Bad Hair

Nothing natural about this Black hair riff on J-horror classic Hair Extensions

"...Bad Hair begins with a myth. Sitting for dinner at her..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Straight and Narrow

Hair cut leads to confusion about sexual orientation … but why?

"...I had just had the second worst haircut to date - nothing tops the wonky Johnny Depp..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Jordan Gass-Pooré

Jingles With Hair

Musicians for Hire: A Career in Advertising

"...because what we do different is produce music with hair on it. If somebody wants a slick L.A. sound,..."

June 20, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Morally 'Straight': The Lord Baden Perry Connection

Rick Perry's over-compensatory manliness is getting tired.

"...juice is this man's gray matter soaking in? His hair product? Let's find out the brand so we can..."

Feb. 26, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Straight to Video

Gifts for the Cinephile? Time to Go ...

"...back to my bedroom, where I would comb Barbie's hair, flip through a Judy Blume novel, or scribble the..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Christina Coleman at WEST 2017

The artist gives voice to the blackness in creation stories and personal histories

"...Christina Coleman has imagined her staffs of braided black hair as figures or trees making a forest deep and..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

After a Fashion

"...SAD HAIR DAY She is a stalwart member of the "old"..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Were you guilty of indulging in any of these particular fashion no-nos this year? Check out these horrid style Top Tens.

"...Top 10 most reprehensible trends of 20011. Straight Hair Flat-irons are flying out of the stores, but..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Qmmunity: Noisy

Straight cis people are getting too comfortable making pronoun jokes, and it’s annoying

"...Reader, I must confess: I think straight cis people are getting too comfortable. The other week,..."

May 10, 2024 Column by James Scott

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

"...she’s gone legit, with smart suits (albeit, in pink), hair blow-dried straight, and a wholesomeness that is no longer..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"..."I lost a ton of hair," laments the seasoned singer-songwriter. "I used to have big,..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Grudge

A new haunting from the J-horror franchise

"...Americanize the distinctive form of the yūrei, the Japanese long-haired ghost whose blind vengeance on the living leaves nothing..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tully

Modern motherhood unraveled and rebuilt by the Young Adult team.

"...at night without leaving even a crumb or misplaced hair. She's also the only one that realizes it's not..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Legend

Tom Hardy pulls double duty playing both the criminal Kray twins

"...(Browning), a delicate neighborhood girl who catches his eye. Hair-trigger Ronnie – he’s the one in glasses; also: certifiably..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Where Did All Those Kids Go?

From summer 1968 to ‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ in 2013

"...boas, tight skirts, costume jewelry, floppy hats, and wild hair...."

July 31, 2013 Music Post by Charles Beard

Hide and Seek

John Polson's psychological thriller about a father (Robert De Niro), daughter (Dakota Fanning), and the creepy goings-on in their house in the woods dangles over the precipitous edge of awfulness a full 90 minutes before toppling into that abyss with a resounding clatter.

"...could be a keeper. He manages to pull the hair-raiser strings fairly well for the first two acts, as..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Osama

The first feature to come out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, Osama tells the story of a girl who masquerades as a boy.

"...continues to attempt) to merge the two into one ramrod-straight ideological poleaxe – is a trap that Westerners have..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rob Roy

"...battled dishonor and injustice in 18th-century Scotland. With long hair blowing in the chill Highland wind, a swath of..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Avenue Montaigne

A young Frenchwoman moves to Paris from with nothing but the knapsack on her back and the innocent gleam in her eye.

"...her lithe frame and insouciantly boyish mop of blond hair, de France is a particularly French sort of film..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Rumor Has It ...

Fans of The Graduate should skip this strange comedy, which posits that the real-life inspiration for counterculture icon Benjamin Braddock grew up to be a cheesy, brainless high tech zillionaire doing yoga and driving a Mercedes around Half Moon Bay.

"...bizarre and uncomfortable scenario, but Reiner plays it like straight fluffy farce, which is probably a mistake. In the..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Laurel Canyon

"...a shift for this actress, most famous as the straight-talking sheriff in Fargo; and isn’t it marvelous that she’s..."

April 11, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Megiddo: The Omega Code Two

"...The Beast has an angular, sloping mug with bad hair and worse wings. He's not terrifying -- he's goofy,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Drop Dead Gorgeous

This parody of beauty pageants in the flyover states takes the form of a mockumentary filmed at Minnesota's Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant.

"...a stillborn comedy of subterfuge and backbiting that's all hair and no teeth. It all feels a bit like..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All Over Me

"...of Claudia: a big, sturdy girl with beautiful red hair, a wardrobe full of loose-fitting clothes, and the desire..."

July 4, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Cut

Jane Campion's erotic thriller In the Cut dulls its cutting edge.

"...ever cracking a smile, her button-down clothes and flat, straight hair indicate that she does not wish to be..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Queens of the Realm (or Part II: The Coronation)

Ushering in a new monarchy at the United Court of Austin.

"...presides is stocked with 9' tall glamazons (not counting hair). Imagine Danny Devito channeling Harvey Fierstein while convincingly playing..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Double Jeopardy

The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.

"...upper neck, just below his ear, coming within a hair's breadth of his carotid artery. Though Lavernia says it..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

DeWitty Center Helpful

"...Oh! Thou font of hair rampant,..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Column

Steel Bluebonnet Determination

Robin Shivers, founder of HAAM, worked behind the scenes, and yet was one of the Austin music scene's most important faces

"...health care system, she also worked with KLRU and chaired its benefit concerts...."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Instruments of Science & Technology

Richard Swift teaches the kids how it's done

"...that I pull no punches, and that I drive straight to the point. This, I believe, is pretty damn..."

Jan. 24, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

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