Elizabeth Morris: 100 Years of Memories in Austin

Of back porches, corrupt politicians, and fireworks at Zilker Park

"...and fed themselves. There’s a photo of them, sitting stoic outside. “They weren’t easygoing,” Elizabeth said. “They were tough.”..."

April 5, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Olivia Rodrigo, at the Precipice of Rock and Pop Stardom

Singer teeters on poise and rowdiness for fourth GUTS tour stop

"...Grammy-winning 2021 album Sour, the star acted as their semi-stoic leader, partaking in minimal choreography herself beyond sways and..."

Feb. 29, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Fallen Leaves

Finland's master of understated absurdity shakes off retirement

"...found in this drab urban landscape filled with a stoic populace whose bone-dry temperament might be best described as..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Review: Zach Theatre's The Thin Place

Horror makes a rare and successful excursion to the stage

"...pulls back from her narration, she still remains the stoic center of attention. The black box intimacy of the..."

Nov. 15, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Marvels

Lower, lesser, slower, baby

"...step down from the last Kree menace, Lee Pace's stoic zealot, Ronan the Accuser. Worse, the Marvels themselves have..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Playhouse's The Norwegians

Revised revisiting of this dark comedy remains a guilty pleasure

"...stereotype – the unwavering niceness, the infallible practicality, the stoic self-righteousness, and the staunchly Lutheran worldview – comes into..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Ted Cruz, Katie Couric, Paxton Prosecution Team to Speak at Texas Tribune Festival

Annual celebration of all-things-politics takes place Sept. 21-23

"...conversation called The Heat is On with president of Stoic Energy Consulting Doug Lewin, climate scientist Andrew Dessler, environmental..."

Aug. 8, 2023 News Post by Kimberley Jones

Review: Penfold Theatre’s Box

Audacious retelling of an equally audacious life

"...a side of Henry’s mind not revealed in his stoic autobiography. It also examines the held belief that women..."

June 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

God Is a Bullet

Merciless and bleak Satanic abduction drama is Mandy on crank

"...a fascinating choice for the part. He embodies something stoic and upright that has to be fractured – not..."

June 23, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: City Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest

The air’s a tad thin in this production of Oscar Wilde’s work

"...love interest. The role is typically played by strong, stoic, older women (Dame Judi Dench played her in the..."

June 8, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Review: Solero Flamenco's “A Journey Through Spain”

From Andalusia to Austin, flamenco emanates expressive energy

"...appearances, guitarist Jeremías García and drummer Andrés Felix seemed stoic compared to the bold, outgoing dancers and singer, but..."

June 7, 2023 Arts Post by Annie Prafcke

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...out April 14. Most striking was Frost Children's hilariously stoic response to Weezer's "Undone - The Sweater Song,” instead..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Plane

Gerard Butler ages surprisingly well into elder action hero status

"...trigger-happy locals. But there’s something about the lead actor’s stoic presence here, with every wheeze and wrinkle in full..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Review: Archive Theater's A Sherlock Holmes Christmas

Should you welcome this Holmes for the holidays with seasonal cheer?

"...this can be disregarded. After all, if the typically stoic Holmes can show some empathy during this season of..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Austin Shakespeare's Sense and Sensibility

Putting the pedal to the metal bolsters Jane Austen's classic work

"...father dies, the girls and their mother (a wonderfully stoic Johanna Whitmore) fall into genteel poverty because the family..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Fantastic Fest Review: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Into the shadowy mind of the man that created Hellboy

"...granite, ghosts and two-fisted tough guys. Raised by his stoic carpenter father (a clear influence on Hellboy himself) after..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: I Subscribed to the Austin-Based festivalPass and Felt Confused

Few discounts and few Austin options on new NFT-dabbling concert ticket marketplace

"...education. The copy describing their first NFT character, a stoic man named Legend, packs an impressive number of aspirational..."

June 24, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Dear Mr. Brody

Money can’t buy happiness in Keith Maitland’s documentary

"...cartoons. Photographs and other ephemera enclosed, faces smiling and stoic, young and old. The sheer volume of letters becomes..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Five Things ...

Your weekly guide to the best happenings in Austin

"...celebration of identity, awareness, and empowerment that counters hypermasculine and stoic representations of Black men in mainstream culture. Directed by Indiia..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Eighth Street Survivors Still Wait for Resolution From the City and APD

Sixteen months later, civil and criminal cases move slowly

"...Though he’s a stoic person, Kirsch’s injuries have had cascading emotional effects. He’s..."

Sept. 29, 2021 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Faster Than Sound: The Fall Music We Always Talked About

Music columnist returns to two major venues and a new one

"...bassist Laura Lee and guitarist Mark Speer. Appearing like stoic, stylish mannequins in press photos with drummer Donald "DJ"..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Live Review: With Nothing Left to Prove the Black Crowes Shake Their Moneymakers – Front-to-Back

Robinson brothers invoke a good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll bash

"...the unforced smiles between bandmates, with even the famously stoic Rich nearly cracking a grin in places. Clearly the..."

Aug. 16, 2021 Music Post by Michael Toland

Watch This: Branden Rex Flexes his Cat Fancy with “River”

“I don’t see myself with no one but you,” he sings to hairless feline

"...a chameleon into the striking set design, adopts a stoic persona in the clip. For much of it, the..."

June 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Watch This: New Hip-Hop Unit Aux Cutter Go “On Blast”

Ben Buck, Nate Thee Great, and Shadowboxin link up

"...Meanwhile, their stoic DJ, Shadowboxin, brings the ruckus with a gritty synth..."

June 25, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Luke Wilson Plays a Long and Lonely Game in 12 Mighty Orphans

The story behind the period drama about Texas' most unlikely high school football heroes

"...up in Dallas in the Seventies and Eighties, "those stoic, gentle, kindhearted souls, those rancher types who lived outside..."

June 11, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...not unlike the patty melt on Texas toast. The stoic "Honey Butter Banger" head-bobs supreme, but Buck's at his..."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Film Review: Dear Mr. Brody

A tragic story of good intentions and desperate need

"...cartoons. Photographs and other ephemera enclosed, faces smiling and stoic, young and old. The sheer volume of letters becomes..."

March 17, 2021 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Supernova

Firth and Tucci are beyond stellar as a married couple being swallowed by dementia

"...two seasoned actors acquit themselves beautifully throughout. More wryly stoic than noble, Tucci captures Tusker’s resignation to his fate..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Some Kind of Heaven

America's retirement heaven shows some splinter in the clouds

"...charming jail cell scratches. And Anne, poor Anne, whose stoic countenance at Reggie’s juvenile behavior is heartbreaking to behold...."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

One Hour Outcall

Emotional, rather than physical, consent is tragically probed in this sex work drama

"...Norrett is the rock on which Ochoa performs, a stoic presence off which her youthful verve bounces and leaps..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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