She Wants Revenge: The Horror of The Queen of Black Magic

How director Kimo Stamboel summons up an Indonesian classic

"...had a big success with another remake, 2016's Satan's Slaves, so he told the producers that he was interested..."

Feb. 11, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Survivors/Los Sobrevivientes at Texas State University

Katie Bender's drama takes us inside the Alamo for the rare treatment of that story as something intimate, with feeling more than action

"...López de Santa Anna, who interviewed the women and slaves still alive after his army took the mission, but..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Clinging to the Confederacy With House Bill 583

"...Indians, and put them on reservations, in effect, as slaves." Committee member Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Hous­ton, wasn't having it...."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

What's Fantastic at Fantasia

Highlights from the Canadian genre fest, plus films you may see soon

"...gritty supernatural crime drama creeps into your skull. Satan's Slaves..."

Aug. 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

An Actor and an Übermensch

Tishuan Scott connects the dots between Nietzsche and his award-winning turn in civil war drama 'The Retrieval'

"...the orders of white bounty hunters searching for runaway slaves. At its heart, The Retrieval is about the psychological..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...In the new play, those subjects are women and slaves. White men are pushed offstage, and three boisterous women..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Good Luck Eats for New Year's Day

Southern food traditions and recipes to ensure prosperity in 2013

"...popularized with the slave laborers in the Old South. Slaves were imported from rice-producing West Africa to work the..."

Dec. 29, 2012 Food Post by Mick Vann

Letters at 3AM: Did Abraham Lincoln Deserve a Second Term?

In 1864, Lincoln would have seemed more in favor of war than peace

"...Confederacy as a nation and letting Southerners keep their slaves, 45% of Union voters thought this a good bargain...."

Dec. 14, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Immigration Nation

"...Charles Roland, the general came to Texas with his slaves. The Mexican and Texan governments at the time outlawed..."

Sept. 17, 2009 Postmarks

Finding the Pieces to Put Back Together

"...Slave schedules for the Federal Census catalog slaves by age and gender only, but you can assemble..."

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

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...you see Gone With the Wind produced from the slaves' point of view, you'll know we've succeeded. (If it's..."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Texas Platters

"...SEASON TO SLAVES..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Review

Chevalier

Fascinating life story of the Black knight is foiled by its own polemic

"...married white plantation owner and one of his Senegalese slaves, a teenaged Bologne is later sent a private academy..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

K.G.F: Chapter 2

Sequel to the 2018 Kannada-language action drama

"...over by gangsters who treat the peasant workers like slaves...."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

King Car

Dystopian Brazilian sci-fi flick is Herbie meets Marx

"...machines will eventually take over the world, make us slaves, and the only way to stop it is with..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

River City Drumbeat

Music and culture connected in West Louisville

"...culture - as Black Americans, as the descendants of slaves, as kids in West Louisville. There's also something wonderful..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Every Day is Juneteenth

Yes, freedom is worth celebrating. But it also bids us to do some serious reflection.

"...joyous celebration. But remember: When the time came, the slaves freed the slaves. Juneteenth is not about some Yankee..."

July 3, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Up From the Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music

Delightful if overstuffed musical history of the Crescent City

"...Beginning with the 18th-century Sunday afternoons in which slaves and freemen jammed in Congo Square in the Tremé..."

May 15, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Harriet

Overdue biopic of the fearless anti-slavery hero loses sight of reality

"...hundreds of miles by foot to deliver dozens of slaves to freedom, exhibiting the kind of physical strength and..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Travis County Sheriff Apologizes for Embarrassing Internal Video

“Motivational” video re-creates galley slave scene from Ben-Hur

"...YouTube. Titled "Travis County Sheriff compares her Employees to Slaves," the video begins innocuously, with Hernandez exercising on a..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Luv Doc: A Grossly Inaccurate Egyptology Lecture

We mere mortals are just feathers being blown about in the tempest of the gods

"...being blown about in the tempest of the gods, slaves to our immutable fates. It is impossible to change..."

April 6, 2018 Column

"Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death" at the Contemporary Austin

In this thought-provoking exhibition, the Suzanne Booth Deal Art Prize winner asks, “What does an architecture of power look like to you?”

"...every morning in a house that was built by slaves." For the better part of eight years, Michelle Obama..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

SXSW Music Live: BBC Radio

Grime, glitch, and throat-squelched screams

"...Punk outfit Slaves bulldozed the last hour of the night...."

March 15, 2017 SXSW Post by Alejandra Ramirez

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...grass and garbage. Someone has graffitied the stone the slaves hewed, but really, it's okay (what special respect should..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Wars of Heaven: Smackdown!

This Trouble Puppet Theater production takes the philosophic battle between good and evil into the pro-wrestling ring

"...don't really matter, as we are all puppets and/or slaves to the constructs of power, and no one ever..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

L. Shapley Bassen's "Portrait of a Giant Squid"

First Place winner

"..."In his will, Jefferson freed five of his slaves, probably his children with Sally Hemings. The rest were..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by l. Shapley Bassen

Hideaway

A descendant of the father of our country in the Antone's House Band? For three decades now, believe it!

"...styles ever since the cowboys, Mexicans, Germans, and freed slaves began buying each other's pawnshop guitars. Blues-flavored country, country-flavored..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Feature by Sarah Brown

Headlines

"...revise a world geography textbook that refers to African slaves as immigrant "workers," after a Pearland mom posted a..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature

Breaking the Chains

Slavery may be illegal, but it's not eradicated

"...grants, and Moses benefited greatly from his assemblage of slaves, first in property, then in the labor needed to..."

June 19, 2015 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Housecore Horror Live Shot: Friday Part 2

Rigor Mortis lives, Portal creeps, and Voivod thins

"...When guitarist Mike Scaccia died onstage in 2012, Dallas..."

Oct. 25, 2014 Music Post by Adam Ganderson

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