As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...the Backyard, I just was curious. I did every job they would give me and I've told this story..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Your Weekend in Film

What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time

"...Annabelle: Creation. Josh Kupecki warns: “Steer clear of the latest film..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Naked City

"...a host of contenders and would-be contenders for the job – including several from his staff. Prosecutors Gary Cobb..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature

'Bacchae' to the Future

How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?

"...a manipulator," he told the Payne Theatre crowd. "Your job is to resist or not, as the case may..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Inching to the Finish

Bob Sabiston's winding road to Inchworm Animation

"...for MTV? Perhaps you should begin with his calling-card creation, the rotoscoping technology most notably used in Richard Linklater's..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Lewis File

Park Police personnel record casts a harsh light on small law enforcement agencies

"...2005, Warren Struss, director of the city's Parks and Recreation Department, wrote a three-paragraph memo to Darryl Lewis, then..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rag Recollections

Former 'Rag' staffers remember the old days, when a Texan was in the White House and America was stuck in a quagmire war

"...I would "borrow" an IBM selectric from my straight job to type Rag copy into the wee hours of..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...easily the lay public can be confused by the creation/evolution debate. Both men give reasonable-sounding objections, but both seem..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...decided Marshall would be the ideal man for the job, albeit in a consulting role. Neither Marhsall nor Varner..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...new delivery system, the expansion of services and the creation of a new teaching hospital and new medical school...."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

America Gone Awry

Philip Roth's strength as a novelist, Tom Grimes says, is that he never writes as if he's finally reached a point of permanent self-definition. He's always searching for that definition, as a writer, as a Jew, and now, through the aging, reclusive Nathan Zuckerman, as an American.

"...has been written about the American myth of "self creation," an Age of Enlightenment idea that was paid a..."

June 23, 2000 Books Feature by Tom Grimes

Eve of Destruction

Lawrence Wright on 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9 / 11'

"...New Yorker and asked to be put on the job. Now, as we near its fifth anniversary, Knopf is..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Books Feature by Taylor Holland

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...scientific weaknesses to theories and hypotheses) ever mentioned religion, creation science, or intelligent design. However, there were 27 testifiers..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

Miracle Man

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

"...without bursting into laughter. Through him, you witness the creation of some of the most inspired comedy ever put..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Living, Breathing Americana

Steve James: Sustaining Traditions, Not Reviving Them

"...often been neglected outside the cultures of their initial creation...."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature by Brian Berger

The Hightower Report

White House propaganda: pundit payola, video news releases, and misleadingly misnamed bills

"...the Center for Media and Democracy: 608/260-9713.WHAT'S BEHIND THE 'JOBS CREATION' ACT? Just when you think you've bottomed out..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Stopmotion

An animator starts to lose her mind in this chilling horror

"...until a combination of circumstances – an accident, a job offer, and the arrival of a precocious and overly..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"..."When Bob got the job, we had a series of informal conversations about things..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Irishman

Scorsese's filmmaking excellence can't mask a flawed retreading of mob history

"...decided not to cross paths with Jack Nicholson's near-perfect re-creation of Hoffa in Danny DeVito's 1992 eponymous biopic, instead..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Creed

Stallone's Rocky trains Apollo Creed's son in worthy franchise reboot

"...passes the torch to a new generation. Sylvester Stallone’s creation has boxed on through five more iterations of the..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward

Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all

"...to the forthcoming Machete Kills, and from his recent creation of the Quickdraw production and animation facilities to the..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

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

"...them, so, I got a collitch degree, then a job as a yuppie in Houston in 1984 selling copiers..."

Aug. 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

The Rite

In this supernatural thriller, Anthony Hopkins plays a Vatican-based exorcist who trains a doubting seminary student to drive out the Devil.

"...loads of atmosphere. The film relies more on the creation of a disquieting mood than genuine scares and neglects..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Women

This remake of the 1939 George Cukor film isn't particularly fun or funny.

"...magazine fighting tooth and nail not to lose her job to her younger, fitter, more cutthroat competition. The role..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...dance, only backward – as a conceptual approach to creation that forces, through physical necessity, a change in mental..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

TCB: Friday

SXSW music news and carryings on

"...McGee has done all right for himself. He started Creation Records in 1983 because "I didn't want to get..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Hightower Report

'Texas – Third World and Proud of It!' and a job-busting and environment-exploiting agreement

"..."Pharmaceutical Phreeloader Phund," but instead, branded it the "American Jobs Creation Act." And, now, here come the Bushites with..."

June 3, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...move characters across a room necessarily. That's the director's job. So if the story is mostly about ideas or..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...of the same. Our leaders are busy accelerating the creation of many more terrorists...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

I Am Hiphop

One of the hiphop elders delivers a sermon.

"..."It's the job of the philosopher to offer for discussion ideas that..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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