Celebrity

"...Lerner. Woody Allen skewers the cult of personality in Celebrity with the pointedness of a cocktail fork. Purportedly a..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Celebrity Cynosures

"...if desperately conducting his life in the New York celebrity demimonde. He zips around on his Vespa from fashion..."

March 5, 1999 Books Review

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

An interview with Rachel McGruder, Asst. Events Manager

"...sunny disposition and a disturbingly in-depth knowledge of pop culture, sports, literature and music. She also parties like a..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

The Complicated Legacy of America's First Celebrity Fashion Designer in Halston

Gold, glimmer, greed

"...meteoric, glamorous rise and ruinous fall of America's first celebrity fashion designer...."

April 12, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

Celebrity Judges

"...who make it all possible; witness the stories, traditions, and cultures behind the tacos; and see why Austinites are proud taco..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

Celebrity Judges

"...Foodways Texas to preserve, promote, and celebrate Texas food culture...."

Aug. 27, 2010 Food Feature

Culture Flash!

See a show and aid local theatres, catch some more Crush, show some dramaturgs how to two-step, and read up on Austin artists in national mags

"...Rain crushed one of the only two performances of Celebrity Crush scheduled for last weekend at Club de Ville,..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Counter Culture Is Closing and Rents Are Rising, Brunch Is Opening at Asti and Maie Day and Side Eye and Pretty Much Everywhere In Town, Gift Guides Are Clamoring For Your Hard-Earned Spondulics, and OMG What Is This Armadillo Rangoon?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Aw, no, Counter Culture (2337 E. Cesar Chavez) is closing. As Chronicle food..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Culture Wars Come to Austin

New think tank sets up shop near campus

"...research was torn from the roll. He became a celebrity, a supposedly "apolitical" figure giving hatred a scientific sheen...."

Feb. 19, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Celebrity, South Austin Style

The Mayor of South Austin

"...area near Waco, have integrated themselves into the wider culture as successful entrepreneurs. Today, the DeLeon family has expanded..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

The LuvDoc chats with Marcus G. Ollington, rock star cartographer

"...liberal lamb to the slaughter that was the A&M culture. I was unprepared for the baptism knowing absolutely nothing..."

Aug. 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

Culture Flash!

Art prize finalists, grants for a dancemaker and a new musical, and Mother Ginger

"...tent-sized skirt. Well, at least the principal gets a celebrity dressing room and a gift basket for her troubles,..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

He Got Game

"...his strength. For all his superfan's intimacy with b-ball culture, he focuses less on the sport's fascinating mystique than..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Gossip Girl

Anne Helen Petersen takes her readers beyond the blind item

"...famous, and powerful; according to Winchell's biographer, Neal Gabler, celebrity gossip is about the empowerment of outsiders and a..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Buzzfeed's Anne Helen Petersen on the Rise of the Unruly Woman

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud author comes to BookPeople

"...Mont., may sound like a strange choice for a celebrity gossip writer, but makes more sense when taking into..."

July 18, 2017 Arts Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Bling Ring

Sofia Coppola relates this true-life crime story about Hollywood teens who boosted things from celebrities' homes so they could walk a mile in their Louboutons.

"...steal: She always wants to lounge about amid the celebrity’s possessions well after gathering the loot she plans to..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hype!

"...mid-Eighties Seattle punk scene to global domination of youth culture. The co-factor which allowed this whimsical, self-mocking local movement..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Séraphine

This is a rapturous, utterly engrossing account of the life of early 20th century French artist Séraphine de Senlis.

"...and the harrowing, often artistically damaging aspects that sudden celebrity can bestow upon an otherwise sidelined personality. (It's hard..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...faves like volcanic romance Fire of Love, social media celebrity dissection TikTok, Boom., racial horror Master, and Aftershock, a..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Amy

Doc about the life of Amy Winehouse is revelatory, amusing, and deeply devastating

"...in the end, as much an indictment of our celebrity-obsessed (global) pop culture as it is of the perils..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dog

Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.

"...can’t turn away from this obscure footnote in pop culture history, even at his most aggravating. It’s that twisted..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Rize

Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle casts his lens toward the newest L.A. dance craze.

"...Directed by: David LaChapelle. Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle makes the jump to documentarian with..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

54

"...seeks to rub our Nineties noses in that famed culture of hedonistic excess -- ostensibly as a warning, one..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

S.F.W.

"...MTV are (for better or for worse) shaping our culture. Dorff turns in an appropriately dazed performance as Spab,..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Konnichiwa, Austin!

Celebrating Japanese animation and pop culture at IkkiCon IV

"...inner otaku again as the IkkiCon Japanese Animation & Pop-Culture Convention returns for its fourth annual celebration of all..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

EDtv

"...Splash, Parenthood), is packed with the kind of topical, pop-culture witticisms that almost always seem to ensure a hit...."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Velvet Goldmine

"...Early-Seventies glam-rock culture, that brief but spectacular global explosion of polymorphous sexuality,..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

SXSW Panels: The Future of Food and Drink

Highlights from the 2017 food track

"...Instagram, SXSW can look like an endless stream of celebrity sightings and themed cocktails. But in between the madness,..."

March 12, 2017 Food Post by Emily Beyda

My Kid Could Paint That

This truly perplexing documentary begins as a fascinating cultural investigation of a child prodigy, but gradually devolves into an unintentionally creepy and exploitative document.

"...by the possibilities of making a documentary about our culture's fascination with child prodigies and the ongoing debate over..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Open Season

The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.

"...adventure together with little but the charm of their celebrity voices to protect them, pit them against an antagonist..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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