SXSW Panel Recap: The COHERENCE Effect: Manifesting Shatter Belt

Superfan Patton Oswalt picks the brain behind the cult classic

"...Sunday's SXSW panel – The COHERENCE Effect: Manifesting Shatter Belt – hosted by Patton Oswalt to hear director James..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Music Interview: Black Belt Eagle Scout

Multi-instrumentalist pushes increased visibility for Native people in music scene

"...Katherine Paul's debut as Black Belt Eagle Scout yields visceral songwriting, emotional intensity delivered through..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Libby Webster

The Luv Doc: A Long, Painful Russian Belt Tattoo

Love is the wild card of human existence

"...(and you might as well make it a full belt), you want to be sure that Russian is throwing..."

June 23, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Beyond the Belt Buckle

El Flaco

"...tour schedules, sunglasses, refrigerator magnets, and a really spiffy-looking belt buckle with the band's name etched deep in the..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Death Watch: Conveyor Belt to Lethal Injection Keeps Rolling

Ramirez will be prayed over as he dies

"...machine, an impersonal device conducting individuals along a conveyor belt to death. The machine is composed of a surprisingly..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Black Belt of the Rodeo

Paula Nelson will kick your ass

"...I had no clue my dad wrote it." Black Belts and Outlaw Blues..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Belt-Tightening Season for State Agencies

State leaders announce budget cuts

July 8, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Another Notch in the Chastity Belt

Getting busy with UT alumna Maggie Carey's 'The To Do List'

July 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

Austin Public Library Tightens Belt, Introduces New Branch Hours

The Austin Public Library introduces a staggered branch closures as part of its 2008/2009 budget

Sept. 30, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Black Belt Jones

Nov. 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Common Law

But I Was Wearing My Seat Belt!

"...I was wearing my seat belt when I was pulled over for a traffic stop...."

July 18, 2008 Column by Luke Ellis

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Should you have a bad feeling about this stand-alone Star Wars?

"...it’s Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) strapping on Harrison Ford’s gun belt and flight boots as the young Solo – rogue,..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kubo and the Two Strings

Sublime animated movie is disguised as kids' fare

"...With four features under its belt, beginning with the sublime Neil Gaiman adaptation Coraline in..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Magic Mike XXL

The boys are back in town

"...good feeling. It’s an amusement-park ride. Fasten the safety belt, secure your purse, and get ready to scream...."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fighter Inside and Outside the Octagon

Cub Swanson talks UFC Fight Night and how MMA saved him

"...MMA fights and a decade of experience under his belt, 31-year-old Cub Swanson is at the peak of his..."

Nov. 22, 2014 Sports Post by Mac McCann

Out of the Furnace

The writer/director of Crazy Heart returns with an all-star cast for his sophomore effort, which takes place amid the rusted-out lives of America's steel belt.

"...into the skies of the towns throughout America’s Rust Belt, leaving a permanent fog of gray soot in the..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Movie 43

This raunchy collection of short films drew A-list talent behind and in front of the camera.

"...best foot forward. It does, however, lead below the belt, with Hugh Jackman playing a nice guy unfortunately saddled..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lockout

In this Luc Besson-produced thriller, a man must rescue the president's daughter from a prison in outer space that has been taken over by the inmates.

"...Off go Snow's shackles, and on goes the artillery belt and mission to save the girl and get off..."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Carbon Nation

Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.

"...to string yourself up by your car’s dastardly fan belt, Carbon Nation allows its sunnier side to take over..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Dept. of Weird-Ass Press Releases

How to anti-sex your pet without the snip-snip

"...to my officemates. Like you'd keep a pet chastity belt to yourself...."

Feb. 17, 2010 Design Post by Kimberley Jones

Fired Up

This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.

"...they believe will be beneficial to their lives as belt-notching philanderers (say, cheerleading camp). Have the laid-back one fall..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist is a campy zombie comedy that's full of jokes, chicken suits, spewing geysers of various bodily fluids, and barbs flung in the direction of the fast-food industry.

"...too bad, because Poultrygeist would definitely benefit from some belt-tightening, which would probably make some of the film's excesses..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

This film captures a fair amount of this band's electric charge and documents its 2004 reunion tour.

"...It's not just Santiago's dove-in-a-Cuisinart riffs or Black's keening, timing-belt howl that makes this doc such a blast –..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paheli

The Hindi megastar Shahrukh Khan and the arthouse director Amol Palekar combine forces for this new Bollywood fable.

"...plot or when another lame joke – like Borscht Belt repurposed for Bollywood – fails to land, still the..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lightning in a Bottle

Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.

"...Ruth Brown, Mavis Staples, and Natalie Cole as they belt out "Men Are Like Streetcars") to Austinites Jimmie Vaughan..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mother

From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.

"...charms, as well as his tight tush and workman’s belt. An accidental, tipsy kiss between the two eventually ignites..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Capitol Chronicle

The people advising state government "belt-tightening" never seem to have very tight belts.

"...Capitol is that we all need to "tighten our belts." Strayhorn somehow managed to tie together her latest marriage..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Column by Michael King

40 Days and 40 Nights

"...you know it, once he slips on the chastity belt, the ladies come calling. (In one of the funnier..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2002

"...like half-cocked genius with a full pitcher under your belt. Hit or miss, yes, but it'd be a damn..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

"...porno prima donna than an oversexed version of some Borscht-Belt comic, part Henny Youngman, part Lenny Bruce. Jeremy wears..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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