The Delicate Art of the Rifle

"...Kratzer, and writer-actor Stephen Grant. Driven by a rambling, stream-of-consciousness narration from its introverted protagonist, Stephen Grant's screenplay finds..."

March 22, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Rampage

"...the mere idea of these crimes having penetrated your consciousness. The movie turns us all into victims and Friedkin..."

Nov. 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where the Day Takes You

"...a response undoubtedly intended to result in a little consciousness-raising. (Although the lack of ethnic diversity in the group..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

For the Boys

"...tear-jerking cliche floating out there in the post-WWII collective consciousness, but it's downright evil that they made Midler look..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Story of Boys and Girls

"...of fascist Italy is barely brought into the movie's consciousness. It consistently misses the boat when faced with opportunities..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Delirious

"...in the world of his soap. When he regains consciousness, Candy's lying on what looks exactly like the show's..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Louis Black

SoundSpace Reframes the Refugee Conversation

Blanton Museum music series explores the refugee experience

"...stories constantly in the news and in the public consciousness, it’s easy to become desensitized to their deluge. Those..."

June 3, 2017 Arts Post by Katarina Brown

The Fembot Gambit

Oscar Isaac reflects on Ex Machina

"...is about humanity now and what we define as consciousness. How can I ever be sure that we experience..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The New Evolution

Is technology providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness?

"...providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness or the quicksand for us to sink into emotionally,..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

All About the Kids

"...published about the Ricky Williams Foundation [“Ricky Williams 'Accesses Consciousness' at AISD,” News, Aug. 3]. Mr. Alex Dunlap was..."

Aug. 2, 2012 Postmarks

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...status of African-American working women but helped raise feminist consciousness. Her 427-page book contains only 197 pages devoted to..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

Like Being Killed

"...who know exactly how extortionary is the cost of consciousness but choose (perhaps foolishly) to remain awake."..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Books Feature by Marion Winik

The State of the Ricky Williams Foundation

Williams remains on the creative edge in retirement

"...hard to explain. He is the founder of Access Consciousness, a group with "accessories" (members) in 38 countries. As..."

July 23, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

How High

Divination or hallucinogenic drug? Whichever way you look at it, The Spirit Molecule is gonna move you.

"...DMT. The resulting 15-minute trip into another realm of consciousness, he says, changed his life for the better, forever...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

When we say, "This is Nature, and this is not," we're just picking and choosing according to our ideologies, desires, and needs – in other words, a power play to make life behave as we wish. That it never does is life's answer to our machinations.

"...of Change made flesh? The principle of Change given consciousness? Many dislike change, yet, as individuals and as a..."

March 3, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 8-14

"...the only valid kinds of intelligence. He wrote, "Rational consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Deepak Chopra and the New Psych Revolution

The neuro-expert on how the latest research could change how we think about psychedelics

"...MDMA, ketamine, and DMT has surfaced in the popular consciousness for primarily therapeutic reasons. These drugs, currently, are being..."

March 10, 2023 Features Feature by Evan Rodriguez

"Pillow" Talk

Terri Thomas on what's behind the sex in her Big Medium art show

"...the gaze vs. "the matrixial gaze," emancipation vs. subjugation, consciousness vs. false consciousness, and agency vs. passivity. Dual narratives..."

June 5, 2014 Arts Post by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Letters at 3AM: Occupy the Future

Corporations are not people

"...difference between the 1% and the 99% upon the consciousness of America. As my longtime colleague Ginger Varney said,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Johnny Got His Gun

Austin-bred actor Ben McKenzie stars in this one-man show of Dalton Trumbo's timeless anti-war novel.

"...soldier, is hit by an artillery shell. Joe regains consciousness much later in a hospital and gradually realizes that..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters @ 3AM

Steve Erickson's new novel Zeroville shows what you have to go through to see how monotheism screws up your consciousness

"...than D.W. Griffith) is a verbal model of monotheistic consciousness. I shout (waking the neighbors again). "Not a rendition..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...much time talking to all of us about social consciousness – not political consciousness but social consciousness. We all..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Beat Currencies

In a look at some recently reprinted classic works by the Beats, Chronicle writer Dale Smith examines why being on the road was such a dangerous place -- and why it no longer is.

"...the calcifying effect Beat mythology has played on popular consciousness...."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Feature by Dale Smith

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...● Open Minds: Innovations in Consciousness, Psychedelics & Mental Health: Psychedelic-based therapies continue to influence..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Marriage

An ancient institution created by a bunch of slave-owning, genital-mutilating, agrarian polygamists

"...are just the signs of a weak and underdeveloped consciousness. That old adage, “If you love something, set it..."

May 1, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

The Good Eye: Oh Buoyancy

... like Sandra Bullock in the Shenzhou capsule, hours after George Clooney's dimples have drifted into the fathomless beyond

"...scum. During a recent busy spell, I came to consciousness lying with my head almost submerged in lukewarm water,..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Anonymity: Never Gonna Give You Up

Is 4chan Internet freedom's best hope?

"...remarkable. It's become an integral part of the collective consciousness, and specifically that part of the collective consciousness that..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...cultural ideals. The San Francisco lifestyle, centered on expanding consciousness and alternative ways of living, abandoned accepted structures and..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Big Chill

Wild Thing Chip Taylor waxes political on 'New Songs of Freedom'

"...to lean in one direction or another. I'm a stream-of-consciousness writer, for the most part. I don't plan songs...."

June 27, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

I See Dead People

The Black Angels conjure Austin's psychedelic renaissance

"..."It's about expanding your consciousness, viewing life in an alternate way," Bland instructs. "It's..."

May 9, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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