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Farmers Market Report: June 23
A brief report on area farmers markets
"...no more to be had at the Barton Creek, Sunset Valley, or Downtown markets...."

June 23, 2012 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Behind the Music
George Hickenlooper and 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip'
"...from "Daydream Believer: George Hickenlooper and Mayor of the Sunset Strip," Austin Chronicle daily, March 18.] One of the..."

April 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Dinosaur Jr. at Lakeline Park, Los Texmaniacs in Sunset Valley, and more recommended shows
"...should howl.  – Raoul HernandezJaguar Sound by Adrian Quesada Sunset Valley ARTFESTToney Burger Activity Center, Saturday 29..."

April 28, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him
"...as Newton smashed his car into a wall on Sunset Strip, coming out of the legendary home of LA..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tejano
Stone-cold thriller across the Mexican border
"...bound to ride off into that breathtaking South Texas sunset...."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

A Quiet Passion
A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson
"...The director of such literary adaptations as Sunset Song, The Deep Blue Sea, and The House of..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Transpecos
Border-patrol officers get in way over their heads
"...up dominating this film. A promised wind blows, a sunset pregnant with meaning, and a succession of desolate shots..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

City of Gold
Eat out with Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic
"...Gold in his truck, negotiating Los Angeles traffic at sunset – “magic hour,” in La La Land’s dreamy lingo..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

What Maisie Knew
Young Maisie’s divorced parents are negligent, not cruel, in this contemporary take on the novel by Henry James from the co-directors of the Deep End.
"...of her? – but the film stumbles in its sunset stretch, a saccharine hash set squarely over a trap..."

July 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rock of Ages
Tom Cruise playing a dissolute rock god is the main attraction of this jukebox musical.
"...of Ages' “small-town girl” Sherrie, who arrives on L.A.’s Sunset Strip and, in short order, is mugged, finds a..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Burlesque
Burlesque bumps and grinds. And then grinds and grinds and grinds.
"...aspiration). The girls at the Burlesque Lounge on the Sunset Strip dance onstage in exotic underwear while lip-synching risqué..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wednesday Rewind
New videos from Sunset, Band of Heathens, and Buttercup
"...Social Hour, Buttercup, Band of Heathens, and Bill Baird’s Sunset...."

Nov. 10, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Town
Ben Affleck directs, co-writes, and stars in this gripping action-drama about bank robbers.
"...– a well-staged series of calamities – and its sunset coda unsettlingly whitewash that prior complexity...."

Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Love Shines
Bill Baird kick starts his latest Sunset project
"...Taking a cue from Shearwater, Sunset is using Kickstarter to raise funds for the band’s..."

March 31, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

A Very Special Sine Die
Governor gets all of what he needed, none of what he wanted from special session
"...Set up the Texas Transportation Revolving Fund; Pass the Sunset rescheduling bill; And extend the moratorium exemptions for a..."

July 3, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Special Session Update
What we know so far about round 2 of the 81st Legislature
"...Top of the list: The failure to pass the Sunset bills for five agencies and the enabling legislation to..."

June 29, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Easy Virtue
In this adaptation of an early Noël Coward play, Jessica Biel is the American newcomer whose brash attitudes disrupt the British decorum of her new mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas).
"...climactic moment. But Easy Virtue dances off into the sunset long before this official finale...."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Chance Harvey
Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, and a strong supporting cast elevate this simple tale of two middle-aged discontents who grab a last chance at love.
"...visualization as scintillating as Richard Linklater's is in his Sunrise/Sunset romances. Of course, the combined acting brilliance of Hoffman..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Kingdom
Initially, The Kingdom seems like it might be another of this season's politically charged movies, but it actually plays more like an explosive episode of CSI: Riyadh.
"...little band of Americans eventually flies safely into the sunset. If the jingoism that permeates the latter half of..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ratatouille
Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.
"...visual marvel minus a human emotion is like a sunset unseen. Ratatouille is the story of a young rat..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flicka
Girls and their horses. They're grist for this new update of Mary O'Hara's beloved novel My Friend Flicka.
"...through the dappled valleys where it’s always just before sunset, the thin plot and absence of genuine emotion result..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek is an accomplished Aussie version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; it's also a viscerally told slasher film that manages to do an awful lot with very little.
"...the final shot of its boogeyman slipping into the sunset with his rifle like Leatherface and his chainsaw. Wolf..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.
"...genre-skewering conventions drenches the film in blood reds and Sunset Strip purples and drops a wink and a grin..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happy Endings
Movie about master manipulators and the people who love them is rife with surprises.
"...in sending off his spectacularly dysfunctional characters into the sunset with not a smirk, but a wink and a..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.
"...depict "what happens after you walk off into the sunset," based on boffo "chick" novel of same name. Cheeky..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Daydream Believer
George Hickenlooper and 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip'
"...Mayor of the Sunset Strip screens as part of the 24 Beats Per..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Original Kings of Comedy
"...in the tradition of Richard Pryor's Live on the Sunset Strip, Eddie Murphy's Raw, and Martin Lawrence's You So..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
"...Director Weiland has a sure hand in the Western Sunset department, but by now, who doesn't? Only Palance is..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Airborne
"...action movie here. As is, the California surf and sunset shots are magnificent and the generally dreary CIncinnati has..."

Sept. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jurassic Park
It's every species for themselves in this Spielberg dinosaur blockbuster now out in 3-D.
"...up, but the director gamely tries, over-employing his trademark sunset lighting and spectacular crane and tracking shots. This is..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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