Saving Private Ryan

"...feel as though you've known maybe your whole dreaming life, if not your waking. All these acting chops merge..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bill Callahan on Escaping YTI⅃AƎЯ

“Every album I’m just a blank slate waking up to creation”

"...now I’m curious how literally it’s meant. Is your life worse because you do art?..."

Nov. 2, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Fantastic Arcade Day 3

Another day, more lessons learned

"...stories being written for his contraptions. One story involved waking up as Full House's own John Stamos. It's like..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Power On

Top 10 games of 2012

"...brilliant design that offers a unique level with every life. Surefire winner for the Most Interesting Ways to Die..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

When Something Wonderful Ends

Sherry Kramer's play is heavy-handed when discussing America and oil but funny and moving when discussing her late mother

"...energy. "The hardest thing about the American dream is waking up from it." Cheap oil is certainly a dream..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Teng introduced the world to her beautiful images of real-life drama on last year's sadly poetic Warm Strangers (Virt)...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...people around her and maintain control over her own life. Cast: Brea Grant, Hunter C Smith, Kristina Klebe, Leith..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...mascot, and two teenage fathers scheme for a better life for themselves and their children. Cast: Rico Mitchell, Seth..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Art of Parenting With Art

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

"...reasons, we find ourselves highlighting the various facets of life as a young family. Such as more space means..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...owner who suddenly finds himself suffering from a premature mid-life crisis. Based on the popular Nick Hornby novel, High..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Eye for History

"...France. David Douglas Duncan, the celebrated combat photographer and Life magazine photojournalist, is working late. He takes one of..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Fall Film Previews

September

"...AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

The Real Housewives of Ciudad Juárez

Living double lives in the shadow of the border

"...and deported, but had then re-entered, was banned for life from returning to the U.S. It was possible to..."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...in the Forties? How did the war affect your life?..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

True Today

Randy 'Biscuit' Turner's final interview

"...with great warmth and evident pride about his wild life and wilder art in Austin, his adopted home since..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Requiem for a Sane Man

Exalting comic maverick Bill Hicks on the 10th anniversary of his passing

"...approved twice by standards and practices). "If you're so pro-life, do me a favor: Don't lock arms and block..."

March 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...now, though, he's reeling off his current lot in life: 32 years old, University of Texas graduate, single, emotionally..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Roll 'Em

March

"...plucked from obscurity when he agrees to have his "life" aired on cable TV 24 hours a day. An..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Southerners to Seventh Grade

"...He said she could. That answer helped fuel Laura's lifelong aspiration to be more than what society deemed it..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Books Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...Doug Seegers 12mid, St. David's Historic Sanctuary His life story might be the best bit of redemption you've..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

DVD Watch

Thai director Pen-ek Ratanruang goes bang with a 'Headshot'

"...beauty Lalita Panyopas as Tum, a woman whose workaday life is turned upside down, and then inside out, when..."

Oct. 9, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

'When I Was Your Age'

The full text to the Obama back-to-school speech

"...and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that..."

Sept. 7, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Duck Amuck

Cultural touchstones for the gray spaces

"...My life sometimes seems to be more a long, restless, incoherent,..."

May 23, 2008 Column by Louis Black

There's a Light Beyond These Woods

An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith

"...love to have their state and its way of life flattered. They know stories help define a sensibility, suggesting..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Pop Rocks

Making music in mecca for parents and children alike

"...for parents trying to maintain some semblance of a nightlife after baby's made three (or four or five), it's..."

June 18, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...balance and failure to say anything good about Sophia's life, and how what was bad submerged the important part..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Column

The Seagull

In the Austin Playhouse production of The Seagull, actors Christa Kimlicko Jones and David Stahl create a splendid tension between their characters and between art and life, but most of the rest of the production rolls by languidly, as just another visit with a crew of Chekhov's discontented Russians.

"...The Seagull: The Friction Between Art and LifeMcCallum Fine Arts Academy Theatre, through January 20..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...to say so much though they did not speak. Waking, I thought of the old tales. What Merlin told..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...for an impromptu version of "You Light Up My Life." They were here to witness the first-ever Punk Prom...."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Where the Shadows Are Deepest

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

"...AC: Have you lived here your whole life?..."

May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

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