Paramount Summer Season Has a Giant Ending Lined Up

Wizards, restoration, and l'amour round out the classics

"...(Sun., Aug. 29, 1pm; Mon., Aug. 30, 7pm). The James Dean Trilogy..."

July 21, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

"Heidi Pitre: A Permanent Record" at Elisabet Ney Museum

The artist's finely drawn illustrations on used library cards link viewers to books and libraries in ways both nostalgic and intimate

"...Pitre has a feel for emotional expression: a brooding James Dean as Jett Rink, a melancholic Langston Hughes, a..."

May 31, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Where Does Margo Price Get Off?

Willie, Billy, Loretta, and Nashville’s crossover queen

"...wrote. It started, “Sometimes I’m Virginia Woolf, sometimes I’m James Dean,” and it was me having these multiple personalities..."

Jan. 25, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

“Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Giant” at the Blanton Museum of Art

The film is good at showing the fate of the film set of Giant, but it leaves open the question of what’s happened to Marfa

"...1956 film Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. The set, a skeleton of deteriorating wood beams,..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Steve Miller on Jimmie Vaughan

Joker’s Skyline Theater concert tonight should guest local Strat king

"...strongly hinted would guest Tuesday alongside local harp great James Cotton. The Dallas-reared axe wielders teamed in Zilker Park..."

July 26, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

An Excerpt From Blackout

Sarah Hepola's memoir on "remembering the things I drank to forget" – an excerpt

"...childhood bed, naked and shivering, with a poster of James Dean pulled off the wall and covering me like..."

June 19, 2015 Arts Feature

Children of Giant Speak

Children of Giant tells new stories about the film classic

"...one for Best Picture, stars Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (in his last screen performance), and was directed..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Sneakerheadz

Fame and fortune in unlikely places – like a sneaker vault

"...that underground permeate every corner of mainstream culture since James Dean was photographed in a pair of worn Jack..."

March 20, 2015 SXSW Post by Anne Harris

Excitable Boy

New Okie standard John Fullbright

"...by the cold. If you squinted, he could've been James Dean dressed in a tartan plaid jacket...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

Maybe, In Heaven, All the Toothpicks Taste Like Single Malt Scotch

But you can get 'em that way – and more – at Austin's STAG shop.

"...of gent. We include style icons like Steve McQueen, James Dean, Keith Richards, and Willie Nelson into that definition..."

Nov. 3, 2014 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

School for Scandal

In Scandals of Classic Hollywood, UT grad Anne Helen Petersen analyzes the machinery of celebrity gossip

"...actors like Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Dorothy Dandridge, and James Dean. In addition to providing a crash course in..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...James Dean had a slice of apple pie and a..."

July 11, 2014 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Summer Fun: Into the Mystic of High Road Pool

Plunging back in time with my iPod

"...wore pony tails and poodle skirts while swooning over James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and the Everly..."

May 13, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

DVD Watch: ‘I Killed My Mother’

A superlative take on teenage angst

"...film with literary and cultural quotations (Maupassant, Jean Cocteau, James Dean, River Phoenix), and the French New Wave influence..."

Aug. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man

Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club

"...“Courtenay’s Colin Smith is the damaged, observational heir to James Dean's Jim Stark – rail-thin and rebellious but with..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

What Not To Wear on Your Walls

Dress your dorm room right with Austin purveyors of poster art

"...Posters for Film Geeks: Steer clear of the obvious (James Dean, À bout de souffle, glow-in-the-dark Nosferatu pop-up posters)..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tom Russell

'Mesabi'

"...for a collection of songs tying together cultural icons James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and obscure historical figures Sterling..."

July 13, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Smiths

Box sets as catalog ghetto

"...on the wall, a life-size cardboard cut out of James Dean from the 1956 film Giant." And thus, according..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

We Can't Go Home Again

Piecing through Nicholas Ray's archive at the HRC

"...of Rebel Without a Cause, the movie that turned James Dean into the abiding patron saint of troubled teens,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Road Again

Texas Monthly teams with Rolling Roadshow for summer series

"...the rooms once occupied by stars Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean...."

May 16, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

Turner Classic Movies offers 24 hours of Liz

"...11:30am – Giant (1956), with James Dean and Rock Hudson; directed by George Stevens...."

March 23, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Restart Your Engines...

RuPaul's Drag Race begins its second season.

"...well as some good friends: Claudette "Lady C" Murphree, James Dean Jay Byrd, Jo Labow, Patti Nelson, Meghan Flynn,..."

Feb. 2, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Your Queer Schedule

Christeene and the Femme Mafia take over your weekend

"...Plague will be opening. The band features Gretchen Phillips, James Dean Jay Byrd, Joanna Labow, Amy Cook, Susan Fitz-Simon,..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The March Primaries and After: The Filing Report

Flurry of last-minute filings

"...R: Bob Leonard, Clint L. Roberts, Mark M. Shelton, James Dean Schull Travis County Offices..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drunken Angel

In his 1948 debut for the immortal Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune unleashes a naked rage that anticipates James Dean by a half-dozen years

"...of a photographer unleashes a naked rage that anticipates James Dean by a half-dozen years. The pair's immediate follow-up,..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Days of Heaven

Moving pictures rarely lives up to that phrase the way this one does

"...includes an 80-minute French documentary on the making of. James Dean should've lived this long...."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Death of a Salesman

Strange choices and weak acting cripple City Theatre's take on Arthur Miller's magnum opus

"...Salesman underwhelms. While Brandon Nagle looks every bit the James Dean-like Biff, his lines are delivered in a flat,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Starving and Art in Marfa, Texas

Sonic Youth plays Marfa, turns on the bright lights.

"...Hotel Paisano, the historic filming headquarters for the 1955 James Dean movie Giant, free food was being doled out..."

Oct. 8, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Six Questions for Patricia Vonne

Patricia Vonne takes the bull by the horns.

"...write about. For instance, "Jett Rink," my ode to James Dean and his character in the film Giant and..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema

Sept. 4-Oct. 9

"...Courtenay's Colin Smith is the damaged, observational heir to James Dean's Jim Stark – rail-thin and rebellious but with..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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