Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...as they get written. But when it's the work of a friend ... when now and then over the..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Michael Ventura reflects on the gateway of Time.

"...paid -- what a life. Now that I think of it, maybe I got the metaphor from Butch Hancock's..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...as a typesetter on Sixth Avenue, in the basement of an immense building, several levels below the street level..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Unbelievable Summers at the Paramount

The most unforgettable moments from this year’s classics of cinema

"...refuge from the sun-blasted outdoors, and a few hours of cool respite under the glow of the projector, as..."

May 18, 2018 Screens Feature by Chronicle staff

Naked If I Want To

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

"...The tale of San Francisco's Moby Grape has become one of the..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...a strikingly new and vibrant building in a part of town that is not so much either of those..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Dee Snider's Strangeland

"...modern-primitive slasher/detective/thriller would come from the thoroughly creepy pen of Twisted Sister frontman (and arch-foe of Tipper Gore and..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jimi: All Is by My Side

John Ridley's take on Jimi Hendrix veers away the standard biopic.

"...A word of warning: Do not come to this movie expecting to..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What It Is to Be Human

Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.

"...Tiresias and he played my "boy" in a production of Antigone. He didn't have a single line in that..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Checking In: The Still is Still Moving to Oliver Rajamani

ATX’s Romani Lone Star makes another auto doc, My Mind

"...since childhood, because my father was a big fan of his arrangements. Andre Rieu, too, I’ve listened to for..."

Nov. 10, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Dumb Waiter

In Capital T's simple, elegant staging of the Pinter classic, it's what isn't said that matters

"...a line somewhere between absurdism and realism, containing conventions of each, Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter is difficult to..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Bad Samaritan

David Tennant plays Hannibal Lecter, which is less fun than it sounds.

"...longtime collaborator Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin was the king of crazy high-concept mega-blockbuster: Credit/blame him for Stargate and Independence..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

'Fruit'

Short Story Contest: Second place

"...some point, you begin to think you've never had coffee that didn't taste like the black, greasy fear of..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Lydia Melby

Through a Lens Lovingly

A SXSW retrospective honors the work of legendary documentarian Albert Maysles.

"...cinéma vérité or, as they prefer, "direct cinema" school of documentary-making. Pioneering the liberating technology of the Sixties --..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...selection for this year's virtual fest is still worthy of the big screen, with the announcement that new documentary..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Evidence of Silence Broken

In his impressive solo show, 'The Evidence of Silence Broken,' spoken word performer Zell Miller III wears his heart, his mind, and his very soul on his sleeve

"...The Evidence of Silence Broken..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Kerrville Folk Festival

Live Shot

"...stall next to mine creaks open, and a pair of mud-soaked pink bunny slippers shuffle in. There's a momentary..."

June 7, 2002 Music Review by Dan Hardick

Letters at 3AM

The paradox of possiblities exhibited by the 20th century -- from Auschwitz to Ginger & Fred.

"...about 44 hours to go -- 1999, the year of Kosovo and Columbine -- the year when many Americans..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Secrets Shared

The documentary photos of Donna DeCesare

"...DeCesare's photos raise a curtain on the darkest side of childhood. From her current featured work documenting exploited Central..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Mr. Demme's Holiday

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

"...involved with selling a film as an inherent part of the job. But more to the point, Demme is..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...In one year, two Austin theatres stage modern adaptations of Greek tragedies, and both provide drama of astonishing immediacy..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Modern Art

AFS's Contemporary Iranian Cinema

"...The Iranian cinema of the past several years has grown into one of..."

April 9, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Inspection

Powerful and challenging boot camp drama ponders the need to be accepted

"...be either blithely and blindly jingoistic or aggressive indictments of the very concept of war. The Inspection is closer..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Alone

Neo-slasher is quietly effective and bloodily harsh

"...has pushed her away from every relationship. She sets off on a road trip to somewhere and nowhere, but..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: The Law Is a Ass

The Great Open Meetings Scandal comes to its legalized conclusion

"...So ends one of the sillier yet more lamentable episodes of Austin politics,..."

Oct. 26, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Although this sendoff to the young leads feels a little thin, the culmination of the Harry-and-Voldemort show more than satisfies.

"...Maggie Smith. Much like his character, the sour, pinch-faced Professor Snape, Alan Rickman has been playing the long game...."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains

Filmmaker Jonathan Demme accompanies Jimmy Carter during the former president's controversial book tour for Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and in the process offers a re-evalution of this world leader.

"...his career has hopscotched from narrative features like The Silence of the Lambs to documentaries like Stop Making Sense..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Happily Ever After

This French romantic comedy is little more than a heap of clichés whenever the director and star Yvan Attal's real-life wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg, disappears from the screen.

"...ironically titled (in French and English) and ugly in moments, Happily Ever After is closer to the latter. Masculine..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Fly Away Home

In this lovely film, a grieving, 13-year-old girl discovers orphaned geese eggs that she teaches to fly.

"...a car, talking and laughing in a casually intimate moment brought to a sudden, unexpected end. The sequence is..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Marley

Stir it Up: Finally, there's an authoritative film biography of Bob Marley.

"...last there exists an authoritative, comprehensive, and detailed study of the life of Bob Marley – the groundbreaking reggae..."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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