Glass Eye

Record review

"...added languor on "Sad and Lonely," drummer Scott Marcus' stoic missive from the shattered heart of adolescence. McCarty's Linda..."

April 7, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Rogers Sisters

SXSW showcase reviews

"...guitarist Jennifer and drummer Laura Rogers maintained an almost stoic reserve. The latter's percussive style may have been the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story

Gift guide

"...the Rezillos, and most of all the Normal's hilariously stoic "Warm Leatherette." The DVD has priceless videos from Depeche..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Man Who Fell to Earth and Bad Timing

Musicians make uneasy actors. With his directorial debut, 1970's 'Performance,' Nicolas Roeg characteristically tossed convention out the hotel window by casting Mick Jagger as one of the leads. He would follow up with David Bowie and Art Garfunkel.

"...(Criterion): Michael Redgrave's wrenching performance as a middle school stoic with a failing career defines this impeccable 1951 drama,..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Static Between Stations

The American Analog Set at 10: end of part one

"...Andrew Kenny is slight but stoic, his hands barely grazing the strings of his guitar..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

I'm New Here

Smog descends on Austin in the guise of Bill Callahan

"...Cali swing and Will Oldham is the quiet Appalachian stoic, Callahan is a real nowhere man, having lived in..."

July 1, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Naked City

Warren Chisum's HJR 6 doesn't discriminate against anyone ... except gays and lesbians

"...the gay-populated Montrose area. Wong's demeanor – silent and stoic throughout the proceeding – irked many observers because she,..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...flows with nostalgic reflections on her Houston childhood and stoic testimonials of her hard-won inner peace. – Christopher GrayVIETNAM8pm,..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Sleaze, Camp, and Social Justice

AFS presents On the Border: Films of Rogelio Agras& #225;nchez Sr.

"...off a crew of masked wrestlers led by the stoic Blue Demon, and to kidnap the contestants in the..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Arcade Fire

Live shot

"...they were to the audience. The lanky Butler stood stoic for most of the set, his cohorts dancing, screaming,..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Back in the Mirror

First-time director Niels Mueller on 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon'

"...discussed this "mad story of a true man," Penn's stoic support of the oft-beleaguered project, and more...."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Big Books: Part 3

Gift guide

"...with various difficulties of unenlightened society with the same stoic cool as when he issued a ticket to a..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Drive-by Truckers

Record review

"...graveyard, odd patches of virtue also crop up: the stoic veteran of "The Sands of Iwo Jima," the son..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Masta Ace

Record review

"...adulthood, tracks like "Da Grind" and "Beautiful" capture the stoic persistence of a career more than 15 years in..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

The Drawer Boy

Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy is a sweet, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately moving story of lifelong friendship well-staged at Hyde Park Theatre

"...as characters with secrets that must out, matching a stoic gentlemanliness with a gift for making the absurd seem..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Long View

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

"...disappointed that Graves was not always the sage and stoic man they thought he was. For one, I'm delighted..."

April 30, 2004 Books Feature by Steve Moore

TV Eye

Is the old genre new again with Deadwood, a gritty, decidedly unromantic look at how the West was won?

"...natural transition for her when the "adult" Westerns, featuring stoic lawmen, hardworking families, and brave exploiters of the wild..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Masonic

"...while "Don't You Know Anything" finds Bogan conveying the stoic detachment endemic to decaying relationships with icy, Nico-like precision...."

Feb. 6, 2004 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Devil & Daniel Webster

Numbers 215 and 218 of the Criterion Collection DVD series were more celebrated recently, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214 was the true devil in the woodpile.

"...against eternal damnation, Dieterle leverages the same sort of stoic Germanic morality applied to his The Hunchback of Notre..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Travesties

Tom Stoppard's Travesties mixes early 20th-century history, European politics, and Oscar Wilde into a typically brilliant work, and the cast of Austin Playhouse's production rises to the intellectual challenges of the script and appears to be having a fine time playing with it.

"...dapper if devious deadbeat Joyce, and Michael Hankin is stoic as Lenin, pounding revolutionary zeal while inadvertently playing up..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

South for the Marijuana

The gringo travels to Mexico in search of weed and wisdom.

"...respectable: full head of graying hair, mustache, slight paunch, stoic demeanor. Except, that day, he was pissed. The gringo..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

TCB

Career advice from Ian McLagan and political counsel from Andrew WK

"...booth and do their best to crack each other's stoic façade, as their images are projected via video camera..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Telling His Own Story Fearlessly

With his theatrical memoir "I'm Not Lying," Jaston Williams proves there is more to the man than Tuna.

"...hadn't. I appeared to be very brave and very stoic and very spiritual, but I realized that I was..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Get Folked!

An interview with the men behind the Folksmen.

"...faces, the three actors/comedians/directors could cut something of a stoic "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Slum City

Texas Platter

"...Do)" is a fist-pumping wellspring of reflexive narcissism and stoic resolve that makes more sense with every shot. If..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Rectangular Packages With Ribbons

"Like the films themselves, Tony Nourmand's collection from the Eon Productions vaults offers much in the way of leggy villanesses and naughty, naughty sidekicks, and enough martinis, models, and megalomaniacs to sate the most cadlike of raffish rakes," writes Kate X Messer.

"...unused art for Live and Let Die to the stoic, Soviet-flavored placard for The Spy Who Loved Me, heralding..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Motherbone

Salvage Vanguard Theater adapts the classic Russian folk tale of Vasilissa the Beautiful into a new urban opera, Motherbone, that may have some rough edges, but is an amazing showcase for the musical passion of Graham Reynolds as well as the company's pluck and determination.

"...Jenny Larson plays Val to the hilt, moving with stoic, tight-fisted awkwardness; she is the epitome of an angry..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

The Sights and Sounds of Art in Sync

Ron Mann's jazz avant-garde exploration Imagine the Sound provides the perfect counterpoint to Austin Eye+Ear (which will screen Mann's film this Sunday in an E+E benefit): Both are bent on the blurring of artistic lines.

"...play pieces of surprising tenderness and lyrical beauty. The stoic Shepp holds forth bemusedly in interviews and then, in..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Fandemonium!

Television fans who organize to keep their favorite shows on the air, or even don the occasional Star Fleet Commanding Officer's uniform, are often depicted as lonely losers with too much time on their hands. According to TV columnist Belinda Acosta, the truth is quite the opposite.

"...There's stoic acceptance of those who lay flowers at the Dakota..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

American Cinematheque's Universal Appeal

"...her male oppressors -- delivers a performance of such stoic intensity that it's not until near film's end that..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

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