Dealt

The remarkable life of a blind card mechanic

"...and obsessively motivated sixtysomething Richard Turner – the subject of this captivating documentary – a magician or an illusionist...."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

When Magic is a Real Darling

This popular Austin magician tells it like it appears to be

"...concert producer Patrick Terry recently put together another spectacle of magic and humor in the wake of his sold-out..."

May 11, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Leigh Whannell Gets an Upgrade

Insidious creator gets techno, and talks the Blumhouse model

"...Between creating and writing some of the creepiest and goriest moments in the Saw and..."

May 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...I spotted Dan Solomon’s Texas Monthly blog post, “Why Professor Dumpster’s Gimmicks Are a Bunch of Trash.” Seeing the..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

The Man With the Golden Arm

Yen Tan’s poster designs are papering the town

"...Hundreds of films, both feature-length and short, will play during the..."

March 9, 2012 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Five-Card Draw

It's still early, but the governor's race bears a closer look

"...It's still very early – the dust of the World Cup and the All-Star Game has barely..."

July 14, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Party All the Time

'Much Ado' and much fun with Whedon, Acker, and Denisof

"...Joss Whedon was after in his micro-budget film version of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, the play Whedon..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Post by Robert Faires

YCT Gives Roundtable Low Score

Young Conservatives pick endorsement fight with GOP establishment

"...back, as the notoriously cranky and ever-more-fringe Young Conservatives of Texas are throwing down on another right wing group..."

April 13, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The New Evolution

Is technology providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness?

"...If you happen to be roaming the halls of the Austin Convention Center during South by Southwest, you'll..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Texas prosecutors use the 'law of parties' to widen the net for capital punishment

"...introduced Foster to Brown and Dillard. For a couple of hours, the four young men drove around the city,..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Crime Month: Gypsy on Netflix

In this series, Naomi Watts puts the "psycho" in psychotherapy

"...they say. But what if that relationship was full of subtle manipulations, dogged inquiries, and sleight-of-hand misdirection?..."

July 9, 2019 Screens Post by Laura Jones

Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe Pass The Beta Test

How the indie filmmakers burned Hollywood down

"...might blanch at the idea, Jim Cummings is one of them. After his new sharp-fanged satire, The Beta Test,..."

Nov. 3, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ben Wheatley Goes Digging In The Earth

Of mushrooms, men, and subterranean superintelligences ..

"...the last few years, forest management has become part of pop science, and everyone knows about clearance. Not so..."

April 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Building the Perfect Beast for Skylines

Director Liam O'Donnell on evolving the Skyline aliens

"...slave machines? That was the challenge for the makers of Skylines, in cinemas and available on VOD this weekend...."

Dec. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kids These Days

Growing up on 'Looking' and 'Girls'

"...Looking, about a group of gay men living in San Francisco, starts with an..."

Jan. 18, 2014 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Capitol Chronicle

The governor sells social service cuts as "enhancements."

"...sounds like good news, but in the dispiriting doublespeak of Texas government, it's almost exactly backward. In fact, because..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: Spinning Tales

The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit

"...development or news item is presented in the context of and in harmony with the overall narrative...."

Sept. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Welcome to the Funhouse

Republicans' rhetorical sleight of hand has allowed them to distort this country's founding principles while seeming to uphold them

"...in my early teens, my mother took a group of us to Freedomland, a New York amusement park. One..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Popcult Disconnect

The Gyre of Hack-centrism

"...ent., the faux alternative weekly it launched a couple of years ago to compete with the Chronicle for ad..."

July 19, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

Page Two

The unprecedented outcry over toll roads ignores a larger problem: We want more government services than we can pay for

"...are filled with outrage, seemingly furious at the thought of paying tolls. We get letters stating little more than..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Archie Bell, Roy Head

Live shot

"...Roy Head and Archie Bell, the voices behind two of Texas' most enduring hit singles, joined forces Friday night..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

St. Enid and the Black Hand

In Vortex Repertory Company's mesmerizing St. Enid and the Black Hand,' an archetypal family enacts a fairy tale with many-layered meanings

"...St. Enid and the Black Hand..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Faceless Werewolves

Record review

"...a little dangerous, Austin's Faceless Werewolves beckon with one hand while hiding a sledgehammer behind their backs with the..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Irving

Record review

"...Like the best of their Paisley Underground forebears two decades ago, L.A. psych-pop..."

March 10, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Exhibitionism

Deviant Craft: False Fabric

"...Theatre is a fabric of lies, carefully woven to illuminate a greater truth, probably..."

June 13, 1997 Arts Review

Meet the Greatest Playing Card Mechanic in Dealt

Austinite Luke Korem spotlights magician Richard Turner

"...the impossible. Armed with just Bicycle playing cards, his sleight-of-hand tricks are so deceptive that they've earned him the..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

From the Vaults: James Patterson on Film

Reviews of 'Alex Cross,' 'Along Came a Spider,' and 'Kiss the Girls'

"...from his routine groove to play Patterson's titular police profiler in Alex Cross. Before him, Morgan Freeman twice played..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Legacy and Lunacy

Rush Limbaugh and Waterloo Records leave their marks – in very different ways

"...don't like or are angry about something than to offer any kind of positive reaction. This is certainly true..."

April 13, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Complete Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report)

'That film was taken away from me completely, and was totally destroyed in the cutting,' Orson Welles lamented. 'That was the real disaster of my life.'

"...which to dazzle his audience. He knew the value of smoke and mirrors, carrying that sensibility over to his..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Turning Tricks With The Amazing Ray

With nothing up his sleeve, Esther's Follies resident magic man Ray Anderson pulls wonder -- and laughter -- out of thin air.

"...into a box half his size with only his hands sticking out, and they're shackled. Meanwhile, suspended over him..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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