Obama's School Daze

Local schools react to the hubbub over Obama's school speech

"...President Barack Obama's Sept. 8 back-to-school message to the nation's children was, the Texas Education..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Glory Daze

"...and The Jerky Boys, comes the equally insipid Glory Daze, a loving, if not particularly funny, tribute to the..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

August Month for the Daze

If the Straitjacket fits...

"...Galaxy Highland 10, something’s going to change for the Daze. It’s not just the killer, once-in-a-lifetime chance to dazzle..."

Aug. 3, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

SchoolJam Daze

Teen bands take home awards

"...afternoon at the Parish did not. It was the SchoolJam Texas finals, sponsored by NAMM, and it ROCKED...."

March 2, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love, and Death in the Kitchen

Sheehan knows how to weave a good story while still being brutally honest about himself

"...of surreptitious purchases of Gourmet magazine as a high school kid and his one failed attempt to "translate the..."

May 29, 2009 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

All I Really Need to Know I Learned Watching Movies

A good student is a prepared student. Here's our back to school curricula.

"...Supplemental texts: The Freshman (1990), Back to School, Dazed and Confused..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Screens Feature

School Daze

Spike Lee imbues School Daze with as much race and identity politics as is possible without losing his focus in a film that should be rightfully viewed as a musical.

"...School Daze..."

June 8, 2001 Screens Review by Charles Conn

Joe the King

"...year, a take-no-prisoners journey back to the bad old daze of mid-Seventies upstate New York, where 14-year-old Joe Henry..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Whatever

"...female best friends caught between the end of high school and the rest of their lives. With almost frightening..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bamboozled

"...director of musicals – something we first glimpsed in School Daze. In fact, most of Lee's films build on..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Best Man

Malcolm D. Lee, cousin of Spike, hits emotional pay dirt in this men's-eye-view of marriage, fidelity, and love. ? Marc Savlov.

"...while simultaneously working to keep Lance from discovering the school-daze tryst. Ain't love grand? The Best Man is a..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Malcolm X

"...a prolonged choreographed dance sequence (like something out of School Daze) that serves no discernible narrative purpose and apparently..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Off the Desk

"...procedures that were choking the agency's mission... - K.F. School Daze..."

July 31, 1998 News Feature

Gay Place

What makes Austin so queer-friendly?

"...Middle School Dance Party! Back 2 School Edition Back to school..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...for the trumpet player as a senior in high school, where he'd planned on becoming a physics major, and,..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

"...Dazed and Confused (Umvd, Nov. 2): Would Criterion package Linklater's..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

She's Gotta Have It, Pi

"...X) and Mookie (Do the Right Thing) and Half-Pint (School Daze). As the Nineties wore on, Lee's detractors grew..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola

Ballistix, Unfadeable Young Guns, Ukalipthis, NOOK, Velvet/Velvet Patio

Thursday Night

"...acutely complemented the bracing lyrical tone of the probing "School Daze" ("I hate AISD") and anti-intolerance treatise "Commentary." Houston's..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Awake in the Dark Across the Great Divide

"...African-American community that don't relate exclusively to black/white relations (School Daze, Mo' Better Blues, Crooklyn). But no one, to..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Arts Feature

Barrio Daze

Barrio Daze, a series of damn funny and poignant sketches created, woven together, and performed by Adrian Villegas is both absurdly funny and dead-on insightful, not only dissecting stereotypical views other groups hold of Hispanics, but challenging those Hispanics have applied to themselves.

"...Barrio Daze: La RazaDougherty Arts Center, through March 8..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Record Reviews

"...Burning the Daze (Atlantic)..."

April 3, 1998 Music Review

Victory for Bright Lights Social Hour!

ACL Fest Sound & Jury winners get their moment in the spotlight

"...winter, a group of five students from Akins High School traveled to Dublin, Ireland, to take third place in..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Post by Aaron Miller

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...posted at various points. "Mental Health," read one sign. "School Enrollment," read another...."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Drive My Car

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s second masterpiece in a year finds the pain of love

"...to monologue, telling a story about a young high school girl who sneaks into a classmate’s house while the..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Skulls

"...hot idea to send Junior to those prestigious Ivy-cloaked schools back East, The Skulls is a teen movie with..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monument Ave.

"...pieces to come around in some time. Mining his old-school memories of the fightin' Irish Boston neighborhood where he..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...in their friendship. But this is challenged when the school’s matron divides them. Cast: Rima Te Wiata, Erana James,..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

Advice to a high-school graduating class: Face your fear and take risks.

"...A graduating high school class eyes the speaker with everything from polite suspicion..."

June 9, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...year teaching classes and making music at UT's Butler School of Music. (Also: Sat., 9:30pm, Victorian Room at the..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...on Sabine In the late Sixties, Houston's Kashmere High School band channeled contemporary soul into powerful big-band arrangements that..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

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