Letters at 3AM: Hitting the Street

Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most

"...A street kid – I was a street kid. (No. There..."

May 30, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Kid With a Bike

This latest film from Belgium's Dardenne brothers is a towering achievement, perhaps all the more so because of its deceptive simplicity.

"...Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, The Kid With a Bike is indeed a towering achievement, perhaps..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kid Powers

Charlie Belle kicks up some Magnetic Fields buzz

"...Local kid wonders Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds of the band Charlie..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Post by Cindy Widner

'Kid B'

Linden Dalecki's new novel: an excerpt

"...dancers in an East Texas town, and he'll see Kid B hit shelves on Monday, Oct. 9. He'll also..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Like a Kid Again

For Spy Kids, his first youth-oriented movie, director Robert Rodriguez maintains the spirit of youth - and El Mariachi

"...the whole of Congress Avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets is a mob scene, having been turned into a..."

March 30, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Magic Kid

Hayes Carll trades in his drunken poet's dream

"...of a video for his new song, "The Magic Kid." Today's shoot calls for a barbecue scene in the..."

April 8, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Triumph of the Yellow Kid

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

"...slapped on it became a sensation, that the anonymous street urchin in Hogan's Alley whose nightshirt was turned canary..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Why Wall Street Is Betting on Austin's Multimedia That Magic Touch

"...and suck millions from a voracious pack of Wall Street investors hot for Internet stocks? Austin is on the..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

The Ballsy, Artsy, Anti-Sixth Street Outlook of DJ Joaqu.n

Austin to L.A., keeping up with the beloved Pangea Sound producer

"...didn't even need to post fliers. All the fashion kids came. It was a moment in time."..."

May 19, 2023 Music Feature by Christina Garcia

Ways for Grownups to Act Like a Kid This July

Youthful diversions from kickball to video games

"...Tap into your creativity and collaborate with other grown-up kids to create unique structures using color coordination, shape construction,..."

June 30, 2022 Events Post by Katherine McNevins

When the Movies You Loved as a Kid Don’t Hold Up

Shedding film nostalgia

"...few things that earn you any modicum of adolescent street credibility: definitively knowing where babies come from, scream-whispering a..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

Letters at 3am

A bounty to getting older is that you grow tired of the uselessly dramatic aspects of yourself, and most of your fears evaporate

"...and afraid. Then I'd put on my act – Street-Wise Working-Class-Hero Writer – and hide inside it...."

Dec. 5, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Effete!

It's never too late to see yourself as you are

"...pointing in almost opposite directions. Using fists and jibes, kids made it painfully clear that how I was, what..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Boiler Room

"...in the windowless, stale-aired melee of cold-calling, power-suited, off-off-Wall Street hotshots that strangers' lives are ruined and the almighty..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get Your Shovels Out

How a local crew of diggers built the baddest Downtown dirt jumps in the country at the Ninth Street BMX Trails

"...he first rode his shovel down to the Ninth Street BMX trails. This was early 1992, and Lein wanted..."

June 6, 2014 Sports Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Little Rascals

"...Woods, Zachary Mabry, Blake McIver Ewing and Whoopi Goldberg. Kids will be kids. And that's the refreshing news about..."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Despite the change in inhabitants, the buildings, people, and mood of the old immigrant neighborhoods haven't changed. The streets still whisper the same cautionary advice: Survive and get out.

"...still had an accent), maybe 9. And Italian Joe's kid brother, Little Tony, who was so little he may..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Hey Arnold!: The Movie

"...like some strange, post-Battle of Seattle take on semi-real-world kid politics filtered through the lens of Naomi Klein's No..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Friday Night Lights': Up to Now

"...airing Wednesdays at 7pm, is just heating up. Previously: Street's family sues the school - and Coach Taylor; Street..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

"...seems blasphemous to say anything bad about the Sesame Street gang. I have visions of waking one morning to..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...Frank Tagliano – a phone call with the E Street Band consigliere zings and pops just as you’d hope..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Annie

This Annie is of our time, even if we've grown remote from spunky little girls.

"...New York. Little Orphan Annie is now a foster kid in the home of the drunken has-been Ms. Hannigan..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ramona and Beezus

Beverly Cleary's beloved Ramona Quimby makes a pleasing leap to the big screen with this adaptation.

"...– of the misadventures of Ramona Quimby of Klickitat Street, Portland, Ore. Middle book Ramona and Her Father supplies..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Chicago 10

The trial that resulted from the demonstrations outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago were a media spectacle that is well-captured here.

"...coming up on their 40th anniversary, writer/director Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) has made a documentary that..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Freddy vs. Jason

Did anyone realize Camp Crystal Lake is right down the highway from Elm Street?

"...you’ve been waiting for the much-anticipated smackdown between Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger and taciturn behemoth Jason Voorhees, try walking..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Undercover Blues

"...Larry Miller and Obba Babatunde. When I was a kid, my mom would pop up a grocery bag full..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Roost Crows at Midnight

Steamboat greeter / booker David Cotton realizes the dream of his own club, the Roost

"...on a prime block of real estate on Sixth Street. "Steamboat" was where Austin native David Cotton stumbled onto..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

Gummo

White-trash hell from the writer of Kids.

"...curiosity value for admirers of Larry Clark's 1995 film, Kids (and there are quite a few of us, though..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

God Bless This Mess

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Doug Block's '51 Birch Street'

"...51 Birch Street..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

The film story of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's tough road to success is so melodramatic that if it weren't real it would be laughable.

"...were all grounded in the director’s native Ireland. This streetwise tale of Jackson’s life so far (despite the title,..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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