Surfer, Dude

Matthew McConaughey joins with the director of Hand on a Hard Body in this ode to near-naked bodies, weed, and surf-speak. Oh, and it's also a work of fiction.

"...nothing else (and occasionally even less, as in a tongue-in-cheek – remember the bongos? – cutaway to an in-the-buff..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Magic Fruit

"...fruits. Miraculin works its wonders through contact with the tongue, not from ingestion, and the effects are negated by..."

July 25, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Red Balloon

Tongue and Groove Theatre's new show leaves you feeling like something dark and heavy has been lifted up and carried far, far away

"...Tongue and Groove Theatre's original show The Red Balloon dredges..."

July 18, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

'Bomb Shelter: or the Modern Pinocchio'

A refreshingly different after-the-bomb fable that gets at our impulse to create through a playful acting-out of 'Frankenstein'

"...The premise of this new play by Tongue and Groove Theatre Artistic Director Mark Stewart may be..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...like “Dear, sweet, gentle Katy” come dripping off his tongue like melted butter off a stack of pancakes, telling..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

College Road Trip

Raven-Symoné co-stars with Martin Lawrence in this mugging comedy, which also makes room for Donny Osmond.

"...his presence here might provide an opportunity for some tongue-in-cheek humor at his expense, but Osmond plays the comedy..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse

"...had a deep, roasted flavor that lingered on the tongue well after drinking. Also pleasant enough was the Nutty..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Food Review by Lee Nichols

Texas Gets Spirited Away

Taste-testing Texas liquors against the world

"...and pick the best. Put the tip of your tongue on the outside of the glass. Avoiding spillage is..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

December Boys

In his first film role post-Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe plays an orphan in Australia who's pals with a bunch of other boys born in December.

"...and Spit as the secret reincarnation of Sid Vicious' tongue, who gives it all up to teach Keats at..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tooth and Nail: Plus Tooth 2!

Tongue and Groove Theatre dishes up vaudevillian punk in two odd and hilarious shorts

"...Tooth 2! is a bit of a departure for Tongue and Groove Theatre, which has stirred a dash of..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Rachel Loy

Record Review

"...Rachel LoyTongue & Teeth..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Music Review by Margaret Moser

In Memoriam: Linda Pace and Javier Arista

Remembering San Antonio artist and patron Linda Pace and Austin actor Javier Arista

"...Wedding just prior to In2 the West and the Tongue & Groove Theatre production An Arabian Midsummer Night's Dream..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Albert

"...I could just as easily run lyrics from “Unknown Tongue” and “Joan Crawford,” both written by the guy who..."

Feb. 19, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

bottom

Second place

"...the partisan more announced than asked in his native tongue which, of course, Sugio could not understand: the Mongolian..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by William Sparks

Heading South

North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.

"...aimless little. Still, there's the glorious Rampling, whose sharp tongue and unleashed libido make her the planet around which..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...backdropped against atomic gray/white and a ruby Tuesday red tongue, glows like a 1950s travel agency window display. A..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Lunacy

Jan Svankmajer's creepy-crawl slowly becomes one of the most mordantly beautiful of the director's films, an asylum-set anti-love story with mobile body parts and splashy theatrics.

"...Martin Huba. When Jan Svankmajer dies, I want his tongue. I want to frame it and put it on..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...was not my favorite shot. My favorite was the tongue shot, which Martha took in the same session...."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column

To Lizbeth, We All Remember Her Well!

"...was not my favorite shot. My favorite was the tongue shot, which Martha took in the same session. No..."

Sept. 12, 2006 Postmarks

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Three Cuckolds, Tongue and Groove TheatreProduction, Musical..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Phat Girlz

Comedian Mo’Nique’s first starring film vehicle, Phat Girlz, suffers from a bad case of undernourishment.

"...Jenny Craig because that will lead to an unbridled tongue-lashing. And a later scene in which Jazmin has an..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

V for Vendetta

This is a thinking person’s action film – a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop, replete with a costumed antihero, lovingly choreographed action sequences, cunningly ornate dialogue, and a terrific, rousing score.

"...– the hyper-literate V is as skilled with his tongue as he is with his more prosaic ordnance –..."

March 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eight Below

We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a wonderful man-and-dog movie.

"..."my best gal," can be seen in a three-way tongue kiss with both his gals in one of the..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil's Rejects

A viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-‘n’-wreckage-romance.

"...for the squeamish, nothing will, so I’ll bite my tongue off and chew the fatted calves of Leslie Easterbrook,..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bewitched

Again Kidman goes for another nose-centric role, yet Nora Ephron's very meta remake of the old TV show still misfires.

"...and frequent Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay) references in a tongue-in-cheek joke. In fact, it’s rather on the nose: Bewitched..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine

The simple but elegant art of picnic pairing

"...Syrah grapes and an almost limestoney feeling on the tongue. It struck us as being a liquid relative to..."

April 22, 2005 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Single Wet Female

In the spoof Single Wet Female,' Marga Gomez and Carmelita Tropicana mounted a delectable feast of perversions, inversions, and subversions for the ravenously underrepresented

"...jumpsuit and slick-backed hair, followed the frail Margaret with tongue virtually panting out of her mouth. Desiring Margaret's approval,..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Top 10 Performances of 2004 That I Ruminate Over After the Dust Has Settled

Heather Barfield lists her favorite stage performances of 2004

"...1) Mark Stewart in The Comedy of Errors (Tongue and Groove Theatre) Superbly sly and physically agile, Stewart..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

A Very Long Engagement

The director of Amélie reunites with that film's star, Audrey Tautou, for this World War One love story.

"...perhaps the most moving thread, tripping French off her tongue like it was her mother language.) These asides are,..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hightower Report

No need for a babysitter, Big Brother will do it; and Britain has moral scolds just like America

"...is it about ultra-right conservatives who build careers as tongue-clucking scolds? They constantly preach about the moral failings of..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

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