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May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Austin Craft Brewers vs. COVID-19: Hi Sign and St. Elmo Brewing
How local breweries are responding to the pandemic (Part 5)
"...to see how their businesses are handling the statewide taproom closures. Hi Sign Brewing..."
April 20, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga
Butt Boy
Ignore the name: Butt Boy is more weirdo noir than gross out comedy
"...X-Files that never got out of the first writer's room meeting because it was too weird...."
April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss is a the center of a rock and roll tornado in this heartbreaking ballad of self-destruction
"...stardom and either becoming the victim of cruel fate (Control, La Bamba) or voluntarily screwing it all up (The..."
April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Custody
A disturbingly honest portrayal of abuse and divorce
"...Inglourious Basterds) looks outgunned, the only man in the room, and shot down every time he opens his mouth..."
Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Hotel Artemis
A bleak but stylish future, where only criminals can afford healthcare
"...his solo writing and directing debut, and his tight control of this film’s story mechanics guarantees Hotel Artemis won’t..."
June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Guide to Austin Improv
The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown
"...Sundays, the faculty takes the stage in The Rubber Room, which includes an open jam, a segment showcasing the..."
Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Public Notice: Out of Their Cold, Dead Brains
GOP refuses to be sensible about guns
"...in response to President Obama's executive actions imposing gun control measures across the country...."
Jan. 8, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Cracking the Nightmare Code
Director Mark Netter on his new techno-horror
"...side, there's the way social media usurped the traditional control of information during the Arab Spring, allowing the world..."
Sept. 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Good Eye: Tales From the Beauty Box
Side-eyeing the confines of female film roles
"...a complicated feminist when you go into an audition room."..."
Feb. 20, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry
Steve Adler: 'New Way Forward'
"...Democrats, really – were being invited in the back rooms at the Senate to negotiate things anymore, and at..."
May 30, 2014 News Feature
The Good Eye: Swimming While Fat
Does this swimsuit make me look fat? I hope so.
"...in the fluorescent light of a department store dressing room, squeezing myself into a girdle-like "Miracle Suit." I am..."
May 16, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry
From Russia, With Love
More than 20 years after the Soviet Union fell, Austin finally experiences some culinary glasnost
"...she writes via email. Eaten in the main dining room at Russian House, which is outfitted with homey furniture..."
Feb. 7, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt
Four Space Nerds Sitting Around Talking…
Space Tech After NASA: Boom Time for Innovation, or those were the days?
"...seemed fit for the Titanic, I looked around the room noting other old or "analog" tech. I chuckled to..."
March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer
Flight
"...airline pilot Whip Whitaker (Washington) awakens in a hotel room where it is evident he and an attractive flight..."
Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Paradise Key
This government agent's grilling of a Nazi doctor is tough to watch but never boring
"...(Tom Green) seated at a table in a barren room. There are sounds of the ocean. It appears he..."
April 8, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe
SXSW Lists
SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else
"...Black Heart Procession (Sat., 1am, Maggie Mae's Gibson Room)..."
March 18, 2011 Music Feature
McMoldy High School?
For one McCallum High student, every day is a sick day
"...summer vacation – Nika had been to the emergency room five times just since spring break. The McCallum High..."
July 10, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum
Out of the Mouths of Children
The return of the Butthole Surfers – don't call it a reunion!
"...probably wouldn't trust their children alone in the same room with Haynes, the Paul Green School of Rock Music,..."
Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
It seems rather churlish to complain about entertainment aimed at little girls, who almost never get big-budget movies made just for them, nevertheless … this movie substitutes pluck and spunk for drama and sparkle.
"...of the few places a kid could exert any control was in her fantasy life: in the way she..."
July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.
"...helmed the excellent Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) rips to shreds former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's..."
Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Superbad
Cera and Hill are comic gold in this comedy, which is from the Judd Apatow stable and which has credits populated with refugees from Arrested Development.
"...they are Neal dressing down Del in a hotel room in Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Like that John Hughes..."
Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley
OoBer Alles
A guide to the troupes of the 2006 Out of Bounds Improv Festival (aka OoB V)
"...Renob Control: Sketch comedy from the tree-lined depths of Portland, Ore...."
Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Taco Kings, Besieged
A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense
"...then flow with a torrential force that allows little room for dissent. His limited English does not slow him..."
Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May
Karen Mason
'Sweetest of Nights' isn't just the title of Karen Mason's new CD, it's what you can expect from the musical sensation's Austin Cabaret Theatre appearance
"...Algonquin, Feinstein's at the Regency, or the Russian Tea Room. Her voice is so rich and mighty that at..."
Jan. 27, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Ngai Found Insane – What Now?
Without reform, Texas' mental health system might fail killer of piano teacher again
"...Ngai with bipolar disorder and gave him medications to control his moods. (It appears this was a misdiagnosis –..."
Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Emily Pyle
2046
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
"...confusion, 2046 is also the name of a hotel room, both in 2046 and In the Mood for Love,..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Making Biscuit
Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7
"...dreaded "outsider art" tag, either. Sitting in his living room on an early weekday evening, Turner, shaggy-haired, slimmer than..."
Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Don't Move
Italian story of a surgeon who falls in love with a country girl (Penélope Cruz), flirts with the self-pitying mindset of the slumming elite, and becomes something of an apology for bourgeois classism.
"...unfolds in flashbacks while he stands outside the operating room awaiting news of her touch-and-go condition. With his drooping,..."
June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
House of D
Here’s an interesting surprise: Dour, dry David Duchovny’s directorial debut is more weepy than creepy, a conventional coming-of-age story that flashes back to 1970s New York City.
"...marvelously engaging young actor, and the film gives him room to shine. It’s refreshing to see a story that..."
