forest of Ovona, drops this command on her daughter Mala,..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...story and harp. A recent example was the California forest fires, where for at least a week all the..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Column

Field of Dreamers

Two dems, five gop candidates vie for district 48 race, but the seat is expected to remain Democratic.

"...district also includes most of West Lake Hills, Tangled Forest, and Sunset Valley, which has seen phenomenal commercial growth,..."

Feb. 4, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Coach's Corner

In search of the deadly Longhorn virus.

"...Kansas State in a decisive 35-17 thrashing at DK Royal Stadium. As is the custom with a virus, this..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Just Your Average Stiff

"...against ravenous demons and reanimated corpses in a lonely forest cottage. Autolycus, the scheming King of Thieves. A wisecracking..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Books of a Lifetime

Dawn Powell: A Biography

"...reveal it," Carl-Olaf Jacobson, the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said in February 1997. That..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Books Feature

Record Reviews

"...that both "She Don't Belong to You" and "The Forest" could induce a person to dance around with "Soy..."

May 8, 1998 Music Review

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg mine -- is the world's richest non-royal leader. According to Forbes magazine's July 28 issue, Suharto..."

July 25, 1997 News Feature

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