22 to Think About

Austin Museum of Art shows new local art that engages the mind

"...themselves and the viewers of their work to access things like urban planning, control over the environment, social distance,..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Yes

While the unconventional Yes doesn’t realize all of its artistic ambitions, its depiction of romantic passion still resonates.

"...affair, there’s no question that these two people find something in each other that goes beyond a brief flirtation...."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...now say that if Oak Hill is to be something other than a wide spot on the toll road..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

An insular father-daughter relationship comes apart in writer-director Rebecca Miller's drama, which also stars her actor-husband Daniel Day-Lewis.

"...in terms of outward events but whole seasons change within the inner lives of its characters. Strong performances and..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off and On

Can Bellagio combine thoughtful food with thoughtful service?

"...roasted garlic, and mozzarella and Parmesan cheese on a thin pizza crust sounded delicious. Unfortunately, the pizza itself came..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Austin on the Hoof

Rounding up the Austin steak house scene

"...NEVER use a steak from the chuck end for anything cooked less than a medium. The guy who taught..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Food Feature

The Aviator

Scorsese's best film in years is a work of bravura, classic Hollywood filmmaking.

"...a catty, opportunistic hellion who sees her man through thin and thinner (not to mention This Island Earth’s Faith..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Machinist

Christian Bale lost 60 lbs. in order to play the unsettling title character, a man who has maybe shed his sanity along with his weight.

"...operate heavy machinery" labels were made for. His bosses think he’s taken to drugs, his co-workers think he’s simply..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

The scruffy, seminal punk band that put the Bop in the Blitzkrieg is given its due in this treasure-laden doc.

"...OD, which renders this celebration of the Ramones also something of a wake, albeit one with enough undiluted Lower..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our..."

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

New Look, Better Great Taste!

Doña Emilia's outgrew itself on East Seventh. It's outdoing itself on Cesar Chavez.

"...The first thing one notices at the new Doña Emilia's is the..."

July 16, 2004 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

The Assimilated Appetite

Does Thai Tara aim to please the American palate at the expense of traditional tastes?

"...One of the things I enjoy most about Thai food is the variety..."

June 25, 2004 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...extreme, screamin'-meemie metal, splattered on the group's sophomore massacre Within Dividia. Dysrhythmia pours instrumental math metal, and as anyone..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Starsky & Hutch

Seventies TV shows live on through Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Snoop Dog.

"...depths of depraved silliness it mines. Only Ferrell, I think, could pull off such a bizarre sequence and render..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

South Austin Treasures

Green Pastures and the Broken Spoke: two old-timers getting better with age

"...With the drinks came the evening's amuse bouche, a wafer-thin crostini spread with fresh horseradish sauce and a thin..."

March 5, 2004 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Eurotrip

A kinder, gentler teen sex comedy?

"...the good-natured jokiness of the proceedings wears considerably less thin than Phillips’ gutterball snipes did in Road Trip. Former..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

An affectionate parody of 1950s sci-fi movies, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra spoofs ’til it poops out.

"...With The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra the joke wears thin almost immediately and then continues well past its sell-by..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Being Robert McNamara

Through 'The Fog of War,' Errol Morris gets inside a mind full of hindsight, regret, and the lessons of Vietnam

"...has gone through them with McNamara. One of the things that we've done is reading through a conversation and..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Right Impulse

Cafe Caprice joins the Central City casual fine dining lineup.

"...garlic-studded lime cream, with the cool salad mounded atop thin, crisp tostones: a very tasty Caribbean nacho, if you..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Honey

Jennifer Alba's hoodrat find her inner Flashdance.

"...– there are nearly as many hip-hugging hoochie-wear and rail-thin hot bodies on display as in its two most..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Asian Enigma

Pinning down Peony

"...I have always liked people, places, and things that are hard to define. Those things that are..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Duplex

Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore play a young couple is driven batty by a geriatric neighbor from hell.

"...was the stink bomb Death to Smoochy, but there’s nothing dreadfully amiss in this Duplex. At its worst, this..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Of the Old World

Where to find some of the finest pastichio, moussaka, and moi-moi in Austin

"...Although I knew nothing about Macedonian cuisine on our first visit to Kebab..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Pyramids

Where to find some of the finest pastichio, moussaka, and moi-moi in Austin

"...injects it into an interesting menu that centers on things Lebanese, producing a venue with solid food...."

Oct. 3, 2003 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Anything Else

Woody Allen's latest was not screened before press time.

"...Woody Allen, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito and Jimmy Fallon. Anything Else is like an old magic trick – there’s..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tropic of Capsaicin

An Exploration of the Hot Dishes in a Hot City, Or Where to Go When You're Not at Waterloo Park

"...bar snack, or what? I refer to the delectably thin sheets of beef jerky that the downtown Roaring Fork..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Ten Little Indians

"Sherman Alexie might be going soft," writes Jessa Crispin of the author's new collection, Ten Little Indians. "Underneath the humor and adept storytelling of his previous novels and short story collections was always a thin line of rage. But now he's working with hope and redemption."

"...his previous novels and short-story collections was always a thin line of rage. But now in his latest, Ten..."

July 18, 2003 Books Review by Jessa Crispin

The Trip

"...is simply that all these characters are spread too thin by the story. They’ve got too much to do..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

2 Fast 2 Furious

"...excepted. A freshly domesticated Nissan Skyline GTR and the seething Mitsubishi EVO 7, driven by ex-cop-turned-racer Brian O’Conner (Walker)..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Making the Grade

On campus at the Bleu River Grille and Ventana, the Texas Culinary Academy's training restaurants

"...superb raw ingredients. It also has real live customers, something the students will have to eventually face. We thought..."

April 25, 2003 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

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