Representation in the Toy Aisle in Black Barbie: A Documentary

Lagueria Davis' SXSW selection recounts how her Aunt Beulah changed dolls forever

"...was surrounded by dolls, just thrusted deeply into the world of dolls,” Davis began. “I knew that she worked..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Booze You Can Use: A Few Choice Local Views

Sufficient Texas tipples to topple any tedium

"...Austin’s cups runneth over, obviously, with all manner of spirits. Tito Beveridge is a downright legend in this town,..."

Oct. 13, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moonage Daydream

David Bowie, the transgressive and compassionate iconic artist in cosmic, intimate detail

"...grave, relying upon his disembodied voice to serve as spirit guide over the course of a 69-year lifetime. It..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

How Dean Fleischer-Camp Brought Marcel the Shell With Shoes On to Life

Inside the secret life of the stop-motion smash

"...characters like this that are making do in a world like this that wasn't made for them...."

July 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Sweet and funny story of a talking shell will fill your heart

"...Maybe the most surprising characteristic of Marcel’s world is how grounded in reality it really is. This..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Spider-Man: No Way Home

The multiversal smackdown you’ve been waiting for!

"...of Iron Man, when Tony Stark stands before the world's press and proclaims, "I am Iron Man." In that..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sator

Occult horror will hold you in its dark, subtle spell

"...a version of herself here) gave to a strange spirit that had spoken to her for decades. Within the..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wanting Mare

Enigmatic and beautiful futuristic drama speaks in dreams

"...an outstretched hand, straining towards the unreachable. In the world of Anmaere, in the molten city of Whithren, the..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 18-24

"...your expanded capacity to share your intelligence with the world...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Kajillionaire

The con is on in Miranda July's oddball crime caper

"...of often lonely and broken people stumbling around a world they don’t understand, and a world that definitely does..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Beautiful and heartfelt fantasy anime tackles death and family

"...Leilia (Kayano) about never becoming part of the regular world, she adopts something as lost as she is -..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ellsworth Kelly's Austin Opens at the Blanton Museum of Art

By building this structure, the Blanton enabled a major modern artist to realize his masterwork

"...for three decades, while this eminence of the art world continued to make the abstract paintings, sculptures, and prints..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Context Is Key

"...proposed to honor those who had fought in the World War, as [quoting Coppini] 'all past regional differences have..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Postmarks

SXSW Thursday Picks and Sleepers

"...11pm, Saxon Pub Before Joe "King" Carrasco introduced the world and Michael Jackson to the joys of Nuevo Wavo,..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Halloween 2012

Get your costumes ready for these spooky holiday events

"...isn't the only holiday of giving. Embrace the philanthropic spirit this Halloween with "A Wild & Dirty HAAM-O-Ween," featuring..."

Oct. 23, 2012 Events Post by Cara Tillman

Big Dogs, Young Rebels, and Aging Giants

The Austin promoters who bring the music come in all shapes and sizes

"...In Austin, the self-proclaimed "live music capital of the world," audiences are more aware than in most cities about..."

Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Vodkas and Skulls: Talking to Dan Aykroyd

The comedy great talks bottle design and Newfoundland water

"...I think one of the greatest guys in the world lives here," he said. "John Paul DeJoria (Austin resident,..."

May 10, 2010 Food Post by Wes Marshall

Sheik to Sheik

Crazy Heart wasn't Stephen Bruton's only last project, and we have Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks to thank for that

"..."I've been trying to tell the world about Texas [mystique]. For some reason, something happened in..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?

This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear

"...Joe ... exist[s] to make a difference in the world." Over the blower's roar, we shout a few more..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Page Two: Up, Up, and Away

Do Obama's sky-high approval ratings and unprecedented support indicate unrealistic expectations?

"...it is appropriate to mention the Great Depression and World War II period as a model: There is a..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Column by Louis Black

I See Dead People

The Black Angels conjure Austin's psychedelic renaissance

"..."I think there are spirits within people, different archetypes that we can recognize and..."

May 9, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Persepolis

This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.

"...is a feisty young thing who resembles children the world over in her love for Bruce Lee, Nikes, and..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Plays Well With Others

Why Michelle Schumann is meant to be running the Austin Chamber Music Center

"...experiences and give them a sense of the wider world. You have to make it compelling to them. You..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mother Courage

Melba Martinez's legacy at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"..."She was the heart and spirit of the program," says Jeffery Mills. "As an 18-year-old,..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...around by motor vehicle. No transportation system in the world moves everyone by motor vehicle. In cities whose transportation..."

May 28, 2004 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...and wavery-voiced Melora Creager, will seduce you into a world of tattered petticoats, Transylvanian concubines, and the ancient methods..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Bride of the Wind

"...against a whirlwind of sepia stock footage depicting the world's headlong rush into modernity. Director Beresford, noted for his..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The House of Mirth

"...The House of Mirth captures the anaerobic milieu and spirit of New York's social elite as they fuss over..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Edge of 17

At 21 years old, actress Charmian Carr couldn't have known that the character she was portraying -- Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music -- would follow her for the rest of her life. Prior to her appearance at The Sound of Music: Sing-a-Long, a benefit for Project Transitions and aGLIFF, Carr opens up about being forever Liesl.

"...cast and crew, the event will be similar in spirit and form to its UK counterpart -- part drag..."

July 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

A Way They'll Never Be

"...the "macho" youth, barely 18, volunteered in the First World War not for the infantry but for the Red..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

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