Skid Row Marathon

Homeless runner documentary goes from sleeping rough to pounding the pavement

"...Mitchell began a running club for the denizens of Skid Row (pop. 4,500 and counting). More specifically, he works..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Song of Skid Row

AFS Documentary Tour: On the Bowery

"...Bowery, about the lives of hobos and drunks on Skid Row...."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Mala Noche - Old Version

"...Shot in black-and-white on the streets of Portland, Oregon's skid row, the film is the chronicle of an obsessive..."

Nov. 3, 1989 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Dirt Country

Johnny Solinger's pie in the sky

"...opens and in walks Johnny Solinger, lead singer for Skid Row since 2000. Solinger sports the requisite flowing locks,..."

April 8, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Mala Noche

Van Sant's first major film is a gritty, low-budget take on unrequited love set in the skid row of Portland, Ore. The film is a mordant, black-and-white diamond in the rough.

"...a mordant take on unrequited love set in the skid row of Portland, Oregon. Its initial arrival was breathtaking:..."

Jan. 10, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...the Delfonics' "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)," "Drowning in the Sea of Love." On our South Seas..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

AAAFF 2022 Review: Liquor Store Dreams

The friction between generations of L.A.'s Korean community

"...in to help his mother run their family business, Skid Row Peoples’ Market, following the death of his father...."

June 28, 2022 Screens Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood

Archenemy

Revisionist Superman riff brings new meaning to street-level superheroics

"..."what if Kal-el, but evil?") writer/director Mortimer at least throw in non-Martha-related references for some deeper cuts (Fist's arrival..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

You Never Had It: An Evening With Charles Bukowski

Lost tapes of a drunken night with the dissolute apostle

"...fights and back alley hugs, a romanticized version of Skid Row. By 1981, it really meant hanging out in..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knight of Cups

Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups is a vessel half-empty

"...vintage convertible) take him from the contrasts of L.A.’s Skid Row and its earthquake-rattled concrete jungles and studio-lot fabrications..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: An Unhappy Spirit

It's not easy to get a hippie in-law to stay at a hotel

"...Hippies are unfazed by things like neurotic head scratching (borrow my tea tree oil?), huge cockroaches (they’re really Palmetto..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

Little Shop of Horrors

This year's Zilker Summer Musical swaps the Swiss Alps for Skid Row, but it's as hugely entertaining as ever

"...do for Audrey (Taylor Bryant), his co-worker at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists (helmed by an overwrought and funny Leslie..."

July 26, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Don't Take Me for a Loser

Tracking Irish firebrand guitarist Gary Moore (1952-2011).

"...Phil Lynott began their professional chemistry in Dublin quartet Skid Row, 1969, but my love of the volcanic six-stringer..."

Feb. 9, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gary Moore

"...Before Jersey hairdressers Skid Row, there was Dublin gunners Skid Row, featuring the..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

For the Benefit of Mr. Kite

A wave of benefits rides through town

"...nothing, I ran into Johnny Solinger, lead singer for Skid Row, at the Wal-Mart in Buda last week. Solinger..."

May 19, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Factotum

Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.

"...writer. Blotto or no, he sits in whatever fleabag, skid-row, cold-water flat he finds himself in and writes, in..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bukowski: Born Into This

Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."

"...poet and novelist Bukowski became the patron saint of skid row poetry in the Sixties, a bona fide celebrity..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fat City

One of John Huston's latter-day successes, Fat City is long on character and short on plot, but it's a crawl through the mud that'll stay in your psyche for days.

"...of colors to bring the whiskey stink of Tully's skid row hotel and dive-bar haunts right into your living..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Six-String Samurai

"...Death himself, incarnated as a sort of Guns N' Roses/Skid Row Eighties metalhead. This entire demented package is wrapped..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

My Own Private Idaho

"...his black-and-white story of unrequited homosexual love of a skid row liquor store clerk for a straight Mexican immigrant..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...Prior to Perez's testimony, Assistant D.A. Claire Dawson-Brown, trying her first – and last – capital case,..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...After the film premiere and playing to a capacity crowd on Rainey Street, it seems the secret is now..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Review: Wu Chow

Downtown christens a classic

"...would use one of them to eliminate the back row of tables at Wu Chow – the upscale Chinese..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18

"...Yet, the time is now to acknowledge the growing strength of this talent pool. The local explosion of..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Five Films Not to Miss at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

A long weekend of movies defined by global possibilities

"...Babies," with a portrait of her family's business on Skid Row, and its history as both neighborhood institution and..."

June 17, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Wait, How Does SXSW Music Work Again?

Breaking down the basics, and some favorites, after three years away

"...to decidedly musical topics: Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler and Skid Row's Sebastian Bach discuss "the enduring power of metal,"..."

March 11, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

TikTok Talents, Metal Gods and Comedy Provocateurs Added as SXSW Keynotes and Speakers

With a week to go, the fest expands its speaker and podcast list

"...you had your South by Southwest schedule set? Well, throw that draft calendar out, as the festival (running March..."

March 1, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Jackie Venson, Dangerous Toys, Zachary Williams, Cordae, Matthew Logan Vasquez, and more local shows to see

"...last two years atomic bombing my following into exponential growth, so this album was, like, 200% better than any..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

TexARTS’ Little Shop of Horrors

This production of the horror comedy musical makes watching inept humans get devoured by an alien plant just a damn good time

"...down-on-her-luck Audrey (Leigh Sauvageau). They all live downtown on Skid Row, "where the guys are drips and relationships are..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

My Obsession: Music Videos

aGLIFF director just can't get enough of the golden age of music videos

"...Growing up in the Twin Cities in the Eighties, music..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Column by Jim Brunzell

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