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Studio Visits: Lauren Klotzman
A voracious consumer of Net culture considers her studio an office
"...LK: Around $200! [laughs] Net. I'm really good at poker...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...• According to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, so-called poker run charity events violate the state's gambling statutes. Poker..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature

2003 SXSW Web Awards Winners
Web site competition winners.
"...Gaming: The Sopranos, Big Pussy's Poker Heaven (www.hbo.com/sopranos/poker)..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature

Looking for a Fight
Ruth Margraff Recasts Texas History as Barroom Brawl
"...Vanguard's artistic director] Jason Neulander took me to this poker game. I wasn't playing because I'm not a very..."

March 14, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Hummus, You So Sexy
Baby Zach's takes a Texan approach to a historical appetizer
"...me for backing. I was doing really good with poker at the time. Then online poker came to an..."

July 6, 2012 Food Post by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
A thrilling and touching version of the children's classic from the master fabulist
"...time is spent in a cobalt-pigmented afterlife in which poker-playing rabbits ferry the dead like Charon. Like all del..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Official Competition
Cruz and Banderas reunite in this scathing comedy about ego and filmmaking
"...The title of poker-faced comedy Official Competition gestures at its movie milieu –..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Luv Doc: Not Mellow at All
There is an unwritten social contract to indoor plumbing
"...A flush is such a small favor to ask..."

April 19, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Ice Pick’s Pies Are Warming Up This Cold Town
Artisanal baker delivers Austin the savory and the sweet
"...with a bunch of friends late at night, playing poker, and we were all pretty intoxicated. And a friend..."

March 6, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: Exposed Nipples
Unlike our president, a warm, sweaty, glitter-speckled nipple is nothing to be embarrassed about
"...displaced by an oil painting of Donald Trump playing poker with dogs dressed as vastly more competent ex-presidents...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Stream Analysis
Summer is here, winter is coming, and some housekeeping
"...California Split, although you may have to actually play poker to attend. If you've been enjoying David Lynch's Twin..."

July 14, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Mississippi Grind
Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds co-star as gambling buddies
"...(including his self-esteem) for the validation of a winning poker hand or a horse that crosses the finish line..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gay Place: Big Proud Bomb
It's not an anti-Pride: It's Queerbomb!
"...Texas Hold 'Em Tourneys Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Thursdays, 8pm. Bout Time II,..."

June 5, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: Sweet Nothings
Bedpost poetry is back
"...week, at two different gay bars, Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Tuesdays, 8pm. The Iron Bear,..."

May 29, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: We Need Emma
Emma Goldman play opens just in time
"...week, at two different gay bars, Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Tuesdays, 8pm. The Iron Bear,..."

May 8, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: Cheeky
This is the week to dance cheek to cheek
"...week, at two different gay bars, Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Tuesdays, 8pm. The Iron Bear,..."

April 24, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

The Squeeze
Gamblers, mobsters, and high-stakes golf matches
"...with these character names?), who after a round of poker with Riverboat (or just Boat, if you know him..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

What We Do in the Shadows
Cleverly executed, this vampire spoof by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, is a lot of fun.
"...of vampire flatmates: medieval-torture-loving Vladislav (Clement), aka “Vlad the Poker”; former 18th century dandy Viago (Waititi); borderline-feral wild child..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place: GSC - the Place to Be
Hoof on down to the Longhorn home of gender diversity as the GSC celebrates 10 years
"...Texas Hold 'Em Tourneys Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Tuesdays, 8pm. The Iron Bear,..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Column

Gay Place: 13 Hours
Kick off your queer year with these Gay Place recommendeds
"...week, at two different gay bars, Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Thursdays, 8pm. Bout Time II,..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

A Most Wanted Man
This post-9/11 espionage thriller is adapted from John Le Carré’s 2008 novel and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman at the head of a top-notch cast.
"...strokes make sense in wide focus. As the chain-smoking, poker-faced Günther lays it out, “It takes a minnow to..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bill Cotter's Parallel Apartments Are Full of Freaks Like You and Me
And the author presents a wine-fueled glimpse at BookPeople tomorrow.
"...in Las Vegas 17 years ago or so, playing poker, and it was one of the worst experiences of..."

Feb. 24, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place
The Gay Place goes back to her roots, just south of the Wild Side and a hair shy of a Moonage Daydream
"...TEXAS HOLD 'EM TOURNEY Wild West presents puh-puh-puh-poker for your poker face. Thursdays, 7:30pm. Oilcan Harry's, 211..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell
String sorcerer went to my college?
"...were just telling stories about other people. I’ve played poker with Willie. He’s a monster poker player. The man..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place: Big Top
See you at the Circus – in your red tutu, we hope
"...FULL HOUSE POKER TOURNAMENT Practice your poker face for prizes, like two..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Super
Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page star in this tonally odd superhero spoof that veers between cartoonish stylings and gruesome violence.
"...with Page's insufferable screechiness poorly squaring with Wilson's glum poker face. Most damningly, there's not a character within that's..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

MacGruber
Here's an idea that hasn't been tried in a few years: Turn a Saturday Night Live skit into a feature film.
"...the concept to feature-length. MacGruber's cold open is a poker-faced sequence set in Siberia involving a hijacked nuclear warhead..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brothers
This drama is inferior in practically every way to Danish director Susanne Bier’s original – but now with more U2!
"...record, we don’t require a prolonged close-up of a poker iron to understand the threat of a situation). If..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Luv Doc Recommends: East Austin Studio Tour
East Austin, Saturday, November 14, 2009
"...with art. Seeing a 360-by-420 JPEG of dogs playing poker is a horrible substitute for the real thing –..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup
AFF's finalized lineup
"...“The Poker Club” (USA, 81 min.) Writer: Richard Chizmar, Johnathon Schaech..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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