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Sweet Dreams
Waking Up the Bed & Breakfast Business

Nov. 29, 1996 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Life Is Sweet
"...The title of this movie proclaims that life is sweet. It's meant to be taken with a touch of..."

March 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Robot Dreams
Dog and Robot find companionship in this lovely and touching Oscar-nominated animated film
"...A Spanish-French co-production, Robot Dreams skips dialogue altogether. That it manages to have something..."

June 14, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

JP’s Pancake Company Makes Tiny Cakes With Big Dreams
Meet the king of West Campus
"...does. "If something's sour, there's gonna be something that's sweet. If something she made was creamy, she was gonna..."

July 17, 2020 Food Feature by Selome Hailu

SXSW Film Review: Skate Dreams
Sweet, badass documentary redefines "skate like a girl"
"...changed now. As seen in the opening of Skate Dreams, a chapter in Seattle has taken back the term,..."

March 12, 2022 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Frozen Dreams
Check out any of these frozen yogurt shops for a cool, tangy treat
"...of the shops offer variations on tart options and sweet fun flavors on a rotating basis, with eight to..."

June 25, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Dude, Sweet Chocolate
Katherine Clapner's incredible chocolate confections mix sweet and savory ingredients in unexpected flavor combinations
"...408 W. Eighth, Dallas, 214/943-5943 www.dudesweetchocolate.com..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Meanwhile Brewing’s National Beer Day at Loro; C-C-Cake Club Congregates; Fojtasek Everywhere You Look, So Very Very Much Sushi, and How About That Sweet Live Fire Action, Hoss?
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...that (amazing) Sushi | Bar to Austin (in a sweet alcove inside Bento Picnic) and then sold the concept..."

April 6, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chronophage on Their Salty-Sweet, Self-Titled Third LP
The bicoastal band explores “a place where I am in love and the world is ending”
"...bassist Sarah Beames and guitarist Parker Allen, who share salty-sweet vocal cascades, and keyboardist Casey Allen...."

June 3, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

D-League Dreams
All roads lead to Toros training camp
"...a successful career that included trips to the NCAA's Sweet 16, Elite Eight, and Final Four. After graduation, Buckman..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Sports Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Bitter and the Sweet
How Delysia Chocolatier built their brand
"...Nicole Patel finally opened the chocolate factory of her dreams, she found herself sitting on the floor of an..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Life Is Sweet
Three talented restaurant professionals run the show at LaV
"...Jenkins is bookish and somewhat reserved; she once harbored dreams of a career in medicine but just couldn't make..."

May 9, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Short and Sweet From SXSW
The full list of short docs, dramas and animation playing this year
"...A boy is trapped by his fears in his dreams...."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Building a New Kingdom
AFS Doc nights: 'Sweet Dreams'
"...Amazing but true. Sibling filmmakers Lisa and Rob Fruchtman's Sweet Dreams presents a Rwandan tale that tempers an excruciatingly..."

July 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Local Candy Roundup
'Tis the season of your mom's nightmares and your dentist's sweet dreams
"...Halloween rituals tying sugary confections to princesses and goblins, sweets season is here. Grocery stores have dedicated aisles to..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Stuck on You
The Farrelly brothers deliver the ultimate buddy movie.
"...it recaptures the difficult middle ground between gross and sweet that There’s Something About Mary managed so well. It’s..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bill & Ted Face the Music
Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?
"...start of their first adventure. They're two dudes with dreams of making the big time – which they did,..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wreck-It Ralph
"...meets Tron by way of Nintendo's Donkey Kong, a sweet splash of treacly Disneyana, a dollop of Pixar's Cars,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Still Breathing
"...McKean and Junior Brown. Fletcher McBracken (Fraser) is a sweet, dreamy young man who suffers the same curse that..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
We're tickled silly by this documentary.
"...and The Muppet Show went on to pursue their dreams with creativity and gusto that can be traced directly..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Shorts at Sundance
David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance
"...Sundance sure is sweet on Austin's Zellner Bros. Don't get us wrong –..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Citizen Science
The enlightenment of Jeanne Liotta
"...at the bottom of the screen accompanied by such sweet, mad juxtapositions has caught the eye of plenty of..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Sarah Smith

Baadasssss!
Melvin Van Peebles' son Mario pays tribute to his groundbreaking film Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, and also settles a few old Oedipal scores along the way.
"...Khleo Thomas. At the end of his 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles, the film’s..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ernest & Celestine
The team from A Town Called Panic returns with another animated charmer – this time a tale about interspecies friendship and dentistry.
"...The film's messages of accepting others and following your dreams are well-worn tropes to be sure, but the pace..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman directs and stars in this drama about a nebbishy middle-aged man with minimal social skills.
"...due to Hoffman's overfamiliarity as Jack, a nebbishy but sweet middle-aged man with minimal social skills, a penchant for..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tokyo!
This triptych of short films by directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho is a gorgeous, sprawling mess.
"...his underappreciated The Science of Sleep. In it, a sweet twentysomething girl (Fujitani) and her goofy boyfriend (Kase), an..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Foot Fist Way
Faux documentary about a strip-mall kung-fu sensei without the sense to come in out of the pain has moments of laugh-out-loud greatness but also much dopiness.
"...both his ass and his wife). There's a rather sweet message here about not giving up on one's dreams..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Guru
"...affairs for all. Can an all-American Indian with Hollywood dreams make it in the big city as a green..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Riding in Cars With Boys
"...15-year-old living with her parents in 1965 Connecticut. Her dreams of a writing career and going to NYU are..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Show Me Love
"...smarting from grinning so much at this almost unbearably sweet and spot-on dissection of a Swedish teenager's first love...."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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