We Were the Urban Pioneers

Our search for the just-right million-dollar condo, in the wilds of Downtown

"...Think of the Puritan settlers, eking out a new life amid impossibly..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

This unasked-for sequel fuses the original concept with the well-worn formula of the family-vacation romp.

"...Levy, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling and Alyson Stoner. It’s the snobs vs. the slobs! And this holiday’s no picnic!..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Welcome to the Real World

Rhizome Collective brings activist ideals down to earth

"...Thursdays are busy nights at the Rhizome Collective, a three-warehouse complex at the dead end..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.

"...Richard Linklater is on the stage of Austin's Paramount Theatre introducing his new animated..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Third Miracle

"...Anne Heche, Barbara Sukowa and Charles Haid. Ever since The Exorcist, we've come to expect movies about the spirit..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where's the Sizzle?

Sullivan's: A+ Ambiance, B+ Steaks

"...The 1990s have been good to us in many ways...."

Oct. 18, 1996 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

The Verde Report: Austin FC’s Mr. Do-It-All

Jon Gallagher is still finding ways to prove his immense value to the club

"...would you pick? For basketball, I’m still taking five 40-year-old LeBron Jameses over anyone. Baseball? Shohei Ohtani, obviously. But..."

March 21, 2025 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

The Banshees of Inisherin

The In Bruges team reunites for a genius tale of friendship gone awry

"...The year is 1923 on the fictional island of Inisherin,..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...Every time Denny Freeman picked up his guitar, whether a lean and mean Fender Stratocaster or a beautiful..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

The Reason I Jump

Poetic insight into autism, based on Naoki Higashida memoir

"...In 2007, Naoki Higashida, a nonspeaking 13-year-old Japanese boy on the autism spectrum, published The Reason..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Come Sail Away With Amanda Ward's The Jetsetters

Local author asks, "Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?"

"..."In the morning, Charlotte went to mass. When she knelt after..."

April 22, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gifted and Talented Education Programs Turn the Lights Out on Non-White Students

"Race is the greatest predictor of who succeeds and fails in American public education"

"...elementary school, her teachers planned to refer her to the special education coordinator. Her mother fought – against much..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Autumn A. Arnett

Minding the Gap

Sundance-lauded Hulu skateboarder doc surpasses Thrasher equation

"...is not a documentary about skateboarding. While some of the footage is worthy of a Thrasher video, the themes..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Luv Doc: Coming Correct

It's a wonder Jesus didn't crucify himself

"......"

June 8, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

The Outskirts of Hope

Jo Ivester launches civil rights-era memoir

"...story changed dramatically in 1967 when her parents moved the family from Massachusetts to Mississippi to open a medical..."

April 14, 2015 Arts Post by Jessi Cape

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Jessica Chastain plays Her and James McAvoy plays Him, and together they're Them in intriguing head-scratcher.

"...Is it the responsibility of the critic – or even her purview..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...small. With two rounds of feature films already on the schedule, Fantastic Fest has just announced its tall stack..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Company You Keep

Members of the Weather Underground resurface in this contemporary thriller directed by Robert Redford.

"...Boomers, unite. Amid the fictional superheroes about to swarm into movie theatres this..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Telling' the Truth

Austin veterans perform their pasts to bridge the civilian-military divide

"...Regina Vasquez saw the haircut as a practical choice. Her fellow Marine recruits..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

The Vow

A woman awakes from a coma with severe memory loss, forcing her husband to win her love all over again. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star.

"...First-time feature director Michael Sucsy previously made the TV movie Grey Gardens about those fabled eccentrics, Edith..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Darkest Hour

Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.

"...Back in 2006, director Chris Gorak helmed one of the most disturbing meta-horror films I've ever seen: the little-seen,..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: The Suburbs

Growing up with Phoebe Snow, whose presence and music transcended the ordinary

"...It's a music story – a story of the blues and jazz and even rock – but one..."

May 6, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Blind Side

John Lee Hancock, director of The Rookie, scores with another sports drama, this time concerning a true football story.

"...Ray McKinnon and Kim Dickens. Maybe you flinched at the mawkish trailer. Maybe you already know the story –..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Deep in the Art

Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade's 40-year road trip through all that is Texas

"...Picture yourself in the cab of a pickup, windows rolled down on account..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Horse Boy

This locally produced film is an intimate and endlessly inspiring look at one family's struggle to cope with autism.

"...eyeballs my unlimber limbs, straining to contort in comical ways, that “it’s the journey, not the destination,” and those..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Power to Change

A quick sound check with the Austin mayoral candidates

"...As the ongoing hullabaloo over the Austin sound ordinance in regards..."

April 30, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

In the Tunisian desert, a young girl and her grandfather spin stories of woe, lost love, and religious disenchantment in this trancelike movie.

"...Mohamed Graïaa, Maryam Mohaid and Golshifteh Farahani. Imagine if The Canterbury Tales had been set in the North African..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Spanking the Figurative

A new Austin gallery captures dancers with paint

"...a rest and a bite to eat, sitting on the low black couch in the Austin Figurative Gallery, his..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Feels Like the First Time

On onion rings, barbecue, and the never-ending "Best of Austin" debate

"...The first time I visited Austin, we drove down from..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Magdalene Sisters

A grim and unmistakable masterpiece of bleak, black sorrow.

"...Pity the poor Catholic Church. As if things haven’t been tough..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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