SXSW Music: Sad Lovers & Giants

First U.S. gig in the band’s 35-year history

"...By the time UK quintet Sad Lovers & Giants released its first album in 1982,..."

March 16, 2016 SXSW Post by Michael Toland

Hey, Yo! Young Lovers

Rome & Jewels is choreographer Rennie Harris' new hip-hop version of the Romeo and Juliet story, set in the streets of Philly where the Caps and the Monster Qs fight for control.

"...makes their fate all the more senseless and heart-rendingly sad. That may be why we return to it so..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: SXSW Is for Lovers

Looking for clarity in the hate-intoxicated haze

"...Two" I've ever written. Although it will be a sad and futile undertaking, I'm going to try to clarify..."

March 30, 2007 Column by Louis Black

His Three Daughters

Estranged sisters gather at their father's deathbed

"...Indie filmmaker Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers, Terri) has assembled so many tender spots – sibling..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bigger Than the Sky

Despite some bright spots in this woefully earnest modern romance, Bigger Than the Sky is awash in the obvious and sports a cloying adulation of theatre folk.

"...assemblages constructed primarily out of unchecked emotion, madmen and lovers to the last. As a stereotype, it’s not so..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underground

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, this is a sprawling, epic, comic tale of life during Yugoslavian wartime.

"...WWII, as Kusturica follows the lives of three star-crossed lovers across the last five decades. At almost three hours,..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet's story of salesmen caught in their unique form of hell also offers a cornucopia of fine performances.

"...moving from phone to phone, they are desperate, perverted lovers wooing disinterested prospects with all the guile and cunning..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

SXSW Music: Mega Third List

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

"...folksinger Judy Collins, garage-psych burnouts Dandy Warhols, NYC rock & roll poet Garland Jeffreys, Detroit punks Protomartyr, Fiery Furnaces..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Tristan & Isolde

This new version of the timeless love story is a dopey, mopey, all-around bore.

"...Henry Cavill, J.B. Blanc and Jamie King. “Before Romeo & Juliet, there was …” Irritating sentence fragment aside, Tristan..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tuesday SXSW Picks

First night picks

"...DJs, saving her tunes for May's Sub Pop debut LP. – Tim Stegall..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

News Roundup: Storms, Season's Greetings, and Open Carry

Reminder: Open carry law takes effect Jan. 1

"...storms claim nearly a dozen lives in Texas; gun lovers to soon rejoice as they'll be able to tote..."

Dec. 29, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Theatre Review: Born With Teeth

Marlowe’s mad and Shakespeare’s sad in Austin Playhouse production

"...and Henry V), with a spicy dash of the enemies-to-lovers trope. But how sincere are their feelings in a..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Malvern Books to Close

Literary bastion to empty the shelves on New Year's Eve

"...A sad turn of the page for Austin's readers: Malvern Books,..."

Nov. 21, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Vulcan Video Closes

Multiple staff members confirm end of beloved rental store

"...A sad day for the Austin film scene as staff broke..."

April 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Review: Arábia

Tales from the workforce, drowning

"...Arábia (Araby) is not a story. Instead, this sad road trip around Minas Gerais in Brazil is a..."

May 7, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music 2016: Tuesday

"...Sad Lovers & Giants..."

March 16, 2016 Photo Gallery

Give Back to Queerbomb

Queerbomb 2013 seeks the community it creates

"...In 2010, a small band of rag-tag queer community lovers got together to address the issues many people have..."

May 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

'The Voice in My Head': A Super Bowl for the Birds?

The birdbrains of Maryland and Georgia are an obscure nondescript folk

"...our daughter’s face once – making us all very sad...."

Jan. 16, 2013 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

2009 's Fab and Not So Fine

Top nine gay events of 2009.

"...nostalgic. Thinking about the good and the bad, the lovers and the lusted after, gets me all teary. Here..."

Dec. 30, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Lola Houston

My Texicalli Chair

The treasures of the Danny Roy Young tribute

"...reminded me of old footage I once saw of sad-eyed children in an orphanage lined up to be adopted...."

Oct. 21, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...well as the superfine Western Swing of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys -- towering figures who defined and..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

The Gift of Words

Corrido

"...a picture of the torment and craze of two lovers as they become trapped in the mirages of their..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Books Feature

Mandabi

Seminal Senegalese social satire from the father of African film, remastered

"...why Sembène is known by critics, scholars, and film lovers alike as the “father of African cinema."..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...NARAS PRESENTS: … the Austin Music Awards' new Super Bowl champs, Del..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Founders Day

Slasher political satire should fall on its own blade

"...some weird motivation. The pair of mocking high school lovers who end up on the slab because they can't..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mothering Sunday

Literary adaptation charts doomed romance between classes

"...working as a maid for a wealthy but visibly sad older couple, Godfrey and Clarrie Nivens (Firth and Colman),..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cyrano

Musical rewrite of the tragic love triangle never hits the high notes

"...midtempo repetitiveness – translate poorly to the musical. Their sad lullaby thing just sounds sleepy in the mouths of..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: Frozen

A little homespun wisdom from Dub Nelly

"...– Frozen in Time..."

June 24, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

People Places Things

Indie relationship comedy starring Jemaine Clement is slight but sweet

"...Charlie’s tubby lover, Gary (Chernus), she gives Will a sad shrug and declares their years-long union over. Cut to..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Anna Karenina

Joe Wright's bold but empty imagining of Tolstoy's classic is set mostly within the walls of a theatre.

"...heart and his mind – an ache the central lovers only play-act at. Twenty years ago, Law would have..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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