SXSW Music Live: Richard Barone Presents Greenwich Village in the Sixties

Soft Boys, Youngbloods, Moby Grape, Brian Jones’ grandson, etc.

"...the lower part of New York City. In the Sixties, it became ground zero of the folk explosion...."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Jim Caligiuri

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...relatively mellow mood, Ellroy bopped seamlessly between riffs on Sixties mobsters and 16th-century theologians without breaking a sweat...."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Residential Address: The Mellows Bring Sixties Pop to Sagebrush

With a focus on good hooks, the band makes falling in love danceable again

"...listener back to at least some part of the Sixties – that pivotal decade when it blossomed from a..."

March 4, 2022 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

Not the Early Sixties but the Early Seventies

"...Ms. Moser, If the early Sixties was the time to be here, why did everybody..."

Aug. 17, 2006 Postmarks

"Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties"

"Witness" brings the Civil Rights Movement to the Blanton Museum of Art

"...of Art's "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties" takes a timely look at art from that pivotal..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

The Boleys Put an Acid-Punk Spin on the Family Bands of the Sixties

Ethan, Emma & Jovian Boley do the punk rock

"...ability resulted in the Boleys, an acid-punk variant on Sixties family act the Cowsills (or the TV version, The..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...crucible for all the forces that brought us the Sixties...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

'This Ain't the Sixties'

"...lived through it will tell you, "This ain't the Sixties!" There ain't no peace, love, and happiness in drugville..."

July 30, 2009 Postmarks

Luv Doc Recommends: ColdTowne Improv and All-Night Sixties Dance Party

ColdTowne Theater, Saturday, April 19, 2008

"...at 11:30pm is the Mod Party, an all night Sixties dance party that lasts until 6am – just in..."

April 18, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

A Lot Has Changed Since the Sixties in Austin?

"...only prior connection with Texas was back in the Sixties, and I'm guessing a lot has changed since then...."

Aug. 12, 2005 Postmarks

13 Sixties Texas Bands You Don't Remember

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature

13 Mid-Sixties Texas 45s

Aug. 12, 2005 Music Feature

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

"...Michael York, Mimi Rogers and Robert Wagner. The swingin' Sixties -- those were the glory days for international intrigue,..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

CQ

"...pop-art confectioner's idea of a cotton-candy love note to Sixties Euro-filmmaking tropes. That it also has a sneaky-smart filmmaking..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Lizard

"...TV's old Batman series. Both arrived in the late Sixties, replete with skewed camera angles and day-glo sets, action..."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Eyes

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.

"...were memes, they were fads and in the early Sixties one of the most popular was the ubiquitous work..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

X-Men: First Class

The origins of the bad blood among Marvel's mutants is explored in this new film from the franchise.

"...In this origin story, set primarily in the early Sixties, director Matthew Vaughn gooses summer blockbuster expectations further by..."

June 10, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Down With Love

"...great Rock Hudson/Doris Day sex comedies of the early Sixties, but possibly the finest one comes midway through, as..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Auto Focus

"...early on in Auto Focus, the accomplished film about Sixties television actor Bob Crane, whose sexual compulsions propelled his..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Remember the Titans

"...film than it is a ponderous meditation on early Sixties racial division cloaked within a high school football motif...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Score

A bisexual romp from 1972 from Radley Metzger, the film industry's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies.

"...Parker. Radley Metzger, film's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies (The Lickerish Quartet, Therese and Isabel),..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

There Goes My Baby

"...type of storytelling as well as to fans of Sixties period pieces, but the rest should follow the advice..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Son of the Pink Panther

"...jewel which inspired the series' best films, for a Sixties-style kidnap caper. It's a tad complicated for the comedy's..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Tropic of Cancer

"...presenting “explicit” aspects in mainstream films of the late Sixties. But, compared to today's standards, this film has very..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Emma & Elvis

"...her radical fervor or inquisitional spirit. The story pits Sixties-style activism against Nineties-style nihilism as an unlikely romance develops..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two by Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage, Khush

"...and writer Alice Walker with documentary footage of the Sixties, musical tracks by current stylists like Prince, Janet Jackson,..."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Complete Unknown

Biopic plugs into Bob Dylan at an instrumental moment in time

"...Line filmmaker James Mangold returns to the milieu of Sixties singer-songwriters with this contained portrait of Bob Dylan. Timothée..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Sense of an Ending

A man's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a letter

"...these two timelines of present day and the early Sixties. Turns out adult Tony doesn’t know the whole story..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trolls

Banal plot mars this toy marketing scheme

"...collectors of one of the biggest fads to sweep Sixties and Seventies pop culture should feel free to grab..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My All American

Longhorn legend Freddie Steinmark gets his due in this sports drama

"...it’s tough to say if this loving portrait of late-Sixties Longhorn safety Freddie Steinmark will bring succor or just..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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