Review: Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall

Razor-sharp language and wit elevate this coming-of-age novel

"...Hall and how does she attract and retain love slaves, one wonders upon eyeing the book cover, Love Slaves..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Arts Post by Barbara Chisholm

SXSW Live Shot: Slaves

UK duo makes the Black Keys sound positively operatic

"...British Music Embassy. Even tuning up, Kent-based agro-punk duo Slaves were threatening a riot...."

March 12, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Slaves to the Underground

"...a movie with such a clear political agenda. But Slaves to the Underground is so lackluster in such basic..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Point Austin: Slaves for Rent

Sick pay lawsuit confirms what bosses think of workers

May 4, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Are We Just Slaves to American Megacapitalism?

Dec. 2, 2009 Postmarks

Spectrum Theatre Company's Juneteenth Chronicles

With this play, Crystal Bird Caviel honors ancestors who were slaves and her colleague, the late Dr. Billy F. Harden

"...head these days. Most of them belong to former slaves, African-Americans who lived long enough to be interviewed for..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Retrieval

Chris Eska's ambitious indie film is set during the waning months of the Civil War and tells a distinctive coming-of-age story.

"...white bounty hunter (Oberst), who captures and returns escaped slaves. The moral quandaries faced by Will are laid out..."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Trending Lately

Two-hour workweeks and super-slutty robot sex slaves

"...It will be two-hour workweeks and super-slutty robot sex slaves. Even Ashton Kutcher is doing a reverse cowgirl on..."

May 31, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

Free State of Jones

Matthew McConaughey stars in pic about little-known Civil War event

"...Knight finds community with a ragtag group of escaped slaves where he forms a special kinship with their leader,..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Union Bound

True story of a captured Union soldier helped back North by slaves

"...Union soldier who was captured and then helped by slaves to find his way back to the North...."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Land of Blood and Honey

Angelina Jolie steps behind the camera to helm this picture she also wrote, which focuses on the emotional fallout of the Bosnian War.

"...with other young, attractive women to serve as sex slaves to their Serbian captors. (Rape came to be regarded..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Live in Public

The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.

"...Harris' pseudomorphically perverse life, that we are all now "slaves to little boxes," and it's true, Tweetpeeps, isn't it?..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Madame Satã

Life story of Brazilian drag diva from the last half-century.

"...by his drag stage name Madame Satã. Born to slaves, João Francisco lives in Lapa, the city’s bohemian neighborhood,..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Haiku Tunnel

"...hits enough of the right notes to make office slaves of all stripes cheer. At times, its satire is..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Amistad

"...out the politically charged issue of who owns the slaves. These courtroom scenes are undeniably repetitious, static, and, until..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Eve's Bayou

Actress-turned-first-time director Lemmons unravels a spellbinding tale that blends Southern Gothic magical realism and disturbing family drama.

"...storytelling genius. Lemmons' self-penned script concerns a family of slaves' descendants who by the 1960s have risen to middle-class..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jefferson in Paris

"...Jefferson fathered six children with one of his mulatto slaves, Sally Hemmings (who, herself, was an illegitimate half-sister of..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Only the Strong

"...moves. Long ago, the tradition was developed by Brazilian slaves as a covert activity that hid their defensive strategies..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wide Sargasso Sea

"...black population, the resentful whispers of the recently freed slaves, the practice of obeah -- the island sorcery --..."

June 4, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who Is Mandy?

The author hopes that history – so cruel to African-American women in the kitchen – can help breathe real life into a 19th-century portrait

"...look for clues about Mandy among the Caldwell's female slaves...."

Feb. 24, 2006 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...applied for licenses to legalize their marriages. Emancipation allowed ex-slaves the right to assemble and openly worship as they..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Letters at 3AM

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

"..."state right" in contention was the right to own slaves...."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

What Is Passover?

A newbie's guide to a Seder

"...While the Israelites were forced to flee quickly as slaves, now all are free to relax. Many people even..."

March 22, 2013 Food Feature by Amy Kritzer

Breaking Chains, Bending the Knee

'Game of Thrones’ complex consideration of freedom and slavery

"...Freeing slaves and turning them into loyal subjects is certainly helpful..."

May 7, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

The Northman

A vengeance-fueled odyssey across Viking culture and myth

"...a raider back from the sea with plunder and slaves, back to Queen Gudrún (Kidman), the mother of his..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Plantation at Comal Bluff

Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin

"...was ready to live in by 1857. What the slaves built for Sneed and his family was a six-room..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Sam Ramos

The Order of Myths

This smart and subtle documentary looks at the ingrained traditions of racial segregation that still remain in the dual Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Ala.

"...bets a friend he can secretly bring some 150 slaves from Africa into Mobile Bay in Alabama in violation..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Plantations to Prison Farms: How Far Have We Come?

Texas’ tradition of forced labor lives on

"...was built on. He also owned close to 300 slaves. Some of those enslaved people worked in the same..."

June 14, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

An Old Crime Bubbles to the Surface in Descendant

Margaret Brown observes a drowned history

"...in 1859 and brought by boat to Mobile as slaves, on a bet between a white plantation owner and..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 5-11

"...United States George Washington became the "owner" of 10 slaves. A few years later he "bought" 15 more. By..."

March 5, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

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