Art of the State '98
Art & Theatre to See Around Texas This Summer
"...in Dallas and San Antonio, of the world-class performing arts halls and museums in Houston and Fort Worth, you..."
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May 29, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
My Man Godfrey
In this Art Deco screwball comedy, a socialite finds a man while on a scavenger hunt and, thinking that this victim of the Depression needs a job, hires him as the butler for her ditzy household. Hugely popular in its day, this is witty romantic comedy with barbed social commentary.
"...Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer and Franklin Pangborn. In this Art Deco screwball comedy, socialite Carole Lombard finds William Powell..."
Jan. 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Spike & Mike's 1998 Classic Festival of Animation
"...a new spin on the old tale of the artist versus his creation. It's a nicely conceived mix of..."
July 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Suite Sixteen
"...Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine Pailhas and Antonie Kamerling. Suite 16 starts off promisingly. A young, handsome male hustler named Chris..."
Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Unweaving the Tangled Web of Inspector Sun
Director Julio Soto Gúrpide on loving noir and insects
"...Excitement, art deco style, mysteries, derring-do, and spiders in suits. "What's..."
Oct. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup
Happenings from around the state
"...From Mardi Gras celebrations to art exhibits, here's what's on our radar this month...."
Feb. 1, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Books Gift Guide
Florida art books
"...draftsman responsible for much of the "weightless" look of post-art-deco Miami Beach. The book is loaded with vintage photos..."
Dec. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Kate X Messer
Public Notice: Priest Walks Into a Bar …
Armadillo Art Squad dean Micael Priest dead at 66
"...press, that Micael Priest – dean of the Armadillo Art Squad that invented the iconography of cosmic cowboys, rock..."
Sept. 14, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Bright Lights, Little City
It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.
"...Palace continued to operate in the decades after its art deco remodeling in the Thirties, it had fallen into..."
Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Estate Sale Roundup: Jan. 24-26
Baby, it's cold outside, but browsing can't wait.
"...of antiques, collectibles, and leather furniture await here. Also art glass roosters, violin and banjo glass bottles, upright piano,..."
Jan. 23, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris
Estate Sale Roundup: July 24-27
Gas up the jalopy, it's your turn to drive.
"...and an upright piano by Kimball. Vintage prints by artists Robert Wood, Windberg, Salinas, and Thomas Kincaid (great for..."
July 24, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris
Throw the Switch
City Planners Consider Options on the Seaholm Power Plant
"...strolling distance of the old power plant, a 1950s art-deco structure on West Cesar Chavez just a few blocks..."
March 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith
Wish List
Give 'Til It Helps, Part 2
"...we appreciate their place in our community, their big hearts, and the good they do all year long...."
Dec. 21, 2007 Features Feature
Estate Sale Roundup: October 17-19
The weather is perfect for rummaging
"...trove of vintage and mid-century items. Solid mid-century furnishings, decor, art, cooking and serving items, massive kitchen linen collection,..."
Oct. 17, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom
Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level
"...Forbidden Planet's beloved Robby the Robot makes Hughes' retail headquarters a veritable riot of fun. When they say "Keep..."
June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Vinyl’s Tin Cup Chalice
Finyl vinyl thoughts from the stacks of Antone’s Records
"...I walked in on a whim and bought the heart of the original Parrot Head’s catalog for $24. I’d..."
Jan. 15, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
A Long Time Coming
Why Now?
"...a decade of planning, why are these dreams finally starting to materialize now? The answer is, in a word,..."
Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff
'Princely Ambitions'
Jim "Prince" Hughes' Top 5 "permanent distractions"
"...Top 5 "permanent distractions." 1) The 1939 World's Fair "Apart from the art deco imagery, it was a really..."
June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Life at the Cha-Cha Palace
Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.
"...could begin your night at the legendary Armadillo World Headquarters listening to Greezy Wheels and end it at the..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Day Trips
"...around. You don't have to be enthralled by the artistic beauty of hundreds of antique appliances to enjoy this..."
July 16, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Preserving the Future of the Texas Memorial Museum
After years of neglect and underfunding, Austin’s only natural history museum reconsiders its role
"...away on the University of Texas campus is an Art Deco building containing the state’s natural history. There are..."
Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Claire Stevens
Nightmare Alley
Guillermo del Toro goes into the dark of greedy souls in this noir remake
"...post-Depression era world of grimy rural carnivals and tony art deco nightclubs, the perversely imaginative del Toro offers up..."
Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis
All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic
One-hour lecture on the father of plastics (with added musical numbers!)
"...befuddled citizens who have no clue what it is ("artificial bacon" being the most common answer). Fortunately, there is..."
July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Son of the White Mare
Gorgeous avant garde animation recounts a Hungarian myth
"...master Marcell Jankovics' restored obtuse masterpiece. Within its vibrant, earth-tones frames he free adapts the legend of Fehérlófia, a..."
Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fewer beasts, but a much better story, make this sequel magical
"...guileless Queenie (Sudol), is still head over heels for good-hearted baker Jacob Kowalski (Fogler), who can’t do magic. In..."
Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Lana Del Rey Hypnotizes
Throwback diva prompts Erwin Center to song
"...as the New York siren waltzed onstage to a three-quarters-full Erwin Center Sunday night in an oversized black sweater..."
Feb. 12, 2018 Music Post by Isabella Castro-Cota
Saw III
The director of Saw II is back for more of this vicious-minded series in which the psychopathic Jigsaw toys with his victims' last gasps.
"...alive for the duration of the film; if his heart rate drops, or worse, flatlines, the good doctor's cranium..."
Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Mulholland Drive
"...oeuvre: There's a pair of Hollywood dames at the heart of the story, Betty (Watts), a new arrival to..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Neon Austin
South Lamar
"...sign for the Tenderfoot Company which sells trampolines and parts all over the country. One block north is the..."
May 23, 1997 Arts Feature
Arts Afire
On the Small Screen: American Visions
"...At first glance, Robert Hughes' new eight-part PBS series American Visions generates a mystique no different..."
