Stop Making Sense

Jonathan Demme/Talking Heads performance documentary remains one of the very best rock & roll films ever made

"...light and sound to an all-out extravaganza for the senses. This is the one which features David Byrne in..."

Aug. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Will Austin Police Stop Making Marijuana Busts?

Council considers how to get “as close as possible to zero arrests”

"...then they’ll understand that there’s really no point to making an arrest,” Casar explained to the Chronicle, adding that..."

Jan. 14, 2020 News Post by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Tara Bhattacharya Stages Interference Fest – Women Making Noise 2020

Sound artist and festival curator promotes the creative class

"...realize most were men. That launched Interference Fest: Women Making Noise in 2019, named after works by Italian electro..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Stop the Loss

Austin veterans turn away from Iraq and war

"...been in the Army. For 21 months, he's been "stop-lossed," the U.S. Army's way of keeping soldiers enlisted beyond..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Making Reuse Mainstream

Austin needs a combo of government leadership, corporate responsibility, and individual commitment to meet reuse benchmarks

"...that people don't like to talk about," says Blythe Christopher de Orive, founder of the art materials exchange site..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

The Making of Downtown North

The Domain may sound like just another fancy mall – but planners say it's the seed of a second Austin

"...make it like every other shopping center, and we're making it unique." With the first branch of their women's..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Friday’s Latinx Mega-Stream Proclaims Rock the Border, Stop the Wall, and Vote!

Online rally stars G-Fantasma, B-Pumas, G-Chavez y mucho mas

"...– it cost 25 cents – and having this sense of a cross-border relationship and connection,” attests the Austin-based..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: Making Their Marks

Austin loses two legends in one week

"...honor LP would be to stimulate their minds and senses by attending a music show or going to a..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Making of an Endorsement

"...An unintended consequence of the Stop Domain Subsidies' Charter amendment?..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Can't Stop the World

Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat

"...the heart, it's going to be imbued with a sense of who that person is, and Jane provided that...."

Aug. 19, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Review: Wise Guy Theater Co.’s Dead. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the End

Theater becomes theatre as Fallout comedy club experiments with drama

"...Dead. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the End is an original debut..."

July 12, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow

Norman Bel Geddes didn't – and we're still dreaming about his future

"...autos, yachts, airliners, cities. He had a highly developed sense of space and understanding of functionality, so when he..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Making It, Weirdly

A little elbow grease and perseverance pays off for creative entrepeneur Luke Iseman

"...a local road-construction company. (Telespar is used to erect stop signs.) He fashioned a frame from the tubing, bolted..."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Making the Grade

On campus at the Bleu River Grille and Ventana, the Texas Culinary Academy's training restaurants

"...an office, the designers have done a good job making the place feel elegant and classy. There are comfortable..."

April 25, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Making It Right

Austin-based Students of the World strives to make it a better one

"...Brad Pitt; he already got money! Why he would stop doing what he doing to come down here to..."

July 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

ACC Eastside: Making College Real

Giving ACC a presence at East Austin high schools

"..."immensely pleased to partner with AISD. It makes good sense, because we serve a similar constituency." The first stage..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Stop Writing ...

and Start Storytelling

"...out from all the other disciplines that go into making a great game."..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Joey Seiler

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...Hughes first encountered the late Randy "Biscuit" Turner (see "Making Biscuit," Aug. 19, 2005), who at that time wasn't..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Between the Teeth

"...formal strategies are somewhat reminiscent of the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense tour, which began each concert with nothing..."

Jan. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Personal Shopper

A ghost story exploring the ineffable

"...movie requires us to bring intuition to bear in making sense of its proceedings. Many aspects of writer/director Assayas’..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pokémon: The Movie

"...the uninitiated as they were before, but that doesn't stop them from making sense to the kids. This new..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Keepers of the Flame Part 2

RIP Gary Kurfirst

"...touchtone phone. I unwound the cord in hopes of making the connection better...."

Jan. 15, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Who Needs Hannah Montana?

U2 finds a new dimension

"...also be the best concert film since Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense...."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elevation

Taking stock of music DVDs

"...the states weeks after the events of 9/11. Following stopovers in Houston and Dallas on the tour's first portion..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stop Making Sense

"...Stop Making SenseD: Jonathan Demme (1984); with David Byrne, Tina..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Review by Bud Simons

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense (Sire/Warner Bros.)

National Records

"...Talking HeadsStop Making Sense (Sire/Warner Bros.) If bands like Blondie and..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Mr. Demme's Holiday

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

"...enjoys people in all their many manifestations, who enjoys making connections with people and the locales to which he..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.

"...has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. It makes perfect sense, really. From setting bags of dog feces on fire..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Life, Fiction, and Selling Out

Life, fiction, and selling out

"...calls undue attention to its artistry, quite deliberately reconsiders Stop Making Sense, Demme's earlier performance film, in an Alice-in-Wonderland,..."

March 31, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Record Reviews

"...Street in New York, Storefront Hitchcock is Robyn Hitchcock's Stop Making Sense. It's such an obvious comparison that it's..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Review

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