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June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross
Teenage Time Bomb
Can you handle the suburban hellscape of Blonde Death?
"...berates her, and reveals that he's just escaped from prison, where he was held for various auto thefts and..."
Aug. 18, 2017 Screens Feature by Zack Carlson
Election 2006
The latest from the campaign trail
"...marijuana as a means to free up jail and prison space and financial resources that would be better spent..."
Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature
All Wrapped Up
From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.
"...Heat of the Night) tells the story of falsely imprisoned boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in Hurricane; Boogie Nights' Paul..."
Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Art Openings, Ballet, and Books in Our Recommended Arts Events
Find some arts this week
"...all ages and interests: Panels include discussion of horror novels, the creative process, young adult world building, historical nonfiction,..."
May 10, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Future Gladiators and Fantastical Stories Mark the Literary Year in Review
Pulled from the shelves
"...With dystopian novels being so in vogue of late, here's one that..."
Dec. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg
Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup
Finish up the summer with some adventure
"...natural that she would become the subject of Western novels, movies, and songs. Most of the crimes and adventures..."
Aug. 2, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
ARIC Trainings Teach Cops and Informants Junk Science
Police are learning lessons in fear
"...to the "third degree," that legendary trope of detective novels where a suspect is bound to a chair, a..."
Aug. 28, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, July 3-9
"...his parents and siblings got incarcerated in a debtors' prison. To stay alive and help his family, he took..."
July 3, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, March 26-April 1
"...years old, Gemini author Thomas Hardy had written 18 novels and many poems. His stuff was good enough to..."
March 27, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny
Vision 2020: Austin Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year
Some local writers' books due out in 2020 we're eager to read
"...Austin for L.A. and the alt-weekly food beat for novels of suspense, and she's already having some success. Her..."
Jan. 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Penfold Theatre's Crime and Punishment
In this stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, a fascinating glimpse into the more twisted corners of the human mind
"...on the part of producers. The great 19th-century Russian novels – you know, the ones that also serve as..."
April 5, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe
Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List
Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more
"...taking into account the authors of memoirs, cookbooks, YA novels, political books, children's books, music books, art books, and..."
Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Richard Linklater on His New Film Last Flag Flying
Cranston, Carell, and Fishburne star in the director’s most mature film to date
"...Young) escorting a third (Randy Quaid) to Portsmouth Naval Prison. Thirty-five years later, Ponicsan reunited the characters for a..."
Nov. 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood's latest tracks a luckless couple across a dystopian landscape
"...every other month as a willing inmate in Positron Prison...."
Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires
Local Nonagenarian Author Speaks at BookPeople Sunday
Babette Hughes hosts an event for her Kate Brady mystery trilogy
"...dangerous bootlegging business – his obsession – becomes a prison trapping Kate in a lonely, gold-plated hell. Tragedy and..."
July 18, 2015 Arts Post by Jessi Cape
Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway
Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?
"...own terms (though it cost him 12 years in prison)...."
July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura
Texas Book Festival Panel Picks
Can't-miss events at this weekend's festival
"...and Jeff Lindsay on writing for TV and writing novels." The crime writer who penned some of The Wire..."
Oct. 23, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright explores the origins and alleged abuses of the Church of Scientology
"...Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Beliefby Lawrence Wright Knopf, 448 pp., $28.95..."
Jan. 25, 2013 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones
The Luv Doc: The Stockholm Syndrome
Volleyball: Seriously, it’s like a crowded game of badminton with a huge, unfeathered cock
"...Dick DeGuerin (kept Billy Joe Shaver from going to prison after he shot a man in the face). Yes,..."
May 4, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc
Down We Go
Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions
"...they became legends. Oscar Wilde wrote plays, poetry, and novels as well as being a famed man-about-town. Robert Frank..."
Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black
The Cinema of Possibilities
Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute
"...begins with their theatrical intentions: Horror films are scary, women-in-prison films intense; motorcycle films range from modern Westerns to..."
April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Shriek: An Afterword
VandeerMeer first introduced Ambergris in an intriguing series of novellas, collected as City of Saints and Madmen. This is his first full-length novel set in the mythical city.
"...first book, On the Refraction of Light in a Prison, a critical and financial success, made him a minor..."
June 30, 2006 Books Review by Rick Klaw
In Person
Though the crowd at New York literary lion Darin Strauss' June 27 appearance at BookPeople was thin, he still read and signed The Real McCoy, while telling Mike Shea all about the life of a "hugely talented" young writer.
"...original McCoy was no choirboy. He served a 10-year prison sentence for murder, married often (perhaps as many as..."
July 5, 2002 Books Feature
Only the Wicked
"...better place to live in. Phillips proves that crime novels with a social conscience can be as entertaining as..."
Nov. 10, 2000 Books Review by Jesse Sublett
Off the Bookshelf
End of an Age
"...Tama Janowitz's A Certain Age is one of those novels that tries to pass off heavy-handed cynicism as witty..."
Aug. 27, 1999 Books Review
TV Goes Hollywood
TV Diary
"...trusted associates to his jailers on Robben Island, the prison where he was held for 27 years."..."
May 21, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Murder, Mayhem, and the Underbelly of Life
Friends in Low Places
"...you're doomed. Like Regina ended up dead, Justin's in prison, and for better or for worse whatever Kim is,..."
Oct. 30, 1998 Books Feature
The Wrong Cause
"...is that it's kind of campy. Books: Some lousy novels, none worth mentioning here. A book of very bad..."
Sept. 18, 1998 Books Feature
Geisha and Other Books of 1997
Dusting off the Bookshelf
"...writing and careless editing that make so many popular novels disappointing, if not unreadable. Geisha is mind candy for..."
Jan. 16, 1998 Books Feature
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
