Short Cuts

New Line has no doubt about Tim McCanlies' Secondhand Lions, and Guillermo Del Toro wraps up Hellboy in Prague.

"...fantasy against Woody Allen's latest and the vampire epic Underworld, among other openings, but Alvarado-Dykstra says that New Line..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

What NBC's new Kingpin means for the representation and presentation of Latinos on television

"...or amuse everybody. For those drawn to the seedy underworld of narcocorridos and other pulpy accounts of the drug..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Happy 300th, The Simpsons.

"...lot riding on this new series. Set in the underworld of a Mexican family-ruled drug cartel and intended to..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...(Norton): There was no The Corrections this year, no Underworld. There was, however, Costello's novel, which was better than..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

TV Eye

More adventures in Idoldom.

"...21), "First Time Experiences" (Nov. 22), "Stories From the Underworld" (Nov. 25), "Hitting Bottom" (Nov. 26), and "Food and..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

French Free-for-All

The latest Austin Film Society free series surveys French cinema in the Nineties.

"...the uneasiness you'd expect from Pigalle's strip clubs and underworld drug deals, while Pigalle has moments that rival the..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Black Orpheus (1959)

Bossa nova and an wonderful spin on a timeless Greek tragedy make Black Orpheus a keeper.

"...bite of a viper and Orpheus goes to the underworld to retrieve her soul and bring her back to..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Articulations

Austin loses a longtime artist, Mickey Joe Mayfield, and Vortex Repertory Company gains a managing director, Barry Pineo.

"...Mayfield also painted a ceiling mural of the Mayan Underworld for the "Mayan House" designed by architect Paul Lamb..."

May 31, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

George Pelecanos Coming to BookPeople

"...down a runaway teenage girl into the labyrinth D.C. underworld. Soon enough, the good guys get crossed up with..."

March 8, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"...figures Hanahpu and Xblanque, the spiritual protectors of the underworld in Mayan legends, manifest themselves in the photographic portrait..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Bohemian Rhapsody

'Moulin Rouge' Director Baz Luhrmann Loves Love

"...does, of a young idealistic man going into the underworld and coming to that point in his life where..."

June 1, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

"...quality weekly strips for publication. Tony Millionaire's Maakies, Kaz's Underworld and Doug Allen's Steven come immediately to mind. It's..."

May 25, 2001 Column

Summer Film Previews

A.I.

"...god of the sun, with Pluto, lord of the underworld? Roy Rogers and the Man With No Name? ET..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

The Austin Avalanche of Rock & Roll!

When IRS Records' 'The Cutting Edge' Came to Town and Made Me Want to, Too

"...foreign and cohesive little scene and the cobbled-together little underworld in South Florida that kept us sane...."

March 16, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Blood Feast

Shadow of the Vampire isn't just an imaginative riff on the making of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. "It is an allegory of an aspect of what cinema is at its heart," says director E. Elias Merhige. "It's this dangerous, mad kind of science."

"...over his floating morgue, a sinister lord of the underworld who has risen up to conquer the living...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tokyo Drifter & Branded to Kill

Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki was fired from his film company for his off-the-wall cinematics; these two Sixties gangster movies explain why.

"...but the pair are too deeply entwined in the underworld to break free. Hitman Shootin' Star (Watari) offers his..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Ultima Thule

"...stays with us is the admirable ambition of McCombs' underworld expedition, its mythic parable of how humanity responds to..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Review by Craig Arnold

Postmarks

Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.

"...of a male-dominated society and typically fall into the underworld of hustling, drugs, and prostitution...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Column

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Decade 1. Underworld by Don Delillo 2. The Things They Carried by..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...Bridgforth: I feel like I'm part of the underworld, okay? Been doing the same thing, gonna do the..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Blank

"...between organized crime and big business (i.e., Sam Fuller's Underworld, U.S.A.). Point Blank takes that notion to its Sixties..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Waves Coming to Shore

No artist in the last 50 years has combined dance, theatre, music, scenery, and costume into epic spectacles like Pina Bausch, and as this German visionary returns to Austin Dawn Davis explores her work and her impact on the city's Johnson / Long Dance Company.

"...constituted dance. And just like Inanna descending into the underworld, at every portal another mantle of artifice fell away...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

To Sitcom Hell and Back

Getting her own sitcom nearly killed Margaret Cho, and she talks about the experience in her new show I'm the One That I Want.

"...comfort and safety of his home, ventures into the underworld of chaos, darkness, and the unknown, and emerges triumphantly..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

The Outfit

"...antihero up against a vicious crime syndicate, a sleazy underworld milieu, and even a supporting cast of noir icons..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...a world where gothic Catholicism and the hint of underworld influence mix on the streets before everybody owned a..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...about as the clueless Gadget, who searches Riverton City's underworld for the man who exploded his innards and killed..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Spontaneous Composition

"...at Fringeware, three amorphous tunes of loops and beats, underworld bass, and ethereal guitar. Since Spontaneous Compositions 1 is..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Coffee Table Books That Depict and Provide Escape From

"...Rod, is "a photographic tableau of the chop shop underworld." It sounds like he may have some affinities with..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Wrapped and Ready

"...of this elaborative artist's biography. It explores the decadent underworld of 1960s Soho, Bacon's appetite for rough trade, and..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Texas Book Festival

Chapter Three

"...wayward daughter, Tillie, who's in deep in the Oklahoma underworld of sub-adult entertainment and questionable moral quandaries. As related..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

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