Alice Through the Looking Glass

Although it has visual panache, this new story is lifeless

"...Whither whimsy? This unasked-for sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 film..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Through the Looking Glass: Super-Eight Film Festival

"...Directed by: Various. Through the Looking Glass: Super-8 Film Festival consists of screenings..."

May 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice: Through the Looking Glass

The strange logic of "new urban" housing policy

"...guest "Opinion" column, David Whit­worth's "Time to Look in the Mirror on Hous­ing," accused three City Council mem­bers of..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Through the Looking Glass

City Council considers its threatened budget in a topsy-turvy Texas

"...out at City Council's budget work session Wednesday morning. The occasion was the formal presentation of the city manager's..."

Aug. 4, 2017 News Column by Michael King

LegeLand: Brew the Looking Glass

If Texas' liquor laws look good, you must be wearing beer goggles

"...The Legislature is in town – you're gonna need a..."

Feb. 25, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Through the Glass Darkly

"...Through the Glass Darkly..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Point Austin: Through the Lege Looking-Glass

Alice's tea party was never as mad as the Lege this session

"...You can't make these things up. Kicking off his gender purification campaign Monday..."

March 10, 2017 News Column by Michael King

The Historical Looking-Glass

A Clarksville photo gallery

"...at every turn – gets a lot of notice these days, but this kind of historical transformation is nothing..."

Feb. 10, 2012 News Feature by Monica Riese

The September Issue

This intriguing documentary observes Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue put together the magazine's September 2007 issue, its biggest issue ever.

"...Directed by: R.J. Cutler. Like a time capsule from another era of journalism, The September Issue chronicles a distant..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

"...that deconstructionism could be so much fun? Although on the surface similar to the more conventional documentary The Celluloid..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Only Constant on Congress Is Change

Liz Lambert chronicles being both sides of the gentrification debate in Through the Plexi-Glass

"...There are two stories entwined on the same timeline in..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Hills Have Eyes

This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.

"...Drago and Robert Joy. Wes Craven is best known these days as the man behind the inventive Nightmare on..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...Down the rabbit hole we go, reader, and you're already familiar..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Player

"...Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg, Fred Ward and Peter Gallagher. The Player is an insider's movie about Hollywood, but from..."

May 1, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Uwe Boll, the Timex watch of contemporary filmmakers (he takes a licking but keeps on ticking), strikes again.

"...Starring: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Burt Reynolds, Will Sanderson, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani,..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The First Monday in May

The Met's annual ball thrown by its Costume Institute gets its close-up

"...The basement placement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Out of the Mouths of Children

The return of the Butthole Surfers – don't call it a reunion!

"...a vow of silence," bemoans drummer King Coffey at the watercooler inside Beerland. "I regret every word I've ever..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Are We All Ghosts in the Machine?

Rodney Ascher explores simulation theory in A Glitch in the Matrix

"...A few hundred days into the most digitized era of our lives, and it's hard..."

Feb. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Zellners' Beautiful Dreamer

The Zellner brothers mine urban legend in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

"...David and Nathan Zellner's haunting new film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, is the Austin-based siblings' most ambitious and..."

March 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...was a pivotal year for America, for Austin, for the embattled world-at-large, but most of all for the Mighty..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...Waller Creek and environs is to live intensively in the modern world and at the same time to be..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

City Hall Hustle: The City Council Blues ... Again

The price of all these things, twice

"...regularly scheduled work sessions – called in response to the Crisis of Austin's Democracy – actually have the effect..."

Feb. 18, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: The Long Scream

The endless Republican nightmare casts its shadow on health care reform

"...Then again"..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Luv Doc Recommends: The Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity

The Off Center, Friday, June 10, 2005

"...you’re not interested in buying AmWay products, regardless of their superior quality and cost savings. It might also mean..."

June 10, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line

The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina. It is the chronicle of a mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences she endured in what I think of as Patient-World, the alternate reality inhabited by those of us who have something wrong with our bodies.

"...The Camera My Mother Gave Me (Knopf, $21) by Susanna..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Marion Winik

The Wandering Earth II

China's sci-fi apocalypse blockbuster gets an equally massive prequel

"...There are two types of people in this city: those..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...Maybe there's a reason why ecstasy is the young person's synthetic..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

"The Femme Abstract"

Moya McIntyre’s second edition of this group show ushers in the new year with a glorious plenitude of color and imagery

"...In these clamped-down, stressed-out, resource-stripped days of pandemic, we've come to..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Texas Punk Problem

The birth of Austin punk in vivid black & white

"...Bill Daniel arrived younger, straighter, and in awe of the clientele at Drag-bound venue Raul's, birthplace of Austin punk,..."

July 11, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Spiritual Vanguard

Eliza Gilkyson

"...photograph by Jana Birchum Suddenly, we are there, slicing our boat into silent green pools, unwelcome by..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

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