Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva

Anything can happen in the wonderfully weird Ukraine of this short story collection

"...dead grandson leaves his grandparents a live Madagascar hissing cockroach that's encrusted with gems and meant to be worn..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Luv Doc: Constant Correction

You can surely do better than 20/20

"...My girlfriend is a living autocorrect, and it's really..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Rep. Jonathan Stickland’s Not Running Again and You Can Thank the Lord

Curtains down for the notoriously belligerent legislator, aka Sticky

"...year, the magazine created a new category for him, “Cockroach,” worse than The Worst. He only managed to pass..."

June 24, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Challenge of Playing Living People in Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field

The cast discusses how hard it can be getting into the skin of living people in Anna Deavere Smith’s play

"...different ways because in their eyes, it's like a cockroach or a rabid dog. And that's real. I guess..."

March 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Checking Out Austin's New Central Library

Yes, the city’s “Library of the Future” still has books, but this 21st century facility is about so much more

"...development, has been as tough to squash as a cockroach in the kitchen in the dark. The fact is,..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nacho Vigalondo on Colossal

Combining the mediocre and cosmic with the creature feature director

"...and act like divas, and treat me like a cockroach through the whole shoot?" I was thinking, "OK, deal..."

April 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Kitten Milk

Yes, even a little bit of milk

"...My ex-boyfriend broke up with me nearly two years..."

June 17, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

I Like to Watch

Girls and Togetherness: straight white people crying

"...best parts of both. Triumphant and indefatigable, like a cockroach, or Martha Stewart...."

Feb. 19, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Females of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) lay their eggs in a hardened, purse-shaped..."

July 31, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Rage in the Cage

Alamo celebrates the inimitable genius of Nicolas Cage

"...transfixing? This is a guy that ate a live cockroach on screen for Vampire's Kiss, and then six years..."

Jan. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dave Van Ronk and a Bitter Chill

Remembering the folksinger who inspired 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

"...utter humanness; my depression was at one with the cockroach. I was depressed at me – at how I..."

Dec. 19, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

Ecstatic Highs, Then Bluer Than Blue Can Be

Last shots to see Michel Gondry’s ‘Mood Indigo,’ still no U.S. distro

"...overenthusiastic doorbell that has to be squashed like a cockroach, a “pianocktail” that assembles an apéritif as you twinkle..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVD Watch: 'A Monster in Paris'

Shout! Factory releases a smooth new kids' instaclassic

"...a bug since WALL-E accidentally rolled over his little cockroach friend...."

April 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Playback

You thought SXSW was the spring festival end-all/be-all? You thought wrong.

"...into the vacated Home of the Blues like a cockroach intrusion, Infest christens the former Antone's spot with a..."

April 5, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Odd Sports Indoctrination

Wife carrying, bed racing, chess boxing, and more

"...you can enjoy cane toad, camel, cow, sheep, or cockroach racing. Unfortunately, however, one of their most unique sports..."

March 6, 2013 Sports Post by Carly Yansak

Bedside Manner: Into the Unknown (With a Slight Detour to New York)

What we're reading these days

"...doing the writing, you see, it was archy the cockroach, who would crawl into the newsroom late at night..."

Feb. 6, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

What's Bugging Amy Stewart?

The author delivers the goods on nature's baddies

"...This latest, Wicked Bugs, is a follow-up to her..."

May 16, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Talent for Deception

When Joey Hood is onstage, you want to buy whatever he's selling

"...boy beset by bullies." Of Hood's turn as the man-turned-giant-cockroach in Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Wayne Alan Brenner wrote: "He..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zapping Me Into the Present Moment

"...kicking my legs in the air like an upturned cockroach. Seven fellow improvisers are doing the same. They have..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

'Colby Bird: Cold End'

This stark exhibit conjures a melancholy introspection rare in art about male identity

"...to be seen in just this way. A shriveled cockroach had given up and died, legs in the air,..."

July 24, 2009 Arts Review by Kate Watson

Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada

"...opening, Oscar Zeta Acosta-inspired instrumental, "The Revolt of the Cockroach People," and Quesada's fuzz-guitar detonates the blaxploitation incantation "Return..."

July 24, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Rusted Shut

"...Rusted Shut's Don Walsh is the cockroach that just won't die, a result of the singer/guitarist's..."

July 24, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Mortal Music

Tom Moon has some recordings he would like you to listen to

"...isn't light reading, though it could definitely kill a cockroach or small rodent. No, as fellow Chronicle writer Daniel..."

Dec. 2, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Things That Came: It Might Be Science, But It Sure Ain't Fiction

'Videodrome' and 'They Live,' then and now

"...with un-self-conscious ease. Enter Videodrome, which, like half a cockroach in a Denny's omelet, was a ghastly surprise. James..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Living With 'Monstrosities'

Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata

"...by curiosity. There's a two-headed ant, the world's heaviest cockroach, a butt from the last cigarette smoked by Marilyn..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Poem for Raúl

A poem for Raúl Salinas by Erika Gonzalez.

"...that which happened to us. Among those survivors, a cockroach poet was born – en el Pinto – del..."

Feb. 24, 2008 News Post by Belinda Acosta

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Austin Playhouse's production provides a pleasurable escape from our world of straight talk and minimal etiquette

"...motion his eventual (and bizarrely sudden) death. Like a cockroach, Merteuil is one of the few creatures left standing..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Cinema16: European Short Films

Some of the best directors working today, whether abroad in relative obscurity or amid the grimy existential zillion-dollar glitz of Gotham City

"...of water, it recalls the old Onion headline "Giant Cockroach in Bathroom 'a Harrowing, Kafkaesque Experience,' Grad Student Says."..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Fighting Music

Noble Brown's Sunday night fight club on KVRX.

"...The metal genre is the cockroach of the music industry, vile and primal. Though hated,..."

April 5, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Re: Gift

When a PS3 just isn't in the cards

"...your current life, you never come back as a cockroach. You keep reincarnating as Sam Fisher, coldass secret agent..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Feature by Jeremy Martin

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