Pretend That We're Dead

"...hit nightly in rock & roll. The credits-roll of recall curls the corners of your mouth in eternal grin...."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Film Reviews

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"...ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLSD: Steve Oedekerk; with Jim..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

True to the Game 2

Trust us, you'd be better off playing tiddlywinks

"...females playing sex workers (the exception: King’s tattooed boy toy) and the n-word bandied about for what supposedly passes..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

30 Years of “Best of Austin”

Some of the stories behind 10,484 awards

"...a few of the readers' choices (sparked, as I recall, by Blockbuster beating Vulcan Video for Best Video Store..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...sound like a brat's way of getting a new toy; asking mommy or daddy for money after selling the..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community

"...checking the aGLIFF Web site at www.agliff.org... You may recall our coverage of native sons Duncan Nappan and Rusty..."

July 7, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

MondoCon Unleashes Loaded Lineup

Just shut up and take our money!

"...art direction of a new poster. The Art of Toy-making will feature Mike Mitchell, Brock Otterbacher, and Dan Willett..."

Aug. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Bugs Benedict? Bee Stroganoff?; and Tea Party Toys With Consumer Protection

"...they can just reach for cooking oil! Tea Party Toys With Consumer Protection..."

April 29, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Horror for the Holidays

Dusk to dawn with Silent Night, Deadly Night

"...Carpenter's Halloween four years later – I can still recall the yowling protestations that accompanied the release of Silent..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...first professional gig having to dance in drag," she recalls. "Brenda said when she first met me, I was..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Step Right Up

The terror and the wonder of the Museum of the Weird

"...was the case with the late, lamented punk rock/Japanese toy store Atomic City, it seems that not everybody who..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...We were going to stop it at 100, I recall. We ended up moving it up to 120 a..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Owen Egerton, Austin's Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves

An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye

"...like Egerton hasn't moved before. His earliest memory, he recalls as he clears a space on a table crowded..."

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Clarksville's Willis Littlefield Readies His Annual Christmas Lights

The longtime resident is ready to light up his home and hand out holiday sweets for the 22nd Christmas

"...the 1930s, before he was born. He can still recall the dirt path out front, before they widened and..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

Austin Film Festival Review: The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

A recurrence not at Owl Creek Bridge, again and again

"...two: he’s both Tunde’s lover and completely closeted boy toy to Tunde’s best friend Marley (Nicola Peltz). This complication..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Kikagaku Moyo/Bo Ningen

A second Japanese twofer pilots the APF mothership

"...After UK freight train Toy smoked like no less than Spiritualized and Swervedriver at..."

May 5, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Dana Falconberry

"...voice staking that effect. Her phrasing and rise-and-fall-melodic tendencies recall a windup music box or, when joining backup singers..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

All Over Creation: Unexpected Losses

Sudden deaths make us stop, but they should also make us think

"...In Aulie's case, his friends had a lot to recall. He first made his mark as a performing poet,..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Pressure Groups Against Straus

Will outside bodies change minds inside the House?

"...to make a part of House business into a toy in the ongoing GOP power struggle between the fringe..."

Jan. 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

'Counting Water'

Third-Place Winner

"...goggles, and for the life of me, I can't recall how many laps I've finished...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Carolyn Lindell

Beside the Point

Preternaturally talented rogue city manager tries escaping 'The Company' before it does her in

"...creative verve? When an actioner transformed from a decades-old toy line is trumpeted as an original franchise, that's saying..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Have You Ever Been to Carrascolendas?

The Bilingual Education Act in 1968 sparked an unprecedented number of bilingual television programs for children, and the Austin-produced children's series Carrascolendas, which premiered in 1970, was among the first.

"..."living" dolls Berta and Dyana who lived in a toy store, Uncle Andy the shoemaker, Campamocha the mechanic, and..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Hightower Lowdown

Conscipicuous consumption for pets; giving of ourselves, not just of our pocketbooks; John Ashcroft is "doing something" -- to our Constitution.

"...We're not talking here about a simple chew toy for Fido, but a whole array of pricier goodies..."

Dec. 21, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...should be commended, not flatly criticized. Third, I don't recall anyone having to beg for my laughter, as I..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Jeffords and the Lobby, Karl Rove's ethics & the New Fast Track

"...His spokesperson told the Times that Rove "did not recall" whether or not he discussed Intel's visit with President..."

June 29, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Saving All Our Changes

Cyber-castoffs are curated at Austin's Goodwill Computer.

"...even pushing into your dread late 40s, you might recall a time when "IBM-PCs" were unwieldy beige behemoths implacably..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Features Feature by Michael King

Going Long

Scoping Out the Long Fringe of FronteraFest 2000

"...Young Thing, who lets him screw her but cannot recall having seen his plays (she'd rather see a comic..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Dancing About Architecture

The Weak in Rock

"...moment that defines the Lunch for me; instead, I recall various flashes, like my friend A-Dub managing to get..."

July 23, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...("La Sirena de la Luna"). God, with his broken toy piano melodies ("Jesus"), and the Devil with his overwrought..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Music Review

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...versions of the perky blonde that would make any toy exec blush. But there is something essentially American about..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

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