The Gospel According to André

Fashion legend André Leon Talley finally gets his glamour shot.

"...it’s been an exceptional one. Raised by a devoted grandmother in the Jim Crow South, Talley made his escape..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The House of Tomorrow

Punk coming-of-age tale is a little too sweet for its own good.

"...heart transplant. As Sebastian emerges from his ever hovering grandmother’s home into the light of day, Jared just wants..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A New World Opens Up for Austin's Soul Priestess Mélat

The daughter of Ethiopian émigrés finds a voice with Move Me II

"...younger, but I was able to talk to my grandmother, who only spoke that language," reflects the UT graduate...."

May 4, 2018 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

A Look at Women Leaders in the Kitchen and at Austin Food + Wine Festival

We chat with the other 25%

"...business. Even though my grandfather found the property, my grandmother Carmen ran the business."..."

April 27, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Holiday Viewing: White Christmas

The one we can't seem to quit

"...a sense memory of watching that closer in my grandmother’s bedroom, way past my bedtime and extra-drowsy from the..."

Dec. 13, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2017: Sisters First:
A Celebration of Sisterhood

For the Bush sisters, an emotional discussion of their memoir

"...at family tennis tournaments to the horror of their grandmother Barbara. They recalled a letter their grandmother had written..."

Nov. 5, 2017 Arts Post by Elizabeth Banicki

Faces Places

Celebrating faces in the crowd

"...them sing aloud in the van, visit with JR’s grandmother, and witness Varda’s attempted reunion with Jean-Luc Godard. JR..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emily West's "Why Eulagene?"

Second Place winner in the 2017 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...first, so I was named Vivian after my paternal grandmother, a vaudeville actress from New York. My sister was..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Emily West

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...Amor de Abuela (A Grandmother's Love) D: Jessie Hughes A Guatemalan family’s life is..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Telling Stories, Watching Movies

The real and the known, the unreal and then some

"...Two Stories: Cutting through my grandmother's bedroom in her home in Lakewood, N.J., I was..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Goat

Alpha-male fraternity bullying sparks revenge in this true story

"...a time traveler from, say, Victorian London (or my grandmother) – is not surprising, or shocking, at all. Physical..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Austin Collectors Show Off Their Toys

Lights, camera, action figures!

"...His grandmother bought him his first Godzilla toys because, like every..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: New Orleans School of Cooking

Cajun cooking made simply good

"...for me. I learned a few things that my grandmother should have taught me, if she had known what..."

May 18, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Major Artist Bebel Gilberto

“Brazilians are intense. We are not full of shit.”

"...years prior I broke another ankle and lost my grandmother, which was very hard for me as well...."

May 12, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Gross In

Is any writer in Austin as revolting and entertaining as Andrew Hilbert?

"...When he was a boy, Andrew Hilbert asked his grandmother how to write a poem. She said: "Write whatever's..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by François Pointeau

Caged No More

Rescuers and prayers work to retrieve girls sold into sexual slavery

"...and Alan Powell. Not reviewed at press time. A grandmother enlists muscled help and prayer in order to retrieve..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

And the Winner Is ...

Juan in a Million remains an Austin classic

"...Like my great-grandmother (who was born just outside of town in Creedmoor),..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Food Feature by Nina Hernandez

Whitney Rose’s Full House

Austin’s newest country ingenue lands on South Congress

"...her grandparents before moving to Toronto. She remembers her grandmother singing around the house and nights when their family..."

Nov. 18, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

7 Chinese Brothers

Jason Schwartzman stars in this comedy from droll Austin auteur Bob Byington

"...a large Styrofoam cup. He sometimes visits his wealthy grandmother (Dukakis) in a nursing home, where he also purchases..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making the Cut

New season of Project Runway puts Austin designer Lindsey Creel in the spotlight

"...line two years ago named M.E. Shirley, after her great-grandmother, who along with her grandmother was an accomplished seamstress...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne Harris

Apis Calls for Chef Collaborations

Dinner series debuts in September

"...tasting menu titled “Marina’s” – a tribute to his grandmother. The offerings will include dishes like king mackerel escabeche,..."

July 8, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

A to Um... With Stephin Merritt

A,E,I,O,U, and sometimes Y am I doing this?

"...to listen too loud, but it never works. My grandmother used to tell my mother that she would go..."

May 6, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Lost River

Ryan Gosling's controversial debut as a writer/director finally arrives

"...with these names? – who lives with her mute grandmother (former scream queen Steele). Additionally, some buildings burn, and..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Song of the Sea

From the director of The Secret of Kells comes this lovely work of animation about the Celtic selkies.

"...leave home to live with their bossy but well-meaning grandmother in the city, an adventure ensues, one that involves..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Big Eyes

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.

"...originals, prints, postcards, and ephemera were sold – my grandmother had a pair – and Walter Keane became a..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Estate Sale Roundup: October 3-5

Ready, set, rummage!

"...several other chests, wash stand, ornate buffet with mirror, grandmother's complete 5pc cream color French style bedroom suite including..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Rich Hill

The turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town are observed through the camera's gentle lens.

"...ultimately sent his mother to prison. Living with his grandmother, he is a chronic truant at school, has unsurprising..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Grand Seduction

In this Canadian comedy, a down-on-its-luck fishing village spruces up to try to lure a big-city doctor to town.

"...the diminishing class of films you can take your grandmother to. Gleeson has never met a role he hasn’t..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tammy

Melissa McCarthy burns through a lot of goodwill in this limp, confused comedy cowritten with her husband, Ben Falcone.

"...more successful (even if Susan Sarandon, as Tammy’s alcoholic grandmother, is a treat), and in the transition its conception..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: 'Flowers in the Attic'

1950s story, 1970s glam, old fashioned Gothic mayhem

"...rich kids, locked in an attic by their Bible-bashing grandmother and their money-grubbing mother, who turn to incest to..."

April 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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