Stage Mother

Jacki Weaver wants to take you to a gay bar

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review

Center Stage

Students at the American Ballet Academy in New York vie to join the professional corps.

"...with her new tutu in order to like Center Stage, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. Center Stage is this..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother Night

"...flag: That's the viewer's initiation into the world of Mother Night, the new film rendition of the 1961 Kurt..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother Falcon’s Still Life

Austin's animal collective

"...There’s nothing static about Mother Falcon’s Still Life EP, not when upwards of 14..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Tour de France 2012: Stage 3

In France, finally

"...Stage 3 is the first stage of the 2012 Tour..."

July 4, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Tour de France 2012: Stage 12

Bradley Wiggins wears the yellow

"...route from Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne to Annonay Davézieux is the longest stage in the Tour this year. It is a total..."

July 13, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

Meat Loaf Gets ‘Stage Fright’

Occasional local can’t save this midnight mess

"...couldn’t rally even one star for his new film Stage Fright, opening locally in two midnight screenings this weekend...."

May 28, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Some Mother's Son

"...strike that left 10 IRA inmates dead. With Some Mother’s Son, director/co-writer George (who also collaborated with writing partner..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Mother-Daughter Dance

Anuradha Naimpally and Purna Bajekal are of two generations, but they share one timeless tradition

"...I'd barely noticed her sitting among the musicians at stage right. I was too intent watching her mother, Anuradha..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows

Austin Music Awards Director Margaret Moser goes out with a bang

"...year of "shambles" at Club Foot. In the early stages of a career in journalism that sprang from her..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: Mother Falcon vs. Scottish Rite Theater

Mother Falcon's open letter to the Scottish Rite, Frontier Bar's transformation into Lost Well, and soul man Bobby Patterson

"...the locks changed. It was the third day of Mother Falcon's Music Lab, a weeklong camp for musicians ages..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Mother

From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.

"...Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette) raise the stakes in The Mother by posing the question: What happens when the young,..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...Brothers, and Bobby Bare, all taken from the club's stageside 24-track. Followed last month with live performances from Mickey..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Lucy Dacus Takes Center Stage in ACL Debut

Julien Baker’s last-minute cancellation spotlights Virginian

"...aluminum water bottles plastered in stickers on the Moody stage. They swung back into earlier work with the sultry..."

July 31, 2019 Music Post by Libby Webster

SXSW Film Review: 'Stage Fright'

Sharp notes meet sharp knives in the delicious operatic bloodfest

"...Mixing bloodshed and Broadway, horror musical Stage Fright balances Carrie sight gags with xylophone comedy. It..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Mother Texas

Welcome to Texas, y'all. Meet Ray Wylie Hubbard, 'The Grifter's Hymnal,' and 'Mother Blues.'

"..."Don't Rule Me Out" transcends an already excellent recording, "Mother Blues" is already in the Hubbard book of anthems,..."

March 16, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Faster Than Sound: Music Venues React to Stage 5

New city recommendations halt shows at many venues ahead of New Year's Eve

"...into the holidays, health officials moved Travis County into Stage 5 COVID-19 risk guidelines on Dec. 23 because of..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Stage Five, Ahoy – but also Curra's takes over Mother's, Buddy’s Has a Burger, Natalie’s on Cakealikes, and Beard Papa’s Will Be Hella Creamy and Puffy

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...So here we are in Stage Five of pandemic restrictions, which means everyone’s encouraged to..."

Dec. 29, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Programs That Let Austin Youth Speak Out A Stage of Their Own

"...remembers it. A group of teenagers stood on a stage, proudly, and spoke creatively about their lives and concerns...."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Mother Courage

Melba Martinez's legacy at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"...joining the program; richer, more consistent work by them onstage; more unified work among the students – developments recognized..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Your Mother's Flamenco

The New José Greco Dance Company

"...didn't have to dance. I would just come out onstage and raise my arms and they would applaud. `Wait,'..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Rudy Ramirez's FuturX Festival Puts Latinx Performance Center Stage

The theatrical Renaissance man moves Latinx performance out of the margins

"...award-winning director has time and time again found meaningful onstage inclusion either lacking or nonexistent. "I realized if I..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

A Year in Local Music Crams Onto One Stage at the 2018/19 Austin Music Awards

Unique musical moments make for a night of fan-voted accolades

"...three pay tribute to Dianne Scott, guardian-at-the-gate and den mother to the Continental Club for over three decades...."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Public Notice: Love Your Mother Earth

"...Spirit, plus "Environmental Troubadour" Bill Oliver emceeing a "Conversation Stage" that offers wide-ranging discussions with panelists including Pliny Fisk,..."

April 22, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Afraid of the Dark

"...common childhood fears and anxieties to create a frightening stage on which the subconscious dramas of our young protagonist..."

Nov. 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Meddler

A terrific vehicle for Susan Sarandon as a meddlesome mom

"...focuses its dysfunctional gaze on their Terms of Endearment-ish mother-daughter relationship. The well-meaning but nosy Marnie can’t help but..."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tangled

Disney does Rapunzel.

"...details of nature and the inclusion of an evil mother figure as a trigger for the storyline. This version..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Viva

A hairdresser finds his true self in a shabby Havana drag bar

"...who lip-sync for their lives nightly on its barren stage. For the tall, slightly built, baby-faced Jesús (Medina), the..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ricki and the Flash

Meryl Streep, Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody combine talents, but where's the magic?

"...on Ricki to return home and conduct some long-overdue mothering...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...taking form in her mind. Mildred is the heartbroken mother of a teenage girl whose rape and murder months..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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