VIA 313: Defining Pizza, Designing Detroit

Marc English and the Hunt Brothers conjure some real Motor City magic

"...the restaurant venue itself, about the signage, the whole menus-and-business-cards-and-collateral branding of this dining establishment called VIA 313...."

June 29, 2015 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How People More Important Than You Are Voting

McCracken, Leffingwell list prominent prog, small biz supporters

"...To counter, Leffingwell today released a list of small business owners united in support of his campaign, and followed..."

April 8, 2009 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Workingman's Blues

The real history of labor and union organizing is ignored and largely unknown

"...they look better than the groups oppressing them, but history is filled with flip-flops that find the once-subjugated group..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

AAAFF 2022 Review: Liquor Store Dreams

The friction between generations of L.A.'s Korean community

"...Dreams, his daughter So Yun Um uses her family business as a jumping-off point to examine the history and..."

June 28, 2022 Screens Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood

The Ransom Center's "Vaudeville!"

This exhibition reveals how the history of that entertainment form is really the history of the U.S.

"...before those lines were even a gleam in show business' eye, every item on that list was being woven..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Knock Knock

Keanu Reeves stars in Eli Roth's latest horror film

"...quite possible that Eli Roth is aware of that history in his latest video nasty, Knock Knock, but I’m..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Judge

This drama starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall sounds better on paper than it is in practice.

"...There’s no such thing – especially in the movie business...."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inequality for All

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich tackles income inequality in this documentary.

"...class, which he believes must thrive in order for business to really flourish. He explains why the concept of..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Special Session Update

What we know so far about round 2 of the 81st Legislature

"...are publicly banking on getting gone by close of business on July 3, but since a special can last..."

June 29, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Great Buck Howard

Appearing as the has-been mentalist Buck Howard, John Malkovich delivers another memorably eccentric performance.

"...even more flimsy when compared with the intriguing life history of his idiosyncratic employer. Malkovich's performance in this small..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fountain

Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him: The Fountain is a dry well.

"...prevented him from gathering a jumble of grade-school metaphysics, history, and myth and tossing them onto the screen with..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore's agitprop is a political scorcher.

"...film could actually prove to be the first in history to help unseat a sitting American president. Fahrenheit 9/11,..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Robert S. McNamara, the confounding former secretary of defense during the Vietnam era, may be visionary filmmaker Errol Morris' best interview "get" ever.

"...Holocaust denier, paralyzed physicist Stephen Hawking, the pet cemetery business, a topiary gardener – the things about these subjects..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Trip

"...there’s Arquette, the Hardest Working Gay Man in Show Business, as the swishy, bitchy roommate, who provides comic relief..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

'A Proprietary Love'

High-strung, hot-tempered Tom Miller made self-interest -- and his feuds with LBJ -- into Austin history.

"...for 22 years -- Tom Miller kept the family business alive and thriving. (He had a telephone hotline in..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Pitch People

"...their own right. Jacobs' zippy, engaging documentary examines the history of pitchmaking, from its turn-of-the-century origins among snake-oil salesman..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When Brendan Met Trudy

"...a lower-class Irish family's struggle to keep their family business financially solvent. When Brendan Met Trudy fares a bit..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Pimp

"...recording numerous pimps' first-hand accounts of their activities and history. The document is fascinating, partly because of its originality...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Underground

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, this is a sprawling, epic, comic tale of life during Yugoslavian wartime.

"...se. It's much more about Yugoslavia and its tortured history since WWII, as Kusturica follows the lives of three..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Preserving the Future of the Texas Memorial Museum

After years of neglect and underfunding, Austin’s only natural history museum reconsiders its role

"...is an Art Deco building containing the state’s natural history. There are fossils discovered in Onion, Shoal, and Bouldin..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Claire Stevens

Juicebox & Soup Peddler: Story of a Collaboration

Grassroots foodies team up, form tasty Voltron

"...the seasonal ebbs and flows of their respective food businesses (hot soups and cold smoothies) while gazing across the..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Food Feature by MM Pack

Attorney General, or Witchfinder General?

Can’t get a straight answer from Attorney General Michael Mukasey as to whether waterboarding is torture or not? Just ask the UT History faculty!

"...waterboarding is torture or not? Just ask the UT History faculty! In case you’re currently dwelling under a rock,..."

Feb. 4, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

Three Canyons

The Southwest Edge of Texas Hill Country -- Home to Lost Maples and Garner State Park -- Is Rich in Both Beauty and History

"...At this point, so the natural history books tell us, the Hill Country was more elevated..."

May 18, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

Bill Ham Had My Back

ZZ Top’s onetime manager made rock & roll history

"...I’d been running on the edges of the music business but couldn’t fathom any way in. Going to concerts..."

June 24, 2016 Music Post by Bill Bentley

The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...Memory and history. Both have a way of being skewed by, and..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Veni Vidi Venture

The unlikely heroes of big business

"...Yes Men, there's no shortage of documentaries on the business world. But –rightly or wrongly – there aren't many..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...In 1973, cinematic history was made in that house: It served as the..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Living Library

Grassroots historians team up with local agencies to bring past and future history to light

"...it is in 2003 -- brothels doing a brisk business, bread in the ovens, dogs and children and merchants..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Day Trips: Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge

Cajun history in the Old State Capitol

"...and fall. It now houses the Museum of Political History...."

June 28, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

How the Wolves Survived

That band from East L.A. keeps getting better

"...box set El Cancionero -- Mas y Mas: A History of the Band from East L.A., Los Lobos have..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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