Bedside Manner: Hide the Schlock!

Depressing real stuff and trashy TV

"...truly bad Murder She Wrote novel, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes by James Anderson.) But I've found over the..."

Feb. 20, 2011 Books Post by Jordan Smith

TV Eye: From Career Criminal to Copper

BBC America debuts a sexy, scintillating new detective show

"...is more than your typical whodunit (as in the Sherlock Holmes tradition or any of the CSIs or Law..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...did not fully realize that there wouldn't be a Sherlock Holmes if it weren't for Poe. I was unaware..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tommy Tune

The master hoofer isn't getting older; he's getting more nonchalant

"...New York, landing a chorus spot in the now-obscure Sherlock Holmes musical Baker Street, in which he danced beside..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Black Minutes

Everywhere you turn in this ambitious debut novel, there's the wretched stench of deceit and corruption

"...Sierra Madre); renowned criminologist Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón ("the Mexican Sherlock Holmes"), who is called in on the original case;..."

May 21, 2010 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Sherlock Holmes

This movie reinvents the chilly, brainiac sleuth as a tortured genius and occasional backroom brawler, and Robert Downey Jr. almost makes the character work.

"...the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes some 46 years later. The fictional Holmes first..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Invictus

Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela in this true story of the leader helping to heal a nation through rugby.

"...also one of the screenwriters of the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes). The game in question is rugby, and the..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sherlock Holmes

As London's preternatural sleuth, John Barrymore broods through the producers' emphasis on his matinee-idol "Great Profile" even as his alcoholism continued tightening his sharp features

"...Sherlock HolmesKino, $24.95..."

June 26, 2009 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Sherlock Holmes

John Carroll imbues the great detective with a gravitas true to Conan Doyle's creation

"...Sherlock Holmes..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Andrew Bird

Live shot

"...discarded – gave the whole stage the appearance of Sherlock Holmes' study, its mastermind meditating through his violin. A..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Working Playwright

Steven Dietz just wants to get in, roll up his sleeves, and make the words better

"...for Drama from the Mystery Writers of America for Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Tequila's becoming more expensive, Americans are getting shorter, and more

"...Sherlock Holmes called it "deduction," but he may have meant..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Year in Sports, as Pitched to the Head of a Hollywood Studio

"...Pakistani Cricket Team’s head coach. It’s Club Paradise meets Sherlock Holmes. Directed by the Coen Brothers. Working title: A..."

May 14, 2007 Sports Post by John Hunt

Playwrights @ UT: An Edgar for Dietz, a Wendy for Ramsey

It was a good week for playwrights at UT as a student received a new prize for young women dramatists and a faculty member earned an honor from the Mystery Writers of America

"...from the Mystery Writers of America for his play Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Commissioned by the Arizona Theatre..."

May 4, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Movies and Shakers

The production companies behind – and ahead of – the boom, and how they might be able to help you

"...must be friendly, non-biting, and look good in a Sherlock Holmes hat."..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Summer Reading

Michael Connelly's ace homicide detective Harry Bosch is back with LAPD after three years' retirement

"...with hell even longer than people have been reading Sherlock Holmes. Bosch's new assignment with the cold case unit..."

May 27, 2005 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

For the serious Sherlockian, there is Leslie S. Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, an exhaustive nine-volume survey of scholarship from Gasogene Press. For the rest of us – serious Sherlockians in the making – there is this mammoth two-volume set.

"...The New Annotated Sherlock Holmesby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Leslie S...."

Jan. 21, 2005 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

The Kinks

Gift guide

"...unforgotten friendship ("Do You Remember Walter?"). His songwriting is "Sherlock Holmes English-speaking vernacular" – British humour and peculiarity unguided..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Page Two

If you think we're asinine, don't blame it on our advertisers.

"...scant sentences, detecting with a skill that would turn Sherlock Holmes green, they discover the reason we hold such..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime

Almost 150 years after the death of François Eugène Vidocq, criminal investigators of all stripes still follow his basic methods of detection. Likewise, all manner of thieves and con artists follow in his footsteps, and that includes writers, too.

"...four stories by Emile Gaboriau in 1865, and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who debuted in 1887, 12 years after Vidocq's..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Books Review by Jesse Sublett

Book Review

When it comes to coming of age novels, "Manuel Luis Martinez's protagonist, Robert Lomos, is a bit different, and Martinez's first novel, Drift, is, too. Robert moves, all right -- from San Antonio to Los Angeles and back -- but his erratic path in the footprints of Martinez's expert narrative one is anything but linear." Martinez will be at the Cepeda Branch Library on Wednesday, June 4, at 7pm.

"...I've left a confused trail, a path not even Sherlock Holmes could follow. If I could see the pattern,..."

May 30, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...a draft of A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes adventure, in Arthur Conan Doyle's own hand, and..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Young Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the original Spy Kid in this Chris Columbus-penned story about the master sleuth in a youth. The more one knows about Holmes lore, the more the film's foreshadowings of future cases will be evident.

"...Sophie Ward, Alan Cox, Nicholas Rowe and Freddie Jones. Sherlock Holmes is the original Spy Kid in this Chris..."

Jan. 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Robots, Sleuths, and Warthogs

Winter games run the gamut

"...this teenage super-sleuth solve mysteries that would stump even Sherlock Holmes, she did it with style -- remember the..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Jennie Kennedy

Naked City

Will Hyde Park Baptist finally get its way?

"...Sherlock Holmes would be hard-pressed to follow the point and..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Blood and Guts and Dirt and Joy

Michael Miller may appear at first meeting to be withdrawn, but he is absolutely present onstage and off, and his willingness to "get dirty" with his characters and continuous challenge to himself to be better make this seemingly reserved actor one of Austin's best.

"...and for the Public Domain, the oily Larabee in Sherlock Holmes, the title roles in Steven Dietz's Dracula and..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...brothers' first experiments with film, a 1920 rendition of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone, and all the silent films..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Power Games

Eight reasons to go on living if you don't' own a PlayStation2

"...U.S. super-spy MacGyver ever dropped acid whilst reading a Sherlock Holmes novel, his perception of reality might very well..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Book Reviews

Recent Titles Reviewed

"...the earliest and most prominent literary sleuthhounds such as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Bucket from Dickens' Bleak House are..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Books Feature

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

"...the earliest and most prominent literary sleuthhounds such as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Bucket from Dickens' Bleak House are..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Review

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