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Watson to Take Cap Metro Wheel
Public sector experience clinched the deal for transit board

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Wheel! Of! Fish!
Weird Al. In Austin. How did that take so long?

May 25, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Press My Buttons and Turn My Wheel
Andy gets so turned on by public engagement.

Oct. 20, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The Cult of Ray
Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.
"...He is Asleep at the Wheel, the merry (revolving) band of musicians from both coasts..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

SXSW Music Live: Willie Nelson and Avett Brothers Fête Ray Benson
GSD&M b-day bash for Asleep at the Wheel leader runs three hours
"...which outlaw Buddha Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel’s frontman shared verses on “Pancho and Lefty” with the..."

March 15, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Last Man Standing: Ray Benson
Asleep at the Wheel doc debuts at the Long Center Sunday
"...Leading Asleep at the Wheel for over 40 years hasn’t been easy, and Ray..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Proposal
The Proposal doesn't reinvent the romantic-comedy wheel, but Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds ensure that it's a likable cut above the usual fare.
"...Mandvi. Only very rarely do romantic comedies reinvent the wheel, which is why whole decades passed between Annie Hall,..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Surviving COVID-19: Ray Benson Lives to Tell
Asleep at the Wheel turns your living room into a dance floor
"...began as a banner year for Asleep at the Wheel. Entering the rarified arena of bands lasting a half..."

July 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Comin' Right At Ya
Asleep at the Wheel bandleader Ray Benson describes his long, strange, Western Swing trip
"...nearly half-century tenure as ringleader of Asleep at the Wheel unfolds as a series of unlikely circumstances and coincidences,..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Music Review by Doug Freeman

On the Baby Bus
Catching up to Asleep at the Wheel's Elizabeth McQueen
"...dearly in need of sleep, the Asleep at the Wheel vocalist spent some time on the phone with me..."

Sept. 9, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Rookie Season
Behind the wheel of Rebel Rock Racing’s inaugural IMSA season
"...out of its personal depiction of life behind the wheel. But what it really delivers, hidden under the hood..."

April 15, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

ACL Fest Interview: Faye Webster
Asleep at the Wheel fanatic steel lines the BMI stage
"...vintage Austin City Limits taping of Asleep at the Wheel on DVD. The iconic Austin troupe actually performed at..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Art of Racing in the Rain
They're all good philosophizing puppers, Brent
"...his talented owner and dreaming of being behind the wheel himself. Swift falls in love (obviously) with Eve (Seyfried),..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Katelyn Landry

Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen follows in the wilderness steps of Jack London
"...appreciating their unrelenting grandeur. It does not reinvent the wheel (or, more aptly, sled runner) but it's a tale..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ocean's 8
Sandra Bullock is the other Ocean sibling in this all-female revamp of the heist franchise
"...58-year-old movie, it’s not so much about reinventing the wheel as it is about delivering on audience expectations. And..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Love, Simon
Coming-out story remembers the romance.
"...State Building, but at the apex of a Ferris wheel in full view of a world they’ve kept at..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nostalgia
A life well lived examined in a film uninspiringly made.
"...(Arlington Road) and writer Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip) unfortunately feels like cocktail-napkin sketch writ..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

We Are X
Japanese rockers are the best band you've never heard of
"...an epic saga of demise and rebirth, a karmic wheel of fortune that continues to this day. The creation..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When the Bough Breaks
A surrogate mother goes psycho
"...before it. This latest iteration in the “psycho third wheel” genre offers up absolutely no surprises, and is probably..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Patty Griffin Leads Local Grammy Nominations
Lone Star accolades span country, gospel, folk, and R&B
"...are... Hayes Carll, Patty Griffin, and Asleep at the Wheel. Simply being nominated for a Grammy Award is recognition..."

Dec. 7, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Transporter Refueled
The franchise soldiers on – sans Jason Statham
"...This time around, newbie Ed Skrein sits behind the wheel as mercenary driver-for-hire Frank Martin, a man of few..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Taken 3
Liam Neeson's back in action.
"...90 minutes, tacking on an extra reel’s worth of wheel-spinning as Bryan’s daughter, Kim (Grace), needlessly hides her pregnancy..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Listen Up Philip
The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.
"...Director-screenwriter Perry (The Color Wheel) imbues the feature with a jazzy looseness that feels..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Locke
In this bravura movie, Tom Hardy plays a man who tries to mend the unraveling threads of his life while behind the wheel of a car for 85 minutes.
"...most of his face. Here, locked behind a steering wheel and a conceptual gimmick, he only has the upper..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Elysium
In the year 2154, the rabble live on the garbage dump of Earth while the elite live in the perfect Elysium in the sky; Matt Damon is a mad Max who breaks on through.
"...of sci-fi social commentary in the past, this dull wheel in the sky just lands with a resounding thud...."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Ride
The last few days in the life of Hank Williams are portrayed in this plausible film re-creation.
"...to gigs in West Virginia and Ohio. At the wheel is Silas (James), a local Alabama grease monkey who..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The AggreGAYtor: August 10
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
"...Rob Halford champs at the bit, and the Big Wheel keeps on turning. Today’s AggreGAYtor really, really, really wants..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's maestro of madness and desire, reunites with Antonio Banderas for this dark and frazzled tale of l'amour fou.
"...precision, by the slow, strange turns of fate's flaming wheel. Almodóvar makes you wait for it, and the waiting..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Winnie the Pooh
Disney returns to Hundred Acre Wood with this animated effort.
"...come to life. Winnie the Pooh doesn’t reinvent the wheel, just gives it an affectionate spin, and that is..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Red Riding: 1974
This is the first of three absorbing adaptations (filmed concurrently by different directors) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England.
"...So, no, Jarrold and his crew aren’t reinventing the wheel here – but, oh, they give it a hell..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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