Naked City

Lege leaders talk at length about their mutually exclusive goals

"...the Greater Houston Partnership spoke in favor of new business taxes to underwrite the schools, although they differed on..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Joe Ely

Texas Platter

"...Joe ElyStreets of Sin (Rounder) Last year's Flatlanders reunion was a welcome turn..."

July 18, 2003 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...BLU SANDERS: It's entirely fitting that singer-songwriter Blu Sanders splits his time between New York and..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Aidan's Bed

While each of the seven bedroom dialogues in Aidan's Bed, Blake Yelavich's tight comic subversion of melodrama, relates to a deadly sin, the play as produced by Naughty Austin, is harmless at worst and titillation at its best.

"...dialogues that tell Aidan's story relates to a deadly sin, the play is harmless at worst, titillating at best...."

Dec. 13, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Sin Pelo

Texas Platters

"...Sin PeloNavigation (GFY)..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Universal Talent

From 1961 to 1992, Julioeloy Mesa worked in the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Industry and Art, making movie posters that earned international awards, exhibitions in museums, and even a permanent collection in the Library of Congress. Though he now lives comfortably in Austin, Texas, Mesa's artistic struggle continues.

"...The silver ghosts of film had enchanted the artist since boyhood. "I would take money from my mother's purse,..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Wages of Sin

"...Wages of Sin..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Books Review by David Garza

Postscripts

Want a little morality with your murder tale? Austin author Suzy Spencer has the solution.

"...another true crime book upon the world. Wages of Sin (Pinnacle Books, 384 pp., $6.50) is about the January..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Sinéad O'Connor Faith and Courage (Atlantic)

"...Sinéad O'ConnorFaith and Courage (Atlantic) The gift that is Sinéad..."

July 14, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

El Quemado

For more than 40 years, José Francisco Treviño has been exploring the world of art. Now, in the largest retrospective it has ever presented, Mexic-Arte Museum shows us Treviño's discoveries, and Mary Jane Garza explains how they came to be.

"...from his high school days to the present, "Raices Sin Fronteras -- A Retrospective" is the largest exhibition of..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Believing in Beauty

Fabric, home altars, and the influence of her mother all figure heavily in the art of Connie Arismendi, and writer Mary Jane Garza opens up the heart from which her remarkable images spring.

"...her current exhibition and the final show for Galeria Sin Fronteras, several of her smaller mixed media pieces reveal..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Articulations

Farewell to two local galleries, welcome to the new dean of the UT College of Fine Arts.

"...allowing owner Camille Lyons a well-deserved respite from the singular madness of running a private visual arts space. Then,..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...the fabled saloon at 4500 Spencer Highway were long since past. Mired in property and school-district taxes, the club..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Driving and Cranking

"...some gospel stuff that's like old, traditional gospel songs," singer Jo Walston says. "And none of us are particularly..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Emperor Jones

"...Refraction Arts Project. Onstage, he has been even busier: singing with The Barkers in Refraction's revival of Durrenmatt's The..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Art's New Address

Uptown Is Home to Austin's Latest Cultural District

"...Women & Their Work Gallery (W&TW), ACA Gallery@ArtPlex, Galeria Sin Fronteras, and R. Peeples Gallery -- and five restaurants..."

July 4, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

An Off-Key Carol

"...almost physical sense of Jesus, as I perceive him, sinking deeper into my soul with ever greater weight. I..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Mercedes Wanguemert-Peña's Grand Obsession Stuck Inside Cuba

"...and a San Antonio gallery. An exhibition at Galeria Sin Fronteras, Recuerdos/Memories, features a large group of these paintings,..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

A Zambian family's long-buried secrets surface when a body is found

"...by: Rungano Nyoni. Starring: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini, Henry B.J. Phiri and Doris Naulapwa...."

March 21, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bring Them Down

Violent tragedy about sheep farmers stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott

"...an inevitable course to violence, animal mutilation, and irredeemable sin intended to break the audience’s allegiances...."

Feb. 7, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Last Showgirl

Pamela Anderson captivates as an aging Vegas performer

"...it is with the classic Las Vegas showgirl. Ever since the ladies of "Minsky Goes to Paris” dared to..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ravyn Lenae, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in music with a little help from these recommendations

"...as furiously as they did then. Squirrel Nut Zippers singer/songwriter Jimbo Mathus opens.   – Tim Stegall Austin Record..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

MaXXXine

Triumphant third installment in Ti West's cinematic slasher-horror series

"...on the farm, the televangelist raging about sex and sin, the multiples lives that Maxine has left behind –..."

July 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Freud's Last Session

Fictional meeting between Freud and CS Lewis makes no breakthrough

"...Generally, opening up a two-character play confined to a single space is a reasonable approach to transform source material..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nyad

Biopic of controversial record-setting swimmer just skims the surface

"...works, it is as a two-hander about middle-aged women refusing to let society put them in a box...."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Saw X

Jigsaw returns in a giant flashback event

"...All the Saw signatures are there: a surprisingly tricky timeline, the open-ended narrative, the accelerated judder shots,..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Alchemy Theatre's Pipeline

Weak choices undermine the hard-hitting angst that drives this play

"...legal action after assaulting a teacher who he believes singled him out unfairly and provoked him during a class..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Qmmunity: Transing Pride

ATX Trans Pride puts the spotlight on the transgender community during Austin Pride

"...was out of high school," he says. "For me witnessing, almost like, I don't want to have to say..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Column by James Scott

Spy Kids: Armageddon Starts Its Mission This September

Fifth film in Robert Rodriguez's series heads to Netflix

"...head in Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's comic series, Sin City. They played super-spies whose kidnapping leads their kids..."

Aug. 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

Bio-doc of the psych rock pioneer leaves his later obscurity suitably untouched

"...narration. The film itself is an act of intersection, since Thorgerson's career as Pink Floyd's go-to designer was chronicled..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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