Gift Guide: Prince

Sign o’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition) (Warner Bros.)

"...of 63 previously unreleased tracks on this 8-CD goliath. "There are no mistakes this time."..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Gift Guide: Mojo Nixon

The Mojo Manifesto (Manifesto Records)

"...proves a helluva lot of Mojo to consume, but the material ties so determinedly to specific times and cultural..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Gift Guide: Tom Petty

Wildflowers & All the Rest (Warner Records)

"...Like 2010 Bruce Springsteen box set The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story,..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Holiday Gift Guide: Gaming

Make sure the gamer on your list has something to open

"...Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues$40, www.shroudoftheavatar.com Lord British is back! Austin's..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rules for Werewolves

This tale of runaways prowling suburbia in a pack recalls the eerie unreality of The Twilight Zone

"...If the title has you thinking you've finally found a Jane..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2013 Politics Gift Guide Part II

Ideas for the armchair pundit

"...Coloring Outside the Lines..."

Dec. 13, 2013 News Feature

The Culinary Library

Worthwhile gift choices from Santa's book bag

"...The Japanese Kitchen: 250 Recipes in a Traditional Spiritby Hiroko..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Strangler

Restored French serial killer flick is more Albert Camus than Freddy Krueger

"...The Strangler has been called a slasher, but it is..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

$1M Gift From the Son of the First Black Graduate of UT Funds Endowments

Pathways for grad students from HBCUs and a professorship focused on inclusion in the built environment

"...Tony Chase, son of John Chase, the first Black graduate of UT-Austin School of Architecture, has..."

March 11, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Five Graphic Gift Books For Your Creative Favorites

Or even for your own holiday-besieged self, right? Potentially?

"...Screens are the default by now, of course. Which makes books more..."

Dec. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Future Is Transhuman

Inside GenEnCo’s new production The Future of Ismael

"...its audience to imagine a future where people augment themselves with increasingly progressive technology – a concept that feels..."

Nov. 13, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Charlie Mangan

Why Sarah Elaine Smith Writes the Way She Does

The author of Marilou Is Everywhere tells the full story

"...compelling missing girl mystery and delicately nudged it to the corner of the frame to focus instead on a..."

Oct. 23, 2019 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: The Best Man Holiday

Bust a gut laughing, or cry your guts out: You get it both ways

"...your Christmas movie? Raunchy comedy, or wracking-sob melodrama? With The Best Man Holiday, you don’t have to choose...."

Dec. 10, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ocean at the Vortex

In her solo show, Ebony Stewart makes a canvas out of herself and a beautiful gift we should embrace

"...The ocean means a lot in Ebony Stewart's one-woman show..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Angry Birds Movie

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a game! It's a movie!

"...sure who requested this 3-D animated film version of the 2009 avian vs. porcine mega-app, but the seven-year gestation..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Farmers' Market Report: Dec. 21-22, 2013

Heirloom tomatoes, Meyer lemons, and perhaps a Christmas ham

"...temperatures this weekend, which will be a relief for the farmers, as the last two weekends have been challenging...."

Dec. 20, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

The Art of Death

Kate Heyhoe weaves Dreams of the Dead via sugar skulls

"...After the death of her mother in 2008, Kate Heyhoe found..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

The David Ash Era Has Begun

Horns beat Oklahoma State 41-36 in wire-to-wire thriller

"...Joe Bergeron burrowed into the first inch of the end zone with 29 seconds..."

Sept. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

The Possession

A divorced couple reunite in their efforts to save their daughter from an evil spirit.

"...Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, this effective little creeper is the only Judaic pastiche of The Exorcist you're likely to..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Handicapping the Holidays

We narrow the field for the gamer on your gift list

"...The Legend of Zelda: Skyward SwordWiiNintendo $50 Super Mario 3D..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Politics Gift Guide

For the person who has everything but still could use another thing

"...would never have a subway system (i.e., Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Acadia National Park). But so much of the..."

Dec. 2, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Future

As an unsparing portrait of disaffection among the small-paycheck, faux-creative class, Miranda July's film is on the mark but her performance grates nevertheless.

"...asides and keen observations in her second feature film. The Future is a drab dramedy about thirtysomethings flailing about..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Politics Gift Guide

News staff suggestions for the wonks and smartasses on your list

"...Who's the toughest mayoral candidate? Find out with this new play..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature

The Hightower Report

Chocolate That Isn't; and Bush's Farewell Gift to Chemical Bosses

"...Be careful out there. The corporate powers are messing with us again...."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Beat Goes On: R.I.P. Uncle John Turner

Johnny Winter drummer and the power of three

"...sucks today, as it does on any day when the world tilts to one side and then straightens, one..."

July 26, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Elton John's Christmas Party

Gift guide

"...your holiday DJ." Not an SNL sketch gone awry, rather an impressive survey of Christmas pop. Springsteen's "Santa Claus..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The LeeVees

Gift guide

"...The LeeVees..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Gift guide

"...Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

May I Have the Envelope, Please?

The 2004-2005 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...On Monday, June 6, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jesse Colin Young

Gift guide

"...Colin Young hasn't been worth paying attention to since the early Seventies, and Songs for Christmas won't change that...."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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