Celluloid Icons

The larger-than-life John Milius and the enigmatic, introverted Harry Dean Stanton come into focus

"...a marauding Hollywood Hemingway on perpetual safari; Stanton, a wizened stray foraging for scraps and eluding predators in a..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Texas Stars Twinkle on the Small Screen

Television used to be where actors were put out to pasture; for these Texas Film Hall of Fame honorees, it's tall cotton.

"...in the adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Big Sur as Zen Buddhist poet Phillip Whalen, and he has recently signed..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Face Off Recap: Bad For Your Gums

Candy-coated nightmares as the contestants suffer sweet dreams

"...a little more motivated. I'm going to call him Zen Wayne, because, as everyone else is diving into the..."

Feb. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...the Austin thing (A-T-X! A-T-X!): We counted around a dozen local projects (and you’ll let us know if we’ve..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Lily Pad Farm Offers Free Aquaponics Seminar

Regional leader Adam Harwood shares technique

"...mistakes and learning curve, as well as the minimal “zen approach” method he relies on today. Space is limited,..."

Jan. 15, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Texas Film Hall of Fame 2013 Goes Extra-Terrestrial

Elliott, Buttercup, Ma Kent, and Ned. Ned! join roster

"...Polish Brothers upcoming adaptation of Big Sur as the Zen acolyte of the Beat movement, Philip Whalen...."

Jan. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Food-O-File

Tacodeli challenges Austinites to create its newest taco

"...Adam Weisberg, the driving force behind the homegrown Zen Japanese Food Fast chain, has reimagined his SoCo outlet..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Gay Place: Two Words

Come out! Come out, you adorable queer!

"...CAPITAL ZEN PRESENTS: SMOKE AND MIRRORS Come back from San Francisco..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Wrapped in Plastic

'Once You Leave' web series

"...travelogue. Kayla rambles through an imaginary Central Texas, encountering Zen ranchers and a particularly manic pixie dream girl along..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Screens Feature by Brandon Watson

Jimmy LaFave

"...CD No. 10, Depending on the Distance, travels a Zen balladic road trip of perfectly sequenced originals and covers..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Luv Doc: The North American Oblivious Sloth

This is why foreigners hate Americans so much: Our ignorance, our self-absorption, our oblivion.

"...nearly causes their brains to explode. Even the most zen people are at risk for an aneurysm. This is..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

Bedside Manner: Got Opium?

Getting High and Low with Steven Martin, Nick Tosches, et al

"...prose often escalates into the dreamlike without becoming a zen-den yawn. Over the course of the book, he relates..."

July 23, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Rembitika

Blues ain't just Greek to Johnny Nicholas

"..."Real blues is spiritual. It's Zen. You can't flip a switch on and off it...."

July 20, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Up Too Early

Google Streetview fashion critique from West Lynn Street (part 2)

"...This woman is acting pretty zen considering there appears to be the corpse of a..."

July 15, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

Playback

The Eastern Sea catch the 'Plague,' Eagle Claw goes samurai, John Wesley Coleman III wants to direct, and you can't pee on the Midgetmen

"...text. Like Musashi, the local quartet's instrumentals are dually Zen and violent, and their timing and attack is martial...."

June 22, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Where He Got That Pony

Steven Wright on his inspirations and stand-up origins

"...in the biz – they're more twisted and refined: Zen koans distilled into comments as precise and brief as..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

KLRU Turns 50, Throws a Weeklong Party

Bon Iver, Yul Kwon, and GPS-free directions to Sesame Street

"...time with Masterpiece Mystery!’s cool-cat detectives (tangentially related: seriously, Zen didn’t get renewed?!), but KLRU’s getting a jump on..."

April 21, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Strange Days

Surfacing into the riptide of SXSW

"...– cultural agent provocateur, grand show producer, and deadly Zen music master – has come up with a music..."

March 2, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Knot a Secret

After 17 years, playwright Hank Schwemmer is finally getting seen

"...several different media, using haiku, the tarot, scientific theory, Zen Buddhism, Laurie Anderson, etc., as jumping-off points for these..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Takeshi Terauchi

"...proved the incomparable leader of the movement as a Zen master Buddhist and quicksilver guitarist with violent, needlepoint precision...."

Feb. 10, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro

The other music Halls of Fame have had their say – time to focus locally on the Austin Texas Music Hall of Fame

"...project Charanga Cakewalk since the mid 2000s (see "The Zen of Revolution," Aug. 18, 2006), this year releasing its..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters

Tom Waits – rumor, myth, or fact?

"...gauging to what extent this run-down growler of rowdy Zen-like one-liners is simply a persona or an actual, anachronistically..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Charanga Cakewalk

"...faces/places as an actual lotería card. Sophomore follow-up Chicano Zen two years later didn't so much take a step..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

AFF: God of Tetris

How 'The Tetris Masters' Thor Aackerlund is the anti-Billy Mitchell

"...is a game where the best players enter a zen state, so mad ninja skills are no shocker.) But..."

Oct. 27, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Aphrodite Dances: Chocolate

Warm, liquid sweetness flowed through a program of intriguing dance

"...and slacks, Canchani moved frantically and then with a Zen-like levelness, evoking the restlessness of needing to do something...."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

TV Eye: That's What She Said

After 10 years in print, 'TV Eye' has its series finale

"...worse things. Really. And I've had my moments of Zen. Many, from the endearing words of support from loyal..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

This Week's Waste of Time

Prepare to die (a lot) with this week's free browser game

"...regain your sanity, pause the game and enjoy the zen of watching the screen very slowly and deliberately glitch..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Close Your Eyes

James Taylor and company at the Bass Concert Hall April 23

"...four backers), and even clap-a-long “Mexico” still radiated the Zen calm of Taylor’s initial big bang...."

April 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Last Laugh

Guy Forsyth signs off on God's Favorite Band

"...so foreign to me, so soulful, so right. The Zen Master of Austin music...."

April 21, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Old Settler's Music Festival preview

"...pair, a longtime Lehman Bros. investor and West Texas' Zen cowboy, finds sacred middle ground in the early American..."

April 15, 2011 Music Feature

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