Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Peter Gabriel won the most Video Music Awards in one year – he..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

UFC's Erwin Debut

Full card and weigh-in for Fight Night 22

"...it was Don King and that shock of hair. These days, it'll be Ultimate Fighting Championship impresario Dana White,..."

Sept. 15, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Great Scott!

Edgar Wright and his Scott Pilgrim cast touch down in Austin

"...start seeing a whole lot of handmade T-shirts with the words "Sex Bob-omb" hastily stenciled or silk-screened on them...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Twelve

The private-school kids on New York's Upper East Side are definitely not all right in Joel Schumacher's sordid tale of young promise gone wrong.

"...Jeremy Allen White, Zoë Kravitz and Ellen Barkin. As the movies would have it, out in California this summer..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Feral Lansdale

Joe Lansdale heading to Austin, and Bubba's comin' with him

"...person would pass up an chance to drink in the presence of Joe Lansdale. On June 16 the king..."

June 8, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Brave and The Bold

Mayor Adam West talks Night of the Bat

"...You can't deny it: Batman is Adam West and Adam West is Batman. There..."

June 5, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Daily Hustle: 6/4/10

Night descends on Neighborhood Housing director

"...Holy political turmoil, Batman!..."

June 4, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Headlines

"...Ott received decidedly mixed reviews of his performance in the wake of the KeyPoint imbroglio. See "City Hall Hustle,"..."

June 4, 2010 News Feature

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...Abduction: 'Batman'..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...started writing stories down, we started trying to crack the code on them, from Aristotle's Poetics to Joseph Campbell..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Greyhounds, goldfish, and much more

"...The working title of the film Blazing Saddles was Tex..."

May 14, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Dressing Down the Superhero

How the irreverent comic Kick-Ass made the leap from page to picture show

"...boy dreams of becoming a superhero and fighting crime. Then he wakes up, realizes that's a dumb idea, and..."

April 16, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Kick-Ass

Everyone's a superhero these days, and this film based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s comic book series takes that concept to the Nth degree.

"...Directed by: Matthew Vaughn. Starring: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Mark..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City Hall Hustle: Bam! Pow! Crash! Holy Reactivated Permit, Batman!

Controversies real, invented, and in between

"...Every City Council agenda has its own issues. The question is how deeply they're buried below the surface...."

April 9, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Headlines

"...of March 29, only 39% of Texans had returned their forms, with Travis County ranking second slowest among urban..."

April 2, 2010 News Feature

The Daily Hustle: 3/30/10

Bats, Bueller, and B&C Bingo

"...The Hustle's hitting you with a guano-laced potpourri of city..."

March 30, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

ZONK!

Mayor Leffingwell proposes Austin Keep It Batty

"...Leffingwell is expected to announce a proposal to make the bat the "Official Animal" of Austin. Bats in the..."

March 30, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SX Page by Page

Graphic novels creep into the multimedia mix

"...The fact that a panel like "Creating a Graphic Novel..."

March 15, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Kid Eternity

A tale of teenage luck in New Jersey

"...and assess where you are and how you got there. Bits and pieces of a life don't always make..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

Fall TV's flotsam and jetsam

"...This is a strange time of the year. The fall TV season has launched, and series..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

ACL Fest Day 3: Mud, Sweat, and Beers

First thoughts on the final day of ACL Fest 2009

"...At the close of my fourth decade of outdoor festivals, I..."

Oct. 4, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Asterios Polyp

Mazzucchelli's masterwork is by no means an easy read, but it is a transcendent one

"...Asterios Polypby David Mazzucchelli Pantheon, 344 pp., $29.95..."

July 17, 2009 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...Joe Lansdale was 4 when his father bought him a puppy. The dog soon started digging..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Wolverine is a noisy mess, full of Hugh Jackman's seriously killer snarl but utterly devoid of the borderline-subversive smarts that made Bryan Singer's X-Men films so resonant.

"...Collins, Will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan and Kevin Durand. Back in the mid-Nineties, prior to the CG revolution that has since..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Surprise, guess what Bay Area metal behemoth played Stubb's after all?

"...announced emphatically yesterday afternoon, posing briefly with Metallica in the ballroom of the Four Seasons. After weeks of speculation,..."

March 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Day Party Crawl

"...So let's just pretend that the Aussie day party is a contest. There's the Boat..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Unborn

A young woman is possessed by the spirit of her twin brother who never made it to term in this film directed by esteemed horror writer David S. Goyer.

"...Jane Alexander, Atticus Shaffer, James Remar and Carla Gugino. There's a sequence early on in The Unborn in which..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spirit

Graphic novelist Frank Miller delivers this film version of Will Eisner's classic comic-book series.

"...all. And that's a crying shame, since Miller, himself the celebrated creator of the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Japanese-American Exchange Program

More Bat Scratch Fever from Chip Kidd

"...Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Comics

A sumptuous and splendid telling of how the greatest graphic novel in the world came to be

"...Watching the Watchmen..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

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