Big Fat Independent Movies

Sending Off SXSW Film 04

"...diverse selection of surreal, documentary, and animated films. "A Procession of Them" and "Centripetal Visions" – by Eugene Richards..."

March 26, 2004 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

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SXSW News

"...Ozo tradition dictates a drum-led procession out of the venue to close every show, which..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Five were charged with violating the city's parade and procession ordinance after being stopped by police while on their..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Letters at 3AM

Although it may sound like hooey in the retelling, this is the story of the author's discovery of his soul's expression.

"...alive, to be allowed a part in the great procession that we call Eternity ... I am not a..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...that footage and all the sadness of the funeral procession from St. Matthew's through the streets of my hometown..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

The Rodriguez and Avellán film team rocks; the guv and Lege do not; waiting on Will Wynn & Company; and in Let Us Now Praise Famous Chroniclers.

"...without raising taxes with the kind of self-congratulatory verbal procession more commonly associated with military victories. Adding to the..."

July 25, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Alexander Nevsky

To accompany the screening of Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein's 1938 epic film about the 13th-century Russian hero and the army he led to defeat a German invasion, maestro Peter Bay led his own army -- some 200 musicians from the Austin Symphony and Conspirare choir -- that performed Prokofiev's epic score with grandeur and a stirring power.

"...horses, and all their assorted inert weaponry. If "Pskov: Procession of the Fallen and Judgment of the Prisoners" was..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Latest in Paper

"The Minotaur, half-man, half-bull, offspring of King Minos' wife Pasiphaë and an ivory bull gifted by Poseidon, doomed to wander the Labyrinth until felled by Theseus' sword, has one of the more interesting lineages in a myth cycle full of obscurantist wild cards," writes Marc Savlov in reviewing Steven Sherrill's debut novel. "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break anthropomorphizes the bastard bullman way past what the Greeks found satisfactory -- here, he's a line cook in a backwater chowbarn, single and at loose ends."

"...time, but cursed even more so by the same procession of centuries and the perpetual outsider status thrust upon..."

May 23, 2003 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...new cohort Joe Plummer, drummer for the Black Heart Procession. Stripped down to the essentials -- ultramelodic indie pop..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Changing Places

The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood

"...and hopelessly distracted. The Posada, a traditional Mexican Christmas procession, was a noisy blur of candles and Spanish chatter...."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Letters at 3AM

Reflections on how Western civilization lost its moral authority.

"...came in. This is where I joined the riotous procession -- part Mardi Gras parade, part death march --..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

The Pavilion

Director Dave Steakley and three outstanding Austin actors make a visit to The Pavilion, Craig Wright's bittersweet drama about two old flames who meet again at a high school reunion and ponder time's ability to widen chasms as well as heal wounds, time well spent.

"...not only what time steals from us in its procession, but the unanticipated mercies it bestows to those who..."

June 7, 2002 Arts Review by M.B. Rice

After a Fashion

The Club DeVille Fall Fashion Extravaganza leads this week's list of what's hot.

"...in a stunning finale more akin to a funeral procession, sent the models down the runway with their faces..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Life After Death

A new life for almost-forgotten author Mary Gavell

"...the roads past the Holmes' house in a great procession. The gins in the little town a mile or..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Jeremiah Johnson

For ex-Army soldier Jeremiah Johnson (Redford), the silent, rugged mountains function as the perfect environment in which to fulfill his enigmatic goal -- total secession from the human race.

"...and a .30-caliber rifle, Jeremiah trudges into an endless procession of thick, powdery plains, a man eager for game..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Review by Marcel Meyer

Summer Reading

"...ours. On page one, we're speeding past a funeral procession, anxious to get where we're going, while 300 pages..."

June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone still dead, bands still touring, Dick Price getting bigger than Bob Schneider

"...if it's not overcooked), a traditional New Orleans funeral procession, a "Voodoo Village" replete with "Ju Ju Mamas," and..."

April 27, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

The Human Rights Campaign throws its annual fundraiser and honors gay-rights leaders.

"...day, March 18, with the biannual March on Hate procession to the Capitol, sponsored by the Lesbian Gay Rights..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...rusty Fords await the centurions. A cheetah stalks the procession, embodying the painter's racing imagination. In The Visit, a..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Day Trips

Vintage hotrods and muscle cars at the Marshall Car Museum and Showroom.

"...Jan. 20, the mandala will be dismantled and a procession will go to the San Antonio River to disperse..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Final Flowering

With Cold Sassy Tree, distinguished composer Carlisle Floyd crafts an opera to crown his lengthy career.

"...blind!" The words issuing forth in a slow, stately procession, with key words accented -- "sun" pitched high as..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dracula, Bass Concert Hall, November 5

"...film as Dracula disappeared into the dark. The slow procession of the crowd departing afterwards seemed as if something..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Music Review by Julie Carpenter

Grave Importance

Meiling Guentzel explores her fascination with small local graveyards and death and learns about life in the process.

"...the grounds, unless, of course, there's a funeral in procession or the groundskeepers are on duty...."

Oct. 27, 2000 Features Feature by Meiling Guentzel

Chief Priest of the Shrine

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

"...hours. That's how long it took Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's funeral procession to make its way to Ikeja, the working-class district..."

July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch

American Pie

"...and screenwriter Adam Herz take obvious glee in their procession of gross-out gags, mostly involving Jason Biggs' Jim --..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola

Coach's Corner

Coach can't hit a wedge shot, or make a putt, but he's trying.

"...cart will go the wrong way, stopping the entire procession cold in its tracks. Getting that one cart turned..."

June 2, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Sirkus Maximus

Douglas Sirk's Fifties film melodramas expose a world of emotional turbulence lurking beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower years.

"...Life, provides the best example. It's a grand funeral procession, New Orleans-style, and all the principals are tearfully reunited..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Why so much black clothing at SXSW? It was the only color that went with those garish lanyards.

"...81é2 Souvenirs, as she made her torturously slow solo procession outside the backstage tent. It was an experience, an..."

March 24, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Grand Champeen Out Front by the Van

Texas Platters

"...Early listens to Out Front ... conjure a long procession of comparisons, bands like the Replacements, Uncle Tupelo, and..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Feasts That Define the Millennium

Food, the Original Commodity

"...one diner he sent out invitations to a funeral procession and banquet. His aristocratic guests arrived in mourning and..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

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