Notebooks on Cities and Clothes

"...geography play an essential role in Yamamoto's creative process. Notebooks is like a Zen Unzipped; it is a portrait..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Screens Feature

The Book of Henry

Abandon all hope ye who purchase a ticket

"...term “precocious”), Henry (Lieberher) who, when he’s not filling notebooks with Rube Goldbergian sketches and plans for his family’s..."

June 16, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

This Must Be the Place

In this odd but intriguing concoction, Sean Penn disappears into the strange body of a retired goth rock god who leaves his Dublin castle and goes on a road trip across America to hunt a Nazi prison guard.

"...on his deathbed, Cheyenne occupies himself with the deceased’s notebooks in which his father – a survivor of Auschwitz..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hank Lives!

Hank Williams' ‘Lost Notebooks’ come to life.

"...Hank Williams continues unabated. For proof there’s The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, a daunting but eventually heartening collection..."

Sept. 29, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

"...idly wading through a pile of old scripts and notebooks, that Truffaut was as much an enigma then as..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Show and Tell With Rian Johnson

Revisiting the high school noir ‘Brick’ at AFF

"...look all that remarkable – just two tiny, weather-beaten notebooks – but these artifacts steered much of the conversation..."

Oct. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Lot of Chatter

Things change, but Janeane Garofalo still loves to stand up on a stage and talk

"...a new thing, and I go back into my notebooks, and I redo it. I have almost all the..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ink & Paper & the Dark Ambience of Demdike Stare

Because one thing leads to another until we’re all, you know, dead

"...a fountain-pen-specific paper is what fills a series of notebooks that are so exquisitely designed and practical that I’d..."

Sept. 18, 2017 Design Post by Memory Harker

Off The Bookshelf

"...Hitchcock's Notebooks by Dan Aulier Spike Books, $30 hard..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

Shepherding Shepard

The material legacy of playwright Sam Shepard calls Central Texas home

"...of his creativity, from his earliest raw scribblings in notebooks through his numerous revisions and polishes all the way..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Ransom Center Lands Ondaatje Archive

Author of The English Patient sends papers to UT

"...material being relocated to Austin will contain the handwritten notebooks for this work as well as for Coming Through..."

Sept. 26, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

God Knows Where I Am

"...nevertheless easy to identify due to the two handwritten notebooks left “to whomever finds my body,” which detailed the..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paterson

Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian

"...cereal and walking to work. He commits it to notebooks in his idle time while waiting for his shift..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Richard Linklater: dream is destiny

Doc on local filmmaker is a thoughtful portrait

"...had a cameo in Slacker, a collection of old notebooks chronicling his early thoughts, ideas, and deep, daily observations..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chevalier

The latest playful foray from the Greek filmmaking avant-garde

"...Each man keeps score in his head or little notebooks, and each one judges the others on standards of..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Embrace of the Serpent

Scientists and an Amazonian shaman interact in this unique film

"...there for decades, and sent his drawings, photographs, and notebooks back home to be published, yet presumably died in..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The German Doctor

This Argentinian film uses the country’s dark history as a haven for escaped Nazi war criminals as fodder for this atmospheric tale.

"...horrific experiments in genetic engineering. We see his detailed notebooks over the film’s opening credits, and wait with baited..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big, Beautiful Books

Adorn your coffeetables with these hardbound masterpieces

"...Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessionsby Guillermo del Toro and Marc..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Heart of a Printer, the Art of a Chef

Designer Jeff Scott brings the culinary life to vivid, multilayered display

"...images of pages and pages from the chefs' daily notebooks, well, the cumulative effect is enough to tip a..."

April 20, 2012 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'To Need, the Women Say'

Short Story Contest first-place winner

"...laughing and drawing pictures in the corners of their notebooks, they are kids again in school. The sun finds..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Mary Terrier

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

The work of this elusive songwriter and curmudgeonly frontman of the Magnetic Fields is examined in this sympathetic documentary.

"...whisks and giving impromptu readings from his old songwriting notebooks (scribbled mainly, he says, whilst sipping cocktails to a..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wish List

Here's your chance to give back to the areas of our community that need it the most

"...70 spiral-bound notebooks..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Letters @ 3AM

These Lubbock friends of mine were always writing books – thick notebooks of drawings and words

"...friends of mine were always writing books – thick notebooks of drawings and words. Dream logs. Journals. Verbiage. Nothing..."

March 16, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader

Jesus Christ! What are these words? Hincty, goudge, donicker, furze, rick, pecksniff, flapdoodle fantod, tumerling? What kind of screwball whips out stuff like this?

"...more personal the details become. It reads like brittle notebooks bursting into flame. The notebooks with the memories...."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Brant Bingamon

Journals

Sheet Music

"...of a kind, probably. "Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

A Time for Drunken Horses

Iranian masterpiece of Kurdish life.

"...truck and attempt to cross the border, hiding ill-gotten notebooks for school under their shirts. When their father is..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Henry Fool

"...Henry is a pontificating intellectual who believes that his notebooks containing his Confessions will revolutionize the writing establishment upon..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Multiverse

Author Michael Moorcock

"...I'm one of those people who pretty much does notebooks all the time. I fill notebooks all of the..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

St. Cecilia Soda Company Pays Sparkling (Water) Tribute to Austin’s Music Scene

Two service industry veterans join the women-owned beverage company swell

"...mixing flavors at home. “We grabbed our SodaStreams and notebooks and believed in a dream,” DeGregorio told the Chronicle...."

Oct. 18, 2024 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Day Trips: The Desk, Alpine

Beat-up desk attracts visitors to a West Texas desert hilltop

"...According to a March 2020 Texas Monthly article by..."

June 30, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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