Faster Than Sound: Twain’s Texan Metamorphosis

The Big Thief favorite finds a home locally, Brew & Brew Solo Sets gratify, and a send-off to outlaw country drummer Paul English

"...Recording in his most recent home of Richmond alongside Twain mates bassist Ken Woodward and drummer Pete Pezzimenti. Currently,..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Shania Twain’s Fireworks at the Frank Erwin Center

"...Shania Twain, in her trademark red sequins and hot pants, opened..."

Aug. 10, 2015 Photo Gallery

Mark Twain Warned of Government Duplicity

"...Dear Editor: Mark Twain was horrified and heartbroken at his nation's mass murder..."

Jan. 27, 2004 Postmarks

The Adventures of Huck Finn

"...targeted audience for this seventh film adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel. Some of the material is simply too..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Knight

"...result of this is Black Knight, which ransacks Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in search..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...Odyssey to Batman comics to Jack London and Mark Twain...."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Forget it, Jake; it's Sin City.

"...tough and women are sluts – and always the twain shall meet in a preordained downward trajectory. It’s not..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Undertow

Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.

"...of high and low culture. Imagine a spectacularly bent Twain story, if Tom swallowed paint rather than applied it..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Emperor's New Clothes

"...as though we're reviewing history by way of Mark Twain, a Prince and the Pauper reimagining with lovestruck overtones...."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Critical Care

"...Butz, looks and sounds as though he were Mark Twain performing a vaudeville sketch (in an office in another..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

"...stands to reason that the latest re-telling of Mark Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court would..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Commercial Venture

Preempting Shania Twain

"...request line inquiring as to why their beloved Shania Twain video had been cut off in mid-seduction, AMN was..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Mark Twain Show

Second Youth Family Theatre's season opener is a perky and enjoyable sampler of the works of Samuel Clemens, better known to readers of literature and fence painters the world over as Mark Twain.

"...The Mark Twain Show: Good-Natured WitThe Auditorium on Waller Creek, through September..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Requiem for Tesla

Local mavericks Rude Mechanicals have plundered biographies and scientific history to give us the whole story of maverick inventor Nikola Tesla, and their production Requiem for Tesla, with its unnervingly choreographed lights, arresting video, beautiful period costumes, original score on theremin, strange dance numbers, and working Tesla coil, literally crackles with current.

"...abetted by such luminaries of the past as Mark Twain, George Westinghouse, J. P. Morgan, and that adversarial weasel..."

March 2, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...SHANIA TWAIN..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Twain

"...Newly settled into Austin from Virginia, Twain's Mat Davidson offers up his second release for local..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Music Review by Doug Freeman

"Ellen Heck: Variations"

Heck revitalizes the ancient art of printmaking by making fierce use of its potential

"...of one Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, at various ages in his life. But, see, this..."

June 15, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Man Who Loved Little Girls

"...not purely a British prerogative; in America, even Mark Twain had his own "child-friends." At the end of his..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Frank Ferrante's Groucho

Groucho lives in this filming of Ferrante's one man show

"...as Ferrante. It's up there with Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain, or Val Kilmer's Mark Twain (hey, if there's room..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway

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

"...year: "(And hey: Henry Miller, Willa Cather, and Mark Twain are the only American novelists certain to outlast the..."

July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Snubbing the Censors

Austin celebrates Banned Books Week

"...There will also be one major literary figure: Mark Twain, whose The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is another consistently..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

Angela Bettis In 3-D!!!

The local indie horror star gets new depth for her next film.

"...to a demonstration of the technology," said producer Norman Twain, "and I said, 'we're going to do this picture,..."

Jan. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

"...psyche freed with the polity! Freed even, says Mark Twain (1835-1910), to reject civilization totally. Huck Finn does (we..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Postscripts

"...book, Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, and The Oxford Mark Twain, a..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Column

Hello Caller

One last 2012 local music roundup

"...Hello CallerDark Twain..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Mark Twain's Warning..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...The following quotation from Mark Twain's posthumously published work "The War Prayer" is worth pondering..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Postscripts

Comedy that stands the test of time, and royal dictates that don't.

"...is to say," Martin writes. His funny people: Mark Twain (Mark Twain's Library of Humor), S.J. Perelman (Most of..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Exhibitionism

Big River: Pleasantly Adrift

"...will be shot by order of the author, Mark Twain." This tongue-in-cheek warning in the playbill for this year's..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Review

Jurassic World Dominion

Nothing new in the DNA of this dinosaur trilogy capper

"...rhymes. These words – so often attributed to Mark Twain – might as well describe the current state of..."

June 10, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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