Away We Go

See it for the many lovely performances, although the film’s vision of Gen-Y nesting is liable to leave you up a tree.

"...Directed by: Sam Mendes. Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Jeff Daniels,..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Waiting Game

Concert parking catastrophes

"...I'll skip what's really on my mind - how CONCERT PARKING SUCKS..."

April 17, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

Can't live with it ...

"...interesting? I was also startled by how quickly I became accustomed to functioning without TV. It was easy. But..."

July 6, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Luv Doc: Pot Smokers

What kind of monster doesn't feel a paternal urge to shelter the innocent?

"...First off, let me be clear I have no problem with people smoking..."

July 29, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

TV Eye

Jamie Oliver takes on the American diet ... but is he pointing his finger in the wrong direction?

"...The mostly likeable and superanimated British chef Jamie Oliver, formerly of Food Network fame, has hit U.S. prime-time TV..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Luv Doc: Your Annoying Boyfriend

You should never ignore patterns

"...I love my boyfriend, but he annoys me so much, I get to where I can't..."

June 7, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Definitely Maeby

15 minutes with Alia Shawkat

"...To know her as Arrested Development’s Maeby Funke is to love her. But actress Alia..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

Future's So Brite

I Love the Scent of Burning Flesh...

"...short story collection Swamp Foetus (released in paperback last summer as Wormwood) is likewise one of the most wonderfully..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Checking In: Go Fever’s Acey Monaro Paints Houses Down Under

“So, so, so relieved about the outcome, can’t wait to get back now”

"...Go Fever singer and bandmate/hubby Ben Burdick fled. “My hometown is Maitland, and my mum still lives there. It’s..."

Nov. 30, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

That Nasty Ol’ Johnny Rotten

Prince of the punks returns with PiL

"...outfit Public Image Ltd., promoting the band’s impressive new documentary and a career-spanning box set, The Public Image Is..."

Oct. 25, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Coach's Corner

Coach takes on sports talk radio.

"...Many families have a fellow like Bob rattling about somewhere. Bob was present at each family gathering: Thanksgiving, Christmas,..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Belated Replies

"...Jason Stout The letters pile up unanswered, the phone messages go without reply -- civility crumbles before desperation, the..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

The Luv Doc: An Excellent Wingman

An anachronistic ornithological metaphor about gender equality

"...in all kinds of social situations, but it really annoys me that his friend is shamelessly using my boyfriend..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Finding the Funny in Bleak Times at Moontower Comedy

A Q&A with stand-ups Akaash Singh and Paul Varghese

"...(yes, that was this year), Texas' insistence on controlling women's bodies, the ongoing pandemic ... how do we keep..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature by Neha Aziz

The Luv Doc: Coming Correct

It's a wonder Jesus didn't crucify himself

"......"

June 8, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Ashley, the Wonder Waitress

Texican Cafe server sets a very high standard

"...the restaurant business, I often claim I don't care what the service is like as long as the food..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Food Post by Mick Vann

My SXSW

"...performance. The sun hasn't risen, and neither has the drummer, so we wait in the car listening to the..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Hayes Carll

Coach's Corner

Odds and Ends: NFL referees have an over-inflated view of their own importance; the U.S. Open proved that in tennis, as elsewhere, youth will be served; and if people think Coach ignores UT football, well, there are good reasons for that.

"...I'm home from the mountains now, away from a lunatic local..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Luv Doc: Salad Fork

The salad fork is only the sixth-longest fork

"...restaurant. I think he does it just to annoy me, but he claims the salad fork is like a..."

March 31, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Tempest in the PACT Teapot

Eruption over Public Access Com­mun­ity Television producer's banning from premises roiling airwaves

"...In late December, longtime PACT producer Nick Papatonis provided his latest program to..."

Feb. 8, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Michael Ventura ["Letters at 3AM"] really, really annoys me. Same old guy who used to hang out..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Some kind of weapon is being held to the heads of the hurry-up council

"...the Lege is influencing our own City Council through some form of sympathetic magic, but Austin's time-tested tradition for..."

June 6, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Common Law

COVID-19 and Austin – answering your legal questions (part 4)

"...a new order with more limitations. Is that right? What are the high points of what it says?..."

April 24, 2020 Column by Luke Ellis

Luv Doc: More Advice to Be Ignored

An affirmation of already existing opinions

"...This isn't a huge life-or-death thing, but it annoys me nonetheless. Whenever I offer advice to my husband..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Look Ma, No Hands!

How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.

"...I've asked others who were there, and they can't remember either. Looking back, it was the turning point. At..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Celebrity, South Austin Style

The Mayor of South Austin

"...that rivals many married couples' stories of their first meeting. Young fell hard. Kind of a chance-meeting, love-at-first-site, across-a-crowded-city..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Libertarians on TV

Conspiracy Theorists at Home on Public Access

"...Governor Bush, they're all elitist filth if you ask me." --Alex Jones photograph by Jana Birchum..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Art Imitates Chef

British Actor Lenny Henry Cooks in Restaurant Sitcom

"...Most patrons of fine dining establishments have no concept of what transpires in restaurant kitchens...."

April 11, 1997 Screens Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Spotlights

"...ROCK OPERA..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature

Inventing New (Still Horrible) Ways To Die

You're Next

"...are back with You're Next, their take on the home invasion trope. And guess what? It is another genre..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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