Two Lovers

Joaquin Phoenix (in what he claims is his last film role) stars as a nebbishy New Yorker caught between two very different women.

"...by: James Gray. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Moni Moshonov, John Ortiz, Bob Ari and..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mighty Peking Man

This 1977 Shaw Brothers production from Hong Kong is a gleefully silly riff on everything monster movies and was re-released under the auspices of Quentin Tarantino in 1999.

"...Ku Feng, Lin Wei-Tu, Hang-Sheng Wu, Hsu Shao-Chiang, Ted Thomas, Steve Nicholson, Hsiao Yao and Chen Ping. Finally, a..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

Navasota is the home of the Blues Alley, and the Navasota Blues Fest and is the old stomping grounds of legendary songster Mance Lipscomb

"...songs. The style is exemplified by the music of Thomas Shaw, Grady Gaines, and pianist Edwin "Buster" Pickens...."

Dec. 11, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Sheffield, the APA, and the Cop Wars

A Brief History of the APA

"...Take, for example, Lt. Dell Shaw, APA president from 1987 to 1989, who led the..."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Kindred

Gaslighting horror adds racial tension to class dynamics

"...by: Joe Marcantonio. Starring: Tamara Lawrance, Edward Holcroft, Fiona Shaw and Jack Lowden...."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Campfire Horror Story

How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

"...July 12, 2004. That morning, DFPS investigator Darla Jean Shaw placed a call to Bastrop Co. sheriff's investigator Steve..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

True to the Blues: Eastside Kings Festival Returns

"It's not three chords, it's the heart and soul of a nation!" – Birdlegg

"...in town – it was spiffy blues," remembers Charles Shaw, who drummed for Hubbard in the Jets...."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway

Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?

"...descendants, read All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, the spoken autobiography of a brilliant, illiterate black sharecropper...."

July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...Harris counted among his acquaintances such luminaries as Thomas Carlyle, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Captain Sir Richard F...."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Council Watch

Council reluctantly approves retail in the new city hall, with the stipulation that there be no gaudy storefronts on Second Street.

"...Stuart Shaw, representing one of two companies vying for the right..."

June 16, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...Baby Doe Director: Jessica Earnshaw, Producers: Holly Meehl Chapman, Jessica Earnshaw At 22, Gail..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indy's final adventure remembers the whip, forgets the charm

"...Rhys-Davies, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Antonio Banderas and Thomas Kretschmann...."

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Exhibitionism

"...Welcome to the world of George Bernard Shaw, where men are weak, women are emancipated, and talk..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Review

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"..."Dissolution" (United States, Australia) Director/Screenwriter: Anthony SaxeProducers: Thomas Lopez, Anthony Saxe A woman is forced to confront..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...that was shot in part around town and Rob Thomas' Veronica Mars, as well as David Gordon Green's Joe...."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Jack Goes Home Director/Screenwriter: Thomas Dekker After his father is killed in a car..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...The Vigil D: Keith Thomas A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

line upon line percussion's The city wears a slouch hat

John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's experimental radio play proved an ideal vehicle for the creative daredevils of line upon line and the Rude Mechs to revive together

"...new alchemical trick. Aided by guest percussionists Thad Anderson, Thomas Burritt, and John Lane, they took Cage's miscellany of..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw. (PG-13, 123 min.) Cutthroat Island is the kind of..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...and spirituality. (Also Sun., 7:30pm, Palm Door on Sixth) – Thomas Fawcett..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Exoneration for Child Counselor Targeted by Strayhorn

After a four-year battle with the state, Bebe Gaines wins the right to work with foster kids again

"...as required under federal law), including former agency Commissioner Thomas Chapman, reached a settlement with Gaines, awarding her $300,000..."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Wednesday Picks

"...music from Israel to Afghanistan, Turkey to Armenia. – Thomas Fawcett White Williams..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...D: Robert Redford; with Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Neill, Dianne Weist, Chris Cooper...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

ACL Fest Sunday Picks

"...only adds to her myth-in-process. – Margaret Moser Ryan Shaw..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...tumbled down with explosive force, releasing what HRC director Thomas Staley, in his foreword to the exhibition catalog, calls..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...New World, D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, and Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan. In this..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Further Reflections

"...Dir/Scr: Jim Shedden; Prod: Alexa-Frances Shaw; Exec. Prod: Ron Mann; DP: Gerald Packer, Alexa-Frances Shaw...."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Wednesday SXSW Picks

"...stoned low-rider ballads. (Also: Sat., 1am, Maggie Mae's) – Thomas Fawcett..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

After a Fashion

"...the stylish club Texture; the brilliant and hysterical Margaret Shaw; John and April Loese of Gomi, as well as..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Faster Than Sound: KAZI, "The Voice of Austin," Perseveres for 40 Years

Austin’s first-ever community-run station debuts new general manager and KUTX collab

"...off an on-air anniversary campaign – organized by Pepper Thomas of The Hot Pepper Show – working in memories..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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