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"...300 or so hours of footage shot for the slam poetry documentary Slam Channel is expected to be recoverable..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Assault on Precinct 13

This new version of John Carpenter's classic is superfluous in the extreme, and while it’s not technically a bad movie, per se, viewers unfamiliar with the film’s lineage will likely write it off as yet another midwinter also-ran, the sort of action film that never quite takes off and instead focuses on random gun battles and cheesy dialogue.

"...generate even an iota of the frisson of Carpenter’s slam-bang original. That earlier film not only echoed Hawks’ Rio..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

"...there’s a kraken in my soup" and not enough slam-bang action to take your mind off the obvious failures..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

"...Angels: Full Throttle, which commences with the sort of slam-bang action set-piece that echoes 007’s precredits ordnance insouciance, is..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Our readers talk back.

"...the reviewer (and, presumably, music lovers everywhere) to not "slam a folk musician, none of them." Two things need..."

June 6, 2003 Column

"...a faltering space shuttle during one of the film’s slam-bang opening sequences (the other big splash, I guess, was..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Our readers talk back.

"...he hates rich, beautiful, talented, heterosexual women, now it's slam the UT football team and its uniforms. (You'd think..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column

Our readers talk back.

"...he hates rich, beautiful, talented, heterosexual women, now it's slam the UT football team and its uniforms. (You'd think..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column

Intergalactic Nemesis Redux

Salvage Vanguard Theater has remounted The Intergalactic Nemesis and Return of the Intergalactic Nemesis, its pair of homages to the golden days of radio, with a double-bill of light-hearted, clever spins on those old serialized mysteries.

"...Intergalactic Nemesis Redux: Bang, Scratch, Slam, Scrunch, and PlungeGallery Lombardi,..."

June 21, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

"...The Austin Poetry Slam Season Finals hosted by Mike Henry (the Slam-off) will..."

May 10, 2002 Books Feature

All About the Benjamins

"...takes the Miami beachfront locale and delivers the expected slam dunk of visual luxuriance backed by a snaky, relentless..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

"...he's patently too old for. That's not an ageist slam on my part; the diminutive proto-Jew, all balding brow,..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What to look for in new fall titles

"...The year's big Poetry Slam event, the Three Ring Poetry Benefit, takes place at..."

July 20, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

A young Texas writer who found success in Hollywood, and a new book of photographs by one of Austin's most experienced photographers.

"...Poetry Slam Moving..."

March 16, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Our readers talk back.

"...Wham Slam Thank You Ma'am..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Column

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...Big Red Sun, Cush Cush, and the National Poetry Slam campaign. "That Slam project was fun," he recalls. "We..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Young, optimistic, and flaky in a way that belies their revolution-for-the-hell-of-it satire, the KAiROS Co. has cultivated a name for itself as "poetic terrorists." Now, after five years in Austin, this theatrical sketch comedy troupe is readying to face down New York.

"...This blend of new bohemia poetry slam and Dr. Bronner's Soap mantra is the kind of..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

The mid-summer drought in traditional sports is on (the Olympics don't count). Also, Monday Night Football will try not to suck so bad; Mike Tyson's a bore, and Sampras and Agassi may be getting too old.

"...Sampras and Andre Agassi, winners of almost 20 Grand Slam titles between them, are both running on vapors. Pete,..."

June 30, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Highlights of the Austin International Poetry Festival and critic Neil Postman's upcoming visit to Austin.

"...Cutting Edge Performance Poetry showcases and the AIPF Poetry Slam, are $5 at the door. An entire schedule of..."

April 7, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling: Poetry-Soaked World

Ada Calhoun covers Frontera Hyde Park Theatre's world premiere of Erik Ehn's Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling.

"...The poetry slam is a forum by turns beloved and detestable. Slams..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...and then I heard the door to the room slam so hard it shook the walls."..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...Rockdalians would have understood. Then there was the crazed slam-dancer who attacked me. This would be the "dangerous" part...."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

"...the four individuals who made the 1999 Austin Poetry Slam Team: Phil West, Vicky Charleston, Ernie Cline, and Karyna..."

May 14, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Quips & Squealers

"...new personality disorders for the lucky onstage performers to slam out with dizzying and belly-busting aplomb. No matter what..."

April 2, 1999 Arts Feature

Blue Plate Poets Reunion

"...poetry scene's old guard, and Hilary Thomas, a former slam poet who currently co-hosts the Austin Slam) opening the..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Books Feature

"...devoted a page last month to the National Poetry Slam, held in Austin in late August. In the article,..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Preliminary Bout Schedule

"...Finals are at the Paramount, Saturday night. Call the Slam Hotline at 448-5284 Friday morning for the matchups...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature

They Got Nothing on Lacresha

"...to work under the impression that if you don't slam it no one will read it, and they're probably..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Column

"...keep this nervy, ambitious film from delivering the emotional slam dunk promised by those dazzling images, one of the..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...wound up as the dramatic grand jury prize winner: Slam, a story about a black street poet who is..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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