Austin Film Society Documentary Tour

Jennifer Baichwal's Manufactured Landscapes

"...human capital component into her film, making explicit this unspoken dimension of Burtynsky's work. The opening scene of the..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Strategy and Strategery

Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel on Darkon and the real-world implications of role players at war

"...to hang, eat, and catch up. There's an almost unspoken irony that role-players, once the teenage nerds who stereotypically..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Independence Day

"...His words had an unspoken "before you get really sick, dummy" sound to them...."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...observations of the turn-of-century American psyche mirror the frequently unspoken anxieties that beset an individual within modern society. One..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Beside the Point: Taxing Effectively

Debate should focus on meeting community needs, not arbitrary numbers

"...your utility bills. It's all of these places, these unspoken, impolite avenues of income on which the city is..."

Sept. 8, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Up or Out?

Debates over open space and neighborhoods are the discourse of community

"...meeting schedules, potentially available to ordinary working people?) The unspoken question was: Up or out? – that is, can..."

June 16, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Fare Fight

The pending sale of Roy's Taxi company raises a host of Austin memories

"...The radio gap between the companies illustrates an unspoken truism – in recent years, while Yellow Cab's business..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Decameron Day 7: REVENGE!

The Rude Mechs' 'Decameron Day 7:REVENGE!' is a meditation on vengeance refracted through the lens of ghost stories, how-to guides, 'Star Wars,' and soap operas

"...we're treated to the usual intrigues – romantic triangles, unspoken passions, tenderly nurtured grudges, and, yes, plots for revenge..."

April 28, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...they must also look out for the interests of "unspoken-for" children. For them, the earlier start means five extra..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...'healing via art' has always been one of my unspoken, inherent motivations for art-making. I am one of those..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Chest Cavities, Empty Kneecaps, and Elbows

A week at Austin's all-ages live music venue Redrum and the 'School of Rock' lessons learned

"...There's an unspoken rule of rock: When there are more people onstage..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Point Austin: Under Fire

Memo to Toby Futrell: it's called 'negotiation'

"...interested in an agreement, for its own larger but unspoken agenda: "God forbid that we actually have an effective..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Column by Michael King

The Evidence of Silence Broken

In his impressive solo show, 'The Evidence of Silence Broken,' spoken word performer Zell Miller III wears his heart, his mind, and his very soul on his sleeve

"...two people sitting in a restaurant and all the unspoken words that hover in space between them. It's one..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Page Two: President Know-Nothing

President Know-Nothing

"...than a military one is playing into their hands (unspoken but accepted is that our religious beliefs, form of..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America

'Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America' knits familia y raza together into a deceptively simple, if unspoken, universal truth with all the homespun efficacy of Rose Guilbault's maternal brood spinning ghost stories in a Yaqui Indian adobe near Nogales, Mexico, where the author was born

"...familia y raza together into a deceptively simple, if unspoken, universal truth with all the homespun efficacy of Guilbault's..."

July 15, 2005 Books Review by Raoul Hernandez

Not So Red

A "blue state" reporter journeys through the multi-colored regions of the Lone Star State

"...a book about environmental activism; Democrats who are breaking unspoken family rules by speaking out and protesting for the..."

July 1, 2005 News Feature by Rose Aguilar

TV Eye

For black and brown people of my generation, the Jackson debacle is particularly painful in a way that few have articulated

"...feel. And yet, there seems to be so much unspoken pain behind that white make-up and unrelenting grip on..."

June 24, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Goodbye, Goodness

Told in the cracks between bicoastal flashbacks and Nineties real time by Hayward Theiss, a twentysomething working in television, it's the story of someone who can only move forward by retracing his steps and fulfilling – or conquering – his need to go back. Sam Brumbaugh will be at BookPeople on April 29.

"...heartfelt and lingering. Later, Reina perhaps repays the mystical, unspoken observation with this advice: "There are small things deep..."

April 29, 2005 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Point Austin: High Tuition

As the centex toll plan moves forward, Austin becomes a reluctant stepchild

"...train has left the station. McCracken believes there's significant unspoken sentiment on the CAMPO board for some kind of..."

March 11, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Equalized

Seguin fest puts deaf, hearing audiences on level film ground

"...to clue audience members who are deaf into ambient, unspoken sounds on the screen...."

Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Misty's Pulley

Honorable mention, the 13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...The unspoken rule was not to touch the bodies unless you..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Gerry Cullen

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...new "Bob" format flies in the face of radio's unspoken rules, which dictate that stations go after carefully defined..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...might be, Newton of another. On the most intuitive unspoken level we don't buy closure. Charlie still works because..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...the driving force behind the Elephant 6 collaborations, an unspoken understanding of what should and shouldn't be present in..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...might be, Newton of another. On the most intuitive unspoken level we don't buy closure. Charlie still works because..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Maze

In this novel, Karnezis' ingenious, although ambiguous, framing device consists of repressing any sight or sound of the Turkish enemy as he describes the abbreviated anabasis of one Greek brigade in the Anatolian hinterlands.

"...This is an elegant visible correlate of a deeper, unspoken panic that seizes the townspeople as they realize that..."

March 26, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Are We on the Edge?

In The Bateman Trilogy, about a family of working-class suburbanite Texans, Ken Webster reveals a fine playwright's voice to go along with his strong directorial style

"...male sometime-companion – we're offered insight into the formerly unspoken thoughts of a variety of players to get a..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Page Two

The anti-safe-and-legal abortion movement is about control, not life

"...inequities: child labor, exploited labor, racial and religious discrimination, unspoken affirmative action for the dominant classes, limited opportunity, rampant..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Who Pays?

While the economy burns, the Bush administration promotes Mars, moonshine, and marriage

"...appears to be "don't tax, but spend anyway." The unspoken presumption is that somebody else will pick up the..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Page Two

History is speed-racing through this decade; we're queasy and anxious to get to the finish line.

"...some of it may just be plain superstition, the unspoken doubt that I'm destined to make it out of..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column by Louis Black

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