DOA: Dead or Alive

Female fighters start out as enemies but strip down to their bikini tops to fight a common foe.

"...all their energy on exploring the psychological subtleties of sexed-up underground martial-arts fighting matches and asking the truly pressing..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Super Troopers

"...meanest digs are directed at hippies, stoners, and some sexed-up German carjackers. There is some oddly prescient, pre-war Taliban..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Let's Talk About Sex, Bay-bee

AISD Teaches Kids About the Birds and Bees

"...Planned Parenthood's Michael Hayes guest lectures a health class..."

May 2, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

The Call

Halle Berry plays a 911 phone operator who takes a call in which everything's on the line.

"...a bit garbled on the line due to some sexed-up silliness tacked on to the finale. Starkly unsentimental in..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

The City of Lost Children

This follow-up from the same Frenchmen who made Delicatessen fancies itself a fairy tale – albeit a dark and scary one that's jam-packed with enough strange characters and wild mythologies for at least three movies.

"...enough to swipe a sight gag from Stephen Sayadian's sexed-up “remake” of The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari). In short,..."

March 1, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Beck and Phoenix Make Every Moment Count at Breathless Moody Center Co-Headline

Dancing through three decades of songs from the two indie pop giants

"...her sister, of course) allowing Beck to culminate his sexed-up vibes. "Debra," perhaps more than any other song, seemed..."

Aug. 23, 2023 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Post-Pandemic, Can Schools Make Sex Education Work?

Tackling difficult subjects in Texas schools

Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Madi Donham

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

ATX Queer Music Fest, Ovey Fest, New Candys, Bryan Carter, and more local shows worth seeing

"...and hip-hop supernova Mama Duke are representing, along with sexed-up Femme Boy artist Caleb De Casper covering Lady Gaga..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Column by Abby Johnston

Gift Guide: Prince

Sign o’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (Warner Bros.)

"...blows hair back to Indian psychedelia "The Cross" and morning-sexed closer "Adore."..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

"Ian Shults: Sex, Drugs, and Leave Me Alone"

Are West Austin tastes in painting taking a swing toward the provocative?

"...glamorous (and mostly PG-13) side of drunken revelry and sexed-up gatherings, the fun buzz and never the hangover. Now..."

April 17, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

HBO My

Premium cable network struts its stuff with three premieres this weekend

"...watch in the person of Oberyn (Pedro Pascal), a sexed-up middle-child prince nursing a blood feud. Michiel Huisman –..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: I Am a Sexaholic

Several hundred words of highly uninformed and recklessly speculative commentary

"...Dear Luv Doc, I lost my virginity last Thanksgiving...."

Jan. 17, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

Low Lighting

Soderbergh flickers into retirement with 'Behind the Candelabra'

"...particular pleasure in this film's voyeuristic peek-inside posture and sexed-up tone...."

May 24, 2013 Screens Feature by Patrick Courtney

He Said/She Said: Drake

Live Shot of last night's Drake show at the Erwin Center

"...caricature of a modern pop-rap star: borderline ridiculous commentary, sexed-up showmanship. But you want to buy into Drake, because..."

Feb. 28, 2012 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Not Strictly Abstinence Anymore

'Ignorance won't protect our kids'

"...Download the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund's 2011 Sex..."

Nov. 25, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Gender Studies

Kino goes back to the classroom with How to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman

"...do once the opposite sex is, well, good and sexed...."

Oct. 2, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

I Know Thee Not, Old Man

"...Busby Berkeley girls diving into a swimming pool; the sexed-up, sweaty lovers in their unmentionables dry-humping on chairs...."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Hightower Report

Free Market Hypocrites; and Lobbyists Go Shopping

"...they mislead consumers into thinking there's something wrong with sexed-up milk. So lobbyists for Monsanto and its BGH users..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Paper Tigers

"...included), and Pentagram’s Austin Film Festival Poster - a sexed-up, Texed-up version of old Hollywood. Also notable is the..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Design Post by Karen Barry

Farewell to Blair

What will the resignation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair mean for the U.S.?

"...all, it was the UK that provided the famous "sexed-up" intelligence dossier on Iraq's WMD capacity that Bush used..."

May 11, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Mortally Corrupted

"...it “pornography.” She meant “blasphemy,” but the p-word really “sexed-up” her letter. She recoiled in horror at the thought..."

Feb. 7, 2006 Postmarks

It Takes a Village

Inside the new Whole Foods

"...emphasis on natural foods hasn't diminished. It's just been sexed up with artfully displayed bulk and items that are..."

March 25, 2005 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Gomez

Record review

"..."Do One," is deliciously sloppy, incorporating the three-part harmonies, sexed-up fuzz guitar, and a bottom-end buzz that represents the..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Bush Goes to England

"...popular, and after transforming that parody into fact with sexed-up dossiers, distorted intelligence, and the deaths of both British..."

Nov. 18, 2003 Postmarks

TV Eye

South Park takes on sex ed.

"...and rubbing on that show. But contraceptive commercials and sexed-up programming apparently don't mix by Fox TV standards...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Steely Dan Two Against Nature (Giant)

"...were the supreme articulators of the elegantly wasted, casually sexed adults we yearned to be. Perhaps it's a backhanded..."

March 31, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Weird Bands From Texas

"...enthusiasm of a popcorn fart. Pastel-coated power ballads and sexed-up retreads of Seventies arena rock bacchanalia only added wind..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Scanlines

The Star Maker

"...Yam, absolutely incredible) and his outrageous entourage. Loud, violent, sexed-up, and politically incorrect as hell, Full Contact is a..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature